SOVIET ASSAULT ON DNIEPER LINE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 29 September 1943, Page 3

SOVIET ASSAULT ON DNIEPER LINE

And Advance Into White Russia ARTILLERY CONCENTRATION AGAINST DNEPROPETROVSK BOMBARDMENT OF GERMAN DEFENCES ACROSS RIVER LONDON, September 28. Tonight’s Moscow communique reports more substantial advances by the Red Army all along the 700 mile front between Kremenchug and Vitebsk in the north. The Russians have increased their hold on the eastern bank of the Dnieper and are driving on in the direction of Minsk, the capital of White Russia. On the southern part of the front Soviet forces have advanced from nine to thirteen miles in the Kremenchug area and captured 120 places, including a town 20 miles north of Kremenchug. Further up the Dnieper the Red Army has occupied a large number of places on the eastern bank of the river. Still further north, in the direction of Gomel and Minsk, the Russians have occupied over 1,000 places, the most important of which is a town a third of the way down the railway from Smolensk to Minsk. In the Minsk direction, Soviet troops have forced their way forward six to 15 miles. The Russians are beginning their assault on Dnepropet, rovsk, the great industrial city on the west bank of the Dnieper, following their capture of the suburbs on the eastern bank. Artillery has been brought up and is now bombarding the main German defences across the river.