Nazi armed forces fought the battle of Smolensk to a victorious conclusion, the High Command said, and now were moving forward in vast new operations with Moscow, Leningrad and Kiev as their goal.
"The High Command said that seven weeks fighting had carried the German armies ^to the.gates of Kiev" and "beyond Smolensk."
Soviet losses were placed at 895.000 prisoners and uncounted dead, 13.000 Tanks, 10,388. cannon and 9.082 planes. "United Press.
Nazis Digging in Messages from Moscow report that the Germans are digging themselves in on the Smolensk front and this is regarded as concession of failure in their advance on the road to Moscow. The Soviet Command is confident that the Germans will reach neither Kiev nor Leningrad, let alone Moscow itself.
Commenting on yesterday's German special communiques, the Swiss paper. the "Neue Zuercher Nachrichten," writes:—"If the figures given correspond to facts, it appears doubly miraculous that the Red Army fighting just the same without siges of exhaustion."
The Berlin correspondent of the "Gazette de Lausanne" states It is natural that yesterday's special communique should raise public moral
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