Late News SPLIT INTO TWO

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 117, 12 February 1944, Page 8

Late News SPLIT INTO TWO

Trapped Germans In Middle Dnieper BEGINNING OF ENO (Bv Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received February 12, 1.30 tt.rn.) LONDON, February 11. The Russians last night split the 10 German divisions trapped between Shpola, Boguslav and Kanev into two groups, reports Reuter’s Moscow correspondent. Today is the 'beginning of the end for these Germans, .adds the correspondent. The ‘ Red Army last night continued its smashing thrusts across the centre of the trap. General Siemmerma'n is reported to have been forced to move the German headquarters to a village north-west of Korsuh which is under fire from Russian guns. Germans refusing to surrender are being mown down at point-blank range. Thousands of German corpses and mounds of destroyed enemy war material litter Iho ground. The Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says that the Russians storming the Kanev trap are forced to withhold the fire from their heavier artillery because they fear it will hit their own troops closing in from opposite sidek. The whole area of encirclement has been reduced to a corridor I's miles long and five miles- wide. There is every indication that the Germans have delayed too long in the Krivoi Rog area where they may-have lost additional thousands in a new trap. Vichy radio reports, that heavy fighting is raging round Vitebsk, where the Russians are again attacking from the •south-east after a ' heavy artillery preparation. • ,