IN YUGOSLAVIA

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 83, 5 October 1944, Page 8

IN YUGOSLAVIA

THE RUSSIAN ADVANCE

PRELUDE TO GREAT BATTLE (By Telegraph—Press Association—Couyrigßt.) Rec. 1 p.m. LONDON. October 4.. The Red Army's progress into Yugoslavia is a blend of triumphal march and mobile battle, says Reuters Moscow correspondent. The civilians run out to strew flowers in the path of the Russians, and then scatter for cover as shells crash into village streets from the German rear artillery. The correspondent quotes Lieut.GeneraL Tersic, leader of the Yugoslav military mission in Moscow, as saying that the co-ordinated action between the two armies began as soon as the Red Army crossed the Yugoslav border. He revealed that the Russians have already penetrated the districts of the Maidenpek gold mines and the Bor copper mines, south-west oi Turnu Sevenn. The Bor mines hold •the second largest deposits of copper in Europe. j MOSCOW SALUTE RESERVED. j Reuter points out that Moscow did i not give the usual salute for the breakj through into Yugoslavia, and expresses the opinion that the Red Army's present movements not only in Yugoslavia but in Rumania and on the Czechoslovak border are regarded as only preliminaries to a big final battle for the elimination of Hungary, Germany's last partner. !. Belgrade is already outflanked, acj cording to an'admission in a German [High Command report that the RusIsians have advanced west of Petrovgrad, which is 39 miles north of Belgrade. The Berlin radio commentator, yon Hammer, said that the Russians have reached Novoselo, 19 miles north-east oi Belgrade. The German news agency commentator, yon Olberg, admitted that the Germans, to avoid encirclement, have withdrawn south-west of Negotin, and added that the battle for Hungary's second city1, Szeged, has reached its climax. SOVIET REPORT. , The Soviet communique states: "The Russians west of Vrsac have captured Vladimirrovac, 22 miles north-east of Belgrade, and also : Crepaja, 15 miles north-north-east of Belgrade They have also captured Novoselo, southwest of Turnu Severin. They captured numerous places in Yugoslav territory including Vratarnica, 33 miles south-south-west of Negotin. We have jinked.up with units of the Yugoslav National Army of Liberation."