Evening star., 1942-07-02


casus-as essentially cleared of or
eanized resistance and DNB said
mainland armies of the Reich and
her Allies were aligned for resump-
ton Of the drive to the east.
Sevastopol's fall was announced
with q fanfare of trumpets by the
German high command last night.
- A communique said survivors OF
The Sevastopol garrison, driven by
Nazi and Rumanian forces from that
most powerful land and sea fortress
In the world at noon yesterday,
faced annihilation on the Khersones
peninsula. which juts into the Black
Sea southwest of the city and its
cliff lined harbor.
German military sources said
fighting still going on today on
Khersones Peninsula was only local.
The communique today repeated
Yesterdays special announcement
that Sevastopol had fallen.
Commenting that Soviet warships
had not been based on Sevastopol
recently, Nazi sources said they still
could use Novorossisk, across the
Black Sea on the Caucasian coast,
or Batum, in the far southeast
corner Of the sea.
50 Red Planes Claimed.
The high command proclaimed
Yesterdays developments as great
initial successes for the Axis on the
southern and eastern Russian fronts.
It gave no details, but credited
the German air force with shooting
down So Russian planes and heavily
bombing Soviet war factories at
Voronezh, 200 miles east OF Kursk on
the Ukrainian front.
"Our heavy artillery" the high
command added, "shelled strategi-
cally important installations in
Leningrad and shipping in Kron-
stadt Bay"
On the far northern front. the
communiuue said, Nazi bombers and
dive bombers pounded the harbor
and railway installations at Muir
mansk with heavy high explosives"
Axis battle flags were declared to
udtS DcSti llOlSbCu oNCl SCF0cVORoA
latter q Is days hard fight"
yesterday was the 27th day
OF the Axis offensive, by Soviet
accounts. Moscow said the heavy
shooting started June 5. The
Russian government stated last
midnight that the enemy-re-
ported IS divisions strong-"suc-
ceeded in advancing a little In
fierce hand -to-hand combat, but
the fall of the city was not con-
ceded)
Water Front Buildings Fired.
German dive-bombers left docks
and warehouses along the water
front burning fiercely and shrouded
in smoke, it was announced.
Strong forts, Notifications hewn
IN rocks, subterranean Notifications
and concrete pill-boxes as well as
Innumerable fortified positions were
captured in exemplary cooperation
Of all arms" the high command said
( The Berlin radio said "a very
heavy mortar and very heavy anc
long -barreled railway gun" (Which
the Russians report to have a "a
inch bore were credited with par
of "the quick success of the opera.
tions." DNB declared its shell.
blasted even the thickest concrete
walls into dust.
:. Col Gen. Fritz Won Mannstein
14-year- Prussian who swung the
full striking power of his Crimear
army against Sevastopol soon aftel
driving Soviet divisions from thu
Kerch Peninsula in May, was pro
.inoted to field marshal general TO
his conduct of the campaign. OH
presumabl has eliminated a threa
The Russians had maintained at tn
Axis rear since siege lines wer
established in the mountains abou
s6evastopol last November -
Gen. Won Richth0fen Cited.
a Col. Gen. Baron Won Richthofel
sNas cited by the high comman'
Is the leader of supporting al
ssouadrons. A cousin Of the lat
World War ace, Baron Manfred vo
Richthofen, he is an expert on tn
use of gliders for troop transpor
(The Russians have never an
asnounced the identity of the Sc
e vastopol commanders, nominally
~ under 1t. Gen. D. T. Kozloy,
'%chief of the trans-Caucasian dis
= trict. However, a dispatch OF
a. Stefani, the Italian news agency,
& said a Vice Admiral Octeabrschy
was the commander in chief and
q. special troops were headed by 1t.
Gen. Petrov, Soviet hero OF the
siege of odessa
The Berlin radio said the GeI
man air force would seek now I
Find the remnants" OF the SoVlt
Black Sea feet.
presumably serviced and re-
paired at Batum, Sukhumi or
q Novorossisk on the 300-mile coast
line between Kerch Strait and
a the Turkish frontier since Sevas-
II topol became untenable as base,
Red Navy warships carried sup
plies and reinforcements to Sc
s vastopoI despite plane and tor
pedo boat attacks and at times
blasted away with their guns in
support of land artillery
Hitler RevoIutionized Doctrine.
~ The newspaper Berliner Boerse
( Leitung said the doctrine th'
astrong permanent Notifications We
.invincible had been overthrow
again by "the revolutionary vi
conduct OF Adolf Hitler" and fl
utilization of mechanical power.
Axis troops would have neutrs