The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-18
Interpreting
T'heWar'
BY KIRKE L. SIMPSON
Associated Press War ,na,

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An unprecedented B3itish Sas
ty move freezing even dtpIo ,r'0.l-
channels in England agalns+ ;n ,,'yc
tional or inadvertent discloy~-.' ''H,
military information don.r NV. .,
the war news last night ''''o
1t stripped embassies Isr,..
and consular agencies in F~ .''o'S
of all irnmunitieS from censa ,,,'s'a
Or unrestricted movement At ',.P
sonnet to cover 'ilnpending,, o pV.'
ations. 1t gave blunt notice ~ o2 N
world that the hour OF Anglo.4 Az we
lean second front invasion ~ a
European continent is dro,.; WIG
near. 1t came, too, at the MONS
when by every indication vio ,'s!.
Gus Russian armies are n7o, ,G.''
into position for a sinuI+aneorS
two front attack in the east ,r;G
increasing direct Allied air sIn n.,4
to carry out Russian Allied Nm pG1'
tary commitments EXCHANGES '''',
Teheran. AZ
Moscow advices report tbe o.,
of Sevastopol, last Naz footbala
in southern Russia, imminer.
With it's capture the full weigS.
Of five mighty Russian armies tSa.
have rolled unchecked from tbo
Volga and the Caucasus 10 tbo
Dnestr and beyond into Po7ard
and Romania will be avajIabla
to invade the Nazi citadal. Thew
are already battering at the GaIa4
gap gateway to the Balkan PENN.
sula in the south, and massins
north of the Carpathians to crash
the Lwow barrier to the plains
of western Poland beyond which
lies Germany itself.
In close support of the Russian
drive at the Galati Focsani crt.
cal sector of the Nazi shrivelinr
Balkan defense front Allied heayy
bombers have stepped up their
blasting of every supply life line
of the crumbling Nazi defense
front from the Carpathian foothills
to the Black Sea,
Repeated Allied bombing of The
Ploesti road and rail hub of the
lower Danube valley and of Bras.
ov at the north end of the noun.
tain pass above it through which
the main Budapest Bucharest rail
road runs unquestionably repre-.
sents joint Russian Allied staff
planning. The same can be said
of the bombardment of Turno-Sev.
ern, just below the iron gate Of
the Danube. The secondary rail
connection between Budapest and
Bucharest enters the Danube val
ley through that grim, mountain
locked portal.
There are only two other rail
t h r a d e d passes southwark
through the Pennsylvania Alps 10
the great valley of the Danube
That both will feel the weight Of
Allied air attack in immediate
support of the Russian drive con-
verging from three directions on
the Galati Gap is certain.
Not only rail and road connec.
tons vital to any prolonged Nazi
stand on that most remote sector
of the whole German continental
front call for it; but through the
junction points involved runs also
the main Ploesti oil pipe line lead
ing to the iron gate of the Danube
where shipments are Transferred
to river barges to reach Germany.
Russians and Allied air power
alike are cutting at Nazi natural
oil arteries in their Interfering
Balkan campaign.
NorthWard up the eastern front
Russian capture of Tarnopol has
opened the way for the next for
ward lunge of the First Ukrainian
Army. The eliminating attack on
the Lwow gateway to the western
plains of Poland is now possible
A Russian breakthrough there
would intensity German natural oil
difficulties. The wells and rein
cries of Gallicia lie beyond on the
northern flank of the mountains It
was in part to seize that supple
ment to Nazi oil sources Hitler
attacked Poland to bring on the
struggle that has spread clear
around the world.