TRIPLE VICTORY

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 63, 11 September 1943, Page 7

TRIPLE VICTORY

NAZI FORCES IN PERIL

CHECK TO RETREAT IN SOUTH

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) LONDON, September 10. The Red Army has gained a brilliant triple victory on the southern front. First, it has broken into the German rear and captured Mariupol, secondly through the capture of Barvenkova it has cracked open the flank of the German salient south-west of Kharkov, and thirdly the capture of Volnovakha and Chaplino has taken from the enemy command of the rail approaches to the Dnieper bridges at Zaporozhe and Dnepropetrovsk. .Stalin's order of the day shows that the two arms of the Russians' irresistible advance from Stalino are prosr^^^.W.^ |, ame „ The British United Press Moscow correspondent emphasises that the third column has advanced even-fur-ther towards the Dnieper with the capture of Chaplino, which is 75 miles from Stalino and 65 miles south-east o f Dnepropetrovsk. The plight of the German divisions which are still in the Donets Basin is now most serious. The Germans previously had • been relying on a secondary railway line running from Volnovakha to ZaporO zhe. So far they have been withdrawing from the Donets Basin in a comparatively orderly manner, but nO w the Russians are behind them and a smaller-scale Stalingrad is in prospect The German High Command faces the superhuman task of stemming two major break-throughs towards the Dnieper over a 1000-mile front—the southern drive from Stalino towards Dnepropetrovsk and the northern drive from Bakhmach which is approaching the Priluki area and which i s only about 85 miles north-east of Kiev. DISASTER NOW POSSIBLE. ThA RriHuli TTnifod p r p« a rf«l« ihai fu wher deSoSion vi the German St^ns before Kiev ami in the sSh £„ ¥ T™E? £SJB iJ£ +« «.« JfSSfiT «r" ff/fff r^^« ™i~ £*««?££ raent o(f tne German armies before they are able to retreat ac™ss tue *>™V<"The Russians are npw co-ordinating two mighty blows aimed at bringing

the battle for the east bank of the Dnieper to a depision. The Russians today captured fifty.-five miles of territory east of Dnepropetrovsk and the