Evening star., 1944-03-31
Hungary and Rumania
Threatened by Reds
Nearing Carpathians
By the Associated Press.

Dy the Associated Press.
MOSCOW, Mar. 81. - SurgingI
across the Northern Prut Riverl
through captured CzernowitzI
(CernautD, Marshal Gregory K.
zhukov's 1st Ukrainian Army isl
moving up into the Carpathian
Mountains toward Hungary and
Rumania, dispatches from the
front declared today.
Marshal Zhukovs vanguards rolled
through Delatyn, Is miles north of |
the Hungarian border where the
pass of the Tatars leads through the
Carpathians into former Czecho-
slovsk territory given to Hungary
when Hitler dismembered the
Czechoslovak state. After routing
the German defenders of Czerno-
witz, Marshal Zhukov's troops
pushed on south through Storo-
zhints. is miles north of the present
Rumanian border, Russian COM
munique said.
(The Rumanian high command, |
in what was described by the
German DNB news agency as
the first Rumanian communique
issued in more than two years,
today acknowledged the evacua-
ton of Czernowitz, latter heavy
fnl,finp Lof
Soviet troops" The broadcast
was recorded in New York;
Konev's Army Poised.
Meanwhile, the I'd Ukrainian Army,
commanded by Marshal Ivan S.
Konev, remained poised on the east
bank of the Prut where it forms the
frontier of Rumania.
For five days Marshal Konev has
held his forces on the Bessarabian
side OF the Prut, mopping up iSo-
lated groups of German and Ru-
manian troops, and has extended the
Russian domination of the east bank
to distance of 80 miles. The border
town of Lipcani, 40 miles east of
Czernowitz, was captured during the
day, dispatches said.
Most sanguinary fighting of the
day, as reported by the Russian war
bulletin, was the humiliation of
Axis troops trapped in the forests ,
near Mynkovtsy, % miles northeast
of Kamenets Podolsk. Here 2,0OOls
Hitlerites were killed and manyl
prisoners taken, the communicated
said, while capture of Kitaigorod all
but wiped out the Kamanets Po-
dolsk pocket through which Ger
mans retreating from the Proskurovl
sector have been trying to escape. L
Farther to the east Gen. Rodion !;
Y. Malinovsky's Sd Ukrainian Army 3
its pressure on Odessa, !.
last German-held port in the
Ukraine near the mouth of the
Dniester River, 240 miles southeast .
OF Kamanets Podolsky.
Advances up to 20 miles were re-
ported by the Soviet communique,
and important towns captured. in
cluded Lubashovka and Rybnitsa
which cleared the lateral railway ,
from Pervomaisk to the Prut; VAR
on the west bank of the {
Bug just above Nikolaev, and Tur- 1
chanoye, west of Nikolaev and only ,
Al miles from Odessa. More than
250 other towns were swept up in
the Red Army's encircling advance
toward the Black Sea, dispatches
said.
The Russian drive through Della
tyn toward the Carpathians carried L
spearheads of Zhukov's forces 10 c
miles southwest of Kolomea in a a
single day, these advices said. Far
ther west the Soviet marshal sent
other advance units through Tysmy- 7
enitSy, five miles east of the i'm I
portant city of Stanislau, which is '
on the railway running south l
through the pass of the Tatars, al
ready cut at Dalatyn. Tlumach and t
also were captured in {
this drive.
1t was in this sector, apparently,
that the strongest Red Army pres
sure was being exerted.
The broadcast German communi-
que asserted today that ''the bulk of
several Soviet divisions was encir-
cled and annihilated" southwest of
Narva, in Northern Estonia, after a =
fierce defensive battle lasting several =
days.
The Germans claimed that 5000 Y
were killed and several hundred cap :;
tured. The Russians have spoken of l.
no such engagement around Narva
for weeks.
LOST. l