FRONTS AGAIN PET BRITISH DECORATIONS

Evening Star, Issue 25172, 11 May 1944, Page 5

FRONTS AGAIN PET

BRITISH DECORATIONS

BLACK SEA SHIPPING ATTACKED FANTASTIC GERMAN CLAIMS ABOUT ,- SEBASTOPOL (Rec. 11.45 a.m.) i LONDON, May 10. To-night's " Soviet communique reports no substantial changes along the front. An air communique says that two lenemy transports, totalling 4,000- tons, an escorting cutter, and several landing barges were 6tink in the Black Sea. A numiber of other vseselswere damaged. A German communique, admitting the evacuation of Sebastopol after extremely hard battles,- said that ,the city was turned into a heap of rubble by an unparalleled artillery and air bombardment. The communique stated that the Germans and Rumanians withdrew to tho western tip of the Crimea. It declared that Russian claims about the sinking of German transports were untrue. AH stocks of war material were evacuated and all important -war installations and everything useful to the enemy were destroyed.

AWARDS TO RUSSIAN SERVICEMEN (llec. 11.45 a.m.) LONDON, May 10. Reuter’s Moscow correspondent reports that the King has awarded the G.B.E. to Marshal VassilevSky. It is one of 181 British decorations'conferred on officers and men of the Red army, navy, and air force. They wore handed over by the British Ambassador to Moscow, Sir Archibald Clark Kerr, to M. Molotov. Ten senior Red army generals and one air force general'were awarded the K.8.E..