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Ihe Battle for Moscow is
Greatest in World’s History
Nazis Throw in Evcrythingj
lh Huge Brenk - Through Bid
•ed Army, Claimed Broken, Fights
Moseow fflard and Determined
w hat is probably the fiercest battle in all history, both in scope and intensity, is now
raging in the central area of the Russian front. — The Russian communiqé of today
that in the terrific assault of the last three days, the Germans h«ve suffered tremendous
ses — thousands of men, and an enormous number of tanks, trains and equipment.
hi Moscow the grave- situa-
011 is fully realized. The
j^^est fight of all is now go-
® °n north of Orel, a town
. ^he railway-line Kharkov—
oscow, 200 miles due south.
th caPitai- Orel fell into
2 e hands of the enemy after
days 0f terrific fighting,
ere the defenders fcught the
h Va<^ers street by street and
fof186 ^ house. The Russian
Ces whhdrew in. good ord-
’ after haying wrecked all
Ustrial plants. A terrific
e is raging in this sector
st'n ^erman advance is
tield at Orel. Vyasma 's
th ^ Russian hands, although
^ ^rmans have pe2ietrated
" °f the town on both sides.
Síí°w PALLING
now is aiready falling in
sitJe °f the ^ont, but both
ia S announce much air fight-
§°mg on. The Russians
. to have bombed, and
Coav% damaged vital lines of
krimUnRations around Smo-
eitsk.
The Russian newspaper
rfavHQ ,i
CaRs on aii and every
foJl ot the Russian people to
Cfs0Vv the spirit of the defend-
ReninSrad and Odessa,
coi, Stand fast and die for their
ntly rather than yield or
surrender to the enemy. Mos-
cow is hard and determined. —
“In this death struggle” the
paper says, “Hitler has put
forth all his main forces, an
enormous murnber of tanks
and nearly all his planes.He has
nearly completely emptied the
subdued countries of men of
fightihg age, replacing them
witli old men and youths.”
In London it is stated that
in Eastern Ukraine things are
very obscure at the moment.
All seems quiet in Odessa and
the surrcunding area.
The Germans claim that
large forces of Marshal Bud-
jenny’s armies have been sur-
rounded by simultaneous ad-
vances of German troops from
south along the coast and from
the north, and that large pock-
ets of Budjenny’s forces have
been surrounded and are just
waiting for surrender or anni-
hilation.
It is furthermore pointed out
in London today that the Ger-
mans are now repeating all
their assertions from July 12tli,
when they announced that
Russian resistance was com-
pletely broken and that the
road to Moscow lay open.
A special announcement to
day frcm Hitler’s headquarters,
states that 3 Russian armies
have been surrounded south of
Vyasma and are in a hopeless
.situation, waiting for surrend-
er or annihilation. -The ann-
ouncement also claims, that-
Timoshenko has now sacrified
his last army capable of giving
battle at the Russian front.
A little íater Goebbels made
a further comment on this
when he told foreign journa-
lists that the Russians had now
sent their last 50—70 divisi-
ons into Timoshenko’s battle
and that they were now en-
circled in two pockets. When
they had surrendered further
resistance would be over, as
there was no doubt that the
Russian front was completely
smashed.
The Russian communiqué of
tcday reveals that before this
attack started, Hitler had of-
ficially announced - that this
was to be the last decisive
battle of the year. He would
smash thé Russians before
winter set in, and this offen-
sive was to be a death blow
struck at Russia and Britain.
Here in London the situation
is ccnsidered to have become
very serious.
1-Gdd Trawler
Beats U-Boat
Crew Captured:
Brousht to Gib.
London, Oct. 9th.
The Admiralty today ann-
ounced that another German
submarine had surrended to
our forces, this time to a trawl-
er, carrying only one 4-inch
gun and machine guns. Unfor-
tunately the U-boat could not
be brought to harbour this time
as it sgnk immediately after
surrendering.
The trawler, “Lady Shirley”
was on duty when she discov-
ered a large enemy submarine
on the surface. The U-boat
immediately dived, but the
trawler soon brought it to the
surface again by depth charg-
es, and then attacked it with
its one 4-inch gun and machine
gun fire, which prevented the
enemy from reaching their
cannon. The U-boat crew an-
swered with machine gun fire
and succeeded in killing the
trawler’s 4-inch gunner, but
another man immediately took
his place and the trawler’s two
machine-gunners kept up a
steady fire, although'both were
wounded.
After the submarine had been
hit several times with 4-inch
shells, the crew manning the
conning-tower held up their
hands as a token of surrender.
The submarine sank immedia-
tely after its crew of 44 had
been rescued.
Coming aboard one of the
submarine’s crew complimented
our men for the daring and
successful attack on an enemy
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