Push Against Moscow

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 126, 24 November 1941, Page 7

Push Against Moscow

RESULTS DISAPPOINT GERMANS

LONDON, November 23.

The Germans in Russia appear to be launching two new encircling movements aimed at by-passing Tula in the south and Kalinin in the north-west. The Russians have held the Germans at both these places, though the defence lines have been pierced at some places near Tula.

A dispatch from Moscow today reports repeated Nazi attacks. One German force was halted on the outskirts of Tula, where it is now being systematically destroyed by Russian tanks and guns.

In the Donets Basin, Russian successes are claimed. Soviet sources admit that the enemy has penetrated the defences of Rostov, and that bitter fighting is now going on in the streets.

Miners from the Donets Basin have, however, swarmed the mountain heights and driven back the enemy, and Russian troops are said to have advanced 22 miles in two days, recapturing several villages.

There are signs that the Germans are disappointed with the rate of advance on the Moscow front. In spite of the huge reserves they are throwing in, they are nowhere nearer than a point 50 miles from the Russian capital.

The Russians say they are giving the Germans no respite.

M. Lozovsky, the Soviet Press chief, said today: "The Germans have a stupid idea th^t they can stabilise the front during the winter months, but the Red army does not intend to give them one minute's rest during the entire winter campaign.

"The war is becoming protracted. The resources of the Soviet Union, and its friends and allies, are inexhaustible. That is why the Germans and Italians, in spite of successes, reach the sixth month of the war with negative results."