The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-07-10
l,OOO,OOO Men, More Than 2,OOO Tanks Battering
 at Russian Armies SOVIETS HOLDING AT
 IMPORTANT POINTS Battles Terrific, With the Nazis Leaving Heaps of
 Dead at Battlefield
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE

(Of the United Press War Desh)
 The great battle of the Don, now at its height, prob ably is the supreme test oj the Nazi's ability to get any. where in Russia this summer. Hitler has thrown a tre- mendouS force into this com paratively narrow sector of about no miles. Into that area he has concentrated about 100000 men and at least 2,000 tanks = maybe much more, if Russian claims to have destroyed 250 tanks in a single day are cor rect.
 Despite this massed effort, the Russians are holding. The Germans have reached Voronezh and Rossosh on the Moscow Rostov railway and apparently have crossed the Don at points. This progress, however, is not commensurate with the force employed and the German failure to make a decisive break through so far is an encouraging sign.
 The Germans apparently have changed their tactics since last year. Then they were out to anni- hilate the Russian armies on an in- credibly long front. This year they are striking for limited objectiveS. Their first success was at Sevasto- pol, taken at such cost that it was perhaps rightly described by Col Petrov, official Soviet war corre- spondent, as a pyrrhic victory.
 Different Story Told
 The Germans found last year that they could not annihilate the Red army and their boasts of having crushed it, which the world was in- clined to believe for a time, arose to mock them. This year the Ger mans are not talking of annihilation but are trying desperately to carve their way tough to the Volga and down into the Caucasus.
 The pesent dive apparently Is aimed at Stalingrad on the Volga. It has succeeded so far in interrupt ing the MoScow-Rostov Railway but there is another line which runs northwards from the Caucasus through Stalingrad, far to the rear of the present battle front.
 Whether the German claim of three days ago that they had taken Voronezh was premature is imma- terial. Even if they do take 1t, they will have won only an important point, not the battle. They still wiD have nearly 300 miles to go to tht Volga.
 Unless Marshal Semyon TilnO- shenko's army goes to pieces, which Is an extremely remote possibility, the Germans have & superhuman job ahead. AS for the prospect of army collapsing, 1t is best expressed in the title of a cur rent book, Russians don't surren- der"
 Timoshenko's strength, and tha: of Russia, lies in the indomfnatable fighting spirit of his EsN and the vast distances which comprise Rus. sia. The Russians need not surren. der but fall doggedly back, draw. ing the enemy deeper and deeper into the country and whittling away his strength. One front will succeed another until there are no GermaD or Russians left.
 Russian Battle Story
 Moscow, July 10-( (UP-Units o1 the German fourth panzer army have crossed the Don river, neal and bitter fighting nop Is raging on the east bank, front line dispatches to the Soviet army organ Red Star said today.
 Dispatches from the front report. ed that strong German spearhead had reached the key railroad june.
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