RUSSIAN FRONTS

Greymouth Evening Star, 16 May 1944, Page 5

RUSSIAN FRONTS

ENEMY DNIESTER ATTACKS COSTLY FAILURES LONDON, May 14. A Soviet communique continues to report no material changes along the front. An air communique says that large formations . of long-distance bombers last night raided concentrations of enemy trains, and war •material stores at Brest Litovsk, Polotsk and Narva. Thirty fires were started at Brest Litovsk, follow'ed by explosions. Our planes also machinegunned and cannoned military trains and columns of lorries on the highways. Ten fires w'ere started at Polotsk and heavy explosions w'ere observed at the station. Fifteen explosions were caused on the Narva railstation. J 4. „ Reuter’s Moscow' correspondent ieports that. Lieut.-General Beohme, Commander of the German Fifth Army Corps, raised his hands in surrender on Cape Khersones,. the last enemy foothold in the Crimea. .With his back to the sea, as the Soviet tanks thundered down against him, Boehme took his place in a column ' of prisoners over a mile long. The “Red Star” states that ovei twenty thousand Axis Hoops surrendered at Cape Khersones Drowned Germans from suns, transports are still being washed i.p along the shore. “Enemy infantry and tanks noithof Tiraspol (on the low'er Dniester) several times attacked Russian SsiliX but tailed to raach the Red krmy lines,” says a Russian communique. Geiman tanks turned away from strong artillery fire land left their infantry uncovered. The Russians wiped out a battalion. Russian artillery and mortars destroyed or disabled 11 tanks and three aiivoured carriers. A gioup ot gnl snipers south-east ol Vitebsk has wiped out 148 Germans in the iast thiee months. The Baltic Fleqt Air Aim ;wain hit enemy shipping at Kotka and sank a 2000-ton transport. The Black Sea Air Arm, w'ith naval units, sank tw'O transports, three landing barges, and four cutters off the Rumanian coast.” POLISH FRONTIER. LONDON, May 14. The diplomatic correspondent of the “Daily Telegraph” understands that Mr. Averell Harriman, United States Ambassador to Moscow', has brought to London from Moscow' a suggestion that the Russians might consider modification of their demand that the Curzon Line be recognised as the tutuve Russian-Polish frontier, by tne inclusion of Wilno and Lwow'. The correspondent says that the. new' plan is under discussion in Washington.