Current Events Jamuary 5, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JANUARY 5, 1944:

Rumania has ordered all civilians to evacuate Basarabia because of the approach of the Red

army, an Ankara, dispatch said today, and neace demonstration were reported spreading through Adolf Hitler's Balkan satellites.

The Red army slashed deep into the flank of 1,000,000 Germans threatened with entrapment in
the Dnieper bend today, driving one spearhead 30 miles below Belaya Tserkov and another within 50 miles of the Qdessa-Lwow railroad, the Nazis' -last trunk route of escape

                    SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 5, 1944

NAZIS SPEED DEFENSES

LONDON, Jan. 5.—(U.P)—

Rumania has ordered all civilians to evacuate Basarabia because of the approach of the Red

army, an Ankara, dispatch said today, and neace demonstration were reported spreading through Adolf Hitler's Balkan satellites. The Exchange Telegraph agency, reporting the Rumanian evacuation order, 'said German troops were hurriedly throwing up fortifications along the southwestern bank of the-Dniester river. At last reports the Russians were only 85 miles from .the Dniester.
TrH.vel?r? Erriyif1 i^ Istanbul frcm Sofia following restoration of railway communications between the two countries said theBulgaria!: political crisis had" reached a climax with the failure of all efforts to form a coalition government..

Fury of Soviet

Attack Mounts;

Nazi Flank Hit
New Spearhead Threatens

Foe's Last Hope of Escape

MOSCOW, Jan. 5.—(U.P)—
The Red army~slashe~d deep into the flank of 1,000,000 Germans threatened with entrapment in
the Dnieper bend today, driving one spearhead 30 miles below Belaya Tserkov and another within 50 miles of the Qdessa-Lwow railroad, the Nazis' -last trunk route of escape

Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's troops swung; southward and southwestvrar in a lifeline- movement

aimed at enveloping-"the German positions strung precariously eastward from the Bug river line in the lower Ukraine along the Black sea.

Trap Closing

Soviet armored columns were driving down toward Vinnitsa and Zhmerinka, the latter a rail junction

through which the bulk of the Germans in the bend must move if they are to escape the grand-scale

Russian maneuver.