ARMIE'S IN BEND

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 3

ARMIES IN BEND

NEW RUSSIAN SWEEP THREAT TO GERMAN REAR (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 2 p.m. LONDON, Jan. 9. The fact that Red Army forces are SO miles north-west of Uman shows that General Vatutin is driving clear across the communication lines of the German army in the Dnieper bend from the rear, says the British United JPx*£SS. The "Daily Telegraph'? points out that Polonnoye is situated in the region of Kamenets Podolsk, near the Rumanian border, indicating the beginning of a drive towards Rumania. Swedish correspondents report that . German newspapers today, by tacit ' consent, avoid comment on f he situation on the Eastern Front and confine .themselves to leaders on the spread of Communism in North Africa. The correspondents add that Hitler is reported to have sent a message to German officers from his headquarters: "I 'order you not to yield a single inch ,of ground without making the enemy , pay a terrible price. Every inch ; yielded brings the enemy an inch nearer German soil," he said.