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Over the Wire--

Reds Advance on Smolensk

LONDON--Russian troops have captured more than 40 inhabited places in a single day in their two-pronged drive on Smolensk, have killed 5,500 Germans in three days in a ferocious battle north of Bryansk and are holding firm along their Donets River front in the south, the Russian Monday midnight communique reported today.

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