Salt Lake Telegram | 1942-02-24 | Page 2 | Russians Open Big Offensive

RUSSIANS OPEN BIG OFFENSIVE By Associated Press The 1 Vichy radio was heard today today to- to today to to- day day- broadcasting a a. statement attributed attributed attributed at at- to the German radio that the Russians had launched their biggest offensive of the war and that the relief o of Leningrad was expected at any moment Our troops on Leningrad front are In great danger Vichy quoted the Berlin broadcast No such German broadcast was heard by New York listening posts and Vichy's version may be propaganda propaganda ganda designed ganda-designed designed to lull allied peo peo- ples pies AS As relayed by Vichy the German radio added that with the biggest and blo bloodiest diest battles In the history history his nis tory of mankind raging raging- in th the e and Sevastopol sectors the Germans German could not afford to yield another inch Earlier reports said that Russian armies were driving a a. spearhead into the German escape corridor from Moscow sharply threatening the main nazi route of retreat with the capture o of only 15 miles south of the Moscow railroad Adolf Hitler's field headquarters again gave a vague account of fighting on the long winter-bound winter front asserting that at various points formations of the army and air force repulsed more enemy attacks German night raiders were credited cred cred- credited by the high command with setting big fires in the Russian fortress at Sevastopol in the Crimea More than Germans were declared to have been killed in recent Russian assaults which yielded numerous points on the approaches to a southwestern city perhaps p and and continued continued contin contin- tIed fighting was reported about Leningrad