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September 23, 1

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Soviet War Front Described

(By "Reuter'" Special Correspondent in Russia)

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 flercest struggle..

Changsha Thrust

onslaughts against the Japanese columns pressing southward CHUNGKING, Sept. 22 (Central News). Chinese from Yochow toward Changsha, capital of Hunan, are most successful, according to the latest field dispatches,

Chinese mobile units operating north of the Milo River and to

are simultaneously hammering

villages. Above it were the German the left flank of the Japanese Maisky With

at Yanglinchich, approximately Tank Workers

Of Britain

It is now nearly a week since houses with the sky showing through well made galleries and dug-outa fur- I loft Moscow for the first trip all the windows-like skulls Instead nished with furniture stolen from the

of faces. to the front accorded any After wading through deep mud, artillery positions. It was a strong foreign journalist. Since then II at last reached an army hut where point protected by a stream and the have travelled along many roada I was given supper by the local construction and equipment left the -often incredible, roads-along commander and put on heops of Impression of great thoroughness and efficiency. The position was hastily the Smolensk sector of the straw,

This morning I drove

Across a abandoned when the bottleneck to eastern front.

town that looked like a devastated the went threatened to close allo One recaptured village I visited piece of Stepney..

gether. remains very vividly in my memory. The army was generally taking Unlike so many others, there were ature of people whose homes had bech few houses still stonding but the only burned. But in the villages around, Inhabitants were ono pensant, three

to seemed

Ko on strangely children and one blind woman, and normally despite the fact that many she had been rendered Insane by the thousand roofs had been blown away experiences through which she by the blast and numerous craters, passed.

in the roadsides.

No Man's Land

life

I saw her wandering from place to place with her only, possessions one pall, one theepskin and a fow

There were pigs, geese and hens pathelle rags, But the three children on the road. But things were dif- were Already busy digging Up ferent ufter entering the country potatoes from the recaptured fields, which, is either no man's land or

Devastated Country

by Germans who have Hereabouts, and eastwards the

Cally destroyed or

taken countryside was devastated by the away all the livestock which there

arrived.

Inter-Allied Conference In London

probably

Germans before they were driven was no me to evacuate before they Diplomatie Cole Charit

n

out by the Russian pincer movement further west. The result of this In no man's land one of the fiercest pincer movement was that thousands battles was fought in wide fields of of Germans were killed or captured over-ripe flax and rye stlli ungut. I while other Gorman forces were com- got to the village which was the pelled to withdraw rapidly from the centre of this battle, Nothing is left battle-neck, abandoning strong pocl- but a few burned stumps.

Called tions and masses of equipment,

advantage- Ushakovo it stands on an The Germans are now 11 mlies ous height overlooking a semi-circle west of Yelnyn and are being driven of woods a couple of miles distant further

which was held by the Russians. The away. Smolensk is still in German hands Germans made this village their but the Russians are not very for off. stronghold. In Yelnya, the only building rela-

Russian Assault tively intact is one church. The re

It was the Russians who advanced mainder of this town, which former-step by step digging themselves in a ly had 5,000 inhabitants, now consists they came forward during several mainly of a few chimney stacks and weeks from three directions until the heaps of rubble and ashes.

to withdraw. Germans were forced

The allotments round and

und through A large number of the inhabitants Ushakovo are labyrinths of German were trapped by the sudden arrival trenches. Svine 500 yards distant are of the Germans, formed into foreca

forced the lines, rapidly constructed by labour gangs and sent to the German night, of the Russian trenches and in rear, and nobody knows what hos between these are indentations where happened to them. But some the advancing Russian soldlers duck. escaped into the woods and managed ed when approaching the German to reach the Russian lines wille others are all trickling back thoug there is nowhere in the town left to live.

Forced Labour

to

of

lines,

The terrain occupied by the Ger- mans is like n lunar landscape with shell craters proving the accuracy of the Russian artillery. The fierceness of the fight is shown by the large mound fenced off and decornted with Ar branches and wild flowers where hundreds of Russian soldiers were buried.

When the Germans decided evacuate the town on the night September 4, they ordered the re- maining few hundred inhabitants, mostly old people and children, to assemble inside the church, which then was locked up. Before leaving the town, Uie Germans systematically

The German bodies which Alled set fire to every house which had so far escaped destruction and it was numerous shell-holes are now cover- into this burning Inferno that Rused up. Around this mournful scene,

troops re-entered.

Blan

Terror Raid

I travelled to-day along the road where the Germans retreated before abandoning Yelnya. I started in the morning from Dorogobuzh, which has never

been in German hands, bu!

Mournful Scene

Inspiration To Russians'

30 kilometres east of the Can- ton-Hankow Railway (on the southern bank of the Sintsiang River), Kwangwingchiao, some 16 kilometres southeast, and Changlochich, further south on the northern shore of the, Milo River.

Maisky, visited tank factories in the The Japanese central column Midlands to-day to receive the first totalling more than 10,000 strong has tanks in the "Tanks for Russia been dislodged from Kwangwang-Week." Madame Malaky named the chino, wille steady progress is being first tank, which was of the Valentine

"Stolln."

LONDON, Sept. 22 (Reuter).~Tile Russian

Ambassador, M. Ivna

made by the Chinese at the two other Ambassador expressed grati-

places.

Chinese counter-attacks have tude for "these very excellent arrested the Japanese southward machinca" on behalf of himself, his drive which aims at either the cap-country

and

people, and more ture of Changsha or the plundering purticularly on behalf of those of the newly harvested rice in the brave Red Army men who will man fertile region. At the same time, these tanks in the battlefield." - Chinese forces are determined to re- lle said that they would not rust peat the signal success over the in idleness. enemy in. the same battleground in December of 1930.

Post-War Switch LONDON, Sept. 22 (Reuter)The main items for debate at the forth- coming inter-Allied Conference in will, London shortly says "Reuter's" be (1) The by Mr Churchill, and President

Immediately following the core- Roosevelt, (2) Plans for post-war

mony, the trinks rumbled off to the reconstruction in all Allied countries,

Crossing The Milo

docks on, the first stage of their Mr Churchill will be the principal

Along the Mio River, the Japanese journey to Rusala. On some tanks British representative. Russia will

attempted crossings at four different chalked the lesion were palated be represented for the first time at

points, namely, main unli total-

names of Karl Marx, these conferences and her delegate; over 3,000 men from the Chang- Voroshilov. One tank almost ready Lenin, Timoshenko, Budenny and is expected to be the Soviet Am- lochich sector, the left wing consist- bassador, M. Malaky.

for delivery subscribe to the aims of the Atlantic All Allied countries will naturally Charter.

over

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It is thought that post-war plans will be discussed for the awitch. duction, including the collection and from war to pencetime pro-

storage of raw materials and

their distribution where

the near greatest in the

concerned, countries construction shall be tackled

The idea, it is assumed, is that re- international problem with mutual co-operation Instead of leaving each country to act as it finds possible.

As an

Vichy Sentences Communists

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH"

VICHY, Sept. 23 (UP)-The new State Tribunal to-day sentenced 35 Communists and acquitted twelve others. Four

were sentenced to

death; two to life terms at hard Jabour; one to 20 years and the rest, including nine women. from one to, ten years hard labour.

Enemy Of Britain In Japanese Legation?

the uncut rye flelds and potato patches grown in a now non-existent village, whips the autumn rain. The ground is littered with the remains CAIRO, Sept. 22 (Reuter).— of German equipment, newspapers, The Cairo newspaper "Almo tin hats and even private letters still Kattam," legible despite the rain,

cites

reliable

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ing of about 1,000 men from Wukou "Moscow, here I come."

bore these words:

the

Every Second Counts

Touring the factory, he saw slogans such as "Another One for Joe" and "Rush om for Russia." A workman told M. Mutsky that they were work- ing 084 hours a week to turn out weapons for Russla.

further up the Milo, and two more from below Changlochich at 11sin-

As soon as M., Malsky's train pull- shih and Kwelyl.

The central column has suffered ed Into the Midlands station, M.

two Valentine most

tanks, heavily from Chinese gunfire. Maisky sai However, the invaders are still mak- one flying the Union Jack and the ing desperate efforts to maintain a olher the Red flag. They were foothold. The Wukou unit ins fost covered with posters announcing more than 400 lulled and wounded "Tanks for Russia-every second and it is now invested by the Chinese counts." The Hsinshih unit of 2,000 men is. now on the defensive, while Kweiyi unit has been driven back to the north bank of the Milo River. Many Vessels Sunk During the past three days, the enemy attempted in vain to land troops by naval craft from the Tung tink Lake in the Yinguen, Liulin and Liulintan sectors at the mouth of the Hisiang River to the west of the Canton-Hankow Railway. In Ying- ilen alone, 89 motor launches and more than 20 wooden vessels have been sunk as well as over 500 Japan- ese troops killed.

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United States defence programme CHICAGO, Sept. 22 (Reuter) The has reached a point where it is able to meet all demands for tanks, small guns and ammunition, declared Mr

William Knudsen., Director-General of the Office of Production Manage- atment, here to-day,

which was almost completely destroy man armoured car and the carcase of Teheran that the Grand Mufti There is also wreckage of a Ger-source" for a report from ed by terror raids during July. In horse.

of Jerusalem has been found was uncanny driving in the darkness A couple of miles north was the through an unknown town with the German observation post, a quarry

the Japarrese Legution Isilhouettes of nothing but burnt-out sliced into the side of a hillock with Teheran.

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Calling for a still greater effort, he declared that it was time for the country to "get behind the armament programme and see it through gardless of the uncrifices we have to make-in-our comfortable standard of Bving. I think that it behaves us all to wake up."

Sir Charles Wilson

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LONDON, Sept. 22 (Reuter)-It

is learned authoritatively that Mr

The first factory visited hnd Red flag fluttering from "It looks to me a very efficient fac- the roof. tory," said M. Malsky, "and the re- ception we got was very enthusiastic." Workers Doing Their Rest

He noticed all slogans and Russlan names printed on the sides of tanks and this was a great inspiration to mc. I know that the Midlands are a very great and active

Industrial centre and I am not surprised at the on. We are satisfied that the workers

are

very great production going on.

doing their best to turn out tanks for

Russia and they seem very enthusias

le.. We want these tanks to get to Russia as soon as possible and we

quantities." can use all of them want as many as you can send. We and In any

LONDON, Sept. 22 (British Wire-

CHEAP MEALS lees) The one-thousandth "British Lord Woolton, the Minister of Food Restaurant" was opened, to-day by

This restaurant sents 250 people and provides two-course meals of meat, two vegetables, sweet and a cup of len-at-prices from 10d-to-one-shil=- ling.

Speed Up, Urges Roosevelt

SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH" WASHINGTON, Sept. 22 (UP)-

Winston Churchill has invited the President Roosevelt to-day talked President of the Royal College of with Congressional leaders in order Physicians, Sir Charles Wilson, to to speed up the enactment of the new Join the British Mission to Moscow. six billion Lend and Lease appro- Sir Charles will report to Mr priation and also regarding the one Churchill on the question of any hundred million dollar defence funds medical ald that should be given to to keep war air moving to the nations the U.S.S.R.

battling the Axis.

Missions Arrive

Leaders predicted that the new LONDON, Sept. 22 (UP)The Lead and Lease bil hearings will Tass agency reports that the_British | require two weeks, and Amerlenn Missions to Moscow

They also discussed the necessity have arrived by air on Soviet for the enactment of price control territory.

legislation.

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