RED ARMY ADVANCE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 24 November 1943, Page 2

RED ARMY ADVANCE

HUGE ENEMY LOSSES ■;

RESISTANCE IN DNIEPER BEND (Rec. 1.10 p.m ) London, Nov £3: The Germans have been almost * cleared out ol the right bank of the Dnieper below Ryechitsa, says “Red Star.” All organised resistance ceased 24 hours ago. The only resistance left is at the crossings themselves. *The paper adds that Germans attemjUiug to withdraw from the Gomel trap suffered huge losses, including hundreds drowned in the Dnieper. The. British United Press says the Russians after a three-day assault, inflicted against the Germans the worse rout since the crossing of the Dnieper,:. Russians broke through German positions south of Kremenchug bridgehead: and joined up with the forces at Dnepropetrovsk bridgehead after a 12-mile, advance. The Germans suffered veryheavy casualties Russians in the past two days destroyed over 130 tanks, killed 4000 Germans, and captured a large number of others. The Russians are only 15 miles from Snamenka. which is the rail pivot of the German front between Cherkassy and Krivoi Rog. Reuter says the Russians are on the move from Beresina to the lower Dnieper except north and east of Jitoipir. Progress is now faster in the centre. In the town south big operations are going on. The Germans in the Dnieper bend are putting up strenuous resistance and fighting is becoming more mobile as the frost hardens the ground to a granite-like surface. The Germans have been badly mauled. Incomplete data gives a total of 36.000 Germans dead sifica 14th November. Stockholm reports say a German spokesman admits that the Russians control the Gomel-Jlobin railway, depriving the Germans in Gomel of rail contact with the outside world. The spokesman, however, insists that Gome 1 is not completely cut off. as a narrov gap is kept open between the railwa and the Soj river.