Evening star., 1943-09-22
Germans Driven
Back
Defense Line
Red Army Scores
Gains All Along
750-MiIe Front
BULLETIN.

LONDON (P).-The German
Information Bureau said in a
Berlin broadcast today that
the Germans had evacuated
the harbor of Anapa, Kuban
port on the Black Sea. Anapa
is Is miles northwest of Novo-
rosslsk, already captured by
the Russians. Later Moscow
officially announced capture
of the seaport, last escape
port" for the Germans from
the Caucasian bridgehead.
The Moscow broadcast was
recorded here by the Soviet
monitor.
BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. %. - Badly
mauled German divisions. crack
ing under the powerful Russian
offensive, reeled back to their
eastern defense wall on the
Dnieper River today as the Red
Army scored new advances all
along a 750-mile front.
Weakened by the incessant blows
of Russian artillery. tanks, infantry
and planes, the German legions ap-
parently were being broken up into
isolated units and nowhere. accord
ing to the latest Moscow war bull
letin, were they able to halt the Red
advances
The gilt church domes of Kiev
now are visible to Soviet troops, dis
patches from Moscow said today.
Thus the Red Army had another
goal of its great summer offensive
in sight, the capital of the rich
Ukraine.
The last formidable barrier before
the Dnieper on the central front
was battered down yesterday when
a Soviet drive slashed across the
Desna River line between Bryansk
and Kiev. With the capture of
Chernigov. most important German
base on the lower reaches of this
river, the way was open for Red
Army forces to strike directly at
Kiev and Gomel. The latter. 30
miles northwest of Chernigov, is the
gateway to White Russia.
160 Miles From Polish Border.
At Chernigov, the Russians were
30 miles from the Dnieper, 25 miles
from the southern border of White
Russia while the old Polish border
was less than 160 miles to the west
Stalingrad, high-water mark of the
German advance, is more than 600
miles southeast of Chernigov.
In Moscow. the skies were
bright with rockets and guns
doomed the victory salute to cele-
brate the achievements of the
Red Army, according to Associ-
ated Press Correspondent Eddy
Gilmore, who has returned to
the Soviet capitalJ
Another thousand odd towns and
villages were liberated by Russian
advances yesterday, while upward
OF 1000 Nazi troops were slain and
many more captured, the Russian
communique said Soviet guns de-
stroyed 80 enemy tanks and "a more
were listed in the enormous quanti-
ties Of war equipment said to have
been left by the Germans in their
precipitous retreat.
In addition, the Soviet air force.
credited with 63 Nazi planes de-
stroyed over the front yesterday
blasted concentrations of railway
trains at Gomel, Vitebsk and Dzhan-
kol on the central front last night,
setting many of them afire.
Is Miles From SmOlenSk.
In their drive to push the invaders
from Russian soil the Red Army
spearheads were within 18 miles of
Smolensk, which was slowly being
f1anked on the north and south.
klev, the great German bastion on
the central sector of the long front,
was menaced by Soviet thruStS from
three directions.
In the south, Red artillery was
shelling Melitopol on the Crimean
railway, from emplacementS three
miles away. Front dispatches said
that on the lower stretches of the
Dnieper, Cossack patrols were so
close at some points that they were
breaking through at night to water
their horses in Tho river