The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-10
REDS CAPTURE
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500 and the war bulletin an
nounced that Soviet troops nipped
German counter-attack there.
A Reuters correspondent cabled
yesterday morning that the town
of Kerch unofficially was report
ed captured, but this was not veri-
fled in the Moscow communique.
(The London radio quoted Mos
COW dispatches last night as say
ing that another important opera
ton is developing from the bridge
head on the Dnieper so miles down
river from Kew The broadcast,
recorded in New York by CHS,
said that apparently this advance
is aimed at the flank of the Ger
man forces under attack from the
powerful Russian armored force
well to the southwest of Kiev.")
Having famed out of Kiev in a
5O-mile deep arc, the Russians
were aiming for Korosten. Cap
ture of Korosten would cut the
last railway short of Poland con-
Meeting German armies in the
north with German held TERRITORY
south and west of Kiev. Further
herding of Nazi troops west and
northwest of Kiev would force the
Germans back toward the almost
impossible Pripet marsh country.
The war bulletin told of violent
engagements which Soviet troops
fought with retreating enemy for
ces southwest of Kiev, and said
that in one sector alone 30 German
tanks were disabled or burned and
1000 enemy officers and men were
wiped out.
In the area of recently-captured
Fastov, on the southernmost of
the three-pronged drive from Kjev
the communique said the Russians
captured so anti-aircraft guns
and % field guns as we'll as so
trucks, 5000 tons of gasoline, nine
railway trains loaded with war
supplies and IS locomotives ap
indication of the Germans sudden
and disordered withdrawal.
Among the 80 northern Ukraine
towns listed as captured were Sit;
nyaki, 43 miles east of the COM
and iron smelling city
of Zhitomir, and Leonovka, IL
miles north of Borodyanka.
The ultimate objective of the
big breakthrough both northwest
and south from Kiev appeared to
be - as the Nazis themselves said
apprehensively today - complete
isolation of the many battered
German divisions within the great
bend of the Dnieper river.
Among the 60 populated places
falling to the Russians in the west
ern Ukraine were IA large ones,
said Moscow's daily bulletin, re-
corded by the Soviet monitor.
In the Crimea, where the Ger
mans said the Russians had made
new landing attempts on the
Kerch peninsula, Moscow said on
ly that the Red army fought to
extend its bridgeheads.
To the north, in the area west
and northwest of Newell, the Rus
slams overran several populated
places in advances of local inn
portance, Moscow said.
Moscow was silent again, as il
has been for several days now, on
the action both within the Dnieper
bend and that along the Dnieper
estuary, where Soviet forces are
regrouping for an assault on Kher.
son and Nikolaev.
Both Moscow dispatches and the
Berlin radio accented the plight oil
the German armies in the Dnieper
bend as it is affected by the new
tanning out southwestward from
Kiev. The Berlin radios crack mil.
itary commentator, Capt. Ludwig
Sertorius, said that Gen. Vatutir
intends to outflank the Nazi Dnie.
per bend forces with this thrust.
while other Russian forces threat.
en- to cross the Dnieper at Kher.
son and complete a pincers move.
ment from the south.
The Germans acknowledged in
their official communique Tues.
day Russian gains west of Kiev in
fighting described as especially
fierce.