MOSCOW, Monday--Russian defenders of the Caucasus, fighting furiously all along the lower Don, have thwarted German attempts to storm across the river in force, a Soviet communique said today, but a Nazi assault army of 600,000 men and 2,000 tanks has driven deeper into stricken Rostov.
Though the Germans have established at least two bridgeheads across the Don in the Tsimlyanskaya area 125 miles east and slightly north of Rostov, late dispatches said, Soviet artillery has smashed a score of pontoon bridges there, as well as sinking several score rafts and rubber boats laden with thousands of enemy troops and equipment.
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