Show RUSSIANS TAKE HISTORIC CITY Or 4 Reach Reach Point Where Tide Turned on Napoleon By Associated PressA Press PressA A German sequel to Napoleons Napoleon's disastrous retreat from Russia in inthe inthe inthe the winter snows of 1812 stared Adolf Hitler in the face Saturday as soviet troops were reported to have recaptured the historic city of 65 miles southwest southwest southwest south south- west of Moscow It was at that Czar Alexander Is I's imperial Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian armies turned the tide of the Napoleonic Invasion compelling the French to fall back across the frozen with terrible losses Only of Napoleons Napoleon's orIgInal original original inal army of troops got out alive A bulletin from Hitler's field headquarters complained anew of the bitter w weather ather conditions declaring declaring declaring de de- claring Defensive fighting in the central central central cen cen- Moscow sectors continues despite intense cold Four-Day Four Attack On th the same theme the Berlin radio reported In one battle on the central sector the bolsheviks attacked for four days and five nights without Continued on Page Pae Two Column Six Six RUSSIANS TAKE HISTORIC CITY Continued from Page One interruption Our troops had al almost almost almost al- al most no rest and this was in the severest cold and snowstorms Unconfirmed reports circulated in Sweden that the Germans were already building defenses along the Polish border the off Jumping-off line of Hitler's attack on the U US S SS S SR R P. last June 22 The fall of gave the Russians a base for exerting heavier pressure on German forces at 30 miles to the north on the Moscow highway which was already being hammered hammered hammered ham ham- by red artillery fire Kill mIl 2500 Nazis a Day Russian forces were officially credited with having killed 1 nazi officers and men in the six- six day period from December 26 to 31 an 31 an average of 2500 daily daily and and anda a midday Saturday reported 1850 invaders annihilated in three local engagements ts The Berlin radio frankly described described described de de- de- de scribed white-cloaked white soviet ski troops as the invisible menace On the North African front the German and Italian high commands commands commands com com- mands acknowledged the British capture of Bardia axis stronghold stronghold strong strong- hold near the Libyan-Egyptian Libyan I frontier British dispatches said South L LAfrican African infantrymen supported by British tanks stormed the stub stub- defended fortress in a moonlight bayonet attack capturing capturing cap cap- turing more than sObo axis defenders defenders de do- fenders and freeing 1150 British L soldiers imprisoned there German German German Ger Ger- man Major General Schmidt chief chiei staff officer of the nazi panzer gruppe Afrika was among the axis prisoners taken Premier Mussolini's high command command com corn mand said other axis forces were still holding out at near-by near Salum A British spokesman said there was no further change in the main battle sector in western Libya where General Erwin Rommel's Rommel battered German armies have taken taken taken tak tak- en a new stand around 90 miles south of |