MOSCOW: TWO powerful Russian armies under Generals Tolbukhin and Malinovsky are today [Nov 2] racing towards Kherson at the mouth of the Dnieper to cut off the remnants of General von Manstein’s routed divisions.... The Germans are on the run in their greatest retreat of this war.

They are making no attempt to stem the Soviet flood as they fall back to the natural barriers of the Dnieper and the Crimean Isthmus. The Red Army is in the Crimea, where all the ways of retreat by land are barred. The Bastion of the Pertkop has fallen and the breakthrough to Armyansk, five miles south-west, means that the Red Army is already on the road and railway running through the Perekop Isthmus into the Crimea and to its capital Simferopol.

In their breakthrough to Armyansk Soviet troops crossed the historic Tartar wall which the Germans had strengthened in the hope of checking the Red Army’s advance.

Published in Dawn, November 3rd, 2018