The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-11
War On Many Fronts
-ooast Guard photo from NEA Telephoto

early today and in the first three hours of battle advanced several hundred yards uphill against strong enemy positions.
 General Sir Bernard L. Mont- gomery, commanding Allied ground forces in France, said in @ message to his troops that offensive opera tions are being developed according to plan and the first month of the invasion has given cause for satis- faction.
 oMntgomery said the Germans have suffered heavy losses, includ- ing 54,000 prisoners, and the tier rife pounding" they have taken has forced them to give gorund.
 The Russians were advancing all along the 350-mile front from the Baltic States southward but were making thei rmost spectacular gains in the north. Front dispatches said the third White Russian Army was engaged in battle for the annihi- lation of the Germans trapped in encircled Wilno, capital of Soviet Lithuania.
 Wilno was left behind while the battle still ragged in its streets and one Soviet column was driving to- wards Kaunas, 56 miles northwest ward on the road to Memel on the Baltic. Vanguards were reported 40 miles inside Lithuania and only p miles from Kaunas.
 To the northeast, other columns were advancing on a broad front to- wards Riga on the Baltic. Neutral dispatches said the Germans were evacuating factories as well as part of the civilian population from East Prussia as the situation developed menacingly towards its borders. To the south the Russians were pressing ahead for a drive across the Polish plain towards Warsaw and the Reich itself. They were 90 miles east of Bialystok, 108 miles east of Brest Litovsk and 62 miles east of Grcdno, all strongholds barring the way to Warsaw. In the Pripet Marshes, the first White Russian Army was within Il miles of Pi1sk and was threatening Brest Litovsk from the southeast beyond captured Kowel.
 On the Italian front, the Allied communique said "the stubborn battle continues" The big fight was for the Tyrrhenian seaport of h. vorno, which held firm against frontal attack by Fifth Army forces still ten miles away.
 The Americans were driving up from the southeast to turn the de. lenses and drive the garrison out by a lanking movement. By-passing the mountain strong point of La- jatico, eight miles northwest of Volterra, they captured the fortified town of Casale, 3 1-2 miles north of Castellina.
 French forces also were engaged in stiff fighting inland on the right of the Americans, as were clements of the Eighth Army northeast of Siena. On the Adriatic side, a fight for the port of Ancona similar to the one for Livorno was in progress.
 In the air war, a force of more than HOO American heavy bombers strongly escorted by fighters braved bad weather and powerful anti air craft defenses to bomb Munich in southern Germany. During the night twin -engined Mosquitoes bombed Berlin and ranged over north- eastern France to attack road and rail transport behind the battle lines. Flying conditions prevented tactical support of the troops in action.
 After a peaceful night, London was again under attack by Robot bombs today and evacuation of chil- dren continued at the rate of 2,000 a day.
 Tn the Pacific, 1t was disclosed that Guam and Rota, south of oc- cupied Saipan in the Marianas, had been brought under regular air att tack and were bombed for the fifth straight day on Sunday. Other bom- bers ranged widely over the Caro- lines and Marshalls and in the southwest Pacific Iiberators attack ed Sarong. on the western tip of Dutch New Guinea, 500 miles from the Philippines.