Evening star., 1943-10-08
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Set Up 16-Mi|e Vo|turno Front;
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Ey the Associated Press.

LONDON. Oct. 8.-Surging
ahead along 1000 mile long
front from Leningrad to the
Caucasus, the Red Army has
preached the vital German
Dnieper River defense wall in
three strategic sectors above and
below KieV, blasted two wide
corridors through the Nazi-held
approaches to the Baltic and
cleared the enemy from his last
tOehold in the Taman Peninsula
In a day Of smashing successes
chronlcled in a Moscow communiuue
the Russians crossed the Dnieper in
force to establish bridgeheads %
north of Klev near the confluence
OF the Pripet and Dnieper Rivers (2)
south of PereyaSlav, SO miles below
the Ukraine capital, and go SOUTH
east of Kremenchug between that
captured city and Dnepropetrovsk on
the great Dnieper bend.
Fierce counterattacks were crushed
in Sanguinary fighting, the bull
letln said, and today the Soviet
spearheads were plunging forward
to drive the ever widening wedges
deeper into the Western Ukraine.
Our troops are extending the
bridgeheads step by step" the war
bulletin declared Fierce counter
attacks are being repulsed with
heavy losses"
5000 Germans Fall.
Intensity of the fighting was en-
phaSlzed by the Moscow announce
ment that more than 5000 Germans
tell in the struggle for one bridge
head alone before the badly -mauled
enemy, striving at all costs to hold
up the Soviet advance gave way.
The struggle for the Middle Dnie-
per highlighted the resumption of
the Russian offensive and threat
ened even larger disasters for the
Nazi legions. Hundreds of thou
sands of German troops were re-
ported facing possible entrapment
in the Dnieper River bend and in
the Crimea.
Outstanding Russian victory in
the north was the storming of Newell
so miles above Vitebsk, in White
Russia, and only 10 miles from the
borders of Latvia. Premier Stain
hailed this feat in another order of
the day, and the Moscow communi-
que asserted that the bastion had
been constantly strengthened by the
Germans for the last two years. Its
possession by the Russians points
dangerous spearhead directly at the
Latvian Baltic coast.
Nevei is rail junction command
ing lines to Leningrad on the north
Vltebsk to the south and Warsaw to
the west, as well as rail approaches
to the Baltic.
Reds Advance Is Miles.
On the long dormant Volkhov
front just south of Leningrad, other
Red Army troops under Gen Andrei
l. Yeremenko, hero of Stalingrad.
gained Is miles on 15-mile front to
relieve the German threat to Rus
Slas second largest city Kirishi, IS
miles to the south, was reported cap
tured. and the Russians recorded
the liberation of more than 100
smaller towns in this Lake linen
drive.
Russian activities in the Caucasus
have now reached the "mopping up"
stage. Taman tStaro- -Tamanskava)
on the western end of the bridge
head opposite the Crimea, and seven
other towns were occupied during
the day, Moscow declared. and
enemy troops unable to evacuate
the peninsula are being wiped out"
Soviet airmen were active over all
sectors of the long front, they were
battering the German lines of re-
treat, Moscow said, and destroyed
troop trains, military dumps and in
stallations at Melitopol, Dzhankoi,
Gomel and Minsk.