Late War News WEARY GERMANS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 153, 25 March 1944, Page 8

Late War News WEARY GERMANS

Plodding Toward River Pruth (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) LONDON, March 24. Describing the advance in Bessarabia, the Moscow “Pravda” says that liberated villagers have formed religious processions and hdld thanksgiving services. The Germans are in full retreat, and in many cases the weary soldiers have laid down their, arms". Tlie mud on the roads is so thick that many of the troops can get along only by hanging on to the backs of carts or to the tails of cavalry horses. Very fierce street fighting is raging in Voznesensk, where the Russians are clearing the Germans from the town. Soviet forces are both north and south of the town, and the garrison has only the slightest chance of escaping across the Bug, where the crossing is wide open to air and artillery bombardment, says Reuter’s Moscow correspondent. Marshal Zhukov is moving, swiftly toward the upper reaches of the Dniester after smashing through the network of German communications south of the Odessa-Lvov railway between- Tarnopol and Proskurov. His tanks and other fastmoving mobile forces have only 25 miles to go to reach the river bank and catch all the Germans to the north-east and east, including the garrison at Proskurov, between two Soviet armies and the Dniester water barrier.

Tarnopol and Proskurov are .hopelessly outflanked. The latest report says that the Russians have cut the last railway exit from Proskurov.