MOUTH OF THE DNIEPER.

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1943, Page 3

MOUTH OF THE DNIEPER.

REACHED BY THE RED ARMY

Whole of the Ukraine Liberated RETREATING GERMANS HARD-PRESSED IN MANY AREAS FURTHER SOVIET ADVANCE IN KIEV SECTOR LONDON, November 4. Russian troops have reached the mouth of the Dnieper opposite Kherson. A Soviet communique announces the capture of Aleshki, the terminus of a German-built railway from Perekop. Traffic is taken by ferry across the mouth of the Dnieper, which is about six miles wide at this point. The Russians are now within artillery range of Kherson. Thirty more towns and villages between the Lower Dnieper and the Black Sea have been captured by the Russians. The Soviet Information Bureau states that the whole of the Ukraine and the left bank of the Dnieper have now been liberated. Soviet forces are driving the Germans across the Dnieper 'on either side of Nikopol. The retreating enemy troops, as they get across the river, run the risk of meeting Russian columns driving’ south from Dnepropetrovsk and. from the region of Krivoi Rog. In their advance south-west of Dnepropetrovsk the Russians have occupied several more places. In the Krivoi Rog area the Russian’s are within sight of that town and are fighting their way across one of the most hotly-contested battlefields of the whole war. There is good news of the fighting round Kiev. North of Kiev, Russian troops, waging a battle for the extension of a bridgehead on the western bank of the Dnieper, after fierce fighting, have occupied a district centre and several strongly fortified places. . In the Veliki Luki sector Russian troops have occupied 70 towns and villages in fighting of local significance.