THREAT IN WEST

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 5

THREAT IN WEST

Causing Nazi Failure The Stockholm correspondent of the Associated Press says that dispatches from Swedish correspondents in Berlin give prominence to the German High Command spokesman's most recent declaration that the Russians' general offensive is constantly increasing in force on a widening front. The spokesman emphasised that the Germans were hampered in meeting the Russian offensive because the invasion threatened from Britain was pinning down in the west many divisions which otherwise would be flung in to check the Russians. "Invasion from the west may follow the opening of this Russian offensive," he said. "We are therefore able to use our reserves in the east only to the extent that the situation in the west permits."

sons were surrounded and wiped out in the first few hours. An avalanche of guns, tanks, and infantry rolled down from the area of Znamenka to the eastern approaches of Kirovograd, swung westward and by-passed the city from . north and south. Other troops who had been placed in a position nearer Kirovograd then crossed the River Ingul and cut off the German escape routes to the west.