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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 February 1943, Page 3

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GRAVE THREAT TO ENEMY i FORCES EAST OF DNIEPER RIVER. GUERILLAS INFLICTING HEAVY LOSSES. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.55 a.m.) RUGBY, February 21. A Soviet night communique, while repeating the announcement of the capture of Krasnograd and Pavlograd, adds that, on the same front, Soviet troops occupied the district centres and railway stations of Kegichevka, Sahriuyschchina and Pereschpinv. ■ } It adds: “In the Kursk area Soviet troops have occupied the railway £ junction of Gotnya, the district centre,. * and railway station of Tomarovka and the district centres of Borisovka, Ivnya and Krasnaya. In the Rostov area our. troops have occupied the district centre of Kubyshevo. In the area of Krasnodar our troops occupied the district centre of Marjyanskaya and the large localities of Novmyshastovskaya, llskaya and Lvovskaya. The Red Army advances have taken them further west than they have been since the retreat in 1941, along almost the entire front of 750 miles from Kursk to Krasnodar. The danger to the Germans being pushed westwards from the Donetz bend has increased considerably, indeed the direction and pace of the Soviet offensives seem likely to constitute an early threat to all the enemy forces south of Dnepropetrovsk and east of the Dnieper River. With Krasnograd and Pavlograd in Russian hands the Germans already have lost nearly all the railways north-east of the great Dnieper bend and it does not seem unlikely that they will soon be deprived of all rail communication to the east and south, except perhaps a line which rambles south from Gorlovka to Zaporozhe. Meanwhile in the south, the remaining Germans are steadily being squeezed out of the Caucasus. Moscow reports that three Russian columns are closing in on Orel. A Moscow message states the Soviet guerillas are especially active in the Ukraine, where in three days they wrecked 66 German troop trains and killed 13,500 enemy troops and blew up 244 railway and road bridges.