RUSSIAN ADVANCE
CUTTING INTO GERMAN ‘ COMMUNICATIONS' ON BOTH SIDES OF PRIPET ENEMY SOUTHERN FORCES.. TRYING DESPERATELY TO HALT ATTACKS. (British Official Wireless.) (Received This Day, 10.5 a.m.) RUGBY, January 14. The Red Army .advance on both sides of the Pripet is developing rapidly, while little movement is taking place on. the southern part of 'the front. A general advance northwards towards the railway junctions of Luniniec and Pinsk is now expected. The Russians are little more than 100 miles from the key centres of Baranovichi. south-west of Minsk, and Brest Litovsk, and 60 miles from the important railway junction of Kovel. The capture of communications centres, one after the other, is steadily, severing the links remaining between the northern and southern halves of the German front in the east. The progress of the Russians also threatens Rovno and they are now very close to Shepetovka. The chief German efforts seem still to be directed to shoring up the southern arm of the front, between Vinnitsa and the Dnieper bend and they are still clinging to the deep salients the Russians have created for them. All the time the Russian initiative steadily lengthens the front.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 January 1944, Page 3
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