SERIOUS DISASTER
SUFFERED BY GERMANS. IN LOSS OF NIKOPOL & BIG BRIDGEHEAD. (Received This Day, 12.40 p.m.) LONDON, February 3. The capture of Nikopol is a serious disaster for the Germans, states Reuter’s military correspondent. The Germans hung on to the town because of its important manganese mines and also partly to block the Russian advance towards Odessa and Bessarabia. The size of the bridgehead the Germans held on the opposite shore of the Dnieper from Nikopol showed the importance they attached to that centre. This bridgehead, at least ten times the size of the Allied beachhead at Nettuno, was held by seven divisions of Germans, comprising divisions either annihilated or flung across the Dnieper to join the-broken forces retreating towards Nikolayev and Odessa. It can be reckoned that, with these divisions smashed'or surrounded, the Russians have accounted for at least half of von Mannstein’s army.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 February 1944, Page 4
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