Evening star., 1943-11-08
Germans Believed Blasting Gaeta
Before Leaving Port Below Rome;
Reds Ro||West Toward Rumania
Fostov's Capture
Sewers Important
Axis Rail Line
By the Associated Press.

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LONDON. Nov. S.-The Red
Army was rolling swiftly toward
the Rumanian border today
after taking the vital rail juno
ton of Fastov. 35 miles south
west of captured Kiev. and thus
swapping the principal rail link
between German forces in the
Northern Ukraine and the Nazis
still battling at Krivoi Rog.
The mighty push, moving along
at speed of "a miles a day. threat
aned to crumble NaZi resistance in
the Dnieper bend and raised the
possibility of trapping huge numbers
of the beleaguered Germans.
Selzing trainloads of undamaged
German equipment at Fastov. whose
capture was hailed in Moscow with
l24-gun salvoes. Russian tank and
infantry units also we're reported to
have swept up 10 towns and hamlets
as they lunged toward Rumania. one
of the Nazi satellites which Premier
Joseph Stain said Saturday was
anxious to find a way out Of the
war
Nazi Counterattacks Repulsed.
In the crlmea. far to the south
east. the Russians said they killed
1000 Germans in repulsing counter
attacks on their bridgeheads near
kerch and generally improved their
positions in that area German
broadcastS said the Russians were
bringing up infantry relnforcements
On the Perekop Isthmus. northwest
ern gateway to the peninsula.
The 26th anniversary Of the Soviet
revolution also saw the Red Army
driving to within As miles of the
Latvian and old Polish borders
on the north central front. where
Russian communique said the Nazis
were losing "one position after an
other" west and southwest of Newell.
Six localities were seized and 400
Germans killed in that theater
yesterday.
The Berlin radio. admitting that
the Soviet smash southwest of Kiev
had forced the Germans TO take
up new lines estimated that the
Russians were using more than $50
600 troops in that area, while the
Nazl-controled Scandinavian Tele-
graph Bureau, declaring that Ger
man blood was flowing as never
before, said the attacks beyond Kiev
had made the Germans positions
even more dangerous"
Driving Toward Rail Junction.
North of Klev. which was taken
Saturday after bitter all-night bat
ties. the Russians were steadily
pushing the Germans back toward
the Pripet marshes after slash
ing through Nemyeshaeva on the
rail- route to Korosten. To the west.
the Red Army was forging toward
Lhltomlr, a rail junction So miles
beyond FaStOv. and to the southwest
theV were aiming for Zhmerinka
only so miles from the Rlunanian
border, in an apparent effort to
cut the LWow-Odessa trunk line.
last big artery available to the
Nazis in Southwest Russia.
Marshal Stains order of the day
announcing the capture of Fastov
following his Saturday speech in
which he told the Russian people
that Germany now stands on the
edge of catastrophe, was hailed by
stirring victory scenes in Moscow
where large crowds gathered
The Russian smash bevond Kjev
was so swift that German planes
were seized before their pilots could
get them off the ground. The Rus
sian midnight communique said
large numbers of prisoners were
taken. together with 100 guns and
400 trucks with supplies In addition
to the trainloads seized in the wards.
The city was taken by troops COM
manded by 1t. Gen. Rybalko and
the formations will henceforth be
named Fastov.