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anxious to avoid a breakthrough
at Cassino and they are throwing in
every available man and weapon.
Highly trained mountain troops are
also thrown in North of Cassino.
British destroyers in the Adriatic have
damaged railway trains on the East
coast of Italy.
The Russians are now between 30 and
40 miles inside the 1939 Polish border
and the Germans have lost control
of the railway line from North to South
which is in Russian hands with the
exception of around 15 miles or so.
The line from Korosten to Shepetivka
is also in Russian hands.
It is made known that in the Kirovohrad
battle the Germans suffered heavily as
15000 men were killed whereas destroyed
or captured were 450 tanks, 500 guns
and 2000 motor vehicles.
The Soviet information bureau
announces that without doubts there
are still Spanish troops serving
at the Russian front. President
Roosevelt could not deliver his speech
to Congress himself but a little later he
broadcast some or a greater part of it.
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