Smolensk used to be Hitler's headquarters it's a most important place to the Germans fierce battles are taking place due to Germans counterattacking. Russians are now 100 miles west of Koersk. Allied naval quarters in North Africa have issued a naval communique a little while ago that two British battleships well protected by fighters, destroyers and ..... have steamed into the Street of Messina and bombarded Cape South of Reggio. This bombardments took place yesterday morning and so far the greatest naval bombardments of the war. The battleships have 16 inch guns. Aircraft based on North Africa have bombed Pisa. The Pope has first been broadcasting an appeal for peace but further details are not yet available. A young Dane, who arrived in a rowingboat in Sweden has said, that on Sunday in Copenhagen a German tank has shot on the Guards' Barracks. In the evening shooting took place in every part of the city.