GERMAN ANXIETY
MOUNTING AFTER REVERSES Rec. 10.30 a.m. LONDON, August 4: The significance of the Russians' latest advances in the Orel sector and one reason for the optimism with which correspondents and commentators regard these, advances is revealed by the Stockholm correspondent of "The Times," who states that Orel station and also the centre of the town are within, range of Russian guns.
"The Russians,, by simultaneous attacks since yesterday, have managed to drive the Germans into -the fringes' of Orel, which is now' within gunrahge from north, south, and east," he says. "The Germans, with the general position in the , Orel battle zone deteriorating seriously for a week, now face the problem of shortening the battle lines not only around Orel but between Orel and Bryansk. The Ger-
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1943, Page 5
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GERMAN ANXIETY
Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 31, 5 August 1943, Page 5
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