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FROM PLACES WON AT HEAVY COST HUNDREDS OF GERMAN TANKS DESTROYED. 1 — STRUGGLE IN SHELL-TORN COUNTRYSIDE (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) LONDON December 13. The Red Army is pressing back Field-Marshal von Mannstein’s forces in the great battle cf the Kiev bulge reports Reuter’s Moscow correspondent. After the recent succession of Soviet communiques announcing that the German attacks were being held, last night's communique stated that the Russians south and south-west of Malin fought battles against enemy tanks and infantry in the course of which they dislodged the enemy from several inhabited places.
The Germans are keeping up their pressure in spite of the loss of the places which they had won at such
normous cost. It is commented that a fluctuating struggle may still be expected before the Red Army finally defeats the attack.
The Russians have brought up new forces to redress the balance on this front. The drain on attacking panzers has been such that one Moscow correspondent says he believes the Germans now have a diminishing weight of reinforcement.
The struggle is raging some 60 miles from Kiev over a shell-torn countryside, on the shattered edges of forests and round demolished villages which have frequently changed hands. Six hundred and fifty-nine German tanks were destroyed or disabled on the Russian front in the past week, according to figures compiled from the Mcscow communiques. At least 354 of them were knocked out in the battle of the Kiey salient, which Reuter describes as the greatest battle l of 1943. A new phase is opening in the great battle following upon the Russian counter-drives, which have driven the Germans back in this area for the first time for over a month, says the British United Press correspondent in Moscow, General Vatutin’s forces are now consolidating the newly-won territory, and groups of Soviet infantry and tanks are probing the German lines in preparation for a new move forward.
Front-line reports indicate that the battered German panzers are reforming on several sectors, while the Russian artillery is massing in readiness for a renewed German assault. Heavy fighting is raging on two sectors near the main Kiev-Korosten railway, where von Mannstein’s forces are driving hard against the Russian lines in the attempt to break through. The fighting on several of the other sectors died down in the last few hours after the defeat of crack Nazi armoured formations in great battles which had raged continuously for two days and nights. This is the first major Russian victory in this area since the twin victories of Jitomir and Korosten in the middle of November.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 December 1943, Page 3
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