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nor naval support, little prospect
was seen that the Axis garrison
could even attempt to duplicate the
Russian feat of w1thstanding an
eight-1nonth siege of Sevastopol in
1941 and 1942
Other Soviet armies on the south
er1l front wiped out the enemy's
500-square-mile TiraSpol bridgehead
on the east bank of the DneStr and
drove across the river to within
100 miles of the Galati highway to
Bucharest and the Ploesti oil fields,
neared the ferry erminus of Ovidio-
pol on the Dnestr lagoon southwest
Of Odessa, and advanced deeper into
Roinania's Carpathian mountains
nearly rs miles northwest Of Iasi.
The Russians also announced the
killing of $4,000 Germans in the
Skala salient northeast of Cernautt
from April i through 10. Nearly
1000 others were captured. along
with 1877 tanks, 12l guns and 7,483
trucks, Of Is divisions encircled
April /, only 10000 men and 80
tanks remained when a relief col
umn broke through the Soviet ring
Tuesday.
The two Russian armies squeezing
an estimated 10000 to 10000 Ger
man and Romanian troops into the
southern Crimea captured nearly
300 towns and villages in cenverging
advances from the north and east
yesterday.
One column of Tolbukhin's 4th
Army crumbled the enemy's 1shun
line, at the base Of the Perekop
isthmus, and joined forces that
forded the Sivash sea in sweeping
half way from Dzhangoi, seized
Tuesday, to Sevastopol with the
capture of Karacha-Kangil, II
miles north Of Simferopol. More
than 5000 Of the enemy were killed
in the southwark advance.
Another 4th Army column drove
southeast from Dzankoi and cap.
tured Settler, 43 miles northwest OF
Feodosiya and 43 miles from juno
ton with Yeremenko's independent
army. Several thousand prisoners
were taken. A.,
"soviet units are annhilating the
retreating enemy and routing enemy
parrisons in inhabited locantleS,
the Soviet high command Reported
in its midnight communicate. IN
one village defeated by the lzSro
Independent Battalion, the COM
mander and 200 officers and men
laid down their arms and surren-
dered."
Yeremenko's army advanced an
other 81 miles into the Crimea from
the east, completely clearing the
Kerch peninsula and breaking
through a defense line built across
the nine-mile bottleneck between
the Peninsula and the rest OF the
Crimea. Ak Manai, 46 miles west OF
Kerch, and Arma-Eli, Is IL miles
northeast of Feodosiya, were among
the 140 localities overrun IN the ao-
vance.
Planes from the Black sea fleet.
maintaining a tight blockade OF
Crimean ports to prevent any Dun
keroue evacuation, sank four SELF
propelled barges, four cutters ana
one torpedo cutter and damaged
other vessels In a raid on Feodos1ya
harbor.
Russian land-based bomberS at
tackled Constanta, 240 miles south
west of Sevastopol and nearest Ro-
manian port. Large fires and ex-
blossoms were touched off among
railway lines and oil depots and
most of the port area was LETT en-
veloped in flames and smoke.
In Romania, Marshal Ivan S.
Koney's End Ukrainian army cap
tured Falticeni, IS miles northwest
of the outflanked railway junction
of Iasi and Terminus Of Spur line
from the Bucharest Cernaui rail-
way.
Nine miles northwest Of Falticeni,
the fall of Brazhesty brought the
Russians to within So miles Of the
Bargau pass through the Carpath-
iars Baya,. four miles west Of Fall
ticeni and SO miles northeast OF
Pennsylvania, also was captured.
Konev's forces also wiped out the
last sizeablbe German foothold in
the Ukraine with the capture Of Tir-
aspol and all other enemy-held ter
ritory on the east bank Of the
Dnestr. Driving across the Dnestr
the Russians seized a new spring
board for push down the Ro-
manian coastal plain toward Buct
Arrest and the PloesM oil fields.
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