FOR RIVER BUG
BATTLE LOOMS CLOSER Recd. 6.45 p.m. Rugby, Jan. 5. The Dnieper battle has reached a further stage and the battle for the River Bug has come into closer perspective by the capture of Belaya Tserkov, states a Moscow message. This Soviet victory made the position of the Germans, who have been holding the right bank of the Dnieper from th© southern environs of Kiev to the small Soviet bridgehead south of Persyaslav, more critical. Belaya Tserkov was the centre of a fortified zone with permanent ferroconcrete defences and steel pill-boxes of portable type. The Germans had built up similar areas at Kanev and Rzhishehev. on the right bank of the Dnieper, but their military value slumped alter the loss of Belaya Tserkov. South-west of this sector the Russians have accelerated their advance towards the River Bug after the capture of Pliskov had disorganised German defences.—B.O.W.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 5
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148FOR RIVER BUG Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 5, 7 January 1944, Page 5
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