The Archive · 1941

Four Routes

These would be:

1, Across "the Baltic states direct on to Leningrad, 2. Through the Barancvitch gap south of the Pripet marshes on to Moscow, a road which was taken by Napoleon, 3. From a point where the frontier leads to the rivers Bug and San through Lwow on to Kiev, and 4, Across the rivers Pruth and Dniester to the southern Ukraine and Odessa, There was evidence, the observer said, that attacks had been made in all four quarters, but from the communique issued by the belligerents it would seem that the two principal attacks were being made through the Baltic states on to Leningrad and along the Napoleonic line through the Baranovitch gap to Moscow.

He pointed out, however, that it was too early to say in which direction the main attacks may develop.

German quarters in Ankara today admitted that in the fighting hitherto Nazi troops had not yet, met the main Russian forces,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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