NEARER THE DNIEPER

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLXII, Issue 15441, 31 August 1943, Page 4

NEARER THE DNIEPER

RUSSIANS CRASH ONWARDS. Uuited Press Assn --By Efe.-trlc Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, August 29 Reuter’s Moscow correspondent reports that tlie Russians hammering through tlie German defence lines nearly 100 miles west of Kharkov :n a pincur movement are threatening Poltava and Krasnograd and are only 50 to 80 ni i leg from the Dnieper. The German# are throwing in cooks and carpenters among the reserves in an attempt to stem the Red Army’s advance, says the Moscow radio. Prisoners taken at Akhtyra proved that the reserves used in that area were “total mobilisation” troops. According to th© Red Star the Germans are using the new 45-tou Panther tanks on a mass seae. Armed with a newly-designed 75-mil-limetre gun they embody features copied from the Soviet tanks. The Panthers like the Tigers are able to move under water. They possess vulnerable points which the Russians quiekly discovered and tlies© novelties are being destroyed in dozens. A Russian air communique stites “Soviet planes on Friday n’f. J t raid ed the rail junctions at Poltava, Roslovl and JTolnovaklia (30 mile south of Stalino on the railway to Mariupol). Several enemy trains carrying troops and war materials were directly hit. As a result of the explosions fires were started enveloping a large number of trains. Enemy aerodromes were also attacked and explosions were observed among concentrations of planes on the ground. Two of our planes are missing.”