RED ARMY DRIVE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 November 1943, Page 3

RED ARMY DRIVE

CONTINUED IN WHITE RUSSIA In Appalling Weather and Against Dogged Resistance MORE SOVIET GAINS IN DNIEPER BEND POSITION WEST OF KIEV NOT YET STABILISED LONDON, November 2S). Soviet forces are driving forward in White Russia, in spite of appalling weather, with roads reduced to quagmires. The Germans are fighting dogged but expensive rearguard actions in an attempt to stem the Russian advance on Jlobin and other objectives. ( In one sector, in the latest fighting’, 40 inhabited places have been captured by the Red Army. . Several strongpoints have also been taken from the Germans in the Dnieper bend. More German attacks have been repelled in the area of the Kiev salient, but the position is described as not yet stabilised.

MASS EXPULSION

OF GERMANS FROM WHITE RUSSIA BATTLES ON SOUTHERN FRONT GERMANS CLAIM RECAPTURE OF KOROSTEN LONDON, November 28. The Red Army is still swarming forward, apparently practically unchecked, in the great new offensive on the southern half of the White Russian front, and today occupied 150 inhabited places. A Moscow correspondent says the enemy is on the run along the whole of this line, and the army newspaper, the “Red .Star,” declares that a mass expulsion of the Germans from White Russia is in progress. Russian gains have been made in the Dnieper bend, and tonight's Soviet communique also reports that further German counter-attacks round the Kiev salient have been repulsed. The enemy, on the other hand, is making emphatic claims to have recaptured Korosten. the big railway junction ,on the north-western side of the Kiev salient. INTENSIFIED EFFORT CALLED FOR BY SOVIET PAPERS PEOPLE WARNED AGAINST COMPLACENCY . LONDON, November 29. The leading Soviet newspapers, “Pravda,” "Izvestia” and "Red Star,” yesterday all devoted front-page editorials to warning the Russians against complacency and over-confidence and calling for an intensified effort and quick completion of the reoccupation of White Russia.