Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-04
Big Soviet Guns
Are Now Within
Range Of Jossy
MAP on Page Az
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, April 4-Russian
armies are pounding rapidly
crumbling Axis defense lines or
three widely separated sectors
of the eastern front, Moscow an
nounced today, thrusting II
miles into Rumania to within
miles of Iasi Jassy), driving
closer to the important Polish
stronghold of Lwow and tight
ening their siege arc on the
Black Sea port of Odessa.
AT the same time the Soviet high
command announced that Marsha
Gregory K. Zhukov's 1st Ukraine
Army had killed or captured 2O8 ,26C
Axis troops and was encircling the
remnants of IS divisions near the
borders of German occupied Czecho-
slovakia and Poland.
In a single 28-day period last
month, a special announcement
said, total of 1880 Germans were
killed and 24,950 captured on single
front, boosting to SGT ,16O the number
of German and satellite troops killed
or captured in the great Red Army
offensive which has all but cleared
Russian soil of the invaders.
Hunt Down Nazi Remnants.
Far behind the advancing Red
Army lines Zhukov's forces were
hunting down" the remnants of IL
divisions in the deeply forestec
Skala area, 20 miles north of the
middle Dniester River, Moscow said
These Axis troops, the Russians de-
cleared, originally formed part Of
IS divisions and divisional groups
which had been decimated or routed
between March 4 and March 81
as the Nazis fled across the lower
Russian Steppes before the Soviet
advance.
Enormous stores of booty fell into
Russian hands and 2,187 tanks anc
big guns were destroyed or captured
in that period, the announcement
added.
In the center of the 450-mile
southern front Marshal Ivan S. Ko-
news I'd Army, surging across the
Rumanian plains from the Prut
River boundary, cut the 50-mile
stretch Of railway linking Iasi and
Dorohoi at the town of Dengeni
Is miles southwest of Dorohoi, the
Russian communique said.
Rail Center Imperiled.
Other columns raced on to storm
Kerpitsy, 8 miles north of Iasi
placing that important rail center
within imminent danger of capture
and opening path to Galati ane
the Danube River delta, 100 miles
to the south. Still other forces were
converging on Kishinev, capital oil
BesSarabia.
Meanwhile, the Moscow radio
called on the Rumanian people tc
abandon the Germans and capt..
ulate at once"
Recorded by the London Daily
Mail, the broadcast warned: I'm
less you do SO, the whole of youl
country will become a battlefield
and your towns and villages a hear
of ruins"
On New York, Federal Com
municationS Commission moni-
tors recorded a broadcast last
night from the Bulgarian home
radio which reported an Istan-
bull dispatch as saying Rumanian
soldiers are deserving "by the
thousands" and are battling Ger
man detachments sent to hunt
them down. There was no Allied
confirmation of this report)
80 Localities Taken.
In the drive on LWoW in Ole
Poland, far to the northwest, the
Moscow bulletin said Zhukovs right
wing captured more than 80 local..
ties, including three district centers
These were Lopatin, As miles north.
east of LWoW, Gorokhov So mile.
northeast, and Desestechko, 81 mile.
in the same direction.
LWoW is 210 miles east of Warsaw
220 miles from the city Of Katowice
on the German-Polish border, and il
a strategic junction point on thu
Berlin Breslau-Odessa trunk rail
way, which parallels the Carpathiar
Mountain range across Southern
Poland.
On the southeastern end of thu
long front Gen. Rodion Y. Ma.
linoVSkys Sd Ukraine Army Dor,
down steadily on Odessa from tn,
north, taking Shovten, 25 miles ives
of Berezovka, and Tsezarevka, 3.
miles northeast of the rail junction
of Tiraspol and 40 miles northWes
of Odessa.