Jere maintaining the initiative. "Troops finder General Pondatev have forced river crossing, after driving the Germans from several fortified, post= tone ana are reported 10 be advanefiye'on'a wide front, There, is little change in Marshal Budenny's sector fin the Ukraine.
The Soviet mid-day communique states: "During the night of October 15 our troops continued to fight the Jenemy along the whole front. "Fight Ing was partielarly intense in the Western. direction of the front." The JGermans\eantinued fo throw fresh finite into the battle."
The Germans made, a. specist_announcement last "night that Russian The Moin pearl Rave been silenced United Press.
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