NAZI TROOPS IN SOUTH

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 56, 7 March 1944, Page 6

NAZI TROOPS IN SOUTH

IN GRAVE DANGER

RESULT OF RED DRIVE Rec. 1.15 p.m. LONDON, March 6. The dramatic news from Russia tonight that the Lvov-Odessa railway has been cut, says the British United Press, virtually seals the fate of the German divisions still resisting on the lower Dnieper. The Russians, in the near future, are likely to be astride of the railway on a broad front, making any German come-back extremely unlikely. The cutting' of the Lvov-Odessa line will force the whole. German com-

munications an southern Russia and Bessarabia to poor secondary lines, some of which are only single-track ' affairs ■' lying beneath the . Rumanian '.border and the Carpathians. These lines were not designed for strategic defence or attack. ■ The new Russian advance jeopardises nearly two-thirds of the whole forces at yon Manstein's disposal to guard the approaches to the Rumanian oilfields-and hold Lvov which is a vital bastion 'of the Bug River. ' Reuter points out that it has taken Zhukov only three days to force yon Manstein back 50 miles in order to reach and cut the vital Lvov-Odessa 'railway. , ■ Reuters Moscow; correspondent says that one of the biggest supply problems of the war was confronted by Zhukov who had to bring every man, shell, bullet, and tank across the 'Dnieper. Soviet sappers for weeks have been knocking up new bridges to supplement' those thrown over the river at the first Russian' crossings : last autumn. '