ANTICIPATED IN WHITE RUSSIA

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 January 1944, Page 3

ANTICIPATED IN WHITE RUSSIA

Red Army Drive Towards Baltic

SHATTERED GERMAN FORCES HURLED BACK IN WESTERN UKRAINE ' NEW SOVIET OFFENSIVE LAUNCHED INSIDE DNIEPER BEND LONDON, January 7. ■_ Bie: developments are expected on the Baltic- front in Russia, where Nevel is now out of range of-German artillery and is being developed by the Red Army as a great base for extended operations. , In the Western Ukraine the Russians continue to hurl bach the shattered German forces. , A Moscow communique states that General Vatutin s men have captured another 70 places in the area west of Kiev. A new Soviet offensive has been launched inside the Dnieper bend. The town of Kirivogrod has been completely encirclea. Last night’s Russian communique said that the Red Army north of Nevel continued its offensive and captured several inhabited places. Troops of the First Ukrainian Front captured Rolritno. 12 miles west of the 1939 Polish border, on the railway to Sarny. They also captured a district centre m the Rovno region. This is the first official Russian intimation that Vatutin’s forces are across the old Polish border. A Red Army force is pressing on rapidly from Berdichev over a broad front against the old Polish border, says the. British United Press.../ Novomiropol, 45 miles to the west along the railway from Berdichev has been captured. Other places captured by the Russians include the railway station of Lipovets, 23 miles east of Vinnitsa and 12 miles from the German escape railway leading from the Dnieper bend and Odessa to Poland.