Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1943-07-14
Russians Attack
lon Southern End
of Kuirsk Salient
Won KIuee's Forces
Continue Assault
In Other Sectors
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
MOSCOW. July 14.-Red forces
on the southern end Of the
Kursk salient launched a series
of fresh local counterattacks to-
day to follow up their successful
repulse of German attempts to
enlarge the Belgorod bulge yes
terday.
That the Russians are able to take
the initiative after absorbing the
toughest blows the Germans have
been capable Of delivering is taken
by military observers as healthy
sign of the caliber of the Red Army.
Field Marshal Won Kluge's armies,
freshly reinforced and reorganized,
continued to batter violently against
other sectors, but their efforts to
crack through already have cost the
Germans 2,722 tanks and 1900
planes in nine days of fighting. ac-
cording to Soviet official figures.
Reds Repulsed, Nazis Say.
(1he German communiQue as
serted that strong Russian coun-
terattacks in the Belgorod sector
yesterday we're repulsed with
the heaviest losses" and that in
a single sector two Russian regi-
ments were wiped out. More
than 200 Red Army tanks were
destroyed. the communique said.
"NNrfh orI cf IF Hro1 ha
Nazi high command said. re-
inforced Russian formations were
unable to dent the German lines.
Fighting in this sector was con-
tinuing, the communique said.
with German reserves launching
a counterdrive of their own. Ger
man air squadrons, it was as
serted. have shot down 2l2 Rus
sian planes within the last few
days.
The Russians declared the Nazis
had "retreated with big losses" but
it seemed apparent from front Line
dispatches that the Germans still
are holding stubbornly to much of
the territory which they gained in
the fighting a week ago
Ran Into Ambush.
The Germans were reported to
have suffered heavily in one action
when they ran into a tank ambush
which the Russians had prepared
under cover of night at point
where the Nazis were expected to
attack. After checking the enemy
the Russians struck in front and on
the TANKS and the Germans re-
treated in confusion, the Russians
saie.
Elsewhere on the Belgorod- Orel-
Kursk front the action Jagged. Ger
man effort at the northern end Of
the front which flared into action
July had all but died out.
The Russian midnight commu-
nique said activity there was con-
fined to an artillery and mortar duel
with an occasional reconnaissance in
force The Russians placed the
German loss in tanks at so with
about 400 killed. At another sector
artillery fire disabled -propelling
guns, they said.
Prepare for Attack.
The Germans, attempting to i'm
prove their positions, were regroup-
ing for new attacks. the Russians
said
Soviet pilots were keeping a close
watch on Nazi flying fields. and as
soon as a concentration of enemy
planes is noted Russian pilots swoop
down and destroy them on the
ground. the Soviet Army leaders
said. Eight planes were destroyed in
one such action.
(Pravda, official organ Of the
Communist party, warned Rus
sian workers in a broadcast re-
corded by United States monl-
tors that the Germans still have
considerable number OF planes,
which are being thrown into the
battle and urged redoubled ef-
forts in plane production)
On other portions of the long front
the situation was unchanged. In
the Leningrad area Russian scouts
killed 1874 Germans and shell fire
destroyed 43 blockhouses and l8
dugouts. the communique said.
Near Gomel guerrillas were said to
have mined railroad tracks, destroy
ing locomotive and II cars.