TO WHOLE OF GERMAN SOUTHERN ARMIES IN RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 November 1943, Page 4

TO WHOLE OF GERMAN SOUTHERN ARMIES IN RUSSIA

Admitted by Enemy-controlled Telegraph Bureau NAZI RETREAT WEST OF KIEV BECOMING ROUT IMPORTANT SOVIET GAINS IN CRIMEA ' I (By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 12.25 p.m.) LONDON, November 7. Rostov, a keypoint in communications near the Bessarabian border, is the western terminus of the escape railway from the Dnieper bend and from Krivoi Rog, through Snamenka. The capture of Fostov, which is among the first fruits of the Kiev victory, strikes a heavy blow against the Germans fighting for Krivoi Rog. The Russian blockade of the Dnieper and Bugestuaries has already bottled up Nikolayev, the terminus of the southern escape railway. Commenting on the new developments in the Kiev gap, Reuter’s -Moscow correspondent says the battle in this area is rapidly assuming the scale of the earlier Russian break through towards the Dnieper bend. The Russian salient west of the Dnieper is at least 50 miles broad at its. base and up to 30 miles in depth. The battle is going forward unceasingly. As the Germans fall back, the First Ukrainian Army is in hot pursuit, fanning out along the roads and railways leading to Bessarabia and the old Polish frontier, the correspondent adds. Large quantities of weapons, stores and equipment are falling into Russian hands. These stores are often abandoned intact.