GERMAN TROOPS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 November 1943, Page 3

GERMAN TROOPS

IN DANGER OF BEING | OVERWHELMED AFTER LOSS OF KIEV & FASTOV CONFUSION BEHIND ENEMY LINES (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 10.55 a.m.) LONDON, November 8. A mounting wave of Russian men and armour threatens to overwhelm German groups in the Kiev area in a greater break through than at Melitopol. The Germans, realising that everything depends on slowing down the Russians, are throwing) picked panzer units into gaps In la bid to gain time. “The Red Army’s onward sweep is reminiscent of last week’s scenes on the Tauride Steppe. Russian soldiers are stacking up piles of abandoned armament and clearing roads of German dead. The Germans’ confusion after the capture of Fastov is already evident. They were apparently relying on this railway as one of the principal routes for the reinforcement of Krivoi Rog. Front line dispatches make it clear that the Russians are maintaining pressure from their bridgehead in the Dnieper elbow, ready to strike a flanking blow at the right moment. Reports from other fronts show that the Red Army and Red Marines, close-, ly supported by Stormoviks, are closing in on Kerch from the north and south, in the face of stiff resistance.