25.9.1943. 9.= am. Dutch time
Just before 7 o'clock this morning
Berlin announced they had lost their
greatest base in Russia Smolensk
and also Roslavl.
Smolensk is the principal German
base in Russia and used to be
Hitler's headquarters. In August 1941
it was taken by the Germans.
In Russia the Germans are fighting
stubbornly.
There is no fresh news from Italy.
East of the 5th Army the 8th Army
advanced 25 to 30 miles yesterday.
Australians in New Guinea are now
a mile from Finschhafen.
Merodas, Mitchells and Typhoon
bombers bombed airfields in France
and also railway stations at
Amiens. 21 enemy fighters were
destroyed and we lost 9. Donald Nelson
said at Government's dinner in
London that the USA. production
this year is 1 1/2 times that of
Germany and Japan and in
1944 will be double. Sir John Anderson
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