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MADE BY SOVIET FORCES ON MAIN FRONTS IMPORTANT GAINS IN DONETZ. BASIN. CAPTURES INCLUDE SEVERAL BIG TOWNS. LONDON, September 5. Tonight’s Soviet communique reports further important progress by the Red Army on the main fronts in South Russia. In the Donetz Basin, the Russians advanced up to nine miles during the day and drove the enemy from 120 places, including several big tpwns. One force has reached a point 17 miles east of Stalino and another is 30 miles north of the town. The Russian forces have also pushed forward in the Kharkov area and have greatly improved their positions. On the Bryansk front, the Russians have advanced five to eight miles and recaptured more than 50 places, including an important junction on the Bryansk-Kharkov railway. Still further north, the Russians have made more progress in their drive towards Smolensk. On all fronts yesterday, the Russians knocked out 92 German tanks and shot down 70 planes. The Germans announce that Goering is visiting the German Headquarters on the Eastern front.
BECOMING A ROUT ENEMY RETREAT IN PARTS OF DONETZ BASIN. LARGE FORCES FACING ENVELOPMENT LONDON, September 4. While the Germans are being forced back on the Smolensk and northern Ukraine fronts, the retreat on some sectors in the Donetz Basin is becoming a rout uncr the Red Army’s increasing pressure, with large German forces .facing a steadily-growing envelopment. Large industrial centres have been captured. Russian tanks and infantry, under a protective umbrella of Stormoviks, are sweeping toward Mariupol across fresh gaps which have been torn in the Germans’ defences in the Donetz Basin, says Reuter’s Moscow correspondent. Dispatches from the front say that the German lines are cracking and bending under heavy blows by the Red Army, while Russian guerillas in force are wrecking communications in the German rear. Last night's Soviet communique reported an advance of nine to 12 miles in the Donetz Basin. Tonight’s communique says that the Russians today advanced nine to 15 miles and captured* more than 90 inhabited places, including the town and railway junction of Debaltsevo, and also Gorlovka. A Russian communique says that the Red Army has captured Nikitovka, 27 miles north of Stalino, and has also captured Korop, 25 miles north-north-west of Konotop. A British United Press correspondent in Moscow says that the capture. of Konotop would represent the farthest point west the Russians have yet penetrated into the Ukraine. It would strengthen the Russian wedge which has been thrust into the German positions south-west of Bryansk, and also bring them within 32 miles of the main laterial railway between Gomel and Kremenchug. The cutting of this railway v/ould seal the fate of. Gomel and split the German armies in northern and southern Russia.
IN FULL FLOOD RUSSIAN OFFENSIVE THRUSTS. NEW ONSLAUGHT IN CENTRAL . DONETZ. LONDON, September 3. While the full flood of the Russian advances continue against Smolensk, Bryansk and Mariupol, the German news agency has announced that yet another Russian offensive has begun. The news agency said: “The long-expected Russian offensive in the Central Donetz has been in full swing since early this morning.” Dealing with the front as a whole, Reuter’s Moscow correspondent declares that enemy centres of resistance are being bypassed and his defences are being reduced one by one as the Russians press home their offensive. The Moscow radio states that the battles in the Donetz area are shifting gradually nearer to the centre of the basin (this seems to confirm the Berlin assertion that the Russian offensive in the Central Donetz is in full swing). The Berlin radio’s commentator, Captain Sertorius, says: “The Russian offensive west of Kharkov has somewhat diminished but the intensity of the enemy’s pressure west of the River Mius and between Sumy and the Mos-cow-Smolensk railway continues with undiminished violence. The British United Press Moscow correspondent emphasises that the Russians, thrusting westwards north of Konotop towards the Desna River, have a chance of splitting the entire German front in two. The correspondent points out that a further Russian advance of only 25 miles will sever all direct rail communications between the Germans in the Kharkov and Donetz areas and the Germans on the central and northern fronts.
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