GREAT RUSSIAN BREAK THROUGH

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 December 1943, Page 4

GREAT RUSSIAN BREAK THROUGH

SOUTH-WEST OF KREMENCHUG

A WEDGE DRIVEN HALFWAY TO CHERKASSY

THROUGH POWERFUL DEFENCES

Position After Position Stormed

(By Telegraph—Press Association.—Copyright.) (Received This Dhy, 12.10 p.m.) LONDON, December 7. The area between Cherkassy and Krivoi Rog has for the moment become a key sector on the Russian front, says Reuter’s Moscow correspondent. Red Army infantry is following up Jank spearheads and losing no time in exploiting the great breakthrough yesterday south-west of Kremenchug, The Russians have driven a wedge halfway to Cherkassy. The break-through south-west of Kremenchug was made through a tremendously powerful enemy defence line. The Russians today captured a village protecting the approaches to the ancient town of Chigirine, on the Tasnin River, 35 miles from Cherkassy. The Moscow radio stated that the Red Army south-west of Kremenchug, despite appalling roads, are storming position after position and inflicting heavy losses. Reviewing the Dnieper bend fighting the British United Press Moscow correspondent point’s out that, after the Russians cut the Smyela-Snamenka railway yesterday the only line left to the Germans for supplying their troops in the Dnieper bend is one running from Kirovgrad through Snamenka, then south from Krivoi Rog, The Red Army spearheads from the breakthrough south-west of Kremenchug already are less than ten miles from the line.