The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-06-30
GERMANS CLAIM
 GREAT CAPTURE
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agency called the ksy to the bwow hgeA,
 clal ccUnEnunlque from fuehref head. quarters that tho German war dAg had been holsted on tho citadel oe hwow At 4.9o Q, m, (iOsD D. H. Sunday EDT).
 The ofaelAl news agency inaicat. ed that the Russians had offered furious reslstance to the attacking Germans.
 Strike I've Ways
 German forces struck from tive directions ct Jaworow, it was sald, masses" os Russian infantry and tank units opposed the German striking forces, the agency asserted.
 However tho fate of tho Bolshe. vists was already sealed and after several hours Of fighting the enemy was enclrcled," it continued. "Re. peatedly but vainly the enemy en. deavored to break out, Numerous enemy tanks were destroyed irlclud. ing tanks carrying big guns."
 The German advance was effected only after the German armored units had broken through "tremen- dous" Russian defenses near JR. worow, the agency said. 1t described Jaworow as the north. ern wing Of the Russian fortlfica. tions In the area of the Lwow fort- ress.
 (Columbla broadcastlng company early today picked up In New York German Spanish language news broadcast asserting that the Ger. ans had occupied Mlnsk, capital of White Russia, National Broadcast ing Company picked up German radio statements that the Germans were far beyond Minsk and had captured luck, on the Ukrainiai front.
 (derman infor1nants, questioned about these reports, said In Berlin that no such claims had been broad- cast Columbia noted that the Span- ish language claim to Minsk was not repeated in on English language news broadcast immediately after. ward)
 Main Maxi Drives
 The Eaain German drives ct the moment, it was indicated, were those by two steel clad armies, one north and the other south of the Prtpet marshes on the Polish. Russian frontier.
 According to late reports, the northern force had flanked Minsk In what was described aS c "head long" drive while the southern one had thrust past luck and the town of Dubno, 2O miles from the Ukrain- ian frontier, and about the sarne distance southeast of Luck.
 Military experts intimAted that tho big question now was whether the Russian forces were strong enough to prevent the German ad- vance from turning into . Russian rout.
 They said that, aside from yes- terdayS high command claim that 4,l0T Russian planes he'd been shot down, the whole Russian air force had now been practically annihilat- cd"
 They said that much importance should Do attached to the battle in the Lwow area, in which the capture of JAworow had been claimed this morning. They said that strong elite forces were engaged on both sides. No Chance To Escape
 Tn the Bialystok area east of the East Prussian frontier, the experts said, the big Russian forces had now no chance of escape and that they must either surrender or be annihiiated. On the Baltic front, it was arrested, the Russian forces had collapsed and the retreating main body had been cut of because the Germans now held the bridgeheads on the other side of the Duena river The "fact" that Russia had lost 2,z33 tanks was tribute to the German "Pak"--the Pan1er Abwehr Kanone or anti.tank gun corps - military informant said.
 Newspapers this morning pro- claimed that Hitler had saved Eu- rope from Bolshevisrl."
 Concentration of Soviet armies destroyed: Fuehrer rescues Europe from Bolshevistic invasion" head lined the Maxi party newspaper Voelkischer Beobachter. German victorious advance In East saved Eu. rope from 4olshevistic invasion, headlined Der Montag.
 Fad roads and destroyed wooden bridges are no obstacle to the rapid advance" said the ofiicial news agency. Tn burning heat German inSantrymen are putting % to 50 oE more kilometers behind them daily (This would mean advances of up to 250 miles in the first eight days by the infantyy)
 LATE GERMAN REPORT
 Berlin, June 3O.-(Up)-A special communique from Adolf Hitlers headquarters on the eastern front today claimed that the ring around surrounded Soviet armies" on the central front is being frightened, and another communique reported cap ture of Lwow.