FURTHER PROGRESS
RUSSIANS OCCUPY MORE PLACES SUCCESS ON SMOLENSK FRONT LONDON, March 5. The latest reports from Moscow report further progress by our Allied Several more places have been occupied, while 18 enemy planes were de-sti-oved for the loss of sis Russian. Tho condition of the encircled German army is described as catastrophic, and prisoners report.an extreme shortage of food, despite the German attempt to bring supplies in by air. On the Smolensk front two battalions of infantry were completely wiped out in an advance by our Allies.
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Evening Star, Issue 24136, 5 March 1942, Page 7
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88FURTHER PROGRESS Evening Star, Issue 24136, 5 March 1942, Page 7
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