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GERMAN PLANS UPSET (Official Wireless) (Received Sept. 8, noon) RUGBY, Sept. 7 Little doubt is felt in London that one of the main German objectives in the East this summer, if not the chief objective has been to shorten the front. Since the operations begun on July 5, however, it is estimated that the total length of the front in Russia has increased by 100 miles. Faster than the Germans withdrew or were ejected from salients the Russians created new ones. The contraction of the Donetz front is countered by a rapid extension of the central front between Briansk and the Dnieper River. The Russians have now recovered all the chief Donetz Basin industrial towns except Stalino, which is outflanked and cannot resist long. Mariupol is subjected to danger similar to that which overtook the I garrison at Taganrog. To the north Ithe Russians’ latest drive has brought them close to the bridgehead which they recently established at Izyum.
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Waikato Times, Volume 132, Issue 22137, 8 September 1943, Page 5
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