Show Roll an Toward Moscow Iut 1 ut Pay Dearly In in Losses Lasses ELITE TROOPS RUSH TO HALT GERMAN GAINS Russ Reported Growing More Confident By Associated Press Russian line front dispatches conceded Friday that that Adolf Hiter's Hitler's Hitler's Hit- Hit lers ler's invasion armies still were advancing over mountains of German corpses in the sector of the old nine-day-old battle for Moscow and the British radio radio radio ra ra- ra- ra dio reported a new threat devel devel- almost due west of tl theU the e eU U USSR S S R capital The BBC said nazi troops were striking toward the upper Volga town of miles wet west o of Moscow thereby stretching the main soviet defense line into a mile arc through and to Orel The Germans reported forward progress along the entire front and said one kettle of soviet re re- sis ance aft after r another was being wiped out t l' T The e Germany Germans ni v ham a at Mos fromm vr rp three and perhaps Sour sectors main pos pbs pose sibly attempting to surround th the Russian RussUm capital as they circled Warsaw in 1939 Reports circulated in Berlin officially officially officially of of- unconfirmed ed but not d de denied denied de- de nied that nazi troops had captured captured captured cap cap- the important railway town of Tula only miles south o of Moscow In the seesaw fighting aroun around miles southwest o of Moscow the Russians admitted the Germans had scored gains i in several sectors but said picked red army troops were now moving up to meet them reinforcing units unit which breasted the first violent violen impact of the he nazi onslaught Red Star the soviet army newspaper news hews newspaper news news- paper said Russian troops recaptured recaptured recap recap- a village near am and found German dead Motor Column Routed Elsewhere in the same region region regio counter-attacking counter soviet troops troop were reported to have routed a aGerman aGerman German motorized column killin killing nazis and destroying 22 tanks in a five-day five battle Red Star said the German advances advances advances ad ad- vances around were achieved through sheer weight o of numbers with the invaders suffering suffering suffering suffer suffer- ing enormous losses Red Star said the Germans were throwing immense forces into th the new push after being routed earlier earlie in the sector miles mile southwest of Moscow As an example Red Star sai said two nazi tank divisions and tw two motorized infantry divisions were hurled against a single red arm army unit of undisclosed size and that tha Continued on Page Two Column Three Best hest Red Troops Speed To Moscow's Defense Continued from rom Pa Page e One three German infantry divisions led by tanks attacked another soviet unit in a one day battle Other soviet dispatches however however how how- ever asserted that despite the re renewed renewed re re- fury of the German onslaught onslaught onslaught on on- slaught Hitler's vast encirclement plan before Moscow had collapsed collapsed collapsed col col- col- col lapsed and that at least some of the trapped red armies had battled their way out of the nazi nut nut- cracker The atmosphere in Moscow itself itself it itself it- it self contrasting with Thursdays Thursday's official acknowledgment of a a. grave emergency was distinctly more confident The soviet command was reported report report- ed to have opened the floodgates of Russia Russians Russians' mighty might manpower re reserves reserves reserves re- re serves t throwing owing masses of ot fresh troops into th the tha bitter conflict A red army bulletin reported also that the nazi offensive north of Orel on the south wing of t the German drive on Moscow had been blocked Soviet line front-line dispatches said at least German officers and soldiers had been killed in various pocket battles around Against Against this suddenly brightening brighten brighten- ing picture of ot the struggle drawn by the Russians the German high command asserted that a mile breach on the central front has been extended further eastward and that the ring of ot steel was biting deeper on trapped red armies in the and Bry Bry- sectors On the southern Ukraine front Hitler's field headquarters said his troops were closing in on red forces-encircled forces along the Sea of in a drive apparently aimed at the Don river city of gateway to the Caucasian oil fields i Authoritative quarters In London London Lon Lon- don confirmed that the Germans had captured and along the north shore of the sea and said it was possible that a considerable pocket of Russian resistance resistance resistance re re- re- re existed west of those points presumably points presumably cut off Significantly the soviet high command dropped all mention m of I Melito pol in its latest que although earlier bulletins described described de de- de scribed it as a scene of the heaviest fighting While the nazi press blared a victory chorus rus and Hitler's own newspaper proclaimed that seven short autumn dayl days in the Moscow offensive had sufficed to deliver the death blow to the most monstrous monstrous mon mon- war machine of all times from which it will never recover the Russians sounded a a. new note of optimism Soviet dispatches said that the red armies reinforced by civilian fighters had stopped the invaders from registering any major gains and that pockets of Russian troops snared in the great encirclement actions had slashed their way out of the traps The Russians also indicated they were maintaining at least equality if not superiority in the air with wave after wave of dive-bombers dive blasting incessantly at German armored and mechanized columns In this connection military observers observers observers ob ob- ob- ob servers recalled that it was the lack ef of f air power that proved fatal to the allies in the nazi blitzkrieg sweep through Holland Belgium and France last year The first word in days from the siege-girt siege Black sea port of Odessa reported that German and allied forces were attempting to storm the city behind almost endless endless end end- less shelling but that they had no success On the northern front the Russians Russians Rus Rus- said Leningrad's defense armies were stubbornly out against the German siege forces Nazi dispatches said 18 Russian troop ships were sunk by German artillery when they attempted a landing on the Gulf of Finland coast west of Leningrad |