The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-16
Russians In Furious
 Battle On One Front
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(COnLlIlucQ lerovo area, on the railroad in the center of the Donetz district" a front line dispatch said. rAt the same time the other prong of the drive has pushed on southward from Boguchar, apparently attempting to unite with the Millerovo forces for concentrated assault on the most vital city of the Volga-Stalingrad.
 "The Red army was pushed back by sheer weight of numbers from both Millerovo and Boguchar after the most desperate resistance"
 (The German communique claim ed rapid advances in the bend of the Don river, where it was asser- ted that Russian troops and booty too great to estimate had been cap tured or trapped. Rostov and other Soviet naval bases and harbors on the Black sea were again bombedD
 The importance attached by the Germans to the southern offensive was emphasized by severe fighting, often of 8 diversionary nature, on other fronts as far north as Lentn- grad.
 Leningrad fin Sight
 South of Leiningrad, the enemy again was attempting forward thrusts, presumably in an effort to improve his positions as far as Lake linen, as well as on the Kalinin front, northwest of Moscow.
 Southwest and east of Rzhev, 125 miles northwest of Moscow, the en- trenched Russian forces were re- ported holding and repulsing re- peated German attacks which were designed to eliminate a threat to the enemy communications lines. Small enemy groups penetrated the Soviet defenses in wooded sector but later were destroyed, dispatches said.
 The Red Star also reported a Ger man offensive action on the BrlanSk front, west of Orel and southwest ot Moscow. A Russian counter attack again forced the enemy to dig III on the defensive, but Nazi air borne troops were being rurshed to that sector, apparently to renew the at tack.
 In the battle of Voronezh, the Germans were using an increasing number of dive bombers.
 "Shrieking bombs raise an infer nal noise," 8 dispatch to the Red Star said. Bombs are dropped ceaselessly, giving the impression that Soviet positions have been wiped out. But when the enemy tanks and infantry begin to advance the Russians emerge from dugouts and open devastating fire that halts the enemy.
 Tn one instance, Soviet med ium tank was attacked by l8 enemy dive bombers. The tank was prac- tically buried in craters. But when the planes flew away the tank emerged unscated."
 Dispatches said that the Russians led by Stormovik assault planes, were continually counter-attacklng'
 Enormous Losses
 They inflicted enormous losses on the enemy, dispatches said, and at several points forced them to take LID defensive positions.
 As a result of the Russian attack, in the face of heavy German fire, enemy pressure was essed on the north side of the city, dispatches said, adding that the counter attacks were continuing.
 On the south side, the threat to the city still was acute, special dispatch to the army newspaper Red Star said. The Hungarian third army corps, supported by large tank masses, hammered at the mouth of small river which flows into the Don.
 In one counter attack, the Rus sians hacked their way with the bayonet and the hand grenade from house to house to clear the Germans from a street they had fortified.
 Todays communique tersely noted the counter attacks. Is said, that heavy losses were inflicted on tie Axis troops in counter attacks in several sectors, and that in one the enemy had been pushed back somewhat.
 In two, 1t was said, the Russians killed 1850 Germans and destroyed 13 tanks 12 machine guns, seven trench motars and nine troop trucks. In the Millerovo sector, at the south end of the 220-mile battle front, the commun-que indicated that the Russians had been forced farther back.
 Last nights communique admit ted the loss of Millerovo; today's noon communique put the fighting at a point southeast of it.
 The battle for Voronezh was ap- preaching a climax in wild fight of men and machines, in which vil- lages, streets and even individual homes changed hands again and again.
 The German command threw more and more men and machines into the battle.
 The Russians, heavily outnum- bered, fought oh and the Red army guards regiments counter-attacked