London, Oct. 1.
War clouds gathering over the important industrial railway centre of Kharkov today presaged one of the most important battles of the Russo-German war in which Marshal Semion Budenny probably would face the biggest assignment in his career.
Military experts a that. the withdrawal of Russian forces from Poltava egenis, the most serious threat to Ukraine's most important industrial city as well as the entire Donetz Basin.
The Russian withdrawal resulted in the Germans being only eight miles from southwest Ukraine's "Pittsburgh."
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