ACROSS THE DNIEPER

Evening Post, Volume CXXXII, Issue 83, 4 October 1941, Page 9

ACROSS THE DNIEPER

GERMAN INFANTRY

SWIFT ATTACKING MOVEMENT

(Rec. 11.20-a.m.) LONDON, Oct. 3. While unofficial sources in Moscow state that the Germans are making slow progress in their drive towards Kharkov, the Helsinki radio this morning quotes a Berlin war correspondent for the statement that in the huge tank battle progressing east of Dnepropetrovsk the Germans have already succeeded in getting large infantry units across the Dnieper and have captured several towns and villages, the names of which the military censorship does not reveal. "The German troops,"-the radio says, "are..advancing along tributaries of the Dnieper in a swift attacking movement along a line from Kursk to KharThe "Pravda" predicts that this will be a long and weary war, but declares that the Powers with the greatest reserves and . resources, namely, the ' Soviet Union, Britain, 'and America, are bound to win. An Italian news agency message from Helsinki said that when the Finns entered Petrozavodsk they found that the Russians had dynamited the factories and set fire to parts of the town, and that almost the whole of the civil population had gone. ' ■ An Ankara message says that according to usually well-informed Axis: quarters, preparations for the new' offensive on the Russian front have been completed and that it is bound to start within 48 hours. The direction is not stated.