26/10/1943 recovered from illness.
R. Robinson.
Marshal Stalin's announcement
of the success at Dnipropetrovsk and further upstream
has been followed by further news that
the Russians have come nearer
to the coast and broken the defense
line to the Crimea.
40 miles of German Dnjepr line
has further collapsed and Dnipropetrovsk
is now in Russian hands.
In the Melitopol sector the advance
is from 3 tot 5 miles.
Nothing fresh has been reported
from Italy since yesterday's
news of progress by the 5th and
8th Army. In the South West
Pacific 123 Japanese planes have
been destroyed on the ground
and in combats and further
planes damaged for a loss of
4 Allied machines.
There is no news of the land fighting
on New Guinea. A few German
raiders have dropped bombs in
SE England and East Anglia
without damage or loss.
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