Evening star., 1942-06-11
Nazis SMASHING
Al Three Points
On Soviet Front
0,000 Reported in
SevostopoI Drive;
Murmunsk Roided
Hy the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, June 11.-Ger-
manys armies and air force. in
creaSing their pressure along the
entire front, were attacking to-
day at three major points: Open
ing a new push from Kharkov in
the Ukraine, hurting whole di-
visions against besieged Sevas-
topol and battering at Muir
mansk from the air.
Dispatches from the battlefronts
suggested that the Germans at last
were getting their summer campaign
under way, rolling into larger scale
action after being held and thrust
back for almost six months.
The Soviet news agency Tass
reported from Sevastopol that
the Germans had attacked re-
peatedly during the past "a hours,
hurting powerful forces into the
fight, but said that despite the
intensity and stubbornness Of the
attacks the enemy failed to break
the resistance of the Sevastopol de-
tenders. ''' The troops firmly hold
their ground"
The defenders of Sevastopol were
declared to have again "repulsed
the enemy offensive and inflicted
heavy losses on him"
More than 10 German di-
visions. perhaps 10000 men, we're
reported by a London military
commentator today to be striking
at Sevastopol in the heaviest at
tack yet made on that Soviet
Black Sea port. The commentator
said the Germans were making
particular effort to clear the
southern flank of the defensesJ
Aerial activity on both sides was
described as intense. Tass said Red
Air Force flyers defending the city
shot down % German planes and
damaged l6 others in the past few
days. while anti-aircraft guns
doWned 20 more German aircraft.
Won Book Takes Initiative.
The Soviet Information Bureau
announced that Field Marshal Gen
Fedor van Books army had taken
the initiative in the shell-torn
region Of Kharkov, Nazi-held steel
center in the Donets Basin 400 miles
south of Moscow
Beyond saying that "a battle took
place" its midnight communique
reported no details.
Marshal Semeon Timoshenkos S
Red Army shock divisions pressed
hard on Kharkov in an 1S-day
campaign last month. The infor-
nation bureau said 10000 Germans
were killed or captured. against
$4,000 Russians killed or missing.
CThe Germans asserted three
Russian armies were wiped out
and that 240,oO0 men were cap
tured)
The Tmoshenko offensive-re-
ported to have broken up Nazi plans
for a second march Immediately on
the Caucasus gateway at Rostov-
was instituted as diversion during
the eventually successful Nazi drive,
started May 8, to regain the Kerch
Peninsula.
Red Army flyers were reported
to have sunk an Axis patrol boat,
destroyed two railway trains and
demolished or damaged several
tanks and armored cars. 300 motor
vehicles, 80 munitions carts and 18
guns Tuesday.
Today's midday communique
reported operations northwest and
west of Moscow in which hun
dreds of Germans were killed, more
than 200 Of them on the northwest
ern front when German infantry
failed in an attempt to drive a
wedge into Russian positions.
Guerrillas on the central front
were reported to have occupied a
populated place after striking at
the German garrison in a surprise
action which left the field of battle
strewn with the bodies of hundreds
of the foe