| Show J Nazis Rush Reserves to Odessa Od t With Orders to Hold at All Costs 1 I Continued from Page One pant nants of 15 divisions encircled i in the sector northeast of and have thrown formidable for- for forces into the drive to crack the red army cordons cordons s 's troops however were reported to have tightened their ring Iring of encirclement near by capturing important defense C S including the fortified forti forti- r. r f fied fled town of itself The Russian ani announced announced an an- th the capture of huge stocks of war booty in the fighting including six tanks I i vehicles 29 transport planes and v four fighters The transport planes apparently had been held in readiness readiness readiness read read- II iness to fly high military personnel personnel personnel person person- nel from the encircled area after delivering supplies to the trapped I forces Three hundred miles southeast of General Rod Rodion Ion Y MalInovsky's Third Ukrainian army struck toward Odessa In a mile 15 drive from captured Raz- Raz which brought pit fit it to a point 23 miles northwest of the Black sea port posing a new threat to that nazi-held nazi bastion Surprise Attack Malinovsky's driver drive a 8 brilliant flanking movement that apparently apparent apparent- ly caught the enemy by surprise drew closer to the r red d army army ring being forged around the be beleaguered beleaguered be- be port already threatened from the north and northeast Inside the rapidly constricting arc harassed Germans and RuI Rumanian Rumanian Ru Ru- manian troops were being herded I closer to the shores of the Black Blacksea Blacksea sea and their last remaining escape es escape escape es- es cape corridor across the estuary 20 miles southwest of Odessa The drive from important important important im im- rail junction 38 miles above Odessa which fell to the Russians Wednesday smashed a fierce axis counterattack aimed at recapturing that control point for traffic westward into a soviet wa war bulletin said Column From North Malinovsky's veterans t then h he en n pushed down the railway to storm Karpova 23 miles northwest of Odessa and fanned out to take 18 miles mile northwest of From the north another soviet column surged down the banks of the rain swollen rain river for 13 miles to capture 21 miles from Odessa while from the northeast a third force swept along the shores of the Black sea seato seato seato to storm the town of 14 miles from the heart of of the metropolis according to the com com- e For the fourth straight day the Moscow made no mention of the progress of Marshal Marshal Marshal Mar Mar- Ivan S S. S Konev's Second Ukrainian army last reported across the river nine miles above the Rumanian city of IasI lasi |
