English Translation

9h -12 - (The broadcast was in its entirety quite strongly geatärt-) Mediterranean front: Last night the RAF made a bomb attack on German-ibal. Submarine base on the island of Leros in Didekanes. In addition, a German airfield near Athens like the airport of Maritza on Rhodes was bombed. Further attacks of the RäF were directed against the port of Ben- ghasi and the plug-in place of Bartsche (?). In the big attack on the island of Lercs bombs were used by a new special type. They had a very thin shell and a particularly strong explosion effect. The British machines flew in 6 stages. They were machines, each of which can carry a bomb load of 1.50 kg. Of all these successful air attacks, all the machines used returned to their operating ports. German operations against Malta were limited last night to the attacks of individual aircraft. On Thursday and Friday, 6 of the attacking Maschin n were shot down, 8 more were damaged. In Libya, British hunting machines developed a lively activity yesterday in the precinct. The gperations of the ground forces were hindered by the still ongoing sandstorms. American General Russell Maxwell announced the arrival of American troops in the Middle East yesterday in Cairo. He explained that there are already so many US bombs and fighter aircraft in the Middle East that it is necessary to plan their own training for the flight crews. On the eastern front, the Red Army continues to have successes. The troops of Marshal Tymoshenko succeeded in entering the foreign positions in the southern section of the battle south of Kharkov. Fighting here takes place along a line extending from Poltava, south of Kharkov, to Dniepropetrovsk. Even north of Taganrog on the Azov Sea, the Russians developed a lewd attack activity. Further on, the Soviet forces took the town of Pattezya, located north of Kursk. In the middle section of the battle, for the first time Russian reserve armies deployed in Russia, successfully retaliated a German attack at Briyansk. The Germans lost 350 men. In the northern part of the battle there are fierce fights at Novgorod, Staraja Russa and Leningrad. In the Leningrad heavy fights were killed at one section alone over l.oo0 German officers and crews.