Show 1 Yanks Gain 10 Miles Before re Naples Red Parachute T Troops Shower A Down Behind Germans on Reds Straddle Kiev Battle for Several Crossings on River LONDON Sept 27 UP The W-The The red army has broken Into the thes s suburbs of on the western bank e per river 20 miles southeast of Kiev Moscow announced Mon lon day MOSCOW Sept 27 Rus UP-Rus- UP Rus Russian sian parachute troops were reported reported re re- ported showering do down on oai on- on the west bank of ot th the Monday while the red army battled for several several several sev sev- eral crossings and invested the thelast thelast thelast last G German positions on the east bank before Kiev Kr Kremenchug D and Soviet assault forces were storming across the on either side of Kiev the capital of the Ukraine while frontal assaults reduced the Germans remaining In Inthe inthe inthe the suburbs o on the east bank front reports said Unconfirmed reports circulated here that the German g garrison had begun evacuating the city which is on the west bank as the soviet threat mounted hourI hourly to Cross Number of Places As the Russians were forcing the at an unspecified number of points and red paratroops paratroops para paratroops troops harried the German rear other soviet columns poured into White Russia through two wide gaps in the and Gomel sectors The newspaper Pravda warned Adolf that Hitler there would be beno beno beno no pause pause until the red army reaches the old frontiers and the Germans are decisively beaten Rounding out 12 weeks of ot the great summer offensive the red army was entrenched along practically practically practically the entire east bank of the he and was battling to hurl the nazis out o of their remaining east bank positions before KI Kiev v Kremenchug and and Z The nazis were under constant bombardment n by the red ai air force which enjoyed unchallenged mastery mastery mastory mas mas- tery tory of the skies over the battle areas areal In the Kremenchug area between between between be be- tween Kiev and the river bend the Germans were reported fleeing across the under a a merciless merciless merciless merci merci- less pounding by soviet assault planes There Ther and before Kiev the German remnants were reported fighting bitter bitte delaying actions td to cover the retreat to the west bank Ent Enters rs Decisive Sta Stage e eThe The battle of appeared to have entered a decisive decisive de do- deI I stage as the Russians smashed the last belt of German defenses based on the marshes I flanking the approaches to the town Bloody to hand-to-hand combats combats com com- combats bats were raging in the eastern suburbs of the city On the plains southeast of Za Za- Za- Za the red army swept over overa a 1 wide area Increasing the threat to the Crimea S The Russians have benefited by recent changes in the weather Inthe In Inthe Inthe the marshy Gomel area a warm spell enabled the red armies to negotiate usually impassable forest forest forest for for- est regions and reach points with within in 28 miles of f Gomel On the lowed reaches of the soviet soviet so so- viet forces were were Using the mists and fog to accelerate their cross cross- ings Front dispatches said soviet flanking columns were pushing across the river north and south of Kiev Klev Russia's third largest city in the face face of f murderous German German German Ger Ger- man artillery fire from the high highest west est bank but there was no a au aia- aia indication that the red army ye yet h had d established a bridgehead bridgehead bridge bridge- head in force The London radio quoted a a. Moscow dispatch as saying that the Russians w were re believed to have established small bridgeheads heads on Continued OI on Page Three Column One I l I II I Red ped s Land y Behind Nazi Lines Unes on from Nom Page Om 1 1 t west bank of the beden beien be- be the den ien I Kiev lev and E. The German D N B agency reed relied re re- lied ed that Russian parachutists in the l jaded landed ded in the German rear area Most were middle Siddle circled and annihilated the encircled en said in a Berlin broad- broad ency c agency still holding but others were rant st out cut f f f A Moscow broadcast heard in London quoted the Moscow newspaper news news- I paper Pravda a as mastered saying that the theart red paper ed army Y ha had mastered part art of river crossing and added the 1 our our air f force and artillery will smash ash all German efforts to stem our cur offensive beyond the river i other soviet troops striking 1 frontally tally were ere locked in bitter with the Germans in the fighting muddy east-bank east suburbs of Kiev The Germans threw big infantry end and tank forces into battle in a futile attempt to stem the soviet tide only to be thrown back More than dan Germans were killed and i tine tive tanks wrecked t 1 The ie Russians also blasted their theira way ay a y to the at key points along slang a mile stretch from Kiev to Near Kremenchug 13 miles upstream from the Russians smashed an enemy nemy pocket of resistance capI cap- cap tired 70 towns and villages and I threw the battered German remi remnants remnants rem rem- i nants into the I Near itself I the ie Germans pivoted on a defense line me consisting of concrete pillboxes pillboxes pill- pill boxes and artillery emplacements and ind counterattacked 10 times The lighting fighting at times raged at close quarters with bayonets rifle butts and md grenades but the Germans finally were routed with the loss of 1000 men and eight tanks I North of Kiev the Russians urged surged toward white Russia and the he key bases of Orsha end nd the the gateway cities to o the Polish border border on on a the lIlIle front and at some points penetrated the white Russian republic re- re republic public lublic for the first time I The white Russian cities of 74 miles northwest of B and Lenino 30 miles of Gomel were overrun along with other towns and along the mile front tin In the northwest Caucasus the thed red d army and marines narrowed ti he le German bridgehead across the Taman aman peninsula to 12 miles with the is capture of taya 14 miles northwest of An- An l pa a. a |