The Archive · 1941

Penetration Claimed

German infantry, which presum-in the vicinity of Orsha, along the main Minsk-Moscow highway. Orsha lies midway between Minsk and Smolensk. The Germans, however. did not reveal the exact location el the penetration.

D.N.B, admitted that Russian forces of considerable size were still holding out in the northern forests, These troops were making sorties against the Germans, attacking the Nazi rearguard communications and supply columns, Propaganda Company reporters on the Finnish front claimed that the Leningrad-Murmansk railway had been cut at a number of points by German aerial bombardments, thus making it impossible for the Red Army to move reinforcements, to Murmansk,

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

Your account