SOVIET ADVANCE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 December 1943, Page 4

SOVIET ADVANCE

IN WHITE RUSSIA TROUGH FLOODED RIVER COUNTRY. SURPRISE SPRUNG ON GERMANS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day. 11.5 a.m.) RUGBY, November 30. Moscow messages report that the Red Army continues to add to its substantial gain on both banks of the Beresina, south of Jlobin. The cressing to the left bank of the Beresina repeated in miniature the exploit of crossing the Dnieper. The Germans were taken by surprise, and their main forces arrived from Jlobin only in the third and fourth days. Many strongpoints were overwhelmed before the arrival of the German battle reserves. The Russians driving towards Jlobin are meeting stiffer resistance, as the Germans have large concentrations of artillery .tanks and caterpillar and guns in this vital area. The Red Army is advancing on the right bank of the Beresina by a highway through a wilderness of forests. Incessant sleet and rain have obliterated most of the byways.

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GERMAN LINE IN DNIEPER ELBOW ENEMY UNABLE TO CONCENTRATE RESERVES (Received This Day, 1 p.m.) LONDON, November 30. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent reports that the German line in the Dnieper elbow is beginning to crack between Krivoi Rog and Nikopol. Russian attacks along a sixty-mile front are preventing the Germans from concentrating their reserve’s.