While not wishing to enter into details'M. Lozovsky dismissed German claims of having cut off Leningrad and railway connections with the rest of the country. "Considerable exageration" was the term he ading that the Germans had not man-&ged seriously to bomb Leningrad although they claimed to be very near the city. Lenini po defences and is not like Belgrade, he said. Leningrad's bombing so far was even less severe than Moscow has the spokesman added.
Asked whether the Germans had succeeded in crossing the lower Dnieper River, he said he had not received full details with the struggle going on day and night, but attempts to cross the river were being smashed.—Reuter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.