The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-07
Triumphant Russian Army
Push For1Uard Along Whole
Southern Front In Big Drive
threaten CITY
of Kharkov,
Bryansk
Berlin to be Made
Open City, Exodus
Under Way

~ international News Service
Triumphant Russian armies
surged forward along the entire
southern front today In \ mighty
drive that may mark the begin.
ming OF the end OF German military
might In Russia.
Flushed with the spectacular
successes they scored at Orel and
Belgorod, Red Army troops smash.
ed their way through German lines
along a wide front and threatened
the great Ukrainian industrial city
OF Kharkoy and the important
railway hub OF Bryansk.
One Russian force actually out
thanked Kharkoy by cracking its
way into zolochev, 30 miles to the
northwest. cutting the railway that
runs 10 Bryansk and thence 10
Moscow. Advancing along AZ
mile front. the Soyiets gained as
much as 81 miles In the big push
west OF Belgorod
sin the drive on Bryansk, vitality
important Naziheld anchor on the
central front, other Russian forces
captured the town OF Kromy. IS
miles southwest Of Orel. recorded
gains OF more than sir miles and
liberated more than 20 Inhabited
localities from the clutches OF the
invaders.
In official quarters. the twin vic
tories which resulted in the re-
capture OF Orel and Belgorod were
hailed az blows that have finish
ed Hitlers last adventure
New Panic
From London, meanwhile, came
the interesting report. by way OF
Turkey. that the Nazis are plan
ming 10 declare Berlin an open
city. With the population Of Ber'
lin said 10 be In a state or near
manic asa result OF the terrible de
struction wreaked on the great
seaport Of Hamburg. only Us miles
away. dispatches from lstanbnl
said the Germans were planning
10 move their government offices
10 Dresden. Leipzig. Munich ana
possibly even Prague.
Swiss reports. quoting travellers
from Germany. declared that
great exodus from Berlin mad al
ready started. And from no less
a person than Propaganda Minister
Joseph Goebbels himself came the
statement that Germans should
Keen their morale In l9A3 as me
british did during the Nazl bli'z
OF 1910.
From Switzerland too came
word that German Foreign MINIS
Ter Joachim Won Ribbentrop was
corferring somewhere in northern
Italv with the new Italian foreign
minister. Rafale Guarislia. Their
decision. It was said. would prob
ably decide ltaly's future course
in the war.
Tension increased between Ger
many and Sweden when a Gerfnaa
merchant ship was reported ~
have fired upon and damaged
swedish reconnaissance plane IN
the Gulf OF Bothnia.
Mop Up Japa
American forces that captured
the Japanese airbase at Munda
mopped up Isolated pockets OF enc
nv resistance in the nearby jung
lea while American airmen car
ried out heavy new aerial attacks
on other Jap bases in the Solo-
mons and on New Guinea
In a dogfight between is Amer
ican fighters and 80 Japanese
planes seven of the enemy were
shot down while only one Ameri'
can plane was lost The japanese
radio ignored the fall Of Munda'
INIT boosted that Japan had crush
ed the combined naval forces oil
the United states and Great BIT
ain In the first battle OF the Solo,
mons a year ago. =,
II was not the first time the Japs
have made such a sweeping claim
and It will probably not be the
last.
New Gains Made
Allied successes in Sicily were