The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-15
The War On MonyFronts
BY LOUIS F. KEEMLE Limited Press War EditOr)

The rout of the Germans in the Ukraine grew in size like a snow ball rolling downhill today.
 Except for its northern anchor around Tarnopol in Poland, the Nazis line east of the Bug river was collapsing at each of the main points of Russian attack.
 At the southern end, in the tri- angle of the lower Bu river and Dnieper rivers, several German di- visions totalling perhaps 45,000 men, were encircled in pocket of about 300 square miles. In trying to break out, the Germans lost 10000 killed and 4,000 captured.
 Tn the center, Gen. Ivan s. Ko- news second army Widened its hold on the middle Bug southwest of Uman to 40 miles and had broken across the river at some points.
 To the north, the strong German line which had held the Russian pressure towards VinnitSa for more than two months was breaking and the city was being encircled. Its fall would carry the Russians across the Bug to Zhmerinka and separ- ate the northern part of the Ger man army from the southern.
 DisintegratiOn
 The greatest disintegration of the German lines was in the south, where Gen. Rodion Y. MalinovSky'S Third Army, after taking Emerson, advanced 9 miles in 24 hours, or pN,iln hn- sides pocketing the divisions east of Nikolaev. were closing in from two directions on that Black Sea port.
 The air war in western Europe was stepped up when American heavy bombers from Britain resumed the daylight offensive against central Germany with strong escort of fighters.
 The Berlin radio reported major air air battle in the Hanover in- dustrial area, which would mean that the Luftwaffe again has been forced into combat, as sought by the Allies.
 The American assault came after night attacks b yBritish two-mo- tored Mosquito bombers on the Dusseldorf area in western Ger many. Also during the night the Germans made a heavy incendiary attack on London, in which they spread extensive fires. They lost 13 planes.
 U. s. Bombers
 American bomberS likewise were blasting enemy military objectives at Rome and elsewhere in Italy, do- ing great damage to the communica- tions system which supplies the enemy forces ill the south. The Pre- nestina railway yards in Rome's out skirts were blocked at both ends by bombs and more than 100 railroad cars were destroyed or damaged, The yards are an important junction point to Florence and the east coast. Other bombers hit he Terni yards, about 40 miles north of Rome, and at Orte both on lines leading to Florence.
 Land action flared up again on the Anzio beachlIad south of Rome, where British troops made surprise attack and penetrated the German lines near the Anzio-Albano high way. The enemy had been concen- trating there for an attempt to slice into the beachhead.
 Considerable activity marked the diplomatic front. The Finnish parliament was called in session to decide whether to break the dead lock in negotiations for an armistice with Russia. The deadline for a decision one way or the other ap- peared to be approaching.
 Rumania London reports indicated that Ru- mania was persiSting in her efforts to get terms from the Allies with out much prospect of success, in view of the conditions supposedly being advanced by an enemy seek ing to surrender. Bulgaria, however, was reported senuding an emissary to London who might get a more receptive ear.
 In the Pacific, American forces edged closer to Rabaul, New Bri- tain, with new landing on the northern coast 26 miles from the Talasea beachhead Other forces cleared the enemy from two more islands in extending the American hold in the Admiralties. The Jap | anese were beaten back in three in- effective attacks on Bougainville.