Show Odessa Doom S' S Sea led Germans Charge S By Associated Pr Press ss S j Ger German Grman n military dispatches dispatches' pictured Russia's big Black la k sea seaport seaport seaport port of Odessa as doomed to quick surrender er T Tuesday esda with with nazi troops storming down both sides sides' of the Bug river river- river and red red army army forces desperately attempting to escape by sea 4 D N B ol official Germ German n news agency reported German Geiman bombers bomb bomb- ers already had sunk six troop- troop laden transports off th the Ukraine i e coast near Odessa The Germ Germans ns declared inland avenues of escape from both Odessa and farther larther east virtually had been cut off I Nazi military quarters late Tuesday said that flying units of I Hitler's panzer divisions had I driven to the Black sea at seVeral several several sev seV- eral points presumably near I 40 miles east of Odessa I thus thus partly isolating red army I units cornered in the west Two I general of the Twelfth and ThIrteenth Thirteenth Thirteenth Thir ThIr- soviet sovie armies were reported report report- ed captured I On the Russo-German Russo war warfront warfront front Moscow conceded that the I red armies were pressed hard-pressed on both in the old day struggle Advices reaching London further further further fur fur- ther emphasized the critical plight of Soviet Marshal Semeon Bu- Bu army of the south re reporting reporting reporting re- re porting that Adolf Hitler had thrown perhaps troops into the Ukraine conflict and that German armored forces had advanced within 40 miles of ot the big grain and shipbuilding port Continued on Page T Two o Column One t g- g i 7 GERMANS CLAIM ODESSA DOOMED Co Continued from front Par Pac One Ont of l about 65 miles east Of Odessa Authoritative London quarters said laId the main German onslaught C was vas developing from the Uman sector midway between Odessa and Kiev where the nazis azis last week reported the slaughter of red troops Net Around od Odessa 11 D N B described the German advance M U Impetuous with sWift striking ng panzer columns throwing t a gigantic net around Odessa Odess main base of the Russian BJ Black ck sea fleet Battle BattIe maps issued in Berlin showed the nazi push forming a huge bulge deep into the southern Ukraine below Kiev and nazi narl front line dispatches asserted German troops also were closing in on the Ukraine capital Violent aerial battles were re reported reported reported re- re ported raging over the blood- blood drenched field as soviet warplanes smashed at German infantry and motorized forces and nazi pursuit planes planes planes' attempted to fight them of off oll D N B said fighters fight fight- ers bagged 27 Russian planes inthe inthe in inthe the Kiev region alone Tuesday morning All major arteries behind the soviet lines in the southern Ukraine were reported jammed with ith retreating red troops under flailing nailing attack by German war- war planes The Germans said rail traffic was disrupted with seven trains derailed or damaged in a single lingle sector Berlin dispatches said German advancing on Kiev were were rolling along well paved broad highways leading straight to the city The Russians made no mention of ef f Odessa They declared the red army still was holding firm in the salient as fighting there went into its twenty-eighth twenty day a an and in th the B Bel l. l sector 50 mues soum sourn 01 oz l A Moscow said the red army was putting up a stubborn fight against strong trong rong German German German Ger Ger- man drives on the north and south flanks flanks in in the sector miles south of Leningrad and the Uman area midway between Kiev and Odessa The Germans acknowledged a anew anew anew new Russian raid on Berlin Manday Monday Monday Mon Man day night but said only two planes reached the general region of the capital The Russians said fires were started in their bombing of central central cen cen- ral Berlin the night before |