RETREATING GERMAN TROOPS BEING SEVERELY HAMMERED FROM THE AIR

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13428, 15 April 1944, Page 3

RETREATING GERMAN TROOPS BEING SEVERELY HAMMERED FROM THE AIR

~r K sea fleet lies in wait for BLA evacuation attempt —— _ , a,-' : ! f>

London, April 14. 1 Crime a Soviet tank columns are sweeping on from SimT Vthe capital, towards Sebastopol, and other forces are pnshferopol - , soll th-east coast from Feodosiya towards Yalta which ! !1 " 30 miles from Sebastopol. iG llsT _ ort sa>vs that the speed of the Russian advance in the • ''has turned the German defeat into a rout. In a desperate Crimea 1 ■ retrea t German held police fired on their own eff ° r m and shot many of them but even these brutal methods had noet Over the whole battlefield from east to west of the peninsula „„Y, aircraft are waging an assault. SiKsian aircraft are also pounding enemy shipping endeavour- ■ „ to evacuate enemy troops and farther out to sea the Russian tvTol' Fleet lies in wait. B There is little to report from the other Russian fronts. The - vhich yesterday captured a town 20 miles south-west from Odessa continues to make progress and has taken several other Cerman report states that bitter fighting is still in progress • a streets of Tarnopol. It is stated that the Polish underground v slaved a big part in trapping the Germans in this area. Pervin? with this army are French and British troops who have escaped from prison in Germany.