Evening star., 1942-01-08
Russians Pouring In
Powerful Reserves

LONDON. Jan. 8 LPf.-1ne Reu
Army was reported reliably tonight
to have poured powerful reserves OF
newly-trained troops into its west
ward drive south of Moscow which
already has showed the Germans
halfway back to Smolensk from
the high mark of the Ne.zi invasion.
The new troops were said to have
supplemented their own arms with
weapons abandoned by the Germans
in their forced retreat.
The Russians still have un-
touched reserves of man power
which they are tapping as fast as
they can be armed" reliable in
formant asserted The Red Army
now is on an offensive largely pow
cred by troops trained in the SIX
months since the war started-and
this training is going on at a rate
that more than makes up for battle
losses
Advance in Crimea, Karelia.
Russian advances in frozen Kare-
liza and in the Crimea also we're
reported. along with the steady Mos
COW front push which recaptured
Meshchovsk, deep in the German
center.
Bodies Of nearly 400 German off,
GERS and men were found in one
of the recaptured points, the Soviet
Informa ton Bureau said. and auto
matte riflemen annihilated almost
200 others in a fight for a village
identified only as p"
Meshchovsk lies 100 miles SOUTH
west of Moscow and only 40 miles
short of the wanna -Bryansk line
on which the invaders we're expected
to attempt to dig in for the winter
Representing 40-mile advance
from Kaluga, it becomes the base
OF a Soviet spearhead at the SOUTH
ern tip of the Moscow region of1en-
sive arcane hored in the north at
Staritsa, on the Upper Volga-which
is menacing Mozhaisk, German
stronghold 81 miles west of the
capital.
Sevastopol Garrison Attacks
The Russian garrison of Sevasto-
pol. long-besieged Black Sea naval
base. was declared in Ts-ss broad
cast to have taken the offensive
/ against Axis forces diverted by sea
/ landings at other major ports OF
the Crimea-Kerch, Feodosiya ano
Yevpatoriya.
Advances of from to 5 miles were
registered in one days fighting. the
Soviet news agency said, with Rus
sian naval flyers backing up the
ground troops.
Units under Maj. Gen. Petrov. the
commander. are dealing heavy blows
to the emmy" it said. "One inhabited
locality has been occupied and sew
eral important heights have been
captured"
The Soviet Information Bureau
said five German companies hao
been wiped out and a vast quantity
OF arms captured in continuing ad-
vance on the southwestern from,
Tuesday.
Tass said Russian legions on the
central front had driven wedges
more than half way through German
defenses as deep as Az miles. in
Guiding system of well-camou-
flaged dugouts heated by stoves ane
overlaid with six or seven tiers ol
logs.
Karelia Battle on 4 Days.
Stockholm reports said the Rus
slams were hurling battalion aftel
battalion of troops and armorec
forces against the Finnish front II
Eastern Karelia in a battle alread!
raging four days. evidently to render
secure the Arctic supply ports o.
Murmansk and Archangel
Fierce fighting was reported by
the government newspaper 1zvestis
in the Leningrad area. involving Gen
<Meretskov's Soviet forces and tht
remnants of German divisions which
they pushed westward from Tikhvin
ITO miles southeast of Leningrad
and Volkhovo. 80 miles below Lenin.
lSee RUSSIA, Page A-4o