SWEEPING ON

Wairarapa Times-Age, 28 September 1943, Page 4

SWEEPING ON

SOVIET TROOPS IN WHITE RUSSIA NO RESPITE FOR GERMANS FURTHER SOUTH. DNEPROPETROVSK SUBURBS ENTERED. (By, Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, September 27. The Russians are advancing deeper into White Russia. They are sweeping forward in their droves towards Vitebsk and Gomel. They are giving the Germans no respite further south and have driven into tfte suburbs of Dnepropetrovsk, on the eastern bank of the Dnieper. The speed of the German retreat is congesting the railways in the enemy’s rear. Last night Russian bombers attacked troop trains concentrated at various points and an important railway junction was also bombed. All night, Russian planes kept up a round the clock pounding of enemy troops and supplies. ALREADY CRACKING AND ABOUT TO SPLIT OPEN GERMAN LINE ON DNIEPER ■ (Received This Day, 12.45 p.m.) LONDON. September 27. The Russians, continuing to break German resistance in the Kuban area, have captured Temryuk. Red Army units are now fighting in the suburbs of Dnepropetrovsk. These new successes are reported in tonight's Soviet communique, which also states that 1,100 inhabited places were freed of the invader during the day. Advances of up to ten miles have been made in the Gomel and Mogilev directions. Chernobaisk was taken in the Kiev area. The Red Army also captured the Onezdovo railway station, five miles west of Smolensk. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent declares that the Dnieper line is already cracking and is likely to be split wide open. German losses in men are huge and thousands of tons of valuable war material, now massed east of the river, will never make the return journey except in Russian hands.