NEW GERMAN RETREAT

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 56, 3 September 1943, Page 3

NEW GERMAN RETREAT

GRAVE CRISIS SEEN

NAZIS SUFFER IN RUSSIA

(By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright.) Rec. 1.45 p.m. LONDON, September 2. The Stockholm correspondent of "The Times" says that front-line reporters and other semi-independent German sources, in their reports, imply that the German armies in Russia are having an exceedingly hard time. One correspondent goes so far as to say that the German retreat from the Mius Line will result in the gravest crisis of the whole summer campaign.

Another neutral correspondent remarks from Berlin that although the Germans in the last few days have been talking about passing "crises" there is no evidence that the crises are becoming fewer !

German newspapers recently described whole units of 17 and 18-year-old youths getting their baptism of fire on the Mius front, which is the sector where $the Russians broke through. Reuters Moscow correspondent says that the Russians ambushed German reinforcements in the forests southwest of Kharkov and mowed them down with machine-guns. Heavy losses were inflicted. The survivors were thrown into confusion and ran into some minefields.

Another big group of Germans south of Bryansk abandoned their arms and fled when they found that their supply transport had been captured and their telephone lines cut. Berlin radio reports that the Russians in the Kuban attacked several times with heavy guns and flamethrowers.