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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 November 1943, Page 4

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MADE BY RUSSIANS TOWARDS POLISH BORDER With Great Battles Raging Further South POWERFUL SOVIET ATTACK ON CHERKASY ENEMY COUNTER-OFFENSIVE CONTINUING ON LARGE SCALE (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.50 a.m.) LONDON, November 21. Although the Red Army is still streaming’ ahead beyond Recliitza for the Polish border, new battles have opened up further south which may shortly lead to important changes in the front, say Moscow dispatches. New and bitter battles from Jitomir to Nikopol are raging, with the Red Army striking for fresh strategic points. The heaviest battles are at present going on near Jitomir, at Oherkasy, near Dnepropetrovsk and near Nikopol, reports the British United Press. The Red Army is making* efforts with particular determination against Cherkasy. Russian gam ambuscades on the main road to Oherkasy are taking a heavy toll of the German reserves being rushed up from other areas. The Bed Army is throwing in more and more troops across the Dnieper against Oherkasy and German defence positions are gradually falling into Russian hands. The capture of Cherkasy would, with Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk, give the Russians three great Dnieper bases from which to strengthen their offensive into the Western Ukraine. The German counter-attack against the south flank of General Vatutin’s Kiev salient, which is the most determined reply the enemy has made since the start of the autumn campaign, is continuing on a large-scale. The Paris radio declared that Marshal von Mannstein’s counter-offensive now extends over 100 miles of front, from Jitomir to the Dnieper.