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...other sectors the Red Army was also surging forward. No less important strategically, if less of a boost to morale than the Moscow success, was the hammer stroke delivered on the nose of the Orel-Yelets-Kursk Salient. Smashed for the winter was the threat it offered to Moscow's communications with the coal of the Donets basin and the troops that defended it. The Soviet cavalry was harassing the Germans in retreat...
...forests, his horsemen emerged at night to fall upon Denikin's men or upon freebooters like themselves. By August 1919, Denikin had conquered the Ukraine and was only 200 miles from Moscow. Trotsky did not even know that Budenny existed, but it was Budenny who stopped Denikin, at Kursk. The Bolshevists quickly recognized him, began to capitalize on his spreading fame. The rumor that Budenny was coming threw the Whites into a panic. After the revolution he was given various Government committee jobs, in most of which he was useless because he could not read or write...
Soon rubles, family plate and gems were unearthed and divided at the onetime Dolgorukovo estate near Kursk. Then the Soviet official produced a whistle, blew, summoned agents of the secret police who seized Prince Dolgorukovo. Last week he was executed by order of the Soviet Cabinet in the Lubianka prison, Moscow. Callous, the Soviet executor merely walked into the room where stood Prince Dolgorukovo, drew a revolver, and shot him, without preliminaries, in the back of the head. Soon the corpse of Prince Dolgorukovo was flung into a cart with those of 18 executed criminals, dumped with these into...
...regular 6:40 p.m. through express to Moscow. Behind the puffing locomotive M. Tchitcherin's first class wagon-lit rumbled smoothly. Then came a jangling, second class car, a rattlety-bang third class coach and seven careening fast freight vans. Speeding northwestward to Schmerinka, northeastward to Kiew and Kursk, and finally due north to Moscow (900 miles), the train drew in on the morning of the third day at 10:54 a. m.-one minute ahead of schedule. "Scoops." At Moscow M. Tchitcherin would have smiled awry had he known that the Hearst Sunday Feature Service was broadcasting what...
...back to pre-War humidity. Newsstands are well filled. As the bell rings, comfortable dining and sleeping cars are thrown open to travelers, who need not struggle for a place. Through regions once stricken with famine, the traveler speeds past fields luxuriant with a ripening harvest. At the great Kursk Station in Moscow he finds piles of perishable foodstuffs, which are being rushed to customers able to pay for them, from a distance of 1000 miles or more...