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bl Division Iv - Radio Strictly confidential! Broadcasting and Hell Service Only for personal use! To be destroyed in own responsibility! Test. No. 298/I /42. (353 c RSTGB). Reports of 27 October 1942. L o n d o n - (Czech) - l8.30 o'clock. A83EEEEEEE North Africa:The British attack troops have their own Breakthrough by the German defense lines secured positions and held against all counterattacks of the axis. In the course of the day they achieved further ground gain. According to British news Rommel's positions are extremely atark. Up to now, the fast brit. tank associations could not be used yet. East front: Timohähenko's army continues to press on the German wing of circumference near Stalingrad. The situation in the factory quarter of the city is critical according to Moscow's heroics. In the Caucasus, the Soviets are fighting German attacks on Tupase. British Air Minister Sinclair reported on the bomb load dropped on German territory. Italinn: A Swiss eyewitness reports that during the last attack of the RAF on Genoa a panic broke out among the local population. Dié's entire Italian mood on the eve of the anniversary of vån Mussolini's march onRome is very depressed. News from the Far East unremarkable. (Sendung strongly disturbed.) "It speaks the President of the Republic, Dr. Eduard Benesch." Fanfares. "Dear fellow citizens! We here again our Netional Day. This is the 5th since the war began for us. Since Kroeg's outbreak it is the third time that I speak to you in this jelly. At the time of the republic was the 28th. Othtober for us a day of joyful commemoration of the beginning of our national freedom and at the same time an opportunity for a predictable outlook on a working future, but then he became for us an age of mourning, because with the year l939 the time of sorrow and suffering began for our people. But now he will again be a day for us of the expectation of new and rich events and of the coming victory. We know with ever increasing certainty that the hour in which the Germans fall is approaching. Today we tell you this, not too long ago