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Auckland Star, Volume LXXV, Issue 63, 15 March 1944, Page 5

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IN RUSSIAN HANDS

Little Hope For Germans Trapped In Crimea

British Official Wireless

Rec. 1 p.m

RUGBY, Mar. 14

With the recapture of the great Ukrainian grain port of Kherson the Soviet Army has regained the whole course of the Dnieper from White Russia to the Black Sea and the Germans blocked in the Crimea are further than ever from hope of relief. The retreating Germans between the Lower Dnieper and will be hard put to it to escape the pincers which threaten to close round them. Kherson was evidently taken oy General Malinovsky's troops coming auickly down the right bank from Berfelavl; since the Russians who were on the left bank opposite Kherson were commanded by General Len Tolbukhin, who is not mentioned. On the central sector of the offensive the Russians are within a dozen miles of the railway junction of Novo Ukramka. Further west they have regained much of the ground lost during the German counter-offensive eaihei in the year, including Ailyntsi and Lipovots, and are some lo miles east of Vinnitsa. On the extreme right, although the gass* «'■ ,4 vanced 20 miles south-east of that town to Skalst. / They have thus created a solid wedge across the main trunk railway extending about 40 miles east to. west and 10 miles beyond tlie line itself#