London, July 10.
"It was only under the necessity of freeing the Near East from Nazi influence that Allied forces entered Russians counter-attacked in the vicinity of Polotsk as the Germans renewed a determined offensive, The battle was still raging and the Germans were suffering great losses, said the communique.
Soviet forces were counter-attacking successfully in the direction of Lepel, the communique asserted, Severe fighting developed in the Novograd Volynsk direction as Germen forces battled furiously to extend their gains into the Ukraine, and Russians just as desperately strove to stem the German tide. Elsewhere Russian forces held firmly, said the communique.
The communique also said that the Red Air Fleet bombed Constanza and: transports at Tulcea and Sulina and oil refineries at Ploesti, Nine Soviet Bombers engaged 14 German planes over Constanza and downed seven of them, losing only one Soviet machine, Soviet ships in the black sea sank two German ships and one monitor, said the communique,
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