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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 24053, 15 September 1943, Page 1

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thai. Ui'.-y evacuated Bryansk on Sunday night. Ma&ing the kjj« nouneement, the Berlin radki said the city had been abftis~ doned "to compel the Russians ts pursue in much greater depth than can be advantageous to thorn.'- The radio again referred, to the German strategy a:: "larfe-e-sesle evasion." To-d*y>. German communique report* heavy street fighting in Now-rosPiisi-v, the last port held by thi Gcvroi'irsi in the Kuban. BATTLE AT SALEENO BRIDGEHEAD Both the AJJies and the G-*r mans now fighting fiercely in the Salerno area have been rt-inroi-'ivT. Where the Gormr?u,-; ]i;ivi' regained some of ibo yroHi't' 1 , the Allies had tin; .British and Americans aY hitting back hard and trying J v exran.-l their 25-mile bridgehead. 1 Corvispondonts empliasj.se th'* acivajitago the Germans have hhoWinr; the heights above th-. bridgehead, from which their field artillery and mortars can bombard the Allied forces. T.hs? Germans are also \3%vug mvrv aircraft. Yeßterday they had IX fighter a in the air ovar \h--\ briogt'head, the largest numbr. shv: •■■ ir.'.; landings began. Here ii%;\'>v, :'m: Germans have the arftheir airfields behi£ close So the battlefield. In spite of tiiis Allied fighters yesterd&i • shot down 10 of the enemy aircraft, losing only three tbfcjn sdvfK.—-London, September 'l*..-,