Evening star., 1943-07-24
Order Of Day
Sets Foes Loss
At 10000 Men
1900 Enemy Tanks
And 1892 Planes
Destroyed in July
BY the Associated Press.


LONDON, July 24.-Premier
Joseph Stain, in an order of the
day to three of his generals con-
graduating them on complete
liquidation" of the German July
offensive, said today that the
enemy had suffered 10000 off,
GERS and men killed in the abor-
tive drive.
The order of the day. recorded
from the Moscow radio by the Soviet
monitor here, said 1900 enemy tanks
were destroyed or disabled and 944
guns, 1892 planes and more than
5000 trucks were destroyed from
July 5 to July % in the fighting
about Orel and Kursk.
From the morning of July Ger
man Fascist troops with large forces
of tanks and infantry supported by
large air forces passed to the Of
tenSlve in the Orel -Kursk and Bel
gorod-Kurst direction" Stalin's VIC
tory message said
The German command put into
action several tank divisions in the
Orel-kursk sector and 10 tank di-
visions, one motorized division and
seven infantry divisions in the Bel
gorod-Kursk sector.
Thus altogether the enemy hurled
INTO the attack II tank, three mo-
torlzed and 18 infantry divisions.
Used Concentric Blows.
concentrating their forces on
narrow sectors of the front, the
German command reckoned by
concentric blows from the north and
south, on breaking through our de-
lenses and encircling and wiping
out our troops near Kursk.
This new German offensive did
not take our troops unaware. They
were prepared not only to repulse
the German offensive but also to
deal mighty counterbloWs.
AT the cost of tremendous losses
OF manpoWer and equipment the
enemy succeeded in driving a wedge
into our defenses to a depth of about
nine kilometers in the Orel-Kursk
sector and Is to 35 kilometers in the
Belgorod- -Kursk sector.
In fierce engagements our troops
wore out and bled white picked
German divisions and followed this
up with violent counterblows by
which they not only hurled back the
| enemy and completely restored their
position occupied before July 5, but
also broke through enemy defenses
and advanced Is to 25 kilometers
toward Orel.
German Legend Exploded"
Engagements carried out in the
liquidation demonstrated the high
military skill of our troops. Un-
precedented examples of stubborn
ness, steadfastness and heroism were
displayed by men and commanders
of all arms, including artillery and
mortar gunners, tankmen and air.
men.
Thus German plans for summer
offensive can be considered as hav-
ing completely failed. Thus the
legend that the Germans always are
successful in their summer offensives
and that Soviet troops are COM
PEELED to retreat is exposed
During the engagement from July
to July % the enemy suffered the
following losses: Seventy thousand
officers and men killed. 1900 tanks
destroyed or disabled, 1875 self-pro-
pelling guns, 844 field guns, 1892
planes destroyed and over 5000
| trucks.
In the fighting for the liquida-
tion of the German offensive, those
particularly distinguishing them
selves included troops of 1t. Gems.
Pukhov and Galanin, 1t. Gen. of
Tank Forces Rodin, 1t. Gems. RAM
amen, Kolpackhi and Chistyakov,
1t Gems of Tank Forces Katukov
and Rotmistrov, 1t. Gems. Zhadov.
Shumilov and Kryuchenkin, and