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RACINE, WIS., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 19, 1941

Invaders Near

Rich Industrial

Area of Russia

Is First Big Giry

To Succumb Before

Hard German Push

(Early War Details on Page 2.)

BERLIN, Sept. 19.—(U.P)—

The German high command reported tonight that nazi troops have stormed their way into Kiev and that the nazi war banner now flies high over the ancient capital of the Ukraine. The Wehrmacht was rolling faster than at any time since the start of the war in the east.

Nazi forces, the high command said, have swept forward on both sides of Kiev to capture Poltava, only 75 miles from Kharkov, and now stand on the approaches to the great Donets-Don industrial basin, the richest industrial sector in Russia.

From Moscow, the red army reported picked German panzer and air units hammering into the outskirts of Kiev in the Ukraine and said a furious new enemy offensive had been hurled against Russian defenses on the Vtlikie Luki sector of the central front. The Russians have destroyed at least four German divisions in the "sausage grinder" defense of Kiev and killed some 30,000 in Go/ojeyev forest alone, the war dispatches said. At Leningrad, the Russians reported, fierce fighting still in progress.

Defenses. Collapsing.

The German successes were of such magnitude that it appeared the entire Russian defense system, west of the Kharkov-Zaporozhe line and possibly even farther east was in the process of collapse

GERMANS CAPTURE KIEV

Ukraine Capital Falls; 4 armies trapped says Berlin,.



September 20, 1941

FIERCE BATTLE RAGES AT KIEV