London, Aug. 12.
midday communique from Moscow mentions'fighting in two areas where the Germans claimed great victories a couple of days ago.
The communique says "Last night our troops con~ tinued fighting with the enemy in the Kexholm, Solsti, Smolensk, Korosten and Uman directions. tions elsewhere.
There were no large-scale opera-
"Our air force, in ce-operate ion with the land forces, continued to inflict blows on the enemy's motorized and mechanized divisions on the battlefield and attacked his air force and aerodromes."
Korosten, 90 miles north-west of Kiev, 4s a town whose capture was claimed by the Germans we. days ago, and Uman was the scene of a Gate at About "ihe same. time, in which the! Germans said that they had destroyed 25 Russian divisions.
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