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With the awful steadiness of a creeping barrage, the German counter-attacks were moving northward toward the Smolensk area...
...Germans attacked at an opportune time and a crucial place. The Russians were shifting their attention northward (see col. 3). The Russian excuse for the southern reverses-"unequal engagement," "numerically superior enemy"-disregarded the fact that it is the business of generalship never to be out-concentrated. The place of attack made the most of the Russian transport difficulties. The Russians, though unable to use Germans' narrower rail lines, had advanced just beyond three important rail junctions, Krasnograd, Lozovaya and Pavlograd, and the Germans recovered them early in the counter-drive...
...good equipment along the muddy, bloody roads. They had been handicapped by a lack of motor vehicles. Some of them fought blindly in small, isolated groups. For all of them it had been a humiliating retreat. On their heels came the triumphant troops of the Axis, driving westward and northward in three columns. Foul weather held most of the Allied air forces ground-bound. There appeared to be no stopping the Germans and their Italian allies...
...more closely into this part of our affairs. Turkey is our ally. Turkey is our friend. We wish to see her territories, rights and interests effectively preserved, and we wish to see in particular warm and friendly relations established between Turkey and our great Russian ally to the northward to whom we are bound by a 20-year Anglo-Russian treaty...
Leclerc Over the Desert. Driving northward from interior Africa (the Chad) to threaten Rommel's inner flank was a Fighting French column under one of the heroes of the De Gaullist forces. He was a young Frenchman who was wounded in 1940, twice escaped from the Germans, finally made his way to Fighting French territory in Africa and fought under the nom de guerre of Brigadier General "Jacques Leclerc," apparently to protect relatives in France. Last week his motorized forces, already well over 1,000 miles from their base at Fort Lamy in Chad, seized two Italian posts south...