Evening star., 1942-01-03

rest and this was in the severest
cold and snoWStorms"
The German high command said
Moscow railway station was hit by
German bombers in an air raid on
the Soviet capital last night.
Soviet military depots also were
declared to have suffered direct hits.
Russians Put Nozi Dead
At $500 Men Daily
BY the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Jan. g. - Maloyaros-
lavets was added today to the
lengthening list of central front
cities restored to Soviet Russia by a
vast Red Army counteroffensive
which the government said was cost
ing Germany $500 dead daily at the
year end.
A special communlque broadcast
by the Moscow radio reported more
than $4,000 German officers and
men were slain in slX-day period
of the winter warfare from Decem-
ber 26 to 81.
tRumors circulated in Sweden.
London sources said, that the
Germans we're building defenSes'
both along the Polish border and
in the interior as a precautlon.
A British observer said, however,
that Poland is still long way
from the fighting zoneD
Russian troops were reported in
A midday communique today to
have wiped out 1850 Germans in
three local engagements. seized
three villages on the central front
and captured war supplies includ-
ing two tanks, II field guns and 80
trucks.
The Moscow radio broadcast q
Tass dispatch saving Soviet troops
had cleared Is villages of the in
vaders in the past two days despite
a stiffening resistance which it de-
scribed as German counter-offen-
siveS"
An article in Izvestia reported that
5000 Germans had been killed in
the Maloyaroslavets sector alone
since Christmas Day.
A Soviet general in charge OF OPP
erations there was quoted as saying
the Germans abandoned tanks on
railway cars At every step we
found large fuel and ammunition
dumps. The routes of our advance
were lined with German graves
The article added that the Malo-
yaroslavets sector of the front no
longer exists. The Germans are
retreating westward
"a British radio report heard
by C. B. S. said German COM
munications lines north and
south of Novgorod had been cut
by the Red Army in new opera
tions toward that town 100 miles
south and slightly east of Len
ingradD
Strategically bestriding the Mos
cow-Kaluga railway 65 miles SOUTH
west of the capital, Maloyaroslavets
provides a base for further pressure
on the Germans still clinglng to
Mo1haisk. 80 miles to the north on
the Moscow -Smolensk highway
which already is reported under Red
Army artillery fire.
Major Gains Consolidated.
The victory consolidated ajor
gains about Kaluga, railway CEN
ter ITO miles southwest of Moscow
which fell in hand-to-hand fighting
Tuesday to Red Army men reported
by 1t. Gen. Ivan Boldin to have
covered 80 miles of difficult winter
terrain in four days to storm the
city.
The relative speed of this ad-
vance on Kaluga-20 miles day
through the snoW-suggested the
use of ski troops, white-cloaked
fighters whom the Berlin radio
now describes as 1.-The invisible
menace"
"a German radio commentator
complained: I'm one battle on
the central sector the Bolshevik
attacked this way for four days
and five nights without interrupt
ton. Our troops had almost no
rest and this was in the severest
cold and SnoWstorms.'
eThe London News Chronicle
declared editorially: You may be
sure it is this (Russian) front
which dominates all Adolf Hit
ler's thoughts today-not Manila
or any other place where the Axis
has gained a temporary advan-
tage.D
Izvestia said Russian forces whicl
drove the Germans from Kerch ant
Feodosiya. on the Crimean pan
handle, had recaptured l9 additiona
settlements in pursuit of the in
vaders.
The Soviet Information Bureau
as if to refute Germanys claim o
an orderly withdrawal to a winte
line in Russia. issued an imposing
list of materiel captured betweel
December 26 and 81 on the centra
front.
The list follows:
Sixty tanks, II armored cars. %
field guns. 81 minethrowers. 46l ma
chine guns. 309 automatic rifles. 2,2l
ordinary rifles, 938 trucks, 249 mo
torcycles, l,448 bicycles. 80 tractor!
seven wireless stations, 226 cart!
40 locomotives, 425 railway cars. on
trainload of ammunition, one train
load of clothing, several railwa
carloads of equipment for sigma
troops. IA carloads of provisions.
carloads of aviation bombs, mine
and shells. nine carloads of sheep
skins. three carloads Of persons
effects Of officers and soldiers. min
carloads of motorcycles, one carloa
Of bicycles.
Captured ammunition dumps. ac
eording to preliminary estimates
said the information bureau. "cor
tanned 20360 shells and 1.190 cast
of shells and 1910 mines 103 OC