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
FIERCE BATTLE RAGES AT KIEV
LARGEST TAX BILL SIGNED BY FDR
The $ 3,553,400,000, the largest ever enacted.
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