Show Red Army Battles Baffles Fiercely in Streets of MOSCOW 1 Mar March h 2 UP UP-Rus- UP Russian Rus sian armies hamm hammering ring at the three main bastions of a cracking mile German front Thursday closed in on the almost encircled and burning burning- Estonian city of Narva stormed street by street through and ripped into the near defenses of Field dispatches indIc indicated ted that the front froM the Gulf Gull of FI Finland 11 nd down d through northern Estonia the region bordering Laty Latvia White Russia were giving away kway aY under synchronized soviet offensives v s Estonian reports said the nazis had put the torch to fo Narva arva stronghold stronghold stronghold strong strong- hold commanding the corridor between between between be be- tween Lake and the Gulf of Finland as well as scores cores of i the west in a desperate fall fallback ack tow toward rd Tallinn Southward miles the transport transport transport trans trans- port system radiating from skov was splintered r red d army assault units were chopping steadily through the city streets and the fall of the gateway to Latvia was I reported imminent Another miles to the southeast southeast south south- east cast Siberian veterans were smashing smashing smash smash- ing at the gates of key tey base of northern White Russia from the north east and south and spearheads were within six six miles of the city proper The scythe-like scythe sweep around Narva in one of the thc biggest r river r crossing operations of the B Baltic campaign carried the ilie RU Russians near the scene of Peter Is I's great victory over the Swedes in 1704 The red army vanguard reached Continued on nn P Pa Page se Th Three Column Four Red Army Battles Baffles Fiercely in Streets of v v. v Continued S from Page One the Narva river south of the city of at Narva on February 1 after a mile 93 pursuit of the Germans fleeing headlong fr from m Leningrad The troops found the west bank of the Narva defended by a thick b belt lt of pillboxes trenches barbed wire and thousands of gun em em- placements A few days ago after heavy artillery preparation staggered the defense system soviet units slashed across the river The Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans counterattacked time after time At one point 11 counterattacks counterattacks counterattacks tacks were beaten off oft in three hours by a single unit After sev several several several sev- sev eral days of bitter combat the Russians Russians Russians Rus Rus- secured a bridgehead 21 miles wide and 10 miles deep assault pl planes flying at treetop level supported the RussIan Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian advance Stockholm reports said soviet storm troops had captured the northern and eastern suburbs of and were battling in the center of the town against a German German German Ger Ger- man suicide rear guard The attacks put the Russians' Russians Baltic campaign in high gear all along a mile front from Narva to with the possibility that the Germans will willbe willbe willbe be cleared from Estonia and perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps Latvia and Lithuania by spring Isolate Narva General Leonid A. A northern army forded the Narva river south of the town of the same name on a mile 21 front and pushed on at least 10 miles milC to emerge behind Narva's defenses and sever the Tallinn Narva-Tallinn road with the capture of The drive cut off Narva from all supplies and reinforcement except except except ex ex- ex- ex by sea The dispatch implied that th the Russians also had cut the Narva- Narva Tallinn highway one mile north of and reached the Gulf of oC Finland another two miles to the north Two German infantry regiments totaling perhaps men were put to rout in one sector They abandoned 25 guns 40 mortars and large quantities of ammunition and mines In another sector 1200 Germans were killed in two days of fighting while three tanks four self-propelled self guns and 16 field guns were captured Take Tale Rail Center Besides the railroad ad town to of ofA A nine miles TInes west vest of Narva the Ru Russians also captured Vy- Vy oska eight miles southwest of Na Narva a and 12 miles southwest of Narva miles cast east of Tallinn and 16 miles inside Estonia and General Marklan Markian M. M forces joined in storming storming storming storm storm- ing the last defenses of after capturing 70 more towns and villages villages villages vil vil- lages yesterday in an offensive arc curving into the outskirts o othe of the strategic city guarding the in invasion invasion invasion in- in route to southern Estonia and northern Latvia was reported all but isolated isolated isolated iso iso- with the only two railways left In German hands under soviet artillery fire The Russians cut the railway last held German-held south north-south line of northern Russia Wednesday with the capture of 45 miles southeast of |