Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-01-09
Fall of Roll Bostion
Endongers Entire
Dnieper Position
MAP on Page A-6.)
By the Associated Press.

LONDON, Sunday, Jan. 9.-The
Russian I'd Ukrainian Army cap
tured the railway bastion OF
Kirovograd yesterday, endanger-
ing the entire Nazi position in
the Dnieper bend, while the LIST
Army to the northwest widened
It's spearhead in old Poland and
reached II miles further toward
Rumania.
German army units surrendered
of Kirovograd after Gen. Ivan S.
Konev's troops first surrounded
them, then quickly smashed them
into submission with mighty three
way drive, said midnight Moscow
communique recorded by the Soviet
monitor,
Gen. Konev's troops, completing
their fourth day of attack. had 1oo,-
600 Germans Keeling back in retreat
as the Russians drove ahead as
much as 81 miles on an 80-mile
front.
% Miles Inside Poland.
Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's 1st
Ukrainian Army, reaching % miles
inside old Poland at Klesow with
one column. extended its front
southwark by capturing Viry, five
miles below KlesoW and Rudnya
Bobrovskaya, 20 miles southeast.
The late bulletin also said that
with the aid of guerrillas in the
Rovno tRowne> Province of pre-
war Poland the Russians captured
the railway station of Strashov
This could not be located imme-
diately on large-scale maps.
Units on the southern wing of
Gen. Vatutin's great 30O-mile front
slashed II miles farther south to-
ward Rumania to capture Ilintsy,
only 18 miles north of the Bug
River and 70 miles from Rumania.
Ilintsy was prize to the Rus
slams for other reasons, since it is
only 80 miles from the Odessa War
saw Railway, last major German
supply artery or escape hatch for
the Dnieper bend. The town con-
trolls six good highways linking the
rail functions of Vinnitsa and
Zhmerinka with German Gen. Fritz
Won Mannstein's imperiled Dnieper
bend troops.
5000 Germans Killed.
Both Red armies captured total
of 140 towns and famlets and killed
over 5000 Germans during the day
as the tottering Nazi lines failed to
hold
The two onrushing armies also
were less than so miles apart in
their drive to link up somewhere
below the middle Dnieper River in
side the bend-welding a trap for
perhaps 100000 Germans facing the
greatest debacle of the war
Kirovograd, an industrial city in
the heart of the German Dnieper
bend position, fell before a sudden
Soviet smash after weeks of indie
cislve fighting. After encircling the
town Friday, the Russians sent tank
units to break through the south
west and southeast outskirts of the
town yesterday. simultaneously Red
infantry reached the northwestern
outskirts and began street fighting.
Continuing to press the ring, our
troops quickly overcame German
centers Of resistance and completely
captured the town" the
bulletin said. I'm fighting at the
approaches of the town and in it's
streets the enemy sustained huge
losses. Many German units ceased
their resistance, put down their
arms and surrendered"
War Materials Captured.
Huge quantities of war materials,
still uncounted, were reaped by the
operation. In them were tanks,
big guns, infantry equipment, loco
motives. trucks, food and ammuni-
ton dumps Moscow said.
It's fall was announced by Pre-
mier Stain in special order of
the day which said that eight Ger
man Divisions were routed in the
four-day battle Stain ordered a
victory salute of 20 volleys from
ga Moscow guns.
The Germans and their satellites
could not hide their dismay of
these mounting Russian successes
Jean Paquis, Paris dadio COM
nentator, declared that the Soviet
offensive is the most formidable mil
1tary effort Of the whole war" and
he added: German experts say that
II the human and material extent of