Show German Positions r otter on Entire South Russia Line I Red Mobile Units Race Over Steppes To Shut Off Crimea Gateway I Southern Ukraine Pincers Near Closing i LONDON Oct 25 The UP-The power city of fa h In t the upper corner of the r river bend has been captured cap- cap hired by the red army the Moscow radio said Monday l night I The fhe near near-by city of also was taken MOSCOW Oct 2 25 UP Russian UP-Russian Russian motorized units have p p d halZ halfway gvay ay down the mile mlle stretch of of from captured d M to the gateway of the Crimea front frontI I dispatches said Monday and Cossack raiding parties already are ire ranging the approaches to to the th Black sea peninsula l The nazi command began shift shift- t- t Ii kg its Crimean forces several weeks reeks ago an and hurled them into t the catastrophic battle of Melito Melito- po pal pol leaving the shaped diamond j I peninsula virtually denuded of troops military quarters revealed The entire German position in intoe inthe inthe the toe southern Ukraine and the Critie Cri- Cri tie sea ata was tottering the Russians Indicated and the battle there apI ap appeared ap- ap I red ared to be going into its decisive phase hae While the northern jaw of the Russian pincers on the tend bend cracked down on Krivol Rog In hi I a i frontal the southern south rn we ene te Joined the army beks be- be ks Wa 50 Miles down down across the barren pl plains ins southwest of a p e e d y mobile detachments reached midway betseen between be be- tween l J and the he isthmus in ina ii a gain pf p about 50 Kile since M it f ell Saturday lay I Hard Eard riding cossa cossack k cavalry on ahead of the main naIn forces sweeping down tJ th the ilsk corridor to p were re before the gates gates' of the Crimea By y blocking the o t the Russians could tr trip trap p what- what iver fler ver German forces remained int in into t to th Crim Crimea a. a Pravda said unprecedented tank b wiles tUes were ere raging all along the theet thet Jest et t bank of the per between G Gomel imel and Kremenchug ug with the I RUSi Rui Russians cr crushing shing the German deI de- de I f an and thrusting far to the e et Use t Kiev llev was Waz reported invested from and south but still bitterly defended ended by 14 German divisions Soviet wiet river craft are plyIng plyIng ply- ply Ing 5 long stretches hes of the the w Russians said safe beyond the ring uge of German artillery A A A. Pravda dispatch said that at I an n unspecified specified the red f point army I e worded and wiped out the enI ene en- en I e Twenty third German division killing S its commander The early collapse of the hard- hard pressed German positions in the theS big S pocket of the Ukraine I Iu wai u r regarded here as a foregone I Delusion conclusion as as red armies stepped stopped I Up JP a edged double offensive aimed I i at trapping an estimated I Stab Slab In Into Germans II Genera Cener Konstantin K 1 Rokos- Rokos vs ys forces rolled into the northern suburbs of KrIvol Rog alter fter a general advance that cut cutre tan the bore Inore re than an six miles deeper into nemy enemy flank and liberated flie e 50 M O towns an and villages in in- only six miles tort of the mining town With vim Rog flog considered easy easy prey to the the red army's next obin obin ob- ob in that sector sector presumably Wa hs 20 miles to the east and the ra railroad road over ver German armies remaining In 1 the e eastern portion of the r bend including could Cod flee a fell Saturday after a at t Iday latUe r |