Evening star., 1942-06-21
Germans Reckless
Assaults RepuIsed,
Russians Report
By IRE Associated Press.

MOSCOW, Sunday, June 21.-
The Germans last night con-
tinued to batter Sevastopol with
about 10000 men and hundreds
of planes and tanks and at the
same time registered new ad-
vance in a revival of fighting on
the Kharkov front, the Russians
announced early today.
Our heroic defenders are re-
pulsing the enemy attacks day and
night" the midnight Soviet COM
munique said of the battle for Sc
vastopol, which has reached a peak
of violence with the Germans max
ing a mighty effort to break into
the Black Sea naval base
With the Nazis recklessly charg-
ing the north and south sides of the
fortress, the Soviet communique re-
ported one defending battery wiped
out an entire enemy infantry bat
talon while an anti-tank unit of
the Black Sea fleet in three days
knocked out % Nazi tanks and
killed 300 Germans.
In a one-line reference to the
new fighting on the Kharkov front,
the Soviet announcement said: TN
one sector our troops fought ad-
vancing enemy troops"
Secondary Soviet Drive.
Launching a secondary drive of
their own, Red Army tank and in
fantry forces killed 900 Germans
and captured number of weapons
and equipment, including six tanks,
on the Bryansk front southwest of
Moscow. This drive started after
Russian sappers cleared a gap in a
German mine-field. opening the way
for the onrushing Soviet attackers.
Elsewhere up and down the front
there was an eruption of fighting of
local Importance and reconnaissance
activity, but it was the fighting for
Sevastopol that overshadowed all
else.
Despite the efforts of the German
air force to sweep the skies with
hundreds of fighters and bombers
over Sevastopol, pilots of the Black
Sea fleet stayed aloft to challenge
them. In 10 days Russian fighters
and ground batteries were reported
10 have killed 1000 German infantry
men and destroyed "a tanks.
But the situation there was one
of increasing gravity for the Rus
sian defenders.
Repulsed Eight Times.
Soviet dispatches said the Ger
mans made eight successive assaults
on the south side June 18 only to be
repulsed each time by the Red Army
defenders. One repulse was carried
out at bayonet point, the Russians
destroying a regiment of Nazi in
tantry and destroying about 20 tanks.
Ever flercer fighting was reported
around the northern Notifications
where the Germans exerted their
greatest effort, with several infantry
divisions and many heavy tanks
maSsed in single sectors.
The Red Army, both at Sevastopol
and on the other fronts, was con-
sidered far stronger, better organ
lied, armed and trained after al
most a year of war in which mil
lions have fought, bled and died.
Across Hitler's path they stood, from
the Arctic to the Black Sea, deter
mined to make 1912 the year of
his debacle.
The Germans at Sevastopol, no
longer the cream of Nazi man
power, hurled themselves against
the flaming trenches and concrete
bricks in the hope of presenting
their fuehrer with the naval base
as a present on the first ami
versary of the Russian German
struggle.
Nazis Punished Mercilessly.
But the sailors and gunners, de
Tending with their breasts every
inch of Soviet land" were punish
ing the Nazis mercilessly.
The Black Sea fleet continued to
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