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FOR RIVER BUG

BATTLE LOOMS CLOSER Eec. 12.45 p.m. RUGBY, Jan. 5. The Dnieper battle has reached_a further stage and the battle for the Biver Bug has come into closer perspective by the capture of Belaya Tserkov, states a Moscow message. This Soviet victory made the position of the Germans, who have been hold^ ing the right bank of the Dnieper from the southern environs of Kiev to the small Soviet bridgehead south of Fersyaslav, more critical. Belaya Tserkov was the centre of a fortified zone with permanent ferroconcrete defences and "steel pill-boxes of portable type. The Germans had built up similar areas at Kanev and Rzhishehev, on the right bank of the Dnieper, "but their military value slumped after the loss of Belaya Tserkov. ■ . ■ _ South-west of this sector the Russians have accelerated their advance towards the River Bug after the capture of Pliskov had disorganised German defences.—B.O.W..

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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1944, Page 5

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FOR RIVER BUG Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1944, Page 5

FOR RIVER BUG Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 4, 6 January 1944, Page 5