IN EVIL CASE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 November 1943, Page 3

IN EVIL CASE

GERMAN SOUTHERN ARMIES DEFEAT BECOMING ROUT ENEMY REMNANTS HUNTED BY .COSSACKS (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 9.45 a.m.) RUGBY, November 4. The utter defeat of the German troops who held the Dnieper-Melitopol line has become a rout. Isolated enemy remnants are being hunted over the steppe towards Kherson and the Dnie-per-Bug estuary by Cossacks. _ These famous cavalrymen were not disbanded in Russia, as the Soviet foresaw uses for them even in modern warfare, particularly in places where vehicles could not easily travel. Inside the Dnieper bend the German situation has been deteriorating during the last, few days and seems to be moving towards a crisis. Now that the German counter-attack has failed to dislodge the Russians from the vicinity of Krivoi Rog, and that the Russians have reached Kakhovka, the position of the Germans between Krivoi Rog and Zaporozhe has become much more precarious. The marshy lower Dnieper, where it flows between Kakhovka and Berislav, is at its narrowest. There seems every prospect of the German situations deteriorating into another serious defeat.