The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-07-22

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and that any effort TO re-
volt could be considered to
have collapsed.
A mass Of unconfirmed
reports indicating revolts in
the German army and navy,
with Germany itself in a virtual
state OF siege. presented a con.
fusing picture
German military resistance 10
the Allies, however, had not col
lapsed. On the western front, the
fighting was deadlocked. A five
word communlque from supreme
headquarters said: There is moth.
ing to report Tanks begged down
In mud.
The Germans failed, however, TO
hold back the smashing Russian
offensives. Front dispatches To
Moscow said that some Soviet
forces were only 80 miles from
Warsaw as the Red tide poured
through dozens OF breaches In. tho
makeshift German line onto the
Polish plains. The capture OF
Ostroy further imperilled German
forces In the Battles.
Cross Bug
Red Army veterans who crossed
the Bug River threatened the
whole German defense structure
before Warsaw.
Allied forces closed In on Flor.
enoe in northern Italy. Advance
infantry elements were only IL
miles from the edge OF tho city.
The British Fifth Army captured
three towns In tho closest thrust
An American column captured a
town III miles southwest OF the
cultural center. on the west coast
American patrols stabbed within
four miles OF Pisa.
Hitler's labor chief, DR.. Robert
Ley, in a broadcast today assert
ed that IAN idiotic nobility had
plotted the overthrow OF Hitler
while German workers labor IL To-
16 hours without a Sunday or holi-
day lie further confused the ac.
counts OF the attempt on Hitler's
| life by asserting that mine or
1 the heaviest type imported from
Britain was used. Berlin's first
accounts said that Hitler escaped
with slight injuries when a bomb
exploded a little more than six
feet from him. A large mine
would knock down large build
ing.
The Nazi purge Of army officers
considered unreliable was said in
one Swiss report to have brought
death TO Field Marshals Walther
Won Brauchitsch. Karl Gerd Won
Rundstedt, Sigmund Wilhelm List
and Fritz Erich Won Mannsteip,.
Two strong American landing
forces converged along the west
central coast OF Guam today in
move that threatened to cut off
the islands principal harbor, Port
Aprs.
/ New Cabinet
In Tokyo, 1900 miles away. the
/ Japanese government reacted TO
the newest in a series OF reverses
/ by selecting It's first new cabinet
since the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The American soldiers and Gma-
rines who landed on Guam Thurs.
day quickly established mile-long
beachheads on both sides Of Port
Apra, War Correspondent John r.
Henry reported.
Henry said that naval gunfire
and aerial bombing preceding the
| landings literally excavated the
/ japanese coastal defenses."
communlque from Adm. Ches-
/ ter w. Nimitz' headquarters an
nounced that good beachheads had
been secured and additional troops
were being landed against light
initial resistance.
THE troops advancing inland
are meeting increasing reslstance
In some sectors" the communique
added. Our casualties are mod
crate"
The Tokyo radio acknowledged
/ the landings, but claimed that l.
/ 100 Americans we're killed at one
I landing beach and that "tremen-
dous losses" had left the invad-
/ ing forces in helpless disorder"