PUBLIC EVENT LOG

[SaSTrooP]

8th September 1944
Pravda

Pravda reports:
"Hungarian sources report of serious engagements that occured between them and our new ally Romania in the central Transylvania region. According to the sources in Budapest the combat was fierce and it resulted in further destruction of Romanian units. Witnesses report massive smoke piumes in the town of Ocna Mures on the Mures river with hundred of ragged refugees seeking shelted in neighbouring villages. According to those people, hundred died in Ocna Mures that was first subjected to brutal, tactical bombing by the Hungarian Royal Air Force.

Accordingly, a serious combat took place around Gambas with heavy losses on the both sides.

Romanians are reported to retreat further south, towards the Vulkan passes.

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In other news: Soviet STAVKA reports that th Red Army has launched a massive offensive near the Dukla Pass with aim of liberating Slovakia and opening the offensive in the northern Transylvania. Belgian Prime Minister Hubert Pierlot returns to Belgium in glory with his cabinet that since mid-1940 sat in exile in London. After a brief state of war and minimal combat, Bulgaria accepts the armistice proposal from Moscow, effectively leaving the Axis. A mysterious bombing has occured in Chiswick, West London today. British officials fear that an improved rocket weapon might be employed by the Nazis. Royal Air Force reported that it successfully bombed and sink an Italian ocean liner today in the port of Trieste.