ANOTHER GREAT VICTORY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 October 1943, Page 3

ANOTHER GREAT VICTORY

DNEPROPETROVSK CAPTURED BY RED ARMY

Threat To German Southern Forces Heavily Intensified

RAPID ADVANCES

SOVIET SPEARHEADS WELL BEYOND DNEPROPETROVSK And Driving South From Melitopol NEAR APPROACH ALSO TO KRIVOI ROG BREACHES IN ENEMY DEFENCES EXTENDED LONDON, October 25. , The Russians have captured Dnepropetrovsk and Dneprozeizhinsk, a town situated on the Dnieper further west. The two places are connected by an almost continuous line of suburbs along the river bank. This great success was announced by Marshal Stalin in a special order of the day. Dnepropetrovsk is the third biggest city in the Ukraine and is the centre of the Russian metal industry. It had been in German occupation since August, 1941. It had been increasingly threatened ever since the Soviet forces smashed through the Dnieper bend. It is known that one wing of these forces swung round to attack the city in the rear. Today’s German communique states that the Russians have succeeded in putting more bridgeheads across the Dnieper on both sides of Dnepropetrovsk. This is not yet confirmed from Moscow and it is not known whether the city was taken by troops from these bridgeheads or by those attacking the city from the rear. A Moscow communique makes it clear that already the Red Army has advanced from Dnepropetrovsk and occupied more than 40 places, including four railway stations. On the other side of the bend, Soviet troops advanced two more miles towards Krivoi Rog, which brings them to within four miles of the city. According to one report Krivoi Rog is being shelled by Russian guns. t The Russians have made further progress beyond Melitopol, on the road to the Crimea, where they have extended the breach in the enemy’s defences. *

FEARS OF DISASTER

ON SOUTH RUSSIAN FRONT EXPRESSED BY ENEMY AGENCY. SWIFT & SHATTERING SOVIET . THRUSTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, October 25. “The Russian wall panzers, rolling on from Kremenchug, Zaporozhe and Melitopol, will sweep away all resistance unless the Germans can throw in huge reserves,” states the German-controlled Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau. “Enormous masses of infantry support the panzers. The battle has not yet reached its peak, but already it is obvious that it will very soon decide the fpie of the Crimea.” Reuter’s Moscow correspondent says the Russians are closing in on Krivoi Rog. Their shells are screaming into the Krivoi Rog railway junction. The Germans are throwing more men into a furious battle for the last defence lines north of the town. The Germans west of Melitopol are trying to save their battered forces by heavy armoured counter-attacks. A Russian tank force is moving up for the main assault on Krivoi Rog. The speed of the Russian advance from the Dnieper saved a number of villages from German wreckers. A German battery at one point was captured before it could fire a shot.