The Wilmington morning star., 1943-11-29
DEFENSE WALL HIT
Thirty Localities To West
And Southwest Seized
By The Soviets
TAKE MANY PRISONERS
Red Successes Are Report
ed Along The Entire,
Blazing Front

LONDON, Monday, NOV.
2O.-(P) - Russian armies
smashing at Nazi forces flee
ing along an escape gap
northwest of Gomel swept up
$50 villages and many pris-
oners Sunday, Moscow an
nounced today, and seized
some 80 other localities to
the west and southwest in
drives punching deeper to
the Germans main defense
wall in White Russia.
In all, $500 Nazis were re-
ported killed in blazing &C.
lions from the Gomel area to
below Dnepropetrovsk, in
Guiding 800 annihilated in
eight futile blows at Red
army defenses holding near
Brusilov, 40 miles west Of
Kiev.
Bloody Sector
The Berlin radio claimed re.
capture of Korosten, IS miles
northwest of Kiev, in this bloody
sector of gigantic battle, but Mos
COW said the Soviet lines held
firm in that salient also.
The Germans are mining roads
and dynamiting bridges in their
retreat northwest of Gomel, said
the communicate broadcast from
Moscow and recorded by the So
Wet monitor, but pursuing Soviet
troops killed 700 Nazis and cap
tured "a considerable number Of
prisoners.
This surge by Gen. Constantine
Rokossovsky's forces seized Buda-
Koshelevskaya, on the Gonel-
Zhlobin-Minsk railroad nearly 80
miles northwest of Gomel, as the
Soviets Strengthened their lines
and harried perhaps 100000 Ger
mans remaining in the Gomel sa-
lient.
400 Germans Killed
To the west, a drive along the
lower Berezina river enveloped "a
villages and killed 400 Germans,
while along the Pripet river the
Russians fighting in roadless
marshes and woods seized more
towns and smashed Nazi counter
assaults, Moscow said.
To the south, the Moscow COM
munique pictured Gen. Nikolai
Vatutin's army holding firm
against Nazi tank and infantry
assaults near Korosten and Cher
nyakhov, north of Zhitomir, and
near brusilov to the east, midway
between Zhitomir, and near Bru-
silov to the east, midway between
Zhitonir and Kiev.
A German broadcast asserted
that Nazi counter-attack had
captured KoroSten, As miles above
Zhitomir, and annihilated its de.
tenders.
All advices from Moscow indi-
Gated the Russians were pouring
columns upon columns of rein
forcementS into that fierceIy.
fought sector.
From the Kiev bulge to the
Pripet, Soviet forces apparently
are being consolidated to speed
the White Russian drive. and the
northern flank on the west bank
OF the Dnieper is being strongly
buttressed.
The German conmunio1e told ~
encircling and wiping out the So.
Wet defenders of Korosten. with.
out admitting that the Russians
ever had taken the town. It de-
clared the Russians "who tenn.
porarily penetrated the eastern
part OF the town were wiped out
despite desperate resistance"
Rokossovsk's plunge northwest
of Gomel swept up $50 villages
and offensives striking along the
lower reaches of the Berezina and
Prlpet rivers, west and southwest
OF Gomel, punched deeper into
Nazl defenses, Moscow declared,
TWenty-four communities were
reported taken along the lower Be-
rezlna - the river of Napoleon's
final disaster in Russia just 13i
years ago today-and seven along
the Pripet river, in the sector
northeast of Korosten.
Meanwhile, Soviet batterinp
rams struck deeper into the Dnie-
per bend. Several enemy strong
holds were seized despite Nazi
counter attacks southwest of Kre-
menchug, and Red army troons
cutting southwest of Dnsprone.
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