CAPTURE OF ROSTOV

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

CAPTURE OF ROSTOV

CLAIM BY GERMANS

SUPERIOR FORCES USED

LONDON, November 22,

The German High Command claims the .capture of Rostov-on-the-Don after violent fighting. ■ , ■ •

The "Red Star" says that in the new offensive against Rostov the Germans hurled in large forces, including a great number of vehicles, specially tanks.

The defenders are fighting ■ courageously, but are being forced to re, treat under pressure of numerically superior forces. The Germans are sustaining heavy casualties, ahd in two days lost more than 50 tanks, large numbers of--infantry, and much artillery.

The Moscow newspaper "Pravda" says that the situation on the Moscow front is more serious than last month, and it will be necessary for the Russians to increase their strong resistance still- further. The Germans are attempting to take Moscow at all costs in order to escape the winter cold. The Russians are stronger than last month, and must hold the enemy now and inflict such a blow that the enemy will be defeated.

The Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm newspaper "Svenska Dagbladet" says the war in the east is gradually developing into a war of attrition, and the German ; military authorities are now engaged in working out details for an attack against the Caucasus. Troops are being trained specially for mountain warfare.

The losses in Russia are particularly heavy among German officers, says the correspondent. Many members of historic families have fallen on the battle.fields. The German forces on the Moscow front have been powerfully reinforced, particularly with artillery. The German objective is still the encirclement of Moscow, but progress is dangerously slow in proportion to the losses.

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