Current Events November 10, 1943; VICTORY IN 44:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 10, 1943:

The German military juggernaut has been beaten "to an extent which may well prove mortal," but the. Allies

must brace themselves for a last supreme and victorious lunge against Germany in 1944, Winston Churchill

asserted yesterday.

The Russians' strong drive west of Kiev to separate the German armies of the north and south made continued rapid progress yesterday as the Red Army Tanned out in a 55-mile deep arc around the liberated Ukrainian capital.

                                THE STARS AND STRIPES
                     Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations
Vol. 4 No. 8   New York, N.Y.—London, England Wednesday,                         Nov. 10, 1943

Nazi Might Already Smashed,
Last Supreme Effort Is Needed
To Win in '44, Churchill Asserts
                     Knockout Blow to Be
                        Costly to Allies,
                            He  Warns
The German military juggernaut has been beaten "to an extent which may well prove mortal," but the. Allies
must brace themselves for a last supreme and victorious lunge against Germany in 1944, Winston Churchill
asserted yesterday.
In a speech at a banquet for London's Lord Mayor—his first speech since the Russian armies smashed Hitler's line along the Dnieper River and the first since the accord reached at the Moscow conference—he
indicated that even with good fortune the Allied war effort must run well into 1944. He warned also that the Allies must expect new and more terrible Waterloos for the British and new and bloodier Gettysburgs for the Americans. All. however, unquestionably would end in Germany's ruin, he declared.
Mr. Churchill rated the Anglo- 1 American aerial offensive against Germany as "one of the prime causes of
; extending the ruin of the Hitler regime.
                                                        " Most Severe Test Ahead "
I am proceeding on the assumption that the campaign of 1944 in Europe will be the most severe and, to the western Allies, the most costly in lives we have yet fought." the Prime Minister said.
Mr. Churchill began by saying: "Since we were last gathered here a year ago we and our Allies have had a year of almost unbroken victory in every theater and oti every front.

Key Railway
West of Kiev
Russian Goal
Reds Fan Ou in 55-Mile
Arc Past Gty; Soviets
Gain on All Fronts
The Russians' strong drive west of Kiev to separate the German armies of the north and south made continued rapid progress yesterday as the Red Army Tanned out in a 55-mile deep arc around the liberated Ukrainian capital.
Hitler's armies had only one thin .'connecting link laft to them—the railway which connects Vitebsk, Orsha
and Mogilev to the north with Germa held cities in the south. West of Kiev the Russians rapidly wereapproaching this railway near Korosten. capture of which would mean the Nazis' only remaining link would be through Poland. -•
Another Russian goal was the Odessa- Lwow- Warsaw railway, only 100 miles from Soviet spearheads. Seizure of the line would force the Germans to fall back deep into Rumania in oxder 10 save their forces being driven from southern Russia.
                                                           Column Driving South
One prong of the Soviet advance west of Kiev was driving southward in the direction of the Kremenchug salient and the Krivoi Rog sector. The possibility of Nazi forces within the Dnieper Bendbeing encircled grew hourly, and even Berlin recognized the peril. Sertorius. German commentator,pointed out the obvious Russian aim of encirclement, and said that German reserves had been thrown into the sector southwest of Kiev, slowing down ihe Red Army advance.