The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-28
rounds in Moscow last night.
 Rail Road Hub
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rounds in Moscow last night.
 Rail Road Hub
 Ancient Brest LitovSk, at the con- ference of the Bug and Muchawiec rivers. is the hub of rail lines to Moscow, Minsk, Wilno. Warsaw and East Prussia. Its pre-war popula- ton was 5000. The Russians for. tified it heavily before the first world war and considered it impreg- nable. But it fell to the Germans in 1915. and the Germans made it headquarters for their eastern army.
 Far to the west. ROkossovskys Cossack cavalry and armor already was pounding toward Warsaw, scattering the remnants of broken and disorganized German armies. The pace of the advance increased as the German units fell apart uEl- der the terrific hammering.
 ''The enemy is on the brink of a precipice, the Soviet Army Journal Red Star said. Forward to the west is written on our battle flags"
 A German catastrophe of the Stalingrad caliber was shaping up in the Battles. Whatever hopes the Nazis had of extricating their Bal- tic divisions appeared to have been doomed by a sensational Soviet Armored thrust 43 miles inside the German lines to capture Siauliai, Lithuanian communications center
 A Moscow dispatch said the fall of Siauliai split the Germans in the Battles and created a situation in which the Red Army can me" medically chop up the remaining units. At the same time powerful thrusts toward Riga increased the German peril.
 Hitler Order
 GA Nazi-controlled radio in Es- tOria said today that Adolf Hitler had ordered that country defended -an indication that the German command had decided to sacrifice its forces at the upper end of the exposed Baltic salient)
 The German communique said the battle on the eastern front ragged with increased violence all the way from the Carpathians to the Gulf of Finland.
 After the enemy succeeded in breaking deep into our front and achieving deep penetrations in some sectors, salients in our front line were withdrawn on some sectors in order to husband our forces" the high command said. During these operations designed to straighten out our front, the towns of Lwow, Brest Litoysk. BialystOk and Dau. gaypils were evacuated after the de- stFuction of al Installations Of mil- itary importance"
 Rokossoysky's list White Russian Army swept through GafyOliD, go miles southeast of Warsaw and m0pped up Siedlce. 50 miles east of the capital, yesterday while oth- CT Soviet forces were capturing six of the strongest enemy anchor bas- tons on the eastern front in the biggest cluster of victories since the start of the war,
 Che army cut the main escape routes for an estimated 20 enemy diyisions-200 900 to 300.000 men-in the Battles with the capture of the LItbuapisp communications hub Of 3iauliai and also seized Daugavpils Dvinsk); another seized the Lat. yiaD railway junction Of Rezekne; a third captured Bialystok, l02 miles northwest of Warsaw and a fourth Liberated Lw0W and the Qil city Of SlRnlslewoy on the approaches to cZech0sloysSia and ROmaDia,
 Exploit Victories
 Exploiting tbeiT victories, the Ras- siAI.s plunged to within 65 miles of the Latytap capital Of Riga, whose fall would complete the eneiFcles mept Of the enemy's Baltic forces, and to within B miles Of the Cza- Gh0slOyak border, They alG0 ylRs Llially completed the eDciTc Rment of lsrest Litoysk, ll5 miles east of Warsaw, and JaFoslaw tD Southern Poland.
 But even as MOse0W's glllgs were firing tilFlr unprecedented victory salutes Of 22,400 rounds, Ilolpiss0v- skys forces were 00DyeTging on WaFssw al a rate Of n0fe than a Wlle an hour for what would De ap even greater tr.umpb--tho IibeFav ton Of the Polish eapjtel,
 ,Tbe speed with whie4 R0k0ssoyr sky's tanks, cavalry RDd mobile iDv faDtFy have rolled up the east bank Of the Vistllla River during the past R hours indicated that the 0eTlaap command cen have litile nope of preventing teeED from gaaoPine the outsklFts I1 WRFsaw Wjt'lip C Hatv ter Of days
 The lst Army appeared to have Rebleged a bFeekthT0ugb 0f major pFopoTtiQEg, Nowhere along the path Of the advance bas the enemy been eble to rally enough strength to put up effective Fesistanee,
 The Soviet HRFshels forces 6toFneo through 9aFyOIiD, 30 miles southeast Of WaTEaW, ip a 2ssnaIle advance up the LlibliDr rWaFsaW Fallv way from pebltD iD 2S hours and thus Feeellsg 2 point 3s6 miles due east Of Berlin,
 FbR advance raised Q tbFeat Of eDtTabplaDt aeatpst the German garrison still holding out lD the streets of siealee, 3s miles northeast Of 0aFv0lID,
 kaaeb VistWls
 R0kossevsky's forces also reached the Vistula River, which passes thFough WaFaaw, 0ll e besmlle front