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Blow is Seen Near – 2-3
Soviet Homes Hit – 3-4
The International Situation – 3
Red Army Split Up, Germans Declare – 4-5
New Fight Rages Above Leningrad – 5
Japanese Refutes Tales of Chaos in Soviet Army – 5
Reds See a Defect in German Armor – 6
Nazi Pace in Soviet Held Slowed 50% - 6
U.S. Consuls Reach Lisbon from Reich – 7
Danish Volunteers Aid Nazis in Russia (photo) – 7
Potential U.S. Bases-III – 8
Agreement on Force in Iceland Explained – 8
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 9-10
Nazis Execute 80,000 Serbs, Turkey Hears; Guerrillas Continue to Harry Conquerors – 10
Backward Motif in Hats for Fall (including photos) – 11-12
News of Food (by Jane Holt) - 12

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http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/jul41/f23jul41.htm

Red Army counterattack around Smolensk

Wednesday, July 23, 1941 www.onwar.com

On the Eastern Front... Around Smolensk, the forces of the Soviet 20th Army (Lieutenant General P.A. Kurochkin) counterattack forces of German Panzer Group 2 even though the army flanks are unsecured.

In the Mediterranean... One British destroyer is sunk and one cruiser and three destroyers are hit in Italian air attacks on the Operation Substance forces.