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116 SPECIAL DISTRIBUTION CULTURAL POLICY DIRECTORATE ROUND FUNK STRENG CONFIRMABLE! DEPARTMENT AND HELP SERVICE Only for personal service use! To be destroyed on your own responsibility! (§ 353c RStGB.) Prif.-No. 203/.143. Reports of July 22, 1943. London (Czech, 6.15 p.m.): South front: The port of Cotrone bombed in the Gulf of Torent by British warships. Another 6 Sicilian cities conquered as well as 2 important airfields. Before Catania despite stubborn German resistance further terrain gain. Eastern front: Russian double advance to l5 km before Orel. Fart- duration of the Russian advance north, east and south of Orel as well in the combat abschmitt Bjelgorod. Comment on the battle at Orel, seen by the Red Army's correspondents. The correspondent compares the strenuousness of the battles with that of the Battle of Stalingrad and emphasizes the great importance of taking Orel although, as he adds, the outcome of the war would not yet be established with certainty. a Finally an ironic listening sequence, in which some bars of the Horst-Wessellied are played again and again (long and pitiful), that melody the gach view of the speaker is no longer to be heard in the German Rußäfusk. Either the record is already played, or one has to announce no more German victories. London (Czech and Slovak): 20.45 a.m.): The Czech Food Bureau reports (Slovak): Summary of the daily news: Siziliem and Eastern Front. End of the news of the Czech Press Bureau. "We have already informed you that Czech workers who were to arrive at the Eiasatz in the Reich were classified into the Orga- nisation Todt and sent to the Pront. A confirmation of this message was recently received from Kujbyshev, where a group of Czech nationals who had left Czechoslovakia in the summer of last year and had been assigned to the organization Todt rather than to work in a factory. In the course of the win- ter, when the Red Army was on the rise, they managed to transfer to the Russian side. All these Czech citizens come from northern Moravia. After their arrival in Kuj-byshev, they stated the following: In the first years, only Germans were present in the organisation Todt.After the severe defeats and the associated heavy losses suffered by the German armies on the fronts, Czechs were also ranked in the organization Todte, i.e. both from the separated peripheral areas and from the so-called protectorate. Inidse work department of the organization Todt, in which our compatriots had been classified, came together in the entirety about 7o Czechs. It was used in the surrounding of a Ukrainian town. The Ukrainian population behaved very frantically towards the Czechs . They helped them with it... (short interruption)...until their arrival.