GREAT BLACK SEA PORT

Southland Times, Issue 25335, 11 April 1944, Page 5

GREAT BLACK SEA PORT

NAZIS TAKE OVER OIL AREAS AT PLOESTI (United Press Association—Telegraph Copyright) ' (Rec. 11.40 p.m.) LONDON, April 10. The Germans announce that they evacuated the great Black Sea port of Odessa last night. The port was almost encircled and the Russians had reached the outskirts of the town. It had been obvious for some days that the Germans could not hold out for long in Odessa. The Germans have taken over the Ploesti oilfields area and are reported to have posted their own guards and warned the Rumanians that anyone approaching the oil areas will be shot, says the British United Press Moscow correspondent. Marshal . Gregory Zhukov’s thrust into the Carpathians was made south-west of Kiohnyja. His thrust at the deepest point reached Zibie, 30 miles into the mountains. The Istanbul correspondent of the Associated Press of Great Britain says the Germans are reported to be still pouring troops into Rumania in an effort to stem the Russian advance towards the Galati Line. Unconfirmed estimates assess the number of German troops in Rumania at 15 to 20 divisions.