Show Four Red Armi Armies ees s Pursue Nazis Fleeing Shattered Defenses on River Germans i Fight Futile Rear Rearguard Battles Baffles l MADRID mm Oct 26 CD Wi The newspaper A ABC B C said that the Germans alread already are arc withdrawing withdraw withdraw- ing from the Crimea Spanish press correspondents In Berlin also quoted spokesmen there as al assaying assaying saying that not only the bend around ol Bog Rog but also the front northward to Orsha should houd be be considered in danger MOSCOW Oct 26 W Four p-Four Four hitting hard-hitting soviet armies Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tales day were pursuing the bat battered ered legions of df Adolf Hitler r retreating across southern Russia from the shattered river defense se sewall wall toward the Bug river miles to the west Front dispatches indicated that the badly mauled nazi forces were waging desperate but futile rearguard rearguard rear t guard battles along a mile long front from Kremenchug south to the Sea of intent only on saving as much as possible pos pos- sible sibl from what may prove to be bethe bethe bethe the greatest German disaster since Stalingrad The German retreat accelerated ed by the Russians' Russians capture of the industrial cities of and in t the e great bend Monday was bluntly characterized by a Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian as disordered It yielded enormous quantities of war material abandoned by the nazis Thousands of Germans were reported killed in fierce fighting on the flat Ukrainian steppes above the Crimea Million 1 Nazis azIs Flee q pat s based 0 on Moscow and admissions o o nger emanating from m Berlin broadcasts Intimated there were perhaps Germans in involved involved Sn- Sn In the mass retreat across the Ukraine Indicative of Russian offensive strength in the far north the Polish Polish Polish Po Po- Po- Po lish telegraph agency in London quoted underground sources as ass assaying assaying s saying ying that the Germans have al already already already al- al ready mined Lwow in southeastern southeast southeast- ern en Pol Poland nd ready to blow it to ruins in the event of a Russian through break-through on the white Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian front It was General Rodion Y Malinovsky's Maim Malin- Third Ukrainian army which stormed to topple that great economic and military center He was supported support support- ed on his right flank by General Ivan lyan S. S Konov's Second Ukrainian army group while the Fourth Ukrainian army which captured Saturday backed him up on the left flank The First Ukrainian army operating farther to the north was believed plunging plunging plunging ing westward below Kremenchug toward Blasted From Irom Air Russian columns were battering battering battering batter batter- ing at the gates of ot Rog 85 miles southwest of where front dispatches said the Twenty-third Twenty German tank division had been trapped and spearheads of the Fourth army were racing through Meli MeU- toward the Crimea shattering shattering shattering shat shat- an enemy defense line Une based on the Crimea railway en route The red air all force masters masters masters mas mas- of the Ukrainian skies sIdes were blasting the disorganized nazis over the entire front Premier Stalin saluted the freeIng freeing freeing free free- ing of ot the bend by ordering ordering ordering order order- ing 20 salvos from Moscow cannon the cannon the second big night celebration celebration cele cole bration witnessed by U. U S. S Secretary Secretary Secretary Secre Secre- tary of State Cordell Cordeli Hull and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Anthony Anthony An An- thony Eden attending the tri tri- power conference in the soviet capital Capture of was celebrated in a similar fashion Saturday |