By "ANwauist"
London, Sept. 11. USSIA is taking the offensive.
From Smolensk to Gomel, troops have delivered a series of concentrated blows at specific points, and are believed to be developing a large-scale offensive action.
The latest indication of this report is that German attempts in the Gomel sector to assume the offensive were met by counterattacks and followed up by a counter-offensive which smashed one German motorized division and destroyed the headquarters of another.
Smolensk itself has been retaken—or Reports are circulating that
what is Jeff of it—but there is neither confirmation nor denial of this from Russian sources, although confirmation of its recapture is expected hourly. E It is probable that within a few days there will be no Nazis anywhere east of the Dnieper, even in its upper reaches. and that Soviet counterattacks will have resulted in the complete removal of the German threat to turn the defences of Dnieper by an out-flanking movement from the north.
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