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Bloody Odessa. For five weeks the Rumanians under General Ion Antonescu have laid siege to the Black Sea port of Odessa. Locked within the city, whose present population is 605,000, is part of bogey-mustachioed Marshal Semion Budenny's Southern Army which retreated there after being chased out of Bessarabia last month. They claim to have killed thousands of Antonescu's Rumanians. Every now & then, they say, a placard reading "Cease Fire and Take Away Your Dead" has to be hoisted...
General headquarters of the Red Central Front were in a little log cabin last week. Marshal Semion Timoshenko, whose job is to keep the Germans away from Moscow, sat behind a desk covered with maps and reports. Beside the papers were several sharpened crayons, a box of cigarets. There was only one thing on the cabin's bleak walls: a barometer...
...slowed the German advance." For the Russians it was a week of drainage. On boats, barges, tree trunks, rafts of boughs and oil drums, soldiers made their hasty way across the Dnieper. In their mop-up the Germans claimed 300,000 prisoners, actually took about half that many. Marshal Semion Budenny had had about 700,000 men to begin with, had suffered about 150,000 casualties-and so he extricated perhaps as many as 400,000. These were, however, disorganized by their losses and the retreat...
...Struggle Against Cowards." The greatest piece of news the Germans had all week was issued by Comrade Stalin. He announced that he himself would take over from Marshal Semion Timoshenko the post of Commissar for Defense - i.e., Commander in Chief. The office of political commissar in the Army was reinstated...
Another indication of the seriousness of the situation was that Comrade Stalin placed his three top marshals to defend the three important sectors defending his three big threatened cities. He entrusted Leningrad to Klimenti E. Voroshilov, former Commander in Chief and Defense Commissar; Moscow to Semion K. Timoshenko, who now holds those jobs (TIME, June 30); Kiev to Semion M. Budenny, who was always Voroshilov's right-hand...