BIG DRIVE SOON

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 82, 6 April 1944, Page 5

BIG DRIVE SOON

FOR LVOV AND PRZEMYSL Eec. noon. LONDON, April 5. The famous Red Guards, cavalry and tank spearheads of Malinovsky's Third Ukrainian Army, having captured the vital railway junction of Razdelnaya, 35 miles north-west of Odessa on the Odessa-Tiraspol railway, have, in the words of Stalin's Order of the Day, "cut the main roads of retreat to Rumania for the enemy's Odessa group." • The' Moscow correspondent of the British United Press reports that the Red Air Force and the Black Sea Air Arm already are concentrating to harry the Germans when they try to retreat by the sole remaining route across the Dniester estuary, the ferry to the subsidiary railway line at Akkerman. Marshal Zhukov's First Ukrainian Army is consolidating its positions 30 miles from the great Polish bastion of Lvov in preparation for an important new stage of their march into Poland, says Reuters Moscow correspondent. When the remnants of the stubborn garrison at Tarnopol have been wiped out and the 20,000 Germans remaining in the Skala pocket hunted down or shot, the removal of these distractions from the Red Army's rear will enable full attention to be turned to a vast pincer movement against Lvov and the twin fortress of Frzemysl. The pincers movement as already developing through a drive towards Sokal, 40 miles above Lvov and the north-westward drive along both sides of the Dniester. The Germans at Stanislavov, however, are still putting up a stubborn resistance.