London, Aug, 7.
EXHOLM, on the north-west shore of Lake Ladoga, wag mentioned for the first ime in last night's communique from Moscow, and it is assumed that the Germans and Finns are renewing their offensive on the Karelian Isthmus in an attempt to reach Leningrad from the north-west.
In another raid on Moscow last night, the Germans are stated to have Tost. six machines to the loss of one Hutsian night fighter. The pilot of this machine rammed a~ German bomber and' escaped. by parachute. The Russians say that isolated planes broke through the defences of the capital. Some casualties were caused Gnd there were fires in "houses, but they were quickly put out.
Nazis Digging in munique, the Red Armies must have Tost approximately 4,000,000 men. of which 000,000 were iced, "The spokesman said that the Nazi victory'In the Batlle of Smolesk and the ensuing annihilation of pocketed Soviet armies would prove decisive for the fulure of Europe and perhaps of the world."
'Announcements of the High Com: mand. the, spokesman said, meant that the "decisive battle' of the Soviet-German war was now.coneltid=
Messages from Moscow report that the Germans are digging themselves In'on the Smolensk front and this 1s Fegarded as concession of failure in their advance on the road to Moscow. Tye Soviet High Command is con: fident that the Germans will reach neliher Kelev nor Leningrad, let alone Boscow itself Commenting on yesterday's German, special communiques, the Swiss paper the "Neue Zuercher Nachrich~ fen" writes:—"it, the figures given correspond {o facts, it appears doubly miraculous that the Hed Army. is fighting just the same without signs exhaustion.
The Berlin correspondent of the "Gazette de Lausanne" states"It is natural that yesterday's special communigues should raise public moral afler there Jong weeks of silence, but for our part we have not abso-vee any new fact in these military statements which, however, oflcially con= Grm the Russian army's importance
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