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Leak in the Center. Three weeks ago Russia claimed that 100,000 Germans were encircled at Mozhaisk, 57 miles west of Moscow, and had been ordered to surrender or die. The beleaguered invaders chose to fight, and for several days Russian communiqués dwelt lovingly on 100,000 Nazis facing annihilation. After fierce street fighting, the Red Armies entered a blazing Mozhaisk last week. But the fabulous 100,000 birds had apparently flown. The Red Army organ Krasnaya Zvedzda mentioned prisoners only once ("more than 100" captured by cavalry-supported ski troops), referred glibly to an unspecified number...
...secret where U Saw was arrested, but the brief announcement from 10 Downing St. made no mystery of why he was arrested. "It has come to the knowledge of His Majesty's Government," the communiqué said flatly, "that he has been in contact with Japanese authorities since the outbreak of war with Japan. This fact has been confirmed by his own admission. His Majesty's Government has accordingly been compelled to detain him and it will not be possible to permit him to return to Burma...
Blind, legless or armless veterans of the Russian Front are numerous on Berlin streets. So are women in mourning. In some sections imported foreign laborers outnumber the natives. Italian and French waiters are common in restaurants. Diners who once obeyed instructions and stopped talking when Army communiqués were broadcast now keep on conversing...
...city. South of Moscow Germans had been pushed back in some places more than 120 miles, and their newest stand, on a line from Bryansk to Vyazma, was breached. In the Crimea, having recaptured the naval base of Sevastopol, Russian troops threatened to reclaim the entire peninsula. A Soviet communiqué reported wholesale German surrenders on the Eastern Front...
...before Manila's fall. Presumably they were with General MacArthur's forces on Bataan Peninsula. Only A.P.'s Clark Lee got out a brief dispatch-about three soldiers who escaped capture by playing dead. His story was relayed by Naval radio. Like MacArthur's bare communiqués, it said nothing about the whereabouts of the correspondents. Adventures of some others: > At Rangoon U.P.'s Darrell Berrigan lay dangerously ill of cerebral malaria. He had come through the jungles from Bangkok, outwitted the Japs who arrested him as a spy on the Thailand-Burma border...