TIMOK CROSSED

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 81, 3 October 1944, Page 5

TIMOK CROSSED

ADVANCE BY MALINOVSKY

tit v i ,* ..LONDON, October 2. Marshal Malinovsky's troops have thrust another 20 miles into northeastern Yugoslavia in the past 24 hours, sports the Moscow correspondent of the British United Pr.ess. They have cussed the Timok River, a tributary of the Danube, and taken a number of places in the Timok Valley on the way south towards Nish and west towards Belgrade.

■Their swift advance so upset the enemy's calculations that his motorised infantry and tanks were caught and routed on the way to the front. Mopping up is going on along the Danube behind the Russian spearhead.

Across the Danube in the northeastern corner of Yugoslavia, the Red Army is battering its way through German strong-points, says another Moscow message. The Russians are mo^ m? es,* UP t11. 6 southern bank road of the broad winding Danube, to add weight to the drive towards Belgrade, Budapest, Bratislava, and Vienna.

In Yugoslavia, Marshal Tito's army cooperating with the Red Army's drive towards Belgrade, is attacking the German forces in the rear. Marshal Tito's communique tonight stated that Yugoslav forces had captured the important German strongpoint of Sopot, 21 miles south of Belgrade. It added that the Yugoslavs further south in the Rasina River sector routed a force of 6000 German and quisling troops. The enemy casualties were 2500 in this battle. The enemy 18 being pursued to the Morava River Marshal Koniev's drive into the Carpathian passes on the Czechoslovak frontier, where the Germans report violent fighting, is' continuing on a broad front. The Russians in Transylvania are keeping up their attacks to widen their bridgehead over the Mures