Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 July 1941 — Page 2

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units in a fierce night battle of

Lepel direction, forcing them to the

Counter- Offensive on Vital

said that “heavy defeat” was in- ~ flicted on enemy mechanized forces

had now attained a big scale and

wrecking railroad trains, exploding munition trains and setting fire to

. in the Russian position anywhere.

. force the Gulf of Riga on the Latvian coast,

~ German submarine was sunk by a

. cidedly changed in tone from previtanks and motorized infantry.)

Dnieper River line of defense, were no longer content with merely de-

~ tives among the many injured.

down two flights of stairs and many

RUSSIA CLAIMS "TANK VICTORY

Central Front Reported.

. MOSCOW, July 7 (U. P.).—A Red . Army counter-blitz offensive on the vital central front was reported . turning back the German panzer

~ spearhead pointed at Moscow today after inflicting heavy losses on Nazi

tanks. . The Russian war communique

in pitched battles from Ostrov to Polotsk and that the Red Army, seizing the offensive, still was striking hard at the Germans in the

defensive. > The communique described a savage battle in which Russian infantry, attacking with bayonets, were said to have thrown back a German offensive and killed thousands of Germans. The newspaper Izvestia, in a special article, asserted that guerrilla operations behind the German lines

that peasants and industrial workers, aiding isolated groups of Russian troops, were stariing forest fires and hay stack fires and were

the fuel bases behind the German lines. _ : Claim Bessarabia Gains

Although the morning communique did not specifically mention the Berezina River front, where the Germans had been reported repulsed ,with heavy losses in the Borisov and Bobruisk sectors, it said that there was no important change

On the southern front, it added, the enemy was repulsed in attempts to break through the NovogradVolynsk sector toward the Ukraine capital of Kiev and thrown back with heavy losses to “his initial position” in Bessarabian fighting. Russian destroyers, repulsing an attempt by German naval units to

sank two German mine layers it was asserted, and a mine in the Gulf of Finland. Tone Is Aggressive (Today's communiques were deous ones reporting the Russians

generally fighting stubbornly against great masses of German

implied ghout that the Russians, as rmans approached the strong

(Their vigorous tone thro the

fensive tactics or with counterattacks of purely defensive nature but were hurling unused reserves in great numbers against presumably tiring German troops.) . (On the basis of these communiques, it might be assumed that the Germans were making progress only in the Bessarabian part of the line - between the Pruth and Dniester Rivers.)

87 KILLED IN FIRE AT GUADALAJARA MOVIE

MEXICO CITY, July 7 (U.P.).— Three thousand persons waited outside the Municipal Hospital at Guadalajara today, seeking to iden-

tify the bodies of 87 persons killed | in a movie theater fire last night

or to find whether they had rela-

Twenty-five hundred persons were crowded into the Montes Theater at Guadalajara, dispatches said, when lightning struck the stage and caused a short circuit which started a fire. Those in the gallery had to run

were asphyxiated.

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By JACK FLEISCHER United Press Staff Correspondent

WITH THE GERMAN ARMIES ON THE EASTERN FRONT, July 6.—Foreign correspondents following in the wake of advancing German armies through Sovietized Poland, saw signs everywhere of heavy fighting. There were nine of us in the conducted tour sponsored by the German High Command and the Propaganda Ministry. We were taken as far east as Lwow. German officers told us that the Soviet troops had- resisted bitterly and bravely. In the Lwow sector, according to these officers, the Russians had massed numbers of men

RAF CONTINUES RAIDS ON REICH

Bomb Plane Plant Daylight, Ruhr by Night.

LONDON, July 7 (U. P.).—British fighter and bomber squadrons today blasted at German war target in the heaviest sustained daylight offensive yet hurled at northern France, following heavy night raids on the Ruhr Valley! British planes scored heavy hits with high explosives and incendiaries on the aircraft works. at Meaulte, northeast of Amiens, during today’s daylight raids, it was stated autheritatively. Strong forces of long-range bombers smashed during the night at Munster, Dortmund, Duesseldorf and Cologne in the Ruhr, at the naval bases at Emden, in northwest Germany, and Brest, in France, and at Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, the Air Ministry said. “Objectives at Munster were heavily attacked and very large fires were clearly seen,” the Air Ministry reported. 50 Fires at ter

The ancient Westphalian commercial center of Munster was again made a mass of flames and at least 50 fires were started there. Munitions factories, railroads, railway sheds and other targets were exploded into flames by big bomb ‘hits both there and at Dortmund, according to the communique. The docks at Brest, where. the German warships Scharnhorst, Gneisenau and Prinz Eugen still are berthed, were said to have been heavily bombed. Six British planes were lost in the night operations. Three of a small force of German planes which crossed the English coast during the night were shot down. Damage and casualties were caused by German planes in scattered areas of northern, eastern and southeastern England. British planes had flown across to the Continent throughout yesterday in great sweeps of French occupied territory during the course of which Lille, engaged in German

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27 Shot Down,

Berlin Declares

BERLIN, July 7 (U. P.).—The German High Command admitted today that British night air attacks on Western Germany caused civilian casualties and fires, particularly in Dortmund, but claimed 27 Royal Air Force planes had been brought go%n in 24 hours of heavy air acion.

PALERMO RAIDED BY BRITISH PLANES

ROME, July 7 (U. P.).—British bombers attacked Palermo in Sicily yesterday afternoon, causing Some damage to the port, killing three and injuring 20 among the civilian population, an Italian war communique said today. (British planes would have had to fly at least 900 miles from thei: closest land base in North Africa

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Correspondents in Poland

Heavy Fighting

and “surprising” masses of motorized equipment, particularly tanks. These officers expressed surprise to us at the vast amount of Soviet motorized equipment and at its quality. They said, however, that the Russian’s didn’t have enough trained men and that their officers were impractical. We saw several monster Russian tanks, which, the German officers told us, weighed 92 tons, mounting one large and four small cannons, four machine guns, and one flame thrower. We were told of another captured tank estimated to weigh between 80 and 90 tons, which was armed only with one large cannon in the turret. It didn’t have even a single machine gun, we were told, and the crew had no way of engaging in short range defense. So far as we could see, the retreating Soviet Army had not carried out a “scorched earth” retirement. We saw everywhere where the Russians had attempted — and in many places succeeded — in destroying as much as possible of cities and towns, particularly public utilities. But there was no sign of a ‘systematic burning of villages or grain fields. We saw grain fields intact. German officers said the grain was too green to burn, and that if the war had started two weeks later, the Russians might have been able to destroy it. These German. officers said that it was possible the Russians would have time to bring in the harvest or destroy or burn the grain fields in the Ukraine if the Soviet armies could delay the German advance long enough. We frequently saw German planes patroling over marching German columns, but we saw no trace of Soviet air attacks. German officers said the Soviet air fleet had been so battered in the first days of the campaign, it was unable to risk many day raids and found effective night raids impossible because it lacked experienced navigators. German officers said there were many indications that the destruction of the Soviet air force in the Lwow sector had severely handicapped the Soviet command which had been unable to get accurate information of the whereabouts of German forces or the disposition of other Soviet armies, The Soviet General Richter, whom I met in a prison camp, substantiated this. Chief of staff, commanding the

Lwow sector, he had been captured |pan

when the tank in which he was going to the front for reconnaisance, was disabled by the Germans.

BREAK CLAIMED IN KIEV DEFENSE

Cernauti Captured, Says Nazis, Reporting ‘Elite’ Prisoners.

BERLIN, July 7 (U. P.).—German armies advancing on the entire southern front were officially reported today to have captured the

old ‘Rumanian city of Cernauti and to have broken through the modern defense forts of the Stalin Line protecting the Ukrainian capital of Kiev. Both the High Command and the official news agency put great emphasis on developments on the southeastern front and, except for generalized references to advances, almost ignored the vital Central and Baltic fronts. The capture of Cernauti was reported by the High Command, which said that the German advance had pushed on to the upper reaches of the Dniester and Sereth Rivers (near the pre-war borders of Poland, Rumania and the Ukraine). A general advance in Bessarabia also was claimed by the High Command after repulse of Russian counter-attacks.

No Details Given

All reference to the reported German “break through” was omitted by the High Command, and the official agepcy carried only a sketchy account of operations. German infantrymen were said to have stormed and occupied a bunker fort, equipped with cannon of the most modern type, in the Stalin Line, according to the news agency. Beside the dead commander of the fort, the agency said, the German soldiers found a written dispatch asserting that reinforcements were necessary and reporting that the Germans had already taken a nearby bunker fort. The agency said that “far advanced” German armored forces had captured a “large number” of Russian soldiers who belonged to Soviet “elite troops.” The place at which the capture was made was not specified, but the agency cited as proof of the high quality of the troops, that they had -taken part in parades in Moscow.

Smolensk Heavily Bombed

Dispatchés indicated that the Germans continued their concentration on drives toward Leningrad, Moscow and Kiev. For several days the high command had given little clue to the actual position of the fighting forces. However, it had mentioned especially heavy bombings of Smolensk, on the Moscow Road, and Zhitomir, 85 miles west of Kiev, and this was taken to indicate the course of the German drives into white Russia and the Ukraine. Yesterday the high command said that the total of Russian prisoners had increased to about 300,000 after 52,000 Russians deserted west of Minsk Saturday. It said that German planes had destroyed more than 500 Russian motor trucks and 18 railroad trains Saturday.

ITALY LOSES WHOLE GLASS OF CRUISERS

. LONDON, July 7 (U. P.)—All of Italy’s cruisers of the 10,000-ton Zara class were believed today to have been sunk. The Admiralty announced yesterday that an 8-inch gun cruiser, presumably the Gorizia, had been sunk in the Mediterranean June 29 by a British submarine. The other ships of this class—the Zara, the Pola and the Fiume—were sunk in the Battle of Cape Mata-

The sinking of three Italian supply ships, totaling more than 15,000

tons, also was announced.

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By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff. Correspondent

WITH BRITISH IMPERIAL FORCES SOUTH OF BEIRUT,

.JJuly 6.—(Delayed)—Australian

troops, supported by a terrific land, sea and air barrage, penetrated the outer defenses of Beirut today, slicing through Gen. Henri Dentz’s formidable Damour River line at two points. Vichy forces offered stubborn resistance ‘on the north bank of the river, engaging the Australians in hand-to-hand fighting. Warships are shelling the Vichy troop ‘positions, hurling tons of high explosives every minute in ear-split-ting salvoes. An hour before the Australians surmounted the treacherous clay and rock banks of the river, the ground trembled ceaselessly in an area of several square miles from the reverberations of naval and land guns. Flashes from the explosives lighted the sky like lightning. (British diplomatic sources in Ankara said tonight that an armistice offer would be made within the next few days to the Vichy forces in Syria.) : The drive on Beirut was resumed at 1:20 a. m. when cruisers and destroyers, working in harmony with field guns and howitzers on land, began hammering well-fortified positions of the Vichy troops. The shelling followed mass bombing attaeks by British planes. Gen. Dentz, who was said to be directing the defense of Beirut himself, ordered two trategic bridges blown up in an effort to prevent the crossing of the Damour. However, the Australian infantry,

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liberally equipped with machine guns, waded the :river under cover of the combined land and sea barrage and obtained a foothold on the opposite shore. The main attacking force began to push the Vichy troops back steadily in the direction of the coastal town of Damour. Three French Foreign Legion companies, the remnant of two Foreign Legion battalions decimated in the battles at the Litani River and Saida (Sidon) were reported bearifie the brunt of the Australian attack.

'Eaglet' Downs 2d Nazi Plane

LONDON, July 7 (U. P.).—The Air Ministry announced today that the youngest member of the American Eagle fighter squadron had shot down a German Messerschmitt fighter in yesterday's sweeps across Occupied France. “The Messerschmitt was about to attack one of our bombers when I gave it a burst,” the pilot reported. “The hood came off the Messerschmitt and it went straight down, crashing near a woods. . It might have been a 500-pound bomb. It hit the ground and blew up with a flash and a cloud of smoke.” (Several months ago the youngest member of the Eagle squadron was Gregory Augustus Raymond, 19, who gave his address as the American Embassy, London. The youngest Eagle was credited with first his plane last week.)

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