Evening star., 1942-04-24
German Stronghold
In criHlea Taken,
Russia Reporis
Finn Troops Reported
70 Hove Joined Nuxis
On kolinin Front
d shA Azeprsssess Pres.


KUIBYEHEv, Russia, April "a
Red star said today Russian
forces had captured the Golden
Range a neuacing German
stronghold In the Crimea, but
there were reports that some
Firms had moved south TO bolster
Mad divisions on the KaHntn
front.
The Golden Range, not spectfi-
cAily located IN the Soviet account,
wNs said 10 have been taken after
-four days Of sharp fighting. The
Germans lost 300 killed. several big
R,iua. 50 naachine-guns and dozens
of trench mortars, said Red Star.
the Russian Army Newspaper.
The Germans were said 10 have
routed the Russians once from
freshly captured positions before
finally capitulst!ng.
a Stockholm dispatch to
Reuters today quoted q Berlin
spokesInAn as saying units OF
the 10TH German Army trapped
IN Gtaraya Russa area had
pierced Soviet lines and re-estab-
hshed contact with the main
German forres)
Mnaa Secters Still Slushy.
With the main sectors of the Ger
man. Russian front still sllnhy,
fighting fAred Systematically In the
deep south and the north where the
battleAehs we're respectively dry
and still frozen,
Russian advices said the Red
Army broke through a sector Of the
Finnish front before Leningrad last
week and knitted through the Fin
nish lines I'm KareIia this week.
There has been nothing here since
to indicate lessening of the Soviet
drives.
On the southwest front Red Army
men found 10 big guns and addi-
tionAi xrnAn arms abandoned with
melting Of the SHOWS. Others en-
countered the grotesquely frozen
body Of German guard who wore
. women's garb over his uniform
and his two iron crosses. Behind
him was an ammunition dump of
i2,0p0 shells. Germany sent many
vofDens coats to the eastern front
during the winter.1
New Types Of Planes.
Amid generally increased aerial
activity. Red Star said the Russian
air force had been supplied new type
fighters and bombers and, although
the enemy still was not smashed.
we now have everything necessary
TO win the fight for supremacy OF
the air"
Red Star identified the Russian
air forces new planes as three
fieh4ers. the Mig. the Yak and the
LAgg, the low-altitude bomber II
and the long-range bombers PEI
and PES.
+ said new Messerschmitts.
JmkeEy and Heinkels which Ger
mary planned TO produce had not
appeared Ia large numbers.
1ne Communist party newspaper
Hatda said the Germsn.Finnish
Antof Kalinin front thrusts-made
Ia = region where the 18th Nazi
Army long has been reported en-
ctrcted vt 6tarays Russia developed
dsree nghting on many sectors.
All the countcx6t 6ttacks were re-
pulsed and the Russians pushed west
again 70 capture another settlement,
Pravda said.
(M was not brought out how
Field Marshal Baron Carl Gustaf
Mannerheim, chief Of Ffnland's
armed forces, could spare even
token troops for distant opera
tions In view Of fierce fighting
the last two weeks On the Syir
River front.
tMannerheim declared In an
order OF the day issued at Hell
sinki yesterday, however, that thu
Ftnns had won this eombat be-
tween Lakes Ladoga and Omega.
He commended his army and its
field leader, Gen. Lennart Oesch.
The Russians had reported two
breaks in the Finnish lines and
claimed victory In violent en-
gagements there Wednesday,
IL Blockhouses Destroyed.
Speaking Of the zone between the
Kalinin and Svir River fronts, the
Soviet Information Bureau said:
-Our units operating on separate