Evening star., 1944-03-19
Reds Drive to Prewar Rumania>
Claim $4,000 Killed or Seized;
Axis Reserves Sped to Dniester
Destruction of
Nozi 9th Army
Nearly Complete
MAP on Page A-4.)
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sunday, Mar. 19.-
Russian troops spilling through
the shattered German Ukraine
front have almost completed the
destruction of the reorganizeo
German 9Th Army, killing OF
capturing $4,000 Nazis and
reaching the Dniester River
frontier of prewar Rumania,
and there were indications that
the Germans already were evac-
uating some men from the big
Black Sea port of Nikolaev, a
Moscow communioue disclosed
early today.
Balkan reports reaching London
by way of Turkey said the massive
Russian blow had created powerful
repercussions throughout the Axis
tied Balkan nations of Rumania,
Hungary and Bulgaria, and that
both the Rumanian and German
high commands were rushing re-
serves to the broad Dniester in an
effort to ward off further disaster.
Fear Reds Can't Be Halted.
The Turkish dispatches were filed
by correspondents in Budapest,
Hungarian capital, and said it was
generally felt there that the Rus
slams could not be halted at the
Dniester.
Indicating the likelihood that the
Germans were trying to get what
they could out of Nikolaev, the Rus
slams announced that their artillery
and naval aviation south of Nj
kolaev had detected and routed
large German convoy attempting to
run west through the Bug -Dnieper
estuary to Ochakov.
The Reds reached the prewar Ru-
manian border at Yampol, Rus
sian town on the, Dniester which
serves as the boundary between
BeSsarabia and the Ukraine.
The Russians listed $4,000 Ger
mans killed and 1889 captured in
the rout of the Nazi 9Th Army. re-
constituted since its historic
at Stalingrad.
The official British government
radio, after announcing the news
that the Russians had reached the
Rumanian border, broadcast a
warning last night to the Axis
satellite to get out of the war "at
once"
Series of Successes.
The Russians last night announced
a series of successes on all three
Ukrainian fronts, from Dubno in
prewar Poland down to Nikolaey,
in two orders of the day by Premier
Marshall Stain, the regular nightly
commurlique and a special COM
munique issued in rapid succession.
To-day they were pursuing 40 to
so German divisions across the
muddy Ukraine farmlands.
The victory over the German 18th
Army was one of the most notable
Of the war, the Russians listing nine
German divisions as liuuidated,
another so badly cut up it could not
fight, and 10 others soundly whipped
but still retaining what the special
communique called some fighting
capacity"
The remnants of this army were
declared now fleeing westward indiy-
idually or in small groups.
Confront Major Disaster.
Split and virtually trapped, the
Germans confronted major disaster
as the Russians pushed the war to
the door of Rumania and advanced
through the mud at all points up
and down the 200-mile- long
Ukrainian battle line.
First Stain order of the day
announced fall of Promoshnaya
and Novo Ukrainka, respectively 80
and 95 miles north of encircled
Nikolaev. A second order an
nounced capture Of Zhmerinka, inf-
portant pivotal point on the Odeas-
sa-Lwow Railway 43 miles north
east of the Dniester.
The fall of Yampol was an
nounced in the regular midnight
communique. German forces be-
low that point are caught between
tSee RUSSIA, Page A-4D