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Russian communiques and other Soviet sources reported that more than 10,000 German troops have been slain in the last few days on the central and southern fronts where the Russians where driving on Smolensk and Kharkov...
When is Winter? On Dec. 10, after the second Moscow offensive, the Hamburg Fremdenblatt said that German winter quarters were being established on an arcing line, running roughly from Leningrad to Smolensk to Orel to Kharkov to Odessa, in an area embracing excellent north-south rail communications. Subsequent German dispatches termed it "a loose network of strong points-an elastic winter line." By last week the winter-quarters alibi was wearing thin. The Germans would have to hump if winter quarters were to be established before warm weather...
...lives. In Poland he had to do more fighting than General Gerd von Rundstedt, but by losing far more men he went just as fast. In France, too, his central armies of Group B suffered relatively high casualties. In Russia he won Germany's greatest victories (Bialystok-Minsk, Smolensk, Bryansk-Vyazma) and suffered the greatest losses. Last week he was still sending men to glorious, spendthrift death...
...have been through the suburbs which the Germans are approaching, driven 30 miles down the broad, smooth, Smolensk road-a point which must be approximately the location of the front lines now. The ground is gently rolling, woods interspersed with fields. The defenses are not continuous fortifications, lines of trenches or barricades. They are an almost infinity of strong points. Camouflaged positions are on every rise of ground and on the edge of every woods. And on the roads through the woods, when I was there, were columns of tanks, parked trucks, supplies...
MOSCOW--Soviet troops are clinging fiercely to the western and southern approaches to Moscow, the High Command reported today, but the Germans have created such a peril that all able-bodied citizens in the Smolensk district west of the capital were called out to fight...