The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-08-16
Red Surge.
On Prussia
Increases
INVASION DRAWS NEAR
1880 N zis Reported
Killed Or Captured
By Single Army

U N u " ~ w
Aug. 49, (AP)-Sovle
field dispatches said las
night that Red army troops
had crossed the Biezrza rlv'
er in northern Poland, strik'
ing through a 15-mile belt o:
Axis defenses guarding i'm
nprilled East Prussia, while
Moscow announced that Mar
shal Ivan S. Konev's Fourth
Ukraine army had killed OF
captured 1880 Germans.
Konev's troops attacking
through southern Poland toward
German Silesia killed 100000 Ger
mands between July 10 and Aug
T. the special announcement said
On the basis of Moscow accouts
six Soviets armies have killed OF
CAPTURED a total of 781,886 Ger
mas since the great summer Of
fensive began June %, and Wher
three other armies presently engag'
ed in shattering the Reich forces
are heard from the total is likely
to exceed 100000
swarms of armored fighter
bombers covered the Russian
surge toward East Prussia, spray
ing German positions at Grajewo
only two miles from the frontier
in the attack along the Bialystok
Lyck railway.
The Russians already are
endangering thousands of outflank
ed German troops fighting in the
Suwalki triangle short distanc,
above the Biebrza river sector. The
Suwalki triangle, annexed to cas-
Prussia from Poland in 1899, re
Getty was invaded by Gen. Ivar
Cherniakhovsky's Third White Rus
sian army.
When German reserves, flunf
INTO battle in the SuWalki area ane
along the East Prussian-Lithuaniar
border farther north, slowed Cher
niakhovsky, the Second White Rus
san army went over to offensive
now rolling dangerously close to the
southern border of East Prussia OF
the fringe of the Masurian lake
famous battle-ground in the frs
World War.
The Soviet high command daily
communique was silent about thi.
sector, but Associated Press Mos
COW Correspondent Daniel De Luc,
SAID an invasion of the southern
partof East Prussia was likely il
the next 2 hours.
In the north Gen. Ivan Mas
lennlkov's Third Baltic army hat
swept halfway across southern
hsIonla and was on the verge 0
cutting the Pallinn-Riga trunk rail
way - communications back-bon
linking the 100000 stranded Gel
mans Of Col, (Pen. Georg Linde
manns two Baltic armies whic]
are last whitening under the blow
W this powerful contingent.
Inc Russians were only 70 mile
ron the Gulf Of Riga.
Madlse, less than five miles from
NE Talllnn-Riga railway and
nlles west of Antsla on the roa
isn'Latvian border city and "a.
junction, was captured, the Bullet
Salo, IN a seven-mile advanc
rUilnWest of Antsla, taken Monday
lle ran station of Anne, thre
hlAeS west of Antsla onthe roa
wmperllled Valga, also was sci:
~ as well as Urvaste, seven mile
HVftneast of Antsla.
Striking northward along tn
'vlu-lartu highway another Sovi'
vOlumh swept through Mustajoe,
nles southeast of Tartu and /;
ALleS from Tallinn, Estonian cap
Id on the Baltic. Ten miles mort
easl OF Voru they seized Vasts
T TOlola' Pushing along the Petser
n rarlu railway another group toe
rn,ulnetsa, IL miles northwest
;e'serl' The advance point take
IL me push northWard along II
VEST HeSF bank of Lake Pskov was M
A',naihae, ID miles north of Petsel
FOR the first time in weeks t
russian bulletin mentioned tt
a'lSaW area, saying that Germ;
.0uii'erattacks had been repuls'
' sSSl of Praga, the east bank su
": Wv OF the Polish capital on t.
,lStula river. Russian units of Ma
81 lal honstantin K. Rokossovsky
NsI white Russian army last we
.eported within II miles of VIZ
saw at MostoWka on the northea
oeSleged Warsaw is 100 mil
'outAWest Of the shattered Beibr
-Nef sector, and Zakharvo's trot
Ilo those under Rokossovsky ha
ven slowly driving a wedge
"eeh Warsaw and East Pruss