MOSCOW CHEERS NEWS
CROWDS THRONG STREETS LONDON, July 16. The Moscow announcement of the Russian break-through brought cheer* ing crowds into the public squares on Thursday night in spite of heavy rain. Moscow radio repeated over and over again the special Soviet communique
announcing the offensive,.followed each time by Red army songs and marches; The Russian counter-attaoks are gaining momentum, says the Moscow correspondent of the British United Press. Lieutenant Hans Frankenfeld, of the German Ninth Tank Division, who deserted to. the Russians, said that the German commanders at dawn on July 5, before the German offensive was opened, read" the following order of the day from Hitler: "The offensive about to'be launched must be decisive. The battle will be difficult, but it is the last battle for victorious Germany." Colonel Uassilev, the Red army commentator, writing in the 'Soviet War News,' published in London, says the Germans have again overrated their own forces and again underrated the Russians, and they have failed to gain any decisive success in spite of their immense losses of tanks, planes, and man power. .
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Evening Star, Issue 24919, 17 July 1943, Page 5
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