RUSSIANS POURING THROUGH PEREKOP GATEWAY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 November 1943, Page 3

RUSSIANS POURING THROUGH PEREKOP GATEWAY

Strong Prepared Defences Smashed OTHER SOVIET FORCES THRUSTING RAPIDLY TOWARDS MOUTH OF DNIEPER RED ARMY AIRCRAFT. RANGING AHEAD LONDON, November 2. The Red Army has celebrated the Moscow agreement with one of the most outstanding successes on the Soviet bdttlefront. Forces have broken into the Crimea, having captured not only Perekop, but also another town five miles beyond it, smashing through strongly-prepared defences. Reinforcements are now pouring across the isthmus. A Soviet communique reports the capture of several places on the Lower Dnieper, including one only 30 miles from Kherson, at the mouth of the river. Russian Cossack and tank forces are reported to be half-way down the Perekop Isthmus leading into the Crimea. Russian planes are ranging ahead of the ground troops and smashing weak enemy concentrations in the neighbourhood of the town of Perekop. Earlier today the enemy reported attempted Russian landings on both sides* of the Kerch Peninsula, but stated that the attacks were successfully countered. Several encircled groups of the enemy have made attempts to break through the Soviet ring but all have failed.