Show Itt It a l' l t Reds Crack Nazi Line Guarding Kiev Gates Henry r gCOY Oct 11 Red UP-Red Is es t steadily widening and their river ening k in battles of f 4 violence dolence were reported Mona Mon Mon- f-f f a penetrated the semi semi- have 1 to outer defenses and apu ap- ap u 1 fi hed the gates blazing of Kiev f FM of the Ukraine I K forces that strucK below Kremen Kremen- jIS i the downstream from T miles iii ie 10 to 15 miles bed bee be be- d west bank in an a race to toL e d the L German armies in the bulge l c od the e er Crimea mea imea front dispatches i 0 sides sd s were hurling masses Bob B th h I It and aircraft D tanks tanks d l at focal points in the theIrl therb u b battle rb t of Kiev and an so southeast Irl JOrs Mrs and fighting rf d surpassing that Sat at a pitch n j 1 at S t ingrad Crossi Crossings gl fu the Germans being pU pushed hed hedw w J b artillery range of the per the Russians forced that at a number numbe of intermediate rv between Kiev and Kremen Kremen- SiF tr and ind fanned out north and to establish Sa in an a attempt tempt a 1 line Ime on on the west bank Red air force planes put up an umbrella over the pontoon bridges badges and assault boats carry- carry stream of soviet endless U rg an in Wintry tanks and self propelled no across the river Kiev was reported in flames as asto the to Germans apparently sacked the city A cR Russian u thrust to the Black If HI Ira a from the Kremenchug area arear right r doom tens of thousands thousands- perhaps hundreds of thousands thousands- o of German troops in the Crimea ud tad southern Ukraine dose flose to Gomel Radio London said the red ump imy was only five miles from Gomel in the southeastern corner of White Russia The Germans were throwing thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks and planes against the red army all along the front but the Russians continued to push relentlessly westward A strategic height and a village were captured Sunday the soviet high command said The Germans counterattacked eight times in a futile effort to regain the village a said but each time tim were thrown back with heavy losses Some 2200 Germans were killed and 36 tanks were destroyed in the repulse of other enemy counterattacks Nineteen Nine Nine- teen German planes were shot down Russian forces also gained new ground in their frontal assault on the axis defense line in White Russia More than towns townsand townsand townsand and villages were seized on the approaches to at the northern end of the front alone Advances of up to seven seyen and one one- half miles were recorded and Yen Yen- only 20 miles east of Vi Vi- was captured The railroad junction of Orsha to the south was threatened further fur fur- ther by the capture of 26 miles mUes to the northeast while the fall of on the railroad railroad rail rail- road from put the Russians Russians Rus Rus- only 12 miles east of Gomel southeastern hinge of the White Russian defenses The German command also threw large forces of reserves and infantry supported by tanks and self propelled artillery into counterattacks coun coun- on the Nevel front 60 miles from the Latvian border but the Russians crushed resistance and surged forward through 40 more localities One thousand Germans were killed or taken pris- pris oner |