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YELNYA, (Smolensk Front).-I am writing this-dispatch from Yelnya, the principal town of the large salient which the Russians recaptured after smashing eight German divisions in a month-long battle which proved one of the war's fiercest struggle.
No Man's Land
It is now nearly a week since normally despite the fact that many I left Moscow for the first trip thousand roofs had been blown away to the front accorded any by the blasi and numerous craters
in the roadsides. foreign journalist. Since then I have travelled along many roads -often incredible roads along the Smolensk sector of the castern front,
One recaptured village I visited remains very vividly in my memory Unlike so many others, there were a few houses still standing but the only Inhabitants were one peasant, three children and one blind woman, and she had been rendered insane by the experiences through
which the
passed.
were
ed when approaching the German lines.
The terrain occupied by the Ger- mane is like a lunar landscape with shell craters proving the accuracy of There were plgs, geese and hens the Russian artillery. The fierceness on the road. But things were dif- of the fight is shown by the large ferent after entering the country mound fenced off and decorated with which is either no man's land or fir branches and wild flowers where who have hundreds af, Russian soldiers were occupied by Germans away all the livestock which there systematically destroyed or taken buried. was no time to evacuate before they arrived.
Mournful Scene
alled
There is also wreckage of a Ger man armoured car and the carcase of
horse,
J
The German bodies which In no man's land one of the dercest numerous shell-holes are now cover- battles was fought in wide fields of cd up. Around this mournful scene, over-ripe flax and rye still uncut. I the uncut rye flelds and potato got to the village which was the patches grown in a new non-existent I saw her wandering from place centre of this battle, Nothing is left village, whips the autumn rain. The to place with her only possessions but a few burned stumps.. Called ground is littered with the remains one pail, one sheepskin and a few Ushakovo it stands on an advantage of German equipment, newspapers, pathetic rags. But the three children aus height overlooking a semi-circle tin hats and even private letters still
already busy digging up of woods a couple of miles distant lcgible despite the rain, potatoes' from the recaptured fields, which was held by the Russians. The
Devastated Country | Germans made this village thelej Hereabouts and castwards
the
stronghold, countryside was devastated by the
Russian Assault
A couple of miles north was the Germans before they were driven It was the Russians who-advanced sliced into the side of a hillock with German observation post, a quarry out by the Russian pincer movement step by step digging themselves in a well made galleries and dug-outs fur- further west. The result of this they come forward during severol, nished with furniture stolen from the placer movement was that thousands weeks from three directions until the villages. Above it were the German of Germans were killed or captured Germans were forced to withdraw. while other German forces were com The allotments round and through
artillery positions. It was a strong pelled to withdraw rapidly from the Ushakovo are labyrinths of German Point protected by a stream and the bottle-neck, abandoning strong post-trenches. Some 500 yards distant are Impression of great thoroughness and construction, and equipment left the tions and masses of equipment, the lines, rapidly constructed by eficiency. The position was hastily The Germans are now 11 miles night, of the Russian trenches and in abandoned when the bottleneck to west of Yelnya and are being driven between these are indentations where the west threatened to close alto- further away.
the advancing Bussian soldiers duck-gether.
Smolensk is still in German hands but the Russians are not very far off. In Yelnya, the only building rela- tively intact is one church. The re- under of this town, which former- ly had 5,000 inhabitants, now consists mainly of a few chinney stackts und heaps of rubble and ashes,
Forced Labour
assemble inside the
then
the town, the Germans
BURMA'S AIR FIELDS A
LINK TO AID CHINA
Although built specifically for
Air Defence
In India
ed for Lahore and 12 other towns in night-long black-out has been order- LAHORE, Sept. 22 (Reuter),--A
the Lahore division from October 5 to October 13 In connection with the forthcoming air defence éxercises,
A large number of the Inhabitants
RANGOON, Sept. 22. (Reuter)-Increasing aid for China- were trapped by the sudden arrivni and greater mobility of the Royal Air Force in the cast is of the Germans, formed into forced expected to result from the considerable progress recently made Inbour gangs and sent to the German in the provision of new aerodromes and landing grounds in rear, and nobody knows what happened
them.
has Burma. to
But some escaped into the woods and managed. to reach the Rusalan-lines-while the extension of civil air lines in others are still trickling back thoug Burma it is expected that the there is nowhere in the town left to live.
new aerodromes will accelerate When the Germans decided evacuate the town on the night
to the transit of the growing flood September 4, they ordered the re-under the Lease-Lend procedure. of of supplies for China arriving maining few hundred inhabitants, mostly old people and children, to They will also play their part in church, which the defence of Burma should the was locked up. Before leaving necessity arise and will increase
systematically
Contravention of the order will be set fire to every house which had so the mobility of the RA.F. far escaped destruction and it was
punishable by imprisonment for six into this burning inferno that Rus-tanding grounds already built, others
In addition to the aerodromes and months and a fine. sian troops re-entered.
Next of Kin Terror Raid
LAHORE, Sept. 22 (Reuter).--As are now building and stül others are I travelled to-day along the road
a precautionary measure, the Raf planned. where the Germans, retreated before The British Commander-in-Chief has advised all members of
the abandoning Yelnya. I started in the Sir Robert Brooke-Popham, who has they would wish to be notified in the In the Far East, Air Chief Marshal of next of kin or other person whom public to carry the name and address morning froen Dorogobuzh, which has been touring Burma inspecting the event of becoming an never been in German hands, which
was nimost
country's air and other defences, hos casualty. ed by terror raids during July. It already covered hundreds of miles was uncanny delving in the darkness by motor car as well as by aeroplane. through an unknown town with the He witnessed
by one silhouettes of nothing but burnt-out of the most modern and fastest
demonstrations houses with the sky showing through ghters.
Thereafter, all the windows-like skulls instead by Lieut-General D. K. McLeod, the accompanied British C-In-C in Burma, he left for After wading through deep mud, Lashio at the Burma end of the I at last reached an army hut where Burma-China Road;
of faces.
completely
but destroy-co
I was given slipper by commander and put on
straw.
This morning I drove
town that looked like a
piece of Stepney.
the local
heaps of
across a devastated
taking
The army was generally care people whose homes had been
air
SINO-BURMESE IMMIGRATION
rald
RANGOON, Sept. 22 (Reuter).— An agreement on various important points relating to Chinese immigra- tion into Burma was reached at n conference between the Chinese and
VICEROY AGAIN Burmese delegations to-day.
LONDON, Sept. 22 (Reuter)-It is announced that the term of office of the Viceroy of India, Lord Linlith burned. But in the villages around, gow, has been extended a further life seemed to до on strangely perlod, until April, 1943.
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The points are not detailed in the communique
ue which, however, states that they are subject to acceptance by the two governments and to an agreement being reached on the r maining two points.
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