WHAT NEZHIN MEANS
IMPORTANT LINE CUT
(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON, September 15. With the Russians still silent regarding the actual capture of Bryansk, the guns of Moscow saluted the Red Army's feat of ' over-running Nezhin, which is one of three great railway junctions on the approaches to the Dnieper. Correspondents report encouraging Russian progress towards the other two vital junctions, Poltava and Losovaya. The capture of Nezhin, which is the last important rail junction before Kiev on the Konotop-Kiev railway, cuts the last German-held lateral railway east of Kiev. It runs from Gomel to Kremenchug, and was the only railway the Germans had anywhere near the front which could be used for switching troops north or south on the central sector.
The United Press correspondent says
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 67, 16 September 1943, Page 5
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129WHAT NEZHIN MEANS Evening Post, Volume CXXXVI, Issue 67, 16 September 1943, Page 5
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