The daily monitor. (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1940-1942, 1942-01-19
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MOSCOW. Jan Is - @ -
0s3m Russian soldiers and Nazi
troops comprisin. the cream OF
the German forces" a e fighting
. desperate hand-to-hand battle
IN the blazing key city of Moz-
haisle, the Russian army news
paper Red Star declared today.
A. -.ussia's great winter Of
fensive gained momentum along
the entire front from the Arctic
% the Black Sea. Red Star also
reported that stubborn street
fighting was taking place in an
other town in the Moscow sector
whose name was not given.
0oxhaisk, 81 miles west of
Moscow, was the pivot Of the
German pinccr moves against
Moscow last fall and the high
point Of the Nazi advance upon
Smolensk. ITO miles west Of
Moxhaisk, and transported them
by air to the front.
(. A Red Star writer said that
the Germans, in a vain effort to
map the Russian drive, had
rushed troops from France to
Moscow from the west.
But the Germans were COM
PEELED to retreat, the writer said,
and suffered heavy losses.
! (The Moscow radio said the
Russians were within so miles
OF Smolensk. where Adolf Hit
fer was said in Stockholm to
have set up headquarters after
assuming supreme command OF
the army
/. In another success, the official
Soviet communique announced
the Russian occupation of Po-
lotnyany- Zavod, on the Moscow
central front.
I Meanwhile, IL was disclosed
IN Juibyshev that the Red army
had completed training an enor-
NOUS new pool of reserves under
che universal compulsory mill
cary service started by Premier
Joseph Stain Oct. !.
These men were said to give
Russia additional power to meet
the spring offensive the Germans
have promised.
LOSE INITIATIVE
In this connection, the retiring
British ambassador to Moscow,
Sir Stafford Cripps, in q fare
wen lnessass published by the
1overnment Newspaper Izvestia
declared that the Germans had
''lost the initiative and we must
never allow them to regain 1t
We must give them no rest,
no time to reform their armies.
no chance to strike In SINE other
theater Of war"
Official Russian sources and
newspaper dispatches gave this
picture Of the fighting on the
long front:
In Karelia, one Russian tank
led assault drove the Firms back
two miles, rccaptured a large
settlement identified only as Nv"
ana cost q Finnish regiment
more than 500 killed and
wounded.
Units operating on the north
western front, of which Lenin-
grad II the center, dislodged the
Germans from several populated
places. the Germans left nearly
900 officers and men killed.
LAUNCH ATTACKS
Sfrong German counterattacks
west Of Kalinin, which is 90
miles northwest Of Moscow, were
acknowledged by Russia but the
Soviet accounts said the Red
army advance continued.
Germans retreating on the
western front were reported to
have left quantities of war ma
terrell and abandoned the bodies
Of 1000 officers and men.
On the central sector before
N o sc o W, the Red army has
fought it, way to vereya. only
Is miles southwest of Mozhaisk,
and into the outskirts of Orel,
900 miles south Of Moscow.
Tin the Ukraine. the Russians
were reported in German news
agency reports to be attempting
q break into Kharkov. indus
triAl center, but the Germans
sai0 the Russians had been driv-
en- back several miles by Ger
man counterattacks.)
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