Moscow, Sept. 13.
"In the approaches to Leningrad a battle of incredible fierceness is raging, and the losses the Germans are now suffering are heavier than they have ever suffered M. Lozovsky, Chief of the Soviet Information Bureau, said last night.
"The struggle has taken on such proportions and such character," he declared, "that the Germans cannot Ro on for long. The Germans want te settle the matter quickly, and that is precisely what they cannot manage.
"Not only the army and Baltic Fleet but the entire population of Leningrad are defending—all capable men women are bearing arms," added, stressing every hard the struggle, none or in Leningrad has the doubt that the Germans will zo to lay their dirty hands on irad. The whole people and government of the Soviets are convinced of this. It is a difficult and bloody struggle," the Russian spokesman said.
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