New York, Sept, 3 The German radio yesterday was heard to broadcast a report that the British were "feverishly fortifying" Freetown, West Africa, near Dakar, Material from the United States was being used in the fortification, said the radio.—United Press, Marshal Voroshilov has arrived at advance positions in front of Leningrad to take command, There has been no more reference to the Finnish claim to have reached a point 18 miles from Leningrad to the north-east, In the central sector the Russians still seem to be making strong local counter-attacks in an effort to cut off the German loop at Gomel, American correspondents in Berlin e being told that the nearest spearhead of the German attack on Leningrad is now 20 miles away to the South-west and another report says that Nazi forces are within big gun range of the city, But these reports have not yet been supported by the German High Command and the Russians say their forces are successfully resisting.
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