The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-05-25
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talions supported by tanks attacked Russian positions, and in hard fight ing 300 Germans were killed and three Nazi tanks destroyed, the high command reported. In an unidentified sector of the northwestern front the capture of a populated place, described only as ", was reported as well as 400 German dead. Eleven enemy block houses were taken.
 CThe British radio, recorded by CBS, quoted Moscow broadcast as saying that marines of the Russian Arctic fleet had landed fin the encmy's rear" in daring raid-pos- sibly in the Murmansk region-and returned safely to their base after successfully completing their mis- sion)
 z Marshal Timoshenko's forces around Kharkov were said to be 1 fighting with renewed vigor, sup ported by fresh arrivals of 52-ton kiln Voroshilov" iGn1s and big anti-tank rifles handled by two men.
 One Blazing Front War correspondents of Pravda, the official Communist party newspaper, described blazing front in which fleets of planes almost darkened the sky as they fought mercilessly with each other or dived screaming to bombing and machine guns front line positions.
 Reinforced Russian guard regi- ments, led by tankborne infantry and automatic riflemen, smashed into counter-attacking German massed tanks, broke the enemy formations, and stormed through machine gun and cannon held strong points to win and consolidate new positions. it was said.
 The Germans threw in huge masses of tanks and infantry with out avail, in counter-attack and de- fense.
 On its 14th day the Russian of- fensive against the great industrial city of the Ukraine had entered it's second phase, in which the Russians intensified their attacks on wide front and the Germans sharply step i, ped up their counter offensive on their left flank.
 Wiping out an isolated German garrison at a strategically important point in an unspecoified sector, the Russians liquidateG 8 strong point which the Germans had kept sup- piled by plane and reinforced by numerous parachute troops and par achuted baby tanks.
 Russian artillery methodically blew up the approaches to the po- sition and then the position itself, and Russian guardsmen stormed it.
 Red army troops, after attacking unremittingly for 12 days, had con- Solidated their wide, deep gains and had started again to advance.
 The Germans, failing to break the Russian lines with their own coun- ter-drive in the -Barvenkovo sector, 70 miles south of Kharkov, again reSorted to masSed tank at- tacks and dispatches from the front said their losses were enormous.
 Noon COmmunique
 The noon communique, indicat- ing the savagery of the fighting, said:
 'Last night our troops, corsoli- dating their positions, engaged in , offensive battles. In other sectors there was nothing of importance. "In the Izyum- -Baryenkovo direc- tion our troops fought defensive battles against German tanks and infantry, and inflicted heavy losses" !" It described 8 counter-attack in which enemy infantry tried to wedge into Russian positions in one Kharkov sector, only to be out- hanked and repulsed with the loss of 750 killed and a quantity of war materials.
 Agian, as at the climax of the frs tphase of the offensive last week great fleets of tanks and hundreds : of thousands of men were mingled in 8 vast and confused battle on 8 125-mile front.
 The Russian attack, led by mon- } ster tanks carrying infantry "com- mandoS" and picked corps of au- tomatic riflemen, was general along the front.
 } But in numerous indiviua1 sec- [ tors, the Germans threw reserves lavishly into counter-attacks and in l the Izyum-Barvenkovo sector, 25- } mile stretch, their tanks attacked l in groups of up to I50, with trailer ] Borneo sub-machine gunners follow ing.