Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-04-08
Soviets Describe
Panic in Villages
Near Black Sea Port
BY the Associated Press.

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siege arc which pressed as CLOSE
as 9.6 miles to the northeast O.
the big Black Sea port, scene OF
long-drawn Soviet resistance If
1941.
A dispatch by Capt. Konstantir
Tokarev to Red Star said one group
of Gen. Rodion Y. Malinovsky's Sc
Ukrainian Army caught an enemy
column hurrying from the city
along a narrow muddy road north
west of the port and achieved SC
great a surprise that the enemy
was unable to put up resistance.
The road was severed, Capt
Tokarev said, and hundreds of the
invaders were thrown back into the
icy Dniester swamps.
The correspondent gave these ex-
act distances of the Soviet iron ring
about Odessa:
To the northeast, 9.6 miles.
To the northwest, 1853 miles.
ISCdAby Villages
Great panic swept through little
eutskirt villages between Lakes
Kuialnitzky and Khadzhibay as
Russian cavalry AND tanks followed
by infantry broke down one defense
line after another in the smile
wide land corridor approaching
Odessa from the northeast, Capt
Tokarev reported.
Forty-five miles northwest OF
Odessa the Russians have encircled
still another group of the enemy
five to six divisions comprising 25,-
600 to $4,000 men, above the rail
junction of Razdelnaya, which was
capeured Wednesday.
Capt. Tokarev described the en-
circlement as "a boiler" because
there was so much confusion.
A Russian communique said 5000
Germans were killed and more than
1000 captured in two-day battle
which followed the drawing of the
ring about the pocket and that "a
guns and "a tanks fell into Soviet
hands.
Heavy Fighting Near Tarnopol.
Heavy battles were in full swing
southwest of Tarnopol at the
northwestern end of the southern
offensive, with the Germans throw
ing large numbers of tanks into an
incessant effort to relieve their sur
rounded garrison in that city.
Transport planes were still trying
to rescue the Tarnopol commanders,
but the Russians were bagging
numbers of the transports.
The violence of the German ar
mored attacks from outside the ring
were likened here to those of Mar
shall Fritz Erich Won Mannstein west
of Kiev last winter, but reports here
said none of the attacking Hitlerites
had broken through to their sur
rounded comrades
The resistance of other large Ger
man forces surrounded near Skala
to the southeast was gradually
weakening as the pressure of the
Red Army forces was stepped up,
dispatches said.
1000 Germans Wiped Out.
According to the Soviet COM
munique, all efforts to cut through
the Skala pocket proved abortive
1000 Germans being wiped out by
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's LIST
Ukranian Army troops. Here again
the Russians captured quantities of
German war equipment.
Malinovsky's Stalingrad veterans,
many of whom had defended Odessa
in the two months German siege in
194l, swept down on the city yes
terday in 25-mile advance to cap
ture more than go towns and villages
the war bulletin said, including
Novaya-Dafinovka. less than 10
miles northeast of the great port
Chebanka, IL miles to the east
Novaya Emetovka, II miles due
north, and Karlstal, II miles to the
northwest.
Mayaki, taken by Russian column
driving down the east bank of the
Dniester River from Baden, is at
the head of the Dniester estuary, Is
miles north of Ovidiopol, ferry
terminus where the last escape route
from Odessa crosses the 8-mile wide
mouth of the estuary to Alderman in
Lower Bessarabia. Ovidiopol is l9
miles west of Odessa.
District Center Falls.
In a drive on Kishinev, capital of
Bessarabia, troops of Marshal Ivan
S. Konev's ID Ukrainian Army cap
tured the district center of Orhei
20 miles to the north, in two-day
battle, the Russian war bulletin
said, and then forced the Reut
River and captured a bridgehead on
its southern bank. German forces
in this sector were "retreating in
panic" the bulletin added.
For the fifth straight day, the
Soviet high command failed tc
mention the 70-mile long Russian
front inside Rumania, where
konev's forces last were reported
a few miles north of the rail center
CT Iasi Classy, 10 miles inside the
border.
A Rumanian broadcast commu-
nique last night reported fighting
north Of Iasi and Russian recon-
naissance activity in the area
around Botosani, so miles north
west of Iasi
;, 400-Yeor-OId Grave
Discovered in England
By the Associated Press.
BRIGHTON, England, April g.
While digging in her garden, Mrs
P. G. Massey uncovered grave that
Psychologists say was made not
later than 1900 BIC, it was learned
today.