The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-25

Cflmea, was ono Of the first places bombed by German planes, Cons AtAnRA h RunAaniA'B great naval base. BullnA, Q minor base, ls at the middle mouth of tho Danube),
 Bombed Three Times
 "As e repFisal for two raids by German hombers on Kiev, Mlnsk, Llbau and Riga, Soviet bomberS thres times bombed Dansig, Noe. nlgsbarg, Lublln and Warsaw and wrought great destruction to mill. tary objcctlves. Petroleum depolA ln Warsaw are ln flames,
 (Kiev and Mlnsk are the chief elts les oi southwC .'er1i Russia, and Libau (LlepAja) and ftlga are tho big Latvlan Baltic bases, Danslg, at one side of tho old Polish Cor. ridor, was one of the troublesBpotB that led to the war. Koenlgsberg Is the capital and chief city of East Prussia. Luhlln and Warsaw are in 0erYnar.occupied polAnd).
 "On the 22d, 23d and 24th of June the Soviet air force lost 374 planes, chiefly damaged At Airdromes, In the same period the Soviet air force brought down in air coinbab l0i German aircraft. Tn addition ace cordIng to approximate data not less than 220 airplancs were destroyed on the eneny's airdromes.
 NaEis Change Uniforms
 '"rhe Germans land groups of Ave to 10 divcrsionists with parachuteS, In the uniform of Soviet militiamen, to damage communication fines. Ex. termination battallons have been formed in the rear of our armies to destroy the parachutists.d .dlversion- fists, The peoples Commissariat of internal affairs is charged with the direction of these battallons. (T'hiS might possibly mean that the extermlnAtion units had as c nucleus the Russian internal police, better known aS the secret ponee)
 Finland has placed her territory at the disposal of German troops and the German air force. Tn the past 10 days German troops and the German cir force have been conccn- trating in districts adjoining the Soviet Union borders. On June g BiX German AAfplanes, coming from Finnish territory, attempted t0 bomb Kronstadt but were driven of. One airplane was brought down and four German officers were takn prisoner. On June 24 four German planes coming from Finnish territory at- tempted to bomb the area Of Kan- dalaksha, and in the area Of KuoiQ- jaerW several German units cn. deavored 10 cross the frontier. The alrplanes were chased away and the German units were beaten of. Some German soldiers were taken prisoner,
 Railway Junction Attack
 tThis meant a German airplane attack on Kandalaksha, tho ifnpor- tant Russian railroad junction on the line extending Up te the Arctic coast parallel with the Finnish frontier.
 tA German troop thrust from the kuolajaerVi area would moan a thrust toward Kandalaksha from Finland,
 (Kandaiaksha b just above the Arctic Circle. KuolajAerW is west Of KandalakSha).
 "Rumania has placed her terri. tory fully at the disposal of German troops. The Germans not only un- dertak air raids on Soviet towns and troops from Ruinanian terri. tory but German and Rumanlan troops are operating jointly against Soviet troops. Repeated attempts by Rumanian. German troops to occupy Chernovitsy (CernautD and the eaatren bank of the Prut river have failed. Germans and Rumanians have been taken prisoner"
 (This ofl it's surface disposed of Turkish reports that Cernauti on tho Dukovina front on tho eastern slopes Of the Carpathians had been cap. tured, and affirmed that the Rus. slams were holding tho river Prut line in the frontier zeno).