The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-01-21
NOVCOROD FALLS
TOSOVIET TROOPS
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x,os among the towns to fall dur.
,,e the day, said Moscow com
UNIQUE, ~, recorded by the Soviet
monitor.
Soviet airmen dealt heavy blows
- German escape roads, and the
prssian Baltic fleet warships she'll
~ the German coastal lines as the
pnssians crushed ahead with &C
tolerated power.
The only other important ac-
.;or mentioned in the Moscow
hroadcast communique was fight
..nortb of Khristinovka' in the
nU+or Ukraine, where the Rus
siors said troops under Gen. Niko-
-; r Vatutin still were beating
Jou-n heavy German counter-at-
tacts aimed at stemming Soviet
s4rite toward Rumania. A total of
ss,n. r 1000 Germans were
, rg an. 80 tanks destroyed in
tbat area. TIE communique said.
Genera s. Meretskov's troops
crossed frozen volkhov river
md the lsrthern tip of Lake H.
men to surround Novgorod, and
then took that powerful enemy
base by storm. Berlin announced
the evacuation of German troops
from Novgorod shortly before Pre-
mier Stain announced its capture.
The Germans had taken it in Au-
gust. 1941.
midnight communique supple
ment said many German troops
trapped in the Strelna corridor be-
low Leningrad had dropped down
their arms and surrendered. Early
today the Moscow radio also said:
The Germans have been driven
far away from Leningrad. German
forces are bleeding profusely. They
are panic-stricken under til e
threatening tentacle of a mighty
Soviet army of retribution.
Of the German victims of the
advance which already has swept
more than 10 miles west of Nov
gorod far to the south, the Soviet
broadcast said: Failing back
hastily they cannot hope to stem
the onslaught of our troops, nor
stand up to the deluge of artillery
fire rained on their heads
Indicating great danger for all
the German forces in the Lenin-
grad area. the daily Soviet COM
munique said Govorov's troops
fighting southWestward from Len
ingrad had joined forces with other
units advancing southeastward
from the Oranienbaum bridgehead
20 miles west of Linengrad on the
Gulf of Finland.
The junction of these two forces
gave the Russians in this parti-
cular area a 50-mile attack wall
which is being pushed steadily
southwark in an effort to over
power Krasnogvardeisk or to cut
the railway running westward
from there to Reval (Tallinn), the
Estonian capital Either develop
ment would be a major strategic
success.
In the twin successes of the
north the Russians said their
troops on the Leningrad front in
six days had killed $4,000 Germans
and captured 1000. This hiked the
German dead 5000 above the TO-
600 killed announced by Moscow
Wednesday.
An additional $4,000 Germans
we're slain and 5000 captured by
General Meretskov's armies of the
Volkhov front. Moscow said.
Leningrad itself, besieged since
the early days of the war, rapidly
vas being liberated from partial
but heavy German threat which
has existed since the Russians cut
supply corridor through to Rus
Sia's second city year ago.
Soviet troops now have hurled
the Germar- back IS or more
miles from the city's outskirts,
oVerrunning artillery batteries
which had been methodically she'll
ing it.
Govorov's troops which had
4 seized Krasnoye Selo, Is miles be-
low Leningrad. on Wednesday,
pushed on westward to join the
forces advancing from Ropsha, al
50 taken Wednesday. The junction
apparently occurred at Alekuila,
Two miles east of Ropsha, and
seven miles west of Krasnoye Selo,
Tor the broadcast communique re-
corded by the Soviet monitor gave
Alekulla as one of more than
score Of towns overrun during the
oay by the Russians.
IN old Poland the Russians last
We're reported within IA miles of
hoVno, important rail junction, but
me lighting on that and other Sec
Tors Of the Ukraine front were on
y Of local Importance, the latest