SOVIET THRUSTS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 November 1943, Page 3

SOVIET THRUSTS

6 » EXTENDED TOWARDS KOROSTEN And on White Russian Front ENEMY COMMUNICATIONS REPORTED CUT WEST OF GOMEL INCREASING THREAT TO GERMAN SOUTHERN ARMIES LONDON, November 15. A Moscow communique states that in their advance westward towards Korosten today, the Russians captured another forty inhabited places. Earlier news showed that in addition to the advance on Korosten from the west, another Soviet force is approaching the junction from the south, while a third, in-, eluding Cossack cavalry, is threatening to cut the enemy communications on the north. If Korosten falls, the Germans will lose a vital supply line which feeds their armies in the great Dnieper bend. Korosten is a meeting point of the main railway from Warsaw with the great north-south line from Leningrad to Odessa. Important gains have been made by the Soviet forces on the southern part of the White Russia front. They are stated to have occupied a town on the railway west of Gomel, cutting off that enemy bastion and other positions from all communication with the German forces to the west.