IN GRAVE DANGER

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 August 1943, Page 3

IN GRAVE DANGER

ALL GERMAN FORCES EAST OF DNIEPER RUSSIANS FREE TO EXTEND OFFENSIVE. PRESSURE AGAINST POLTAVA. ’ (By Telegraph—Press Association— Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.0 a.m.) LONDON, August 23. Reuter’s military correspondent says the fall of Kharkov gravely endangers all the German forces east of the Dnieper. The Russians, with Kharkov in their hands, are now free to thrust to Krasnograd, while their right wing continues its pressure against Poltava. LIBERATED LANDS SOVIET RECONSTRUCTION PLANS. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, August 22. Plans' are announced for a vast Soviet reconstruction scheme extending from Kalinin in the north to Rostov in the south, for the "territories, which have already been liberated. Peasants are beginning the. long trek back to their homes with cattle and farm implements, and by October it is expected that hundreds of thousands of cattle will be back on the farms. Agricultural experts are to assist in restoring the farms, and special factories are turning out a mass of materials. More than 100 railway stations are to be built by January 1, including those at Rzhev and Rostov. These are some of the measures which indicate the Russian confidence that the Germans will never return to the liberated regions. TWO ENEMY TRAINS DERAILED BY PARTISANS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 10.25 a.m.) RUGBY. August 23. The Moscow radio reports that Soviet partisans, operating in the Volynia area, have derailed by mines two enemy trains. Both engines and 24 wagons were wrecked, and 218 Germans were killed. Traffic on the line was interrupted for 24 hours.