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Smolensk used to be Hitler's headquarters.
it's a most important place to the Germans.
Fierce battles are taking place due to
Germans counterattacking. Russians are
now 100 miles west of Kursk.
Allied naval quarters in North Africa
have issued a naval communique a
little while ago that two British battleships
well protected by fighters, destroyers and
cruisers have steamed into the Street of
Messina and bombarded Cape South of
Reggio. This bombardments took place
yesterday morning and so far the
greatest naval bombardments of the war.
The battleships have 16 inch guns.
Aircraft based on North Africa have
bombed Pisa.
The Pope has first been broadcasting
an appeal for peace but further
details are not yet available. A young
Dane, who arrived in a rowing boat in
Sweden has said, that on Sunday in
Copenhagen a German tank has shot on
the Guards' Barracks. In the evening
shooting took place in every part of the
city.
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