ROADS CHOKED WITH GERMAN DEAD

Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 60, 11 March 1944, Page 5

ROADS CHOKED WITH GERMAN DEAD

UKRAINE STRUGGLE

Dashing Red Cavalry Outflank Nazis

N.Z. Press Association —Copyright Rec. noon. LONDON, Mar. 10. Within five days the Russians at some points in the Western Ukraine have advanced 62 miles, says Moscow radio. The roads are choked with German dead, wrecked equipment and abandoned vehicles.

The British United Press Moscow correspondent says tough Russian cavalry, splashing through mud, are setting the pace in the great .Russian push. In most _ Ukrainian sectors the bulk of the infantry is being used to pull up su PP lies °*i mud-sledges and haul guns and tanks through the worst areas. The cavalry, In the vanguard, are continuing to outflank the retreat:ing Germans, striking across the retreat roads.

Astride Enemy Retreat

An action in one sector during General Malinovsky's bi ;eak-thiougn in the Krivoi Rog area is tYP the cavalry's methods. The K sians, after forcing the River, established a " UI ?, small bridgeheads, which the mans desperately, tried to hold, cavalry, at the height °f the ensuing engagements, splayed out behi main battlefronts and we ie a; s p grthe retreat routes when the Ger mans had to move back. „, im . cavalry groups als9 captured a „ ber of supply trains e o ™ l several the front and wiped out severe German headquarters leaving hu^^ dreds of enemy tioops orders. i The' Germans are hitting bac where possible. For install > . QUr counter-attacked with g taro . with a hundred tanks outsid tQ konstantinov. The defences fight hard through deep defences grists are still dazed by the bomDaru ment.

Road to Balkans Open Reuters' Moscow corn e sP° eat to says the most spectacular mies von Mannstem s nf U^ p Malinovls the likelihood of P^? lkn i ave v and sky circling behind eagt _ bottling up the Germans Russ i a ns, ward as the Dnl ® p a e^: a ihead scatterwith the Cossack gabre ing the retreating Germ next charges, are f° t h e ingul river barrier, which is

River, 12 miles ahead. Once the Russians have crossed the Ingul River they will be able to advance towards the southern Bug in a movement outflanking Nikolayev and Kherson, and directly threatening Odessa.

Commenting on Marshal Stalin s Order of the Day on Uman, Reuter says Marshal Koniev's Second Ukrainian Army, poised between Marshal Zhukov's and General Malinovsky's armies, has struck at last. This second major breach opened von Mannstein's line in two days and is the third since the general offensive started two weeks ago. The British United Press military correspondent says the third break-through means that the whole Ukrainian front is virtually cut wide open, leaving the defence road to the Balkans to whatever troops von Mannstein is able hurriedly to scrape together. The correspondent points out that 12,000 lorries were captured, which is exceptionally high and indicates the Germans were well down, when the decisive attack came.

Pravda declares the Ukraine offensives have gained full momentum and nothing can stop them. The German news agency s commentator von Hammer, stated five fresh Russian divisions have launched a new attack south of Narva, on the northern front. Berlin radio reported the Red Army was preparing to resume attacks north-west of Neval.