Soviet correspondents, reporting on the Nazi failure to blitz Briansk, where the Germans are reported to have concentrated upward of 12 divisions, described a four day battle for the ancient city of Tubehevisk, about 60 miles southwest. The city is where the famous Prince Trubest-kev family originated.
Russians were first cut off, then in smashing counter-attacks with tanks, infantry, artillery and aircraft, thwarted the German offensive on Briansk, said the correspondents.
Despatches described Russian tanks lumbering westward along muddy, drenched n across fields gnd through hurfing villages still pursuing routed German panzer units.
"The "Izvestia" correspondent at the front said the German army, during its retreat from the Briansk sector,
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