BQ§SIA I • ~r J9'f-3 . at t a ck on Kiev b , i s - g t.J. In Russia, th e big Soviet in earnest. The R e d Army has forced the passage of the Dnieper River at several points OD either side or the city. T 8 river 1s three thousand two hundred feet wide there. At the same time thousands of Russian parachute troops are sweeping down OD the west bank of the River in th e rear or the German lines. There are even rumors that the Bazis are beginning to evacuate the ancient city of _.,~ the Ukl-aine • bu~official reports do not fa confirm those rumors. lloscow declares there are still Germans __....,~~ remaining in the suburbs or ltiev on the east bank• t:14 ba,f are being cut down by frontal assaults. soviet araie at other points . are forcing the German lines along the Dnieper. The fiercest fighting of a11 ia along the lower reaches l■■plpp Dneprovetrovsk of the great river in the aector around ,zJ.--~-.r,,1,.1..~.,.J.- and Zaporozhe. As for white Russia, the Red armies have crossed that border at tour distinct points. They have captured two important cities and aeven hundred a nd eight other towns in tha t s e ctor. SmoleDs'lt and orsha, a city hal.f'way They are now halfway between 1 I ~-ff1--~ between Vitebsk and llogilev. r RUSSIA - One Mo : 1 cow d ispatch claims that the Russians have e stablish e d bri g eheads on the west bank ot the Dniep e r between IS ■ 8• Kiev and Dneprop e trovsk, not large ones, but still_ bridgeheads. Wheth e r that'4.s true or not, it is a definite fact that at the end of the twelfth week of the great summer offensive, the Red Army 1s firmly entrenched along virtually the entire Bast bank o f the Dnieper River. and They have bad the advantage or a 1 ~ •ra si,ell to pua~through~ consequently~ have been able &p1,a1'11 &'1«MI~ forest ,, regions in front of Oomel that are normally impa sable at this time of year. ..){iow they are within twenty-eight llilsot Gomel ~ Jr.artbN: "!II""' 1 , ~ are t•k1ng advantage of the mists and tog P. M to force the crossing of the River. Similar reports come r from the Kremenzhug area. Dispatches from Moscow allege that the lazis are retre a ting across the Dni~eper ~be:_ al•:· All ha -fig t - : ~ < A l & &A a along the line the Red Army ~ P ' phase. At Dnepropetrovsk, the battle is almost in its final Crashed through t h e i■ ••tt last line ot The Reds haV0 ba sed on the m a rshes in front of the German defenses which ~ ere RUSSIA - 3 town. Late tlll.s evening, lloscow annow,ce~ ~ 111 1 , -15 .il:RJI capture~e town on th ~~:c1 bank of the Dnieper directly ■pp■z opposite Dnepropetrovsk. ¾-~ South, the Soviet ~ o armies are/\beginning to menace the Germans in ' -4---...N"-'C. -p.--~ the Crimea~ ,ft14 hat♦ ■ r 1 ~ ahead tor miles over the plains to the southeast . ot ZaporoA~. And 1n the Kuban PeninsUla they have captured another important place and are encircling the German bridgehead there. The ~ommunist newspaper Pravda published a significant ta piece today. It was in the form or a warning to Hitler that the Red Armies will not a stop until they reach the old trontierJ, hr 1 1 1 E ~ o n f i r m t i o n or the bellet,..held by soma, ~~ J &•let\ that Stalin does~ intend to invade Oermany~j,·.3t • push the Germans out of Russia. jJ2,Q ROSSIA A still later report ••nld~•~:bti;::~ . . ca I , oaaea trom Berlin, brings word that a column of mas sed Soviet taJl1ts and intantry has broken through the German lines north of Melito~ol on tbe shore or the sea or Azov. That column has heaYJ air support, accordiJJg to the Germans. This Berlin report indicates that the Russians there are in a position to cut communications between the lads in the Crimea and those on the lower Dnieper) 1■ at•• -1sp It◄• L £ ~ i s o l a t e the Gerlllllls in the Cr!Jo•• - - ~ - - - - t:::, ~ -6 .,., J AdoU' Hitle'A bas giYeD orders that EieT be razed to the ground. Ki ~ ta I h• third largest ci tJ 1n R11111a 1 and one of the most beautiful of th• all. Thia report ala co■es troa Berlin 1 througb Madrid, and l=S- is taken to •an that the Oen&DI ~ .... • • • 'b 19nm :ta wi tbdraw~om the capital or the Olcraine. lt 10, f. the princi p al purpose or the sumer drl•• ot the SoTiet araie1 f 11111 have bean reali z ed, GMIW!'S FOLLO -- The une xp ect d magn itude of the Russian advance 11 having its effect on th s pirits of the German people. c1v111ans have been openly afraid that they have ti: lost the . -~·1i--- war, and many or them have been put to death to~ • entlJ - Hitler's subJects are taking no stock in th e explanations ottered by propaganda Minister Goebbels for the continual retreats ot the German al'llies. The death sentences on ci viliana who have spoken their minds shows that the Gestapo is trying to drown in blood the discontent in the Reich. All this we learn tro■ a United Pr••• correspondent who baa Just arrived at Stockhola. Be reports that apparently .. -..,tN) even Goebbels realizes that i t ' 9 ueeleaa/'to tell the Gel'IIIUUI tmt everything is tinf!"':rhe Russian advance is too • overwbelmlnc A ___.'c:.ID-4 to be explained away. Poople are openly aald.Dl;• wheD will the ~ German Army sto p and dig in on a new line of defense? . One Oer■an Jlilitary expert decl a red that the Soviet attack was made poailbl• ~ by resources that far exceed those that the Geru.ns,-.bad in the .,,_ f u t and oort7-one • And he adds that u---er O aineteen Forty- WO & the advance of the Red Army 1s the greatest otfensive in history. OERIIAN'I Follow RUSSIA Nazi propaganda itself is confused. on the one band it sb gives the people the impression that the German Army will try to make a ***•I stand along the Dnieper River. But almost in the same breath it ~s throwing out hints ot a retreat a to a line drawn from Riga on the Baltic Sea to Odessa on the Black ~ Sea. ~ would be virtually the line tllR the Ger11&Ds held before Hitler attacked Russia. ADD GBRJIAIS This report from Stockholm do•e-tails with intormntion ~~,-e:t-_ in the possession or our own gOTeriaentJ ~ t •• • ~ trom :r~we... .le Seti" I( P 1, ff AIL Under-Secretary or a r ~ told a group UC ■iiA in washing ton today that the heads ot the G eraan Ar111 baTe given up all hope or w:t.mlng the w a r ~ o e i " ' b l , t mean they have given up the idea of fighting to the end. They are now planning for a stalemate and •~~ to make the 1, allies pay dearly in blood and men for every toot of ground. - Patterson made this statement fa at a Washington conference r jR,D OERMABS - 2 ot leaders of industry, labor and/\~==~- Lieutenant-General Kclary, til8 Deputy Chi . f of Staff, of the Armv • • th -...., , •n-- a ::1ar ~ Id!■• tl"confirmed stories we have heard that the G eraa.na have ; J ~ t o p p e d mak:l.ng bombers and are concentrating a on turD1nc " out fighter planes. Both Patterson and Jlciary revealed the tact that our om production of heavy planes is not }n':'$.ta it should be. ,.__ /\ . . pa • .tuuiidfi1:rvm thousand, six hundred and twelve ailltarJ -;,...oJ?i) aircratt/\in AugustJ liut ti■ t :wes leas than our high co•■nd had hoped. we need planes badly' and production is kulq: held up because of tm- shortage or manpower on the Pacific Coast. Pert:terN• , 1 aclarr empb&a!l:••• whll'b •Un• •••••• _ . . , Aliil 111, ') ' J I ,H]) .,.,. 2 1 MC, tsr• ts $hf: t I I . . sBCQID F R ORT r OLLO GERMAB! The amazing success of the s i ov et offensive 11 also causing repercussions in London, but r dif o a ferent kind. MilitU7 observers along the Thames ar conng around to the idea that the ~ A l l i e ~ • • • ~ speed.-up their second · tront attack 1n the lest.,c;.,, ir they do not, they may wake up to find that the Ruaiians baTe deteated tbe Germans single banded. Those are the ideas that were expressed in London todayJ and it'•s significant that this story has cleared the British censorship. Some experienced obseners in London belieTe the Russians may reach the borders or Germa111 proper this winter it they can keep up their present pace. R1gh officers in ton4on do not believe the story tba t the Germana have withdrawn a number of troops trom the East and aent them to I tal.J • It 11 ~ ~ that they have kept on shortening their lln~s in Ru111a, but th.is means · they are girding their loin1 to keep their araies intact for the worst fighting that lies ahead or th•• What 11 more, the allied invasion of Italy and the !Dcre sing unreSt - 1n tbe Balkans has drawn off a lot of German reserTes. A■ a rw.e -i tmce w1 tb a g1 aia et Mi, •• ••••tea I•••• Ui ■ aenaae ,e \ae Masi eee~,1e• •a--rtee, each re,e••• ••• el•••• / ' J rwlJ-. _ ~ - ~ npt1m1st1o .... ~.~.~-= tlwiiaJ a;.., · w, I I ■■}j s lii»:tu., rrom the Ball<Jil-~cwutantial 11ilillilll111t . --- # ~ J ,.1 Fi'l ,;, appure to b ' ! , - - ~ ~ , /\ •• bl ... v""-e..,.w"11o ... rd..._tha,p t one-third of bg■t Jugoslavia is now in the bands or Jugoslav patriot forces. A spokesman for the Jugoalav goveraent in London declares that eneral llikbailovitcb' a men bold a large stretch or the Dalmatian coast and two-thirds or Sloven.a. What is more, two-thirds or Bosnia, llontegnegro, and Beraegortna are now completely controlled bJ Guerillas as well as one-fourth ot Croatia. The same spokesman added that a coluan ot roraer soldiers, operating under a"partisan''comander, have cut the oenan-controlled - ,,.,,. railway line between the Italian port of Trieste and San Pietro, East of Trieste. some of these guerrilla units have beaTJ artiller,, ~r~ evidently obtained fltan the British. This tale 1sJ.. contirmed by a German broadcast mich related that the Allies are sending fo d and arms by sea to the guerrilla forces in tbe )ltJilS - 2 7P aa].kans. Hard fi g htin g is g oing on all over Jugoslarta and Croatia. From another source we hear that Italian units a are ~ . ~c~c4,. ~ attacking the Oerman~ommunication ~ ~ h e Brenner Pass:~ _ . , , ~ f t , ~ . Another force ~...,._operating against the lazis in northern I ta171 ~ is composed of several thousand British prisoners ot war who were held in detention caaps in Italy. Whan Italy surrendered~ ~ • e · e ~ set tree, and -.they,<...-i{orae4 into an orgUllud Any) behind the a erman line 7 1n I ta17. r AJ.R WAR ~ In th e a i r w a r ov e r Eu.reps l!Mllt Fl 1 F a daylight a ttack on Em den ~ , ~ ' Y ng ortreaaes made ' ~ azts M♦e I 111 naval and 0-boat base. %~ wae,. lil' e heavie s t raid ~ the United States Eighth Air Force has y e t made g ainst a single target. They dropped about a thousand tons ot explosives and tire bombs around~ c d ' ~ • har~1A Ir- to1matlOB er Petbf1nder i'e•,••11•1 l:ed 1'he ..,. to IIIA• whe tba heavil overcast the bs. The Fortres s es were well protected all the way by a strong covering of American Thunderbolt tighter planes. It was the longest escort flight that had ever been ade 1n the war, six hun d r € d miles round trip. From one base alone •hose ~~ • • > ~~ Thunderbolt pilot?'--••= t ~ - , , nine Oeraan tighter planes. f The guessbg' is t ha t s o m e three hundred and titty or tour hundred ~ ;1, t 1, opor,11-tlla'a • • - fortresses took part in the raid. C~e , , 0 1 ~ ~ t ~ ~ : e s t ~ r u c : 1 o n ~:~~~; :;::;;.1 --, •• • .. , lots ot endJ ; shattering. One bombardiei;[! -•►' \ -tl..:t- 1- I tighters aro1.md, but they were bashful. 'A I JIYASIO. 0:WB:P ,.!h Italy, t e American Fitth Army has Carted its way into t · e lett flank of the M■ t1a lazia. They baYe penetrated eleven miles within the German lines and - . , now baYe 8 fair chance to turn the en9111 line at laples and surround the city. Meanwhile• the British ari<--fi:i:i!!!::7ii:: fllhl • • the mounta . in above Salerno) z, 4 _. 1ma1h1ng ahead · a.ts: 77; ~ 7ard bJ yard. ~ ■uat be the British under General Alaan49!i ll••■e • 11■- - • ~ B i g h t h ~ under llontcoaer,, is on the Adriatic s1de 1 at 1""" marchiDg towards .loggia, ,.,.,,. ~~ NIii ...... u: ■ontga■erJ~ idftDCed ~ ...i ~~ t t ailesto twelve miles overnight and.a•••• al- 911tgaol~ twen 1- WO I\ "J ,. the southeast of .r·oggia. As soon aa lontgo•rJ baa bis bands 011 ¥oggta, he also wil be 1n a position to strike across th• peninsula for Naples. ~ a e ~ t o ~ J#Ja ha1..D111bed General Clark's FifthA?'111..,.. If •star as Calabritto, r1rt1 mile s due ea• t or laples. INVASI O N - 2 is battering the Germans by day and by ni g ht. At the same time ~ ' ~.t- Bri t ish war s hips standing ott shore are ~ ~ h e ene111, took IIUro t e D a i l e s ~ across the peDi.Dsula. It goes trom a place called Marguerita de Bavoia on the Adriatic, through Cerignola, Muro, and Calabri tto t Amal.ti on the south coast or the sorreDto Peninsula. - - - 0 - - ~ ~ - - - - - - - - - - On Corsica there are only a tew lad units lett and they are at Basti a on the northeast coast. ■ost ot th• have either been evacuated or_.. shot down into the waters bet w een Corsica and Leghorn/• French, Italian and Corsican tro o ps, •••r•• supported by .American Rangers, have the remaining l11lx1■ Bazis surrounded, and will soon have them either ••wttt annihilated or taken prisoner. f..ACIFIC '?he news from le 8 l:ne 1 " a a s I a thez puzaU:ae,. From awarat MacArthur's and Australians are headquarters we hear that the Americana storming the defenses at F i n c : r ~ ~~- ') ~ t b e J ,1 apanese garrison ta resisting desperately r-,-h-.----...J The burden or then••• 1n41cates that the Japa are --~ ••••• amt about to be pushed into the seal\ their only chance to escape)-. by boat,acroaa a aeYenty tiYe mile stretch ot water to .New Britain. Australian General Sir Thomas Blaa97, who 1s in command or the allied ground torcea in lew Guinea, 11114 today that the fall of Fincbbat'en is only a matter ~ days. But he added that the Japs are well bunkered in some places.