Evening star., 1944-03-25
Reds Smash On
In Exploiting
1drnopo| Gains
Attempting to Push
Germans Back to.
Corpothion Barrier
By the Associated Press.

MOSCOW, mar. Zo.-oCrlklne
in its white-hot hour OF victory
the Red Army was reported to-
day to be exploiting its broad
Tarnopol ak-through in the
southeastern corner of old Po-
land into a full-scale smash te
fling the Germans back past
Czernowitz to the Carpathiar
barrier.
Pravda said that the mighty
thrust between Tarnopol and Pros.
kurov was gaining momentum. Thi!
terrain consists of rising slopelant
where the Russians already wer,
within sight of the distant peak,
of the mountain range which cut,
like a sickle through Rumania.
GA Berlin broadcast said today
THAT "the battle in the Tarno-
pol-Proskurov area is raging with
unabated fury, with the Rus
slams hurting all available forces
into the attack.')
Tarnopol-Lwow Railway Cut.
While Marshal Gregory X. Zhu-
kov's Tarnopol drive cut the Tar.
nopol-Lwow railway and knitted
closer to the Lwow -Czernowitz trunk
line. capture of Byeltsi, traffic con-
troll point for Northern Moldayia
appeared to be matter Of hours
front dispatches said. It's fall would
give the Russians virtual control OF
a 200-mile long stretch Of the east
ern bank of the Dniester River. The
Red Army force here would then
be in a position to 60 smashing
down on Galatz and the Danube
Valley on the exposed side of the
barrier. Kishinev, capital
of Moldayia, lies so miles south OF
this developing offensive in the
path OF any drive in this direction
Following the great advances OF
Marshal Ivan S. Konev's I'd
Ukrainian Army through the rolling
hills OF wheat and the vineyard
country Of the Moldavian Republic
his advanced units have reached
some elevated points where the
towering foothills on the Rumaniau
side Of the Prut River were in plain
sight. They were pushing aiona
the high road leading over the
Carpathian foothills from captured
Sekureni to Czernowitz, while Z
miles TO the south other units ad-
vanced rapidly along the road from
Oknitsa to Trinka, dispatches said.
Front dispatches to Red Star said
Ihukov's army cut the German
front to pieces in its 62-mile, four
day advance, but that separated
enemy groups were Offering stiff
resistance.
Battling in Proskurov Streets.
stressing the prevalence of deer
clinging mud on all parts of the
Ukrainian front. the army news
papers dispatch added:
Experience here proves that VIC
tory in on the side that holds the
roads,"
Proskurov and Tarnopol. other
dispatches added, appeared about to
follow the fate of the Bug River
town OF Voznesensk and fall to Quick
storming assaults by Zhukovs shock
troops. The Russians are battling
in the streets OF Proskurov while
German communications out of be-
sieged Tarnopol are reported to
have been all but wiped out.
The big Dniester River CITY of
kamanets Podolsk, between Pros
kurov and Czernowitz likewise is in
the path of the Russian steamroller
and the whole German-Rumanian
position in the extreme south ap-
pears to be rapidly collapsing, dis
patches said.
Units of Gen. Rodion Y. Malinov-
sky's army were said to be pushing
into the suburbs of Nikolaev, great
Black Sea port on the southeastern
end Of the front while battering
away at the stiffening resistance of
German troops holding the south
ern sector of the Odessa-Lwow rail-
way,