THIRTY-FIVE MILES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 5

THIRTY-FIVE MILES

ADVANCE INTO POLAND

Rec. noon LONDON, Jan. 6. The Red Army forces which crossed the 1939 Polish border on Tuesday have advanced nearly 35 miles inside Poland, says one report from Moscow, but with Moscow still silent officially regarding any Red Army movements west of Olevsk and Novograd Volynsk across the border. Moscow correspondents dwell on General Vatutin's concentration on disrupting the Ukrainian railway network stretching from Rovno to Zhmerinka.

The British United Press says that some of Vatutin's columns are- thrusting westwards along the railway from Berdichev to Shepetovka with a view to cutting the north-south line there, while further south the Red Army is beating the Germans back along the railway from Berdichev to the important railway junction of Vinnitsa, where the Germans are likely to make their next stand.

The German forces on the arc between Vinnitsa and Shepetovka are pouring back south-westwards over dirt roads designed to bear nothing bigger than farmers' carts. Enemy resistance south of Berdichev was intense.

German tommy-gunners stayed behind and held every house near the Vinnitsa highway in an effort to check the advance. The British United Press points out that each successive