BATTLE FOR SMOLENSK?!
Germans Fighting H^rd
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 11 a.m.' '. LONDON, September 20. A battle which may decide the fate of Smolensk is being fought1 out 36 miles from Smolensk, says Reuters Moscow correspondent. Heavy clashes are occurring on the Smolensk-Moscow highway; where the Germans are throwing in infantry reserves behind a screen: of tanks in determined counter-attacks.
Berlin radio said that violent defensive Battles are in progress west of Yelnia*and south of Belio. The Russians are paying heavily, in men and material for every slight gain.
In the Velish area in the last two days the Russians attacked strongly at 20 points.
Moscow radio says that the German Command has ordered the defence of Duchovshchina at all costs. The town is defended by three lines of fortifications, anti-tank trenches, and barbed-wire. The Germans, using Tiger tanks and Ferdinands, launched as many as 25 counter-attacks in a single sector.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1943, Page 5
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