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...Chairs. One of the bitterest blows of a bitter German week was the sudden appearance, east of the Latvian border, of stocky, limping General Andrei Yeremenko, seven-times-wounded hero of Stalingrad, Smolensk, the Crimea. Between Drissa and Pskov, quiescent up to last week, lay the last thin strip of Soviet territory still in German hands. Attacking on this 100-mile front, Yeremenko made gains up to 25 miles. On the narrow Issa River, the Germans blew up their ferries and crossings, but Yeremenko's doughty men swarmed across on small boats, rafts and logs...
...victory outflanked Zhlobin, which he could not take by frontal assault. This week it also placed his army only 20 miles from a major enemy base at Bobruisk. Some 90 miles beyond Bobruisk, on the historic Smolensk road on which Napoleon lost his army, lay Minsk...
...varied, the time element remained fairly constant. Minor pushes lasted four days to two weeks. (Their aim: a local objective, a test of the enemy's strength, a feint.) Major offensives lasted an average of two to four weeks (on the Vitebsk front, 19 days; Orel, 30 days; Smolensk, 25 days; the first offensive into Poland, 27 days; the thrust into Estonia, 21 days...
...food for three days, but they had rolled out the special when Miss Harriman asked to come along. The party played cards, ate with their official hosts in the cheery dining car, slept in soft berths as the wagons-lits swayed leisurely westward. In the morning they were in Smolensk, a ruined monument to the German occupation, and the scene of a great outrage which had become a sharp world political issue...
...were told that medical evidence indicated that the bodies had been in the ground about two years. The Germans have claimed that the Russians killed these Polish prisoners of war in March 1940. The Russians say that the Germans found the Poles still locked in camps when they reached Smolensk in July 1941, slaughtered them all by the end of September. They say that German Construction Battalion #537, housed in a large Dacha half a mile away, carried out the executions...