ANNEX From: Air Ministry To: A.F.H.Q., Algiers U.S.St.A.F. Repeated J.S.M. Washington COSMED 79 4th April 1944 Following for General Wilson and General Spaatz from C.A.S. Reference Cosmed 72. The continuing Russian advance on southern half of Eastern Front has severed direct rail communication north and south. Germans are now entirely dependent on smooth working of Roumanian railways for movement of supplies and reinforcements for their forces in Bessarabia and Ukraine and for withdrawal of these forces.