The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1943-09-28
Reds Capture East Bank
Area of Dnepropetrousk
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clared to have captured Terekhov.
ka, only % miles southeast of Go.
MEL southern junction of the Mo.
gilev Orsha Vitebsk railway, the
last north-south line left to the
Germans in that part of western
Russia opposite the old Polish Dor.
der.
The fall of Temryuk foreshadow-
ed the flight of all German troops
from the last Axis foothold in the
northwestern Caucasus opposite
| the Crimea. The Russians were
within 20 miles of the tip of the
Taman peninsula after capturing
MISUNDERSTANDING, 20 miles be-
low the Sea of Azov port on the op'
posite side of the peninsula.
A Berlin broadcast acknowledged
the evacuation of Temryuk, say
ing it had been given up Sunday
morning after it's military install
lations were dynamited.
Capt. Ludwig Sertorius, Berlin
military commentator, said in a
broadcast recorded by the Asso'
ciated Press that the Russians al
ready had crossed the Dnieper al
several points, and also admitted
that not all of them had been
hurled back.
These Soviet detachments," he
said, "either were wiped out in
~ alec fbro1r,o b,oJy ocrncs fhe
river, or at least henmed in on a
very narrow space in the immedi-
ate vicinity of the river"
He said the Russians were max
ing extensive use of parachutists
and air-borne troops" and said
the Russians were not so much
interested in crushing G m n
bridgeheads on the east bank OF
the Dnieper as in crossing to the
west shore and establishing their
own bridgeheads lat as m n y
points as possible
This Soviet infiltration to the
west bank, he limited, extended all
the way from the Zaporozhe sec
tor below Dnepropetrovsk to the
confluence of the Pripet and Dniep-
er rivers above Kiev.
With the Russians silent on de-
tails of the actual fight on the
east bank opposite Kiev, Setorius
said the situation there was static.
He said he believed the Russians
would not try frontal assaults, but
would seek to collapse the entire
German Dnieper line by cracking
the northern and southern ends.
The Germans have held Dnepro-
petrovsk since its capture by the
troops of Field Marshal Ewald Won
Kleist August 26, 1941. The city
had a pre-war population of more
than 5000 working in its net
work of steel and other metal
lurgial factories.
The $4,000, 900 American built
Dneprostroy dam and hydroelec.
trio works whence the city drew
much of its power was located
about 40 miles south of the city
The Russians wrecked the works
in their "scorched earth" retreat
two years ago.
Other Russian troops have beer
reported storming the outskirts Of
Zaporozhe, As miles south of Dnep'
ropetrovsk. and Melitopol another
for control of those points on one
days, but the last Soviet bulletin
gave no details of that struggle
70 miles to the south. for several
of the railways leading into the
Crimea.
Sertorius, the Nazi commenta.
tor, said furious fight ragged be.
tween the Sea Of Azov and Zaporo-
zhe.
The Russians said their troops
captured hundreds of villages along
the river southeast of Kiev as the
Soviet troops hurled Nazi rem.
nants into the Dnieper and fought
at Kanev, Cherkasi. Kremenchug.
their way toward river crossings
and Dnepropetrovsk.
In the Kremenchug sector. g.
miles northwest Of Enepropetrovsk
and 100 southeast Of Kiev, the
Russians said their troops had sap
tured Gaelshchina, Is miles north
east of Kremenchug. Other Rus
sian units already had reached the
river Sunday. presumably on Ell
| 4hor cide of Krerenrh11o
The biggest gains of the day
were scored in the push into White
Russia toward the Vitebsk-Gomel
link on the Kiev-Leningrad rail.
way. Advancing up to nine miles
the Soviets overran $40 villages.
The Russian threat to the inter
mediate points of 0rsha and Mo
eilev still was a distant one, but
Gomel and Vitebsk already were
endangered.
The Soviet armies were moving
with such speed they threatened
to crush both wings of the long
German defenses, and the Nazis
might have to fall back to the old
Polish and Rumanian borders. Inc
Germans apparently were hoping
that the fall rains would bog down
the Russians.
A German military commenta-
tor explained the steady Russian
gains by saying that the German
retreat is preparation for WIN
ter campaign"
In a Berlin broadcast recorded
NV the Associated Press he said:
"The German plan aims at con-
centrating all forces for the next
winter campaign. All conditions