Moscow, Oct. 12.
Strong reinforcements described as "a heavy striking force" are being sent up to the central front to relieve Marshal Semyon Konstantinovitch Timoshenko's "hard-pressed armies. according to a despatch to the "Red fronter, (Continued on page 2, col. 3
Moscow, Oct. 12.
M.S.A. Lozovsky, Vice Commissar of Foreign Affairs and official Government spokesman, yesterday indignantly denied foreign reports that Germany and Russia were negotiating an armistice, "There is not one iota of truth" to the report, he declared. "It is the customary German propaganda rubbish."—United Press.
Rica crat) a Valdai Mountains south-east of Lake Ilmen, namely for a 1,200-kilometre stretch, German and Axis troops are in full attack towards the east. The battlefields of Briansk and Viazma are already far behind the front. Despite desperate, continued Soviet attempts, carried out with high losses, to break through, the enemy encircled here cannot alter their lot. Already over 200,000 prisoners have been announced and this number is continually growing.
German Bombers Active on Saturday night bombed with good effect railway lines in the central sector of the front. Further successful air attacks were directed against supply depots at Leningrad."
German planes shot down during Friday and on Friday night 18 Soviet planes in fierce combats, according to Berlin reports. German anti-aircraft batteries brought down three planes while in addition 34 planes were destroyed on.the ground. The total number of Soviet planes destroyed on Friday was said to have been 55.
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