Show SS sg DEFENSES SES PI SA SAVe NA S f Spearhead Reaches Major River Despite Fierce Resistance Soviets Claim Huge Enemy Toll ToU Ai I 1 o 0 I FINLAND 1 MILES MILES' 4 FORMER C BOUNDARIES HELSINKI S Q- Q 4 ESTONIA e S 'S p MOSCOW LATVIA i 0 J LITH I eio if MINSk 1 I II POLAND L A I bit cl O I 01 ea ROWNE Ii t WHERE BERLIN REPORTS NEW SUCCESSES Moscow reports heavy slaughter of nazis at Berezina river Panzer divisions have reached river say Germans Major fighting zones arc arct t by shaded area Stalin line shown by small squares 1 Five Out of Eight Armored Division Divisions Destroyed by Reds British Hold Holdi Do Doubt bt Defenders Can Stage Attack By United Press Germanys Germany's panzer divisions reported they had jabbed eastward eastward east east- ward to the Great river on the te road to Moscow Saturday I but the red army fought on furiously along its main defense line and British military experts believed ved the nazi offensive might be be slowing down The strength and position o of ot the pan panzer er units that reached the east eat of Minsk was not disclosed disclosed dis dis- dis- dis closed by the German high command com corn mand and it was presumed only small tank forces were involved in the spearhead of the stab to within about miles lIes of Moscow Report Big Biff N Nazi zi Toll Success or failure of the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans in consolidating their present present present pres pres- ent positions will depend upon their ability to send more and more fresh motorized troops and supplies supplies supplies sup sup- plies over communication lines now extended miles from their starting point in German Poland British sources said that the red army fighting in better bet form than expected had taken a terrific toll tollof tollof tollof of the best nazi troops hoops including destruction of possibly five out of elg G Gennan an panzer divisions diY divi used in the the- the offensive offensive The London S Sunday Sunday- Times estImated estimated esti ecU mated Germany h had d thrown divisions virtually all aIT of its bombers bombera bomb bomb- ers era and 80 per cent of its fighting planes into the offensive in a drive to crush the red army quickly If reserves cannot be continuously rolled forward behind the nazi spearhead the danger of losing momentum momentum momentum mo mo- mo- mo which is essential to a blitzkrieg would soan soon become acute Doubt Counter-Attack Counter Some Som reports in London were that Russians originally had as many as as 20 armored divisions on the eastern front but at least some of them have been destroyed in the German encirclement tactics and their ability to laun launch h a real rear counter-blitz counter offensive remains a question A broadcast from Moscow substantiated part of the German claims but the Russians reported terrible casualties casualties esti esti estimated I mated at had had been in inflicted inflicted in- in on the best German troops and that resistance continued in Continued on Page Two 1 Column One GERMANS BOAST r NEW ADVANCES Continued from frou Page Pace On One heavy battles of tanks artillery and airplanes all along alone the front as well as in guerilla war behind the nazi lines The Russians admitted the Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans reached the Drut river inthe in inthe Inthe the drive toward the but said the nazis were halted there therewith therewith therewith with terrible losses as they fought on the banks and in the water On the southern front the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans nans reported advances in cooperation cooperation coop coop- with Rumanian and Hungarian Hungarian Hun Hun- garian garlan troops which finally forced their way across the river A Rome radio report said the axis troops had pushed 62 miles through to the river on the frontier of the Ukraine In southern Poland fierce fighting fighting fight fight- fightIng ing raged in the Tar opol sector and in the far north the Germans reported indefinite advances from Finland from both sides indicated the German panzer units now were pounding at or had penetrated deeply into the Stalin line defenses although there was considerable uncertainty uncertainty uncertainty as to the position of these defense forts The German com corn also failed to specify where the nazi forces reached the river which curves eastward eastward eastward east east- ward to and is the last great natural obstacle on the road to Moscow w. w Supply Blow v Near The Germans in reaching the had gone eastward from Borisov in the direction of Orsha and important towns on the long railroad line from Leningrad Leningrad Lenin Lenin- grad rad to Kiev and Odessa and were apparently ready to strike at that vital supply line The advance nazi units reported they were only 65 miles from the important important im ira- center of and about miles from Moscow The Germans appeared to have crashed through the main Russian defenses in this area Although the exact position of the Stalin line is a secret the main de de- de in depth area was supposed to io be along the Berezina with the as the last really important important im im- un- un obstacle The river is wide and deep and may prove more difficult to cross than the Berezina or the Drut On other fronts the Germans were punching at the Russian lines in an effort to find a soft spot for a break On the south front guarding the Ukraine the Russians ad admitted admi admitted ad- ad mi ted the enemy drive from Rumania Rumania Rumania Ru Ru- mania had crossed the river into but said the Ger Ger- Rumanian man been held up in subsequent fighting Report Lines Hold HoldIn HoldIn In the sector of south Poland on the border of the Ukraine the Russians admitted a aGerman aGerman aGerman German unit was f fighting below but said the Russians had held in that sector and nd that the German attack was diverted toward just inside the Ukraine Big tank clashes were reported in this sec sec- sec sec- tor In the Germans said the Hungarian forces fighting with the nazis occupied and Stanislav while in the in-the the far north the nazi high command said their advance continued over difficult terrain and despite re re- re The objective in the far north is and on the isthmus is Lenin Lenin- grad The 1 Moscow 0 s cow sought to give the impression that the nazi gains were made at a terrific cost and that that the red army retired in orderly fashion Claim Desert The German Gerian however however how how- however ever reported the had blasted many retreating Russian columns and repeated a report that Russians had deserted and shot their political commissars commis sars sara in the area of Minsk Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian alan tanks motorized columns artillery railroads and and troop trains were dispersed or de destroyed destroyed destroyed de- de especially in the river area of the north centralS central front the Berlin re re- re S ported The Germans claimed to have captured a Russian major general general gen gen- eral cral said there were increasing r signs of ot revolution in Russia and that the red army was no now P estimated to have lost about men in hi the German trap near On the western air front the British continued to throw more and more power into their backdoor back bach backdoor door attacks attack on Germany After pounding hard at Bremen the th royal roval air ah force returned to severe attacks on the nazi occupied coast of France during the night Bombs were laid across three German warships at Brest and submarines moored at Lorient The battleships were named as the Scharnhorst Gneisenau and the new ton cruiser Prinz Eugen all ali of which had been damaged in previous raids r Smashed Russian Tanks Litter Lifter Road Along Which German Armies Passed S c W S r 5 r S 3 f 5 S S S K S S S S 'S 4 4 L S S S S S Associated Press NAZI FORCES PASS BY SOVIET MATERIEL DESTRO IN BATTLE SOMEWHERE ON EASTERN FRONT Alvin J. J Associated Press writer describes similar scenes in tour of oE Lwow area |