Meanwhile the defenders of Sevastopol in the Crimea are hire ting back so hard at the Nazis that the enemy has been forced to adopt Acfensive tactics at many points. German losses in the Crimea are reported to amount to 100,000 dead and wounded.
On the Moscow front the Russians claim that several counter-attacks, launched during the past few days.
ye improved the situation around capital. The Germans. however, im the capture of Mojaisk, on the road to Moscow. In recent communiques the Russians admitted that the most dangerous German thrust was in the Mojaisk direction.
At Tula, 100 miles south of the capital, the Russians admitted a German advance but stated that the ci of Tula itself was still strongly hel by Soviet forces.
German units which succeeded If penetrating the northern bank of the Moskva river have been completely wiped out, said the radio.
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