The rout of a considerable part of the 23rd German infantry division, following a vigorous Soviet counterattack, was announced from "Moscow last night. This followed an announcement earlier in the day that another German infantry division—the 137th—had been routed in the. Smolensk sector, where determined Russian counter-attacks are holding up the German advance on Moscow which: wetording to si German calculations at the outset of the campaign, should have been entered by a victorious German army yesterday.
The sector where the 258rd German division was defeated by the Russians is not revealed. but a Soviet agency despatch from the front states that heavy fighting had been in progress near the town "V^ for four days and nights, and that the Germans had concentrated vast reserves in an attempt to break Soviet resistance under General Yakovlev. The battlefield was lit-lered with German dead. of whom 2.250 were counted, and a large fronter.
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