Red Army Fronts

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 55, 2 September 1944, Page 7

Red Army Fronts

NORTH, CENTRE, AND SOUTH % (By Telegraph—Press Association—CooyrlqhU Ree. noon. . LONDON, September 1. The R^d Army is within sight of joining up with other forces of liberation in south-eastern Europe, states Renter's Moscow correspondent. General Petrov's Fourth Ukrainian iVrmyis 3 poised for an assault against Hungary through the Carpathians, while .Malinovsky's and TolbuKhin's troops are stilL pursuing remnants of the German divisions smashed in the Ploesti and Bucharest area and south of Constanta. •. :' Reinforcements have already made up for the Russian losses in the battle for Ploesti and fresh forces of tanks and motorised in-' fantry are pouring into Rumania. Immense Russian forces are also being released for the final blow against the Germans in, Poland, on the East Prussian border, and the Baltic .front* •. • ,'■":■

On all these fronts the Red Armyis preparing for coming offensives which will--be directed against the heart of Germany. The Russians driving' on beyond Bucharest are already ten miles south-west of the city. Malinovsky's forces are keeping up a speed of 25 miles a day in the march through.Rumania and it is expected that the Yugoslav frontier will be reached in the next few days. The Moscow correspondent of the Associated Press reports that Russian flying columns skirting the southern shoulder of the Transylvanian Alps are headed jn the direction of the Serbian north-eastern mountains, where Tito's Partisans are engaged in full /battle against the Germans. A junction between the Russian and the/Yugoslav forces is now a prospect of the near future; Malinovsky's armoured "scouts are within 120 miles of the Yugoslav frontier. . , Swedish newspapers publish dispatches from Berlin, jeporting great concentrations o^ Russians on the southern front, says Reuters Stockholm correspondent, and the Russians are believed to be about to launch a new large-scale offensive. ' German military experts are reported as saying that the Russians aim to- sweep through Rumania and Bulgaria on a wide front, and then storm into Yugoslavia,. Slovakia, and Hungary. They say the Red Army has already brought up strong new forces from territories east of the Carpathians,' to feed the offensive. Russian regroup-' ings are also reported from othei* fronts, the most notable concentrationbeing south-west of Jelgava (or Mitau), where six Russian armoured corps are preparing to thrust to" the Baltic. The German news agency stated that the Russians yesterday captured the Ghimes Pass through the Carpathians. Tonight's Soviet communique says that west, and south of Ploesti tiie Russians advanced and occupied over sixty localities, including the railway stations of Prahova and Crivina. Red Army units moving, to the Danube south and east of Bucharest occupied