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Further Russian
Advances
Golumns Gonverging On Vyazma
Rofiunel StiU
Retreating
Heavy Air Losses
Russian jorces are now only
beginning to outjlank Briansk.
War correspondents’ messag-
es describe new advances to-
wards Výazma, where the posi-
tion of the three Soviet columns
converging on the town from
east, north and north-west is
as follows:
DNIEPER REACHED
The Russian troops advanc-
ing from Gshatsk in the east re-
port the capture of 20 more
pláces, and have now reached
the headwaters of the Dnieper.
In his radio dispatch to-day
Paul Winterton, B.B.C. Corres-
pondent, says that the remn-
ant of the Gshatsk garrison is
not withdrawing westwards to
Vyazma, as was at first sup-
posed, but is retreating south-
west. The German High Com-
mand is still talking about a
planned Nazi withdrawal from
Gshatsk.
The Soviet column, which a
couple of days ago stormed
Sychevka, is now spreading
west and south-west, instead of
driving straight down the
Rzhev-Vyazma railway. It has
captured another large town,
and annihilated the garrison.
DETAILS OF BOOTY
Details of the booty captured
at Sychevka, where the enemy
lost 8,000 troops killed, include
310 tanks, 40 guns, 8 planes, 22
railway engines, and 200 rail-
way trucks, besides stores of
petrol and ammunition. Sy-
chevka was the HQ of a Ger-
man tanks corps, and had large
repair shops. Further west in
this area, our Allies report con-
tinued nropress towards the
Vyaz^" ^■""lensk railway.
London, March 9th.
30 miles jrom Vyazma, and. are
BIG BATTLE REPORTEÐ
On the southern side, in the
Sievsk region, a number of ene-
my garrisons, cut off in the
rear, are being destroyed. A
big battle is reported to be in
progress between Sievsk and
the river Desna, while further
north, north-east of Briansk,
heavy fighting is also going on.
GERMAN CLAIM
In the northern Donetz Basin,
as well as west of Rostov, our
Allies have beaten back more
enemy attacks. The Germans
claim here the capture of a rail-
way station, 12 miles west of
Kharkov, and even maintain
that their forward troops are
at the outskirts of Kharkov it-
self. There is, however no con-
firmation of this from Russian
sources.
Lend- Lease To
Rnssia
Washington. — United States
Lend-Lease has supplied Russia
with huge quantities of raw
materials for the Soviet muni-
tions industry and thousands of
planes, tanks, guns and other
equipment, it was revealed in
a report from a Lend-Lease Ad-
ministrator. Other shipments
up to February included large
amounts of equipment for
transportation and communica-
tion facilities; more than*
588,000 military vehicles other
than tanks; three million pairs
of army boots, and eighteen
thousand tons of leather soles
to be manufac+ured into army
shoes by Soviet íactories.
London, Mar. 9th.
In southern Tunisia, Rom-
mel’s jorces are still jalling
back. Fighting has jlared up
again in the extreme northern
sector.
50 TANKS LOST
Rommel is still retreating in-
to the hills north and north-
west of Medenine, and it is now
known that he lost 50 tanks in
Saturday’s battle.
These losses must be serious,
as the tanks are all good mod-
ern types. Examination has re-
vealed that among them were
eight Mark 3s with 75 mm guns;
19 Mark 3 Specials, equipped
with 5 cm guns and 18 Mark 4
Specials, with 75 mm guns and
one machine gun. The Eighth
Army did not lose a single
tank. Axis losses in troops, alt-
hough no official figures have
were also heavy although no
official figures have yet been
issued.
Our fighter bombers and
fighters, are harassing the re-
treating enemy and Mont-
gomery continues to build up
the strength of the Eighth
Army.
TOZEUR OCCUPIED
Some 100 miles to the north-
west, French forces have oc-
cupied Tozeur, on the northern
shore of the great salt lake,
Shott el Djerid.
200 PRISONERS
In the north, heavy fighting
has flared up near Sedjenan.
An Axis column, pushing along
the coast, was strongly attac-
ked by Allied troops, about sev-
en miles north of Sedjenan, and
driven back to its original posi-
tions. Our men took 200 pri-
soners. Allied aircraft simul-
taneously raidéd Sedjenan,
scoring eight direct hits on the
railway station.
London, March 9th.
R.A.F. heavy bombers, opera-
ting in strength, flew to south-
ern Germany last night, to
attack Nuremberg for the sec-
ond time in a fortnight. Tar-
gets in western Germany were
also raided and seven of our
aircraft did not return.
TANK, SUBMARINE WORKS
Nuremberg, the home of the
Nazi party, is a big factory
centre, producing tanks, sub-
marine engines, and other wea-
pons of war. It was last raided
on February 25th, when a big
load of our 4,000 bombers
caused widespread destruction
in a concentrated attack of 20
minutes.
LIBÉRATORS & FORTRESSES
This raid followed yester-
day’s daylight attack by Mos-
quitos and American heavy
bombers on objectives in Ger-
many and France. The main
targets were the big naval sup-
ply depot of Rouen, attacked by
Liberators, and Rennes in Nor-
mandy, (famous from the
Dreyfus trials) attacked by
Flying Fortresses; both raids
were heavy. The Mosquitos
raided Lingen, in North-west-
ern Germany, 60 miles south of
Emden.
Altogether in these opera-
tions 25 enemy fighters were
shot down for the loss of five
Allied bombers and two of our
fighters.
AIR BATTLE
American bombers and fight-
ers have scored a big victory
over Axis aircraft. Out on a sea
sweep yesterday, Flying For-
tresses and Lightnings met a
formation of 50 German fight-
ers, and, shot down 17. Two
more Axis fighters collided,
and crashed into the sea. The
Americans lost two aircraft;