Evening star., 1942-08-03
Reds Repe| Nazis in Most Sectors
Battle Fierce|y South Of Rostov;
Foe Claims Fresh Caucasus Gains
Cossocks ksSovogeIy
CounteruttuckinQ
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1y tfe Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Aug. 3.-Aided by
dive bombers which hammered
crawling columns of fresh thous-
ands of German men and We
hicles, the Red Army declared
today that it had repulsed the
Germans in all the vital sectors
except south of Rostov, where
"severe defensive" battles were
being waged.
Even there, said the Soviet In
formation Bureau, Don and Kuban
Cossacks from the Red Army of the
Caucasus were savagely counter
attacking to stem the German ad-
vance.
More than 5000 Germans were
killed and at least % tanks destroyed
in a single day along the curving
300-mile Don front, the Russians
declared.
Planes Pound Nazi Columns.
Gambling high for Caucasian oil,
the Germans threw reserves by the
thousands across their Rostov
bridgeheads. They were employing
every kind of motorized conveyance
fast motorcycles, speedy troop
carrying trucks, tanks bearing auto
matte ri1emen, and small tanks
which rushed the Russians from the
tanks.
But the reinforced Russian air
force strafed and bombed these
columns continuously as they coiled
southwark.
About 1000 Germans were left
dead on the field in fierce struggle
near Kletskaya, northwest of Stalin-
grad in the Don bend, where the
invaders were repulsed, the COM
ulunique said.
Cossacks Charge Fiercely.
Units of Don and Kuban Cossacks
charged fiercely into the slowly ad-
vancing Nazi forces in the Ku-
shchevka-Salskr region of the North
Caucasus in what the communique
described as a successful counter
attack" and killed 1900 Germans,
It was reported.
Soviet long-range bombers and
dive-bombers assisted the hard
fighting Cossacks by raining bombs
on German tank and motorized
columns, the Russians said.
The Communist party newspaper
Pravda told how the Cossacks in
the Kushchevka area held large
North Caucasus village despite is
attacks by German motorized units
supported by dive-bombers.
ITO retreat without orders means
to cover our banners with shame"
Pravda declared.
In the Tsimlyansk sector, 120 miles
upstream from Rostov, the Germans
were said to have left 1000 dead Of
ficers and men on the field after an
attack, and few miles away a de-
tachment of Soviet marines was
credited with killing TOO more Ger
mans.
More Crossings Forced.
The Germans were trying des-
perately and in some places success
fully to force mo1e crossings of the
Don near Tsimlyansk and send over
reserves to the units which have
crossed to the south bank, the Rus
slams reported.
South of the river, Red Army units
we're dealing heavy blows to the
Germans trying to widen their foot
holds, dispatches said. Soviet bomb
ers were reported active in raiding
the pontoon bridges already set up
by the Germans and Red Army
artillery units south of the river
were making new crossings difficult
and perilous.
The German plan in the Kush-
chevka -Salsk region appeared to be
to fan out in all directions in an
effort to cut of large Russian units
to the east, west and south.
On the upper reaches Of the Don
at Voronezh, the Germans counter
(See RUSSIA, Page A-14)