| Show rr pods 1 e s Reach zee Bor Border er Seize 30 Villages In Rumania on Mile Front Stalin Announces Advancement Made By First Ukraine Troops After Defeating Foe on Carpathian Foothills By Associated Press R Russian troops have driven to the old Czechoslovak frontier and seized more than 30 towns in Rumania along a front of 12 miles Premier Marshal hal Stalin announced ced triumphantly Saturday Troops of the First Ukrainian front having inflicted a defeat on the enemy at the foothills of the have reached readied our state frontier with Czechoslovakia and Rumania he declared By the Rumanian Czechoslovak-Rumanian frontier Stalin presumably meant the northeastern border of Hungary Hungary Hungary Hun Hun- gary which absorbed the Car- Car patho- patho patho Ukraine Ukraine from Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 1 when the was latter dismembered dismembered dismembered in 1939 Hungary extended her border to the Carpathian Tartar Tartar Tartar Tar Tar- tar pass by absorbing that part of old Czechoslovakia Flee mee From Odessa While the westward lunge drove the he Germans still farther back the he siege tightened tightened on Odessa and Moscow said the nazis and Rumanians Rumanians Rumanians Ru Ru- were fleeing that Black Blacksea sea sea port they won at such high cost in 1941 A dispatch h by Konstan Captain tin m to Red Star said one group of General Rodion Y Malinovsky's Mali Mali- Malinovsky's Third Ukrainian army caught an enemy column h hurrying hurrying hurry hurry- rry- rry ing from the city along a narrow muddy road northwest of the port and achieved so great a surprise that the enemy was unable to put up resistance The road was severed he said sald said and hundreds of the invaders were thrown back into the icy swamps gave these exact distances distances distances dis dis- dis- dis of the soviet soviet- iron ring about Odessa s sTo To the northeast 96 miles I 7 ITo To the northwest miles Panic Hits flits YI Villages Villages- lages' lages G Great eat panic swept through littIe lit lit- tIe le outskirt villages between Lakes and as Russian cavalry and tanks followed fol fol- fol- fol towed lowed by int infantry broke down one defense line after another in the wide mile land corridor approaching approaching ap ap- Odessa from the northeast northeast northeast north north- east the correspondent reported The roar of the battle sounded in Odessa's streets Forty five miles northwest of the Black sea metropolis the Russians Bus Rus us- us h have ve encircled still stin another group of the enemy five to six divisions comprising to men above the rail junction junction junc june tion of which was captured Wednesday described the encircle encircle- ContInued d on Column Seven I Red Troops Reach I Old Border of Czechoslovakia C Continued from Fag age One Ons e ment a. a as a boiler because there was so much confusion A Russian said Germans were killed and more than 1000 captured in a two- two day battle that followed the drawing draw draw- ing of the ring about the pocket an and that 64 guns and 24 tanks fell into soviet hands Bag Rescue Planes Very heavy battles were in full swing southwest of atthe at atthe atthe the northwestern end of the southern southern south south- ern cnn offensive with the Germans throwing large numbers of tanks into an incessant effort to relieve their surrounded garrison in that city Transport planes were s still ill trying trying try try- ing to rescue the com com- manders mander but the Russians were bagging numbers of the transports The violence of the German armored armored armored ar ar- ar- ar mored attacks from outside the ring were likened here to those of ofField ofField ofField Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Mannstein west of Kiev last winten winter winter win win- ter ten but reports here said none of the attacking H Hit I t I 1 e r i t e a shad had broken through to their surrounded surround surround- ed comrades The resistance of other large German forces surrounded near and in to the northwest northwest northwest north north- west was gradually weakening as the pressure of the red army forces was stepped up dispatches said Wipe Out topo Nazis Repeated nazi attempts to relieve re relieve relieve re- re lieve the garrison fighting fighting fighting fight fight- ing in th the city city's s streets were re repulsed repulsed repulsed re- re pulsed with heavy losses according according accord accord- according ing to the while all efforts to cut through the pocket proved abortive Germans Ger Ger- Germans mans man being wiped out by Marshal Gregory K First Ukrainian Ukrainian ian lan army troops Here again the Russians captured quantities es of German war equipment Malinovsky's Stalingrad veterans veterans vet vet- erans many nany of whom had defended defend defend- ed Odessa in the two months' months Germ German German Ger Ger- m man n siege in 1941 swept down on the city yesterday In a a mile 25 advance to capture more than 60 towns and villages the war bulletin bulletin bul but letin said including novka less than 10 miles mUes northeast northeast northeast north north- east of the great port 12 miles to the east Eme- Eme 17 miles due north and Karlstal 17 miles to the north north- west Take Ferry Point I u 41 JS am L uy a. a column driving down the east bank of the river from Baden is at the head of the estuary estuary estuary es es- es- es 13 miles north of ferry terminus where the last escape escape escape es es- es- es cape route from Odessa crosses the wide mile mouth of the estuary to Akkerman in lower is 18 miles west of Odessa In a drive on capital cap of troops of Marshal Ivan S. S Konev's Second Ukrainian army captured the district center of 20 miles to the north in ina ina a two-day two battle the Russian war bulletin said and then forced the Reut river and captured a bridgehead bridgehead bridge bridge- head on its southern bank German forces in this sector were retreating re fIre treating in panic the bulletin added For the fifth straight day the soviet high command failed to mention the mile long Russian front inside Rumania where Konev's Konev's Konev's Ko Ko- Ko- Ko nev's forces last were reported a few miles north of ot the rail center of lasi 10 miles inside the border A A. Rumanian broadcast last night reported fighting north of last and Russian reconnaissance reconnaissance reconnaissance recon recon- activity in the area around Botosani 60 miles northwest northwest northwest north north- west of lasi Iasi |
