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LOSS OF CHERKASY

VERY SEVERE SETBACK FOR GERMANS

THREAT TO DNIEPER BEND INTENSIFIED. RED ARMY SURGING ON. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This pay, 11.30 a.m.) LONDON, December 14.

With the fall of Cherkasy, the

Red Army is able to exert heavier ’ pressure than hitherto over the 150 mile front from Cherkasy to Nikopol, endangering the whole German position in the Dnieper bend.

The evacuation of Cherkasy is a very severe setback for the Germans. They have been clinging to this important position —their only, substantial foothold on the Dnieper River for 700 miles—in the hope of staging a counter-offensive, but the pressure of the Russian advance has been too much for them. The fall of Cherkasy will release a fresh flood of Russian forces against the Germans remaining in the Dnieper bend. Today’s German communique says the evacuation of Cherkasy, which has been completely destroyed for a long time past, was carried out in full order, without loss of men or material. The ruins of the town were completely mined. , Reuter’s Moscow correspondent declares that the German position in South Russia is deteriorating. The Red Army, supplemented by the forces released from the Cherkasy battle, is surging on towards Kirovgrad. One spearhead is 14 miles north of the town. The Russians are assembling great concentrations of artillery and heavy tanks to smash the enemy s defences at Kirovgrad, which is likely soon to fail.

MOST UNPROMISING

FROM GERMAN STANDPOINT. SITUATION IN THE DNIEPER BEND. (Received This Day, 12.50 pan.). LONDON, December 14. The whole situation at the Dnieper bend looks highly unpromising for the enemy in the immediate future, says Reuter. Marshal Von . Mannstein is faced with three distinct Russian thrusts and has informed each local commander that he must rely on his own resources. The Russians captured a German order in which Von Mannstein Stated: “I cannot promise speedy

reinforcements.” The change in the fortunes in the Kiev bulge prevents the German command switching mobile panzers to help the three sectors of the Dnieper bend which are under threat of isolation from Russian spearheads Cheikasy, Kirovgrad and Krivoi Rog. The British United Press Moscow correspondent reports that Russian heavy guns are shelling German strongpoints on the outskirts of Kirovgrad from newly won high ground ten miles north of the city, and that three Russian columns are closing in on the city. The “Red £tar” says the Russians in the past 24 hours, have dislodged the enemy from several more inhabited places on the Kirovgrad front. The Russians are meeting stubborn enemy resistance, the Germans launching repeated counter-attacks, all of which have been repelled with heavy losses. “The Times” Moscow correspondent declares that while, as a result of the staunchness of the Red Army artillery, the Kiev salient battle is gradually going in the Russians’ favour, it would be premature to assume that the danger has been wholly averted. The Germans' in the past 24 hours have been able to gather sufficient strength for a series of counter-attacks, but these have been on a smaller scale and over a narrower front. WHITE RUSSIA OFFENSIVE, A new Red Army offensive, with six infantry divisions and two tank corps, was launched south of the Nevel front yesterday, according to the Berlin radio, which added that German positions on the eastern wing of the front had to be temporarily evacuated under pressure of a violent Russian artillery barrage. It is officially announced in Moscow that the Russians have evacuated Radomysl, 27 miles north-east of Jitomir. Tonight’s Soviet communique states: “The Red Army west of. Kremenchug has continued its offensive and occupied a number of inhabited places, including Shavalniki, Borovitsa and Pogoreltsy and, in the Kirovgrad sector has occupied several inhabited places. The Russians south-west of Malin repelled infantry and tank attacks, inflicting heavy losses. South of Malin, the Red Army evacuated Radomysl.” 'The Berlin radio stated that the Luftwaffe’s attacks prevented major Red Army forces crossing the Sivash Sea to the Crimea. . Moscow correspondents report that guerilla activities have reached . tremendous proportions in the Crimea. Caves, stretching for miles undei - ground near Kerch, have become the. guerillas’ headquarters, although the Germans many times have tried to smoke them out” with explosives.

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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1943, Page 4

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LOSS OF CHERKASY Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1943, Page 4

LOSS OF CHERKASY Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 December 1943, Page 4

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