WHEN ODESSA FALLS
PERIL OF CRIMEAN FORCES Rec. 11.30 a.m.. RUGBY, April 5. Though the latest operations on the First Ukrainian Front point to the German intention to evacuate Odessa there is still no sign of evacuation of the Crimea. So far, the Crimea has been mainly supplied by convoyed barges and light craft hugging the coast from Odessa. With Odessa gone, enemy communication with the Crimea will have to be by troop-carrying aircraft and by ship's lifeboats across the open sea to Rumanian ports—when the weather allows it. The Black Sea is noted for sudden storms. The convoys will be subject to air and submarine attack, also possibly to attack by surface ships. Observers in London, in fact, consider that with Odessa lost the enemy's prospects of a successful evacuation of the Crimea are not high.-^8.0.W.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 82, 6 April 1944, Page 5
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