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Over the Wire

Russians Rout Germans

Powerful Soviet offensives Wednesday threatened German forces on the cold eastern fornt with diaster and a Berlin dispatch admitted it was doubtful that any German "winter line" could be held in Russia.

Russian dispatches reported the slaughter of "thousands" of Germans by ski troops cleaning out the Volkhovarea below Leningrad and a 15-mile Red Army advance over southern battle-fields strewn with German bodies.

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