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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00803R000300140008-3
• Release Decision: RIFPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 2, 1999
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: August 28, 1943
• Content Type: PREL

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28/8/43.
Riga Radio,
3.45 p.m.
News by the German News AEency.
We give the following report from the German Army Headquarters:
The Ftihrer? Headquarters, August 28th. On the Mjus front, in the
Kharkoff region, to the South-West from Orel, our formations were
engaged yesterday in heavy defensive fighting with Bolshevik infantry
and tanks in numbers that far outnumbered them. The enemy again
suffered heavy losses. 161 tanks were destroyed. Enemy formations
that had penetrated into our lines were cut off and surrounded in
energetic counter-attacks. Our air forces, on the M us front, to
the West from Kharkoff and in the region to the South-West from Orel
attacked enemy tank formations, infantry and supplits. On the 26th
and 27th of August fighting units destroyed 104 Soviet planes. In
the heavy fighting to the West of Vjazma the Hamburg Tank Grenadiers
Division distinguished itself particularly. During the night of
August the 26th heavy German fighting planes attacked naval units in
the region of the port of Algiers. With bombs of ev;ry calibre hits
were scored on some warship and 7 transport ships. Over Northern
Italy German fighter planes and anti-aircraft batteries shot down 8
enemy machines. BrA GeKiman U-boat in the Mediterranean has sunk a
strongly guarded/cruiser of the Aurora class, while another scored
heavy hits with torpedoes on another cruiser. West of Cap Finis-
terre a cruiser was set afire by bombs dropped on an enemy formation,
and a destroyer sunk after an explosion. During daylight raids of
English and American planes on the coastal region of occupied West-
ern Europe 15 enemy machines were shot down. A strong terror attack
of a formation of l ritish bombing planes which was made on Nurnberg
last night caused losses to the inhabitants and caused heavy damage
in dwelling houses, churches, hospitals and other buildings of cul-
tural and historical value. As far as could be ascertained the
.anti-aircraft defence destroyed 60 of the attacking bombers.
Report from the Italian Army Headquarters: During the last few
days, Italian machines have destroyed 9 enemy planes all along the
Calabrian coast. Units of the fleet destroyed another plane. Ene-
my formmations bombed Sulmona, Catanzaro and some places in the Cam-
pagna,/Salerno heavy damage was caused. Fighting heavily, Italian
fighting planes shot down 6 machines, and German planes - 7 enemy
machines. Three more enemy machines were destroyed by anti-aircraft
batteries.
The heavy defensive action that is proceeding South-West of
Izjum since August the 22nd, has lost some of its strength in the
last few days. As the bolsheviks are continually bringing up re-
serves to increase their fighting forces, and as these are being re-
grouped, it must be supposed that the fights will increase in inten-
sity again. Contrary to their former practice, the bolsheviks began
their attacks with masses of-_: infantry. Only when they saw that
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their effort to break the German defence was useless, did they
employ a mechanized corps and several strong tank formations in order
to penetrate into the German lines at all costs. This tank battle
went on for thre; days and ended with the almost complete destruction
of the brigade the enemy had sent into battle. After having filled
up the gaps in their formations, the bolsheviks directed a heavy blow
against the German positions. The battle went on for a whole day.
All attacks, strongly supported as they were by squadrons of fight-
ing machines, broke down in the massed fire of German arms. Leav-
ing behind them a great number of dead and wounded, the bolsheviks
finally retreated to their original positions. Untiringly;~aerman
air force with its fighting and diving machines, took part in the
battle, relieving the men that were fighting with great bravery.
In the evening, the enemy 's force was broken, and he limited himself
to smaller attacks on the 26th of August. In these attacks new
formations were employed in order to disguise the losses suffered by
the enemy formations. The enemy did not only lose a great number of
men, but also numerous Panzers. On the 24th of August, in the
sectors of a tank division from W,V rttemberg-Baden and a grenadier
tank division from'`/estfalen alone the bolsheviks lost 202 Panzers.
A shock unit of artillery which stood where the fighting was heaviest
QI4et. destroyed 250 enemy tanks in three days. In another sector,
200 bolshevik tanks were directed against the German positions in a
narrow passage. The German tank grenadiers from Westfalen de-
stroyed 147 tanks in heavy engagements. In the sector of another
Westfalen division the bolsheviks, by sending infantry and tanks into
battle in the night, had succeeded in making a gap in the German
lines which threatened seriously to hamper further resistance.
Thanks to the energetic steps taken by a feldwebel the enemy was rd-
pulsed after hand-to-hand fighting. The bolsehviks made several
counter-attacks from all sides against the German lines, but the
German soldiers held their sector until reinforcements could be
brought up and the useless attacks of the bolsheviks had to be
abandoned.
It is reported from Esbjerg that five Danish cutters entered
the port after having been heavily fired on by Britiah planes.
Three members of the crew were wounded, one of them dangerously.
The fire from the British machine-guns has damaged one of the cutters
so heavily that she had to be hauled into port.
Reuter reports from La Paz that the entire Bolivian Cabinet has
resigned. It is expected that a military Cabinet will be formed.
It is reported from Salonika that, according to a local news-
paper, the Greek Premier made a strong stand against the spreaders of
rumours. The Prime Minister said the enemy made all in his power to
divide the Greel_ na tion and prevent it from carrying out indispensable
work. He said rumour-mongers were enemies of the nation. They
made use of people 's naivite and tried to poison the Greek people.
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It is reported from Geneva: Reuter reports that Lord Louis
Mounbatten, the newly appointed ,Inglo-American Commander-in-Chief in
South Eastern Asia, has left Washington. The report says that he will
confer personally with the Chungking military authorities. Chungking
formations are expected to take part in an offensive in Burma. Well-
informed circles in Washington think, Reuter goes on to report, that
the commander of United States formations in Burma, India and China,
Chilwell, will be appointed Lord Mountbatten 's assistant as Commander-
in-Chief. Thus the difficulties that have arisen on the subject of the
supreme command would be averted. The Reuter statement regarding Lord
Mountbatten 's negotiations with Chungking show that, in Quebec, Roose-
velt and Churchill have agreed to use Chungking as cannon-fodder in
the Jewish-plutocratic interest.
.It is reported from Tokyo: The Chief of Press of the Japanese
Armed Forces has, in an interview with the Domei Agency, declared his
views on the communique of the Quebec Conference. He expressed the
opinion that, at the conference, the two main points discussed were,
surely, the question of attacks by air against the Japanese mainland
and bases in Chungking China as well as operations for regaining the
Burma road. In this connection Jahasi stated that the Japanese armed
forces are not only prepared to repulse such attacks bet also .....
in order to destroy Anglo-American strategical points in India. At
Quebec Roosevelt and Churchill, he said, had given Chungking promises
of help which they could not hold, in order to prevent Chungking from
,giving up and joining the Nanking peace settlement. If Chungking as
he armed force were excluded from thf fight, England and America would
be obliged to evacuate Eastern Asia, and this would considerably hasten
economic reconstruction in that sphere. China was, he said, the sister
of Japan, and Japan was still hoping sincerely that Chungking would at
last waken from its illusions and free itself from the fangs of Eng-
land and America, so that Japan should not be obliged to subdue Chung-
king by force of arms. Japan was firmly convinced that the time
would come when the Uhungking problem, at present the most important of
all problems, would be solved by mutual agreement between England,
America, Japan and China. -
This was follow by an announcement in which Latvian provincial
towns the Meat Central, formerly the Bacon import, would purchase cattle,
between August 30th and September 3rd.
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