London, Sept. 2. [CREASINGLY powerful Russian counter-attacks at three the Leningrad, Smolensk and Gomel fronts, today indicated a Gigantic Russian pincer movement designed not only- to separate Marshal von Bock's advance forees from the main Nai army but also to protect the flanks of General Koniev's army striking through Rogachev at Bobruisk.
'The right arm of the Russian pincers, under Major-General Rakovski, was said to be striking towards Smolensk with powerful mechanized units, while the left arm, under Gen, Koniey,' aimed at Bobruisk, 160 miley southwest of Smolensk.
'A third - Russian spearhead—galn~ 'A. Swiss correspondent who flew ing momentum despite ceaseless rain over' the central sector told of the "vas reported to have been thrown ftavoe he saw behind. the German against Marshal von Bock's army In lines. Nearly" 200-miles behind the the Gomel sector, front villages were sll buming and "The three-week-old Russian count all around them. were nothing but Reds and Poles Bury Hatchet crsatlacka on ie central front Turned fields and sotiements. On Photograph shows a scene in the office of the Foreign Secretary Mr. Anthony Eden in Whitehall peared to be developing into a gen-the road to Moscow shell holes could Sial counter-offensive. threatening be" seen even fo a great height, representatives of the Polish and Soviet Governments signed a pact against Nazi Germany. The Both tanks of Marshal von Bock's Smolensk was in ruins. a large part Prime Minister, Bir. Winston Churchill, is shown looking on. army, from Smolensic to the Pripet had, been completely destroyed. Marahes. British military "experts The streets were littered with wreck-there Believed that this was the great age but the cathedral stood untouchest manceuvre yet undertaken by the fusion itigh Command, in a broadcast in German the Mos-
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