POWERFUL LINE BROKEN
Rec. '1 p.m.
RUGBY, Sept. 20.
The Smolensk defence zone broken, by the Russians 30 miles north-east of the city had been fortified during the past two years and consisted of six lines of positions protected by vast minefields, according to a Solact supplementary communique. It was defended by several divisions who lost 72 tanks and 204 guns in the battle. Six hundred prisoners were taken.
Partisans in the Kiev area attacked the German sappers erecting a crossing over the river. They killed 56 and blew up the crossing. The same group prevented the Germans from taking away the harvest to send it to Germany and killed over 80 soldiers and policemen.—B.O.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 71, 21 September 1943, Page 5
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