The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-13

| important pattle was TepOrDeQ DaJ- tie was reported deveolping on the Kalinin front, northwest of Moscow, where axis endorsements gave the enemy @ numerical superiority and forced the Rcd Army back at some points. Russian dispatches said that part of the ground was regained by counter-attacks but that tank bat ties continued.
 CThe German colnmunique said that axis troops had broken through the RZhev sector of the Kalinin front, 135 miles from Moscow, in a new drive, taking 30,000 prisoners, 21H tanks and 591 guns. In the south the Germans said they bomb- ed the Black Sea base of NoYorosisk and pursued the beaten enemy" on a wide front in the Don Basin.)
 Fourth Day of Battle
 The Red Armys defense of Voroanezh entered its fourth day with Soviet troops holding their positions against enemy forces that constantly were growing in num- Der.
 The Germans were crossing the Don and entering the narrow battle zone that did not exceed 10 miles in width, with the Don on one side and the zoronezh river on the other.
 Front line dispatches said the Russians still appeared to have a foothold on the western bank of the Don northwest of Voronezh, and from that point were hammering at the Fourth Panzer army of Field Marshal EWald von Kleist which is trying to effect crossing.
 It was admitted that the Ger mans had reached the neighbor- hood of Boguchar. 190 miles west of Stalinograd, and Lisichansk, only 120 miles north of Rostov. (The Vichy radio, frequently in accurate, said the Germans had stared a fourth spearhead driving directly eastward on Rostov from Taganrog, 60 miles to the west, and that in the Lisichansk sector fight ing now was in progress in the out skirts of Voroschilograd, 100 miles north of Rostov.
 Nazis HurI In Everything
 The German high command threw everything 1t could into the 120- mile front between Boguchar, at the nohtren end of the Great Bend of the Don, and Lisichansk, to the south toward RoStoV.
 The noon communique reported bitter fighting throughout the night before Voronezh, at the north end of the line, and In the Boguchar sector where the German Spear head pointed directly toward Stal- ingrad.
 German forces, steadily reinforc- ed, were reported to be suffering heavy losses.
 In one tiny sector, fighting for village, the Germans lost IT anti tank guns, IS machine guns, three trench mortars and 300 men killed the noon communique reported.
 The mainline Moscow -Rostov railroad and the Don had been cut wide open at two points.
 Moscow's sole link with the Cau- casus was now by roundabout route to the east. Stalingrad was within easy range of the German air force.
 fAxis reports said that the German planes had already opened a heavy attack on Rostov)
 From Lisichansk, the Germans were now believed to be driving to- ward the important railroad town of Likhaya, 30 miles to the south east and only 70 miles northeast of Rostov, in an attempt to capture that junction of the Moscow-R -Rostov and Stalingrad-Rostov railroads.
 tVichy, without giving its source asserted that the Germans had taken Bielovodsk, 60 miles northeast Of Lisichansk, and tW bother towns In the area)
 Russians Withdraw
 The Red Aarmy command admit ted in it's midnight communique, that the Russians withdrew about 50 miles from Kantemihrovka to the Boguchar area, where they fought to hold the advancing enemy.
 In a similar withdrawal under the Russian defense in depth policy which stopped the Germans last year, the Russians retired to new positions east of Lisichansk, it was said
 It was emphasized that Lisichansk was evacuated only by direct order of the high command to the men in the line.
 The communique implied that Vorone7h, at the northern end of the 200-mile German attack lire, was still firmly in Russian hands with the Germans continuing to pay dearly for their attacks in that area.
 Our troops engaged in violent fighting at the approaches to Vor- onezh," the midnight communique said. "A number of positions changed hands several times"