Show GERMANS BERMANS CLAIM VICTORY By Associated Press Adolf Hitler's high command asserted Saturday that German tank ank forces had killed Russians Russians Rus- Rus ians and captured prisoners in n a week four-week battle of encirclement encircle encircle- n ircle- ircle ment meat near key nazi invasion invasion inva- inva sion ion base miles northeast of f Moscow while the London radio reported that fresh soviet soviet- troops had landed in the Crimea Russian front line dispatches had lad previously declared that the German holdout garrison at guarding the north flank of the nazi retreat from irom Moscow had hadeen been een surrounded Advance on In the Crimea a B B C broadcast broadcast broad- broad cast ast said Russian troops were advancing advancing ad ad- upon the port fort of iya at the te e neck of the Kerch erch peninsula Soviet warplanes aiding aid aid- aiding ing ng In the defense of Sevastopol Crimean naval base were declared to o have killed n nearly arly 30 Germans Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans in a series of offensive thrusts On the Moscow Mosco fr front p Nil Hitler's i I J rs r's headquarters said German troops fighting In bitter subzero told old Md destroyed the bulk of an enemy army and beaten a a. larg large pa part t of ofa ofa ofa a further enemy army army presumably presumably ably in the sector Pledge Fledge Huge Assault A still larger red army assault was pledged in Moscow to counter Adolf Hitler's plans for a spring offensive and Red Star said the Russians were determined to put an end to nazi Germany in 1942 The soviet information bureau implied that cold and ad illness illness illness-be- be- be low ow zero temperatures dysentery and louse-born louse diseases had sapped the strength of many of the he invaders Captured medical reports were quoted as saying saying- troops of the German infantry infantry try ry regiment were virtually ex ex- ex- ex hausted On the North African n front British headquarters reported that German troops and armored forces retreated to the north after a I clash with British patrols on the El line west of To- To brUk Bad weather hampered op operations opera opera- rations ra- ra on both sides |