The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-21

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 Big air battles ragged over the Niemen sector as German planes swarnied against the Soviet hridge- heads and crossings in an attempt to slow down Red Army advance and gain time for the battle of East Prussia.
 The battle of Lwow dominated the news from the long front. with dispatches reporting 1t in the final phase even as the Russians stormed it's gates. indicating that the over- whelming pressure was expected to throw out the German garrison in short order.
 Soviet confidence in quick victory at Lwow was reflected in the dis- closure that Russian civilian service personnel-pagty secretaries. teach- CTS. doctors. druggists, architects and bank elerks-were moving iE with the Red Army to install a new administration immediately.
 One mobile prlntsfop already was publishing the first editions of a Lwow newspaper. Free Ukraine" Engineers were laying asphalt roads to Lwow to speed up the advance.
 The drive against Lwow was sup- ported by a new Red Army ofien- slye to the north in the Kowel area, forming the southern arm of a pins cers against Brest Litovsk.
 The new offensive came as other Soviet Forces hammered out steady advances along the entire front from Latyla in the north to Lwog in the south, where the Red Army troops struck within five miles Of the huge railway center and began q terrific artillery bombardment Of the German defenses.
 (A German report that General Ivan D. CheFnlakhoysky's Third White Russian Army was fighting at Augustow. eight miles from East Prussia. was not confirmed by the SoyietsD
 The dual drive toward Warsaw was being carried out by Marshal Konstantin K. Rokossoysky's First White Russian Army from north and south Of BFest Litoysk. and Marshal Ivan 8. K0ney's First UkTainlan Army from the K0wel area, further south,
 Their two forces joined yesterday at Wl0dlmieTx, 30 miles southwest af Kowel, to open tine way for q heavy assault toward Lublin, one Of the key German defense points on the railway to Warsay,
 Rak0ss0VEky's troops were tanned around Brest LitoYsk to north at K0shki. 3l miles south Of Bialystok, ard to the south along 6 sbvmile front on the Fast Bank Of the Bug river In the center Of the Are, the White Russian troops held KobFyn, 27 miles east of Brest LAtoysk and Mat0ryka, 2s miles southeast,
 More than zoo towns and 6ettles menis were Liberated ID the first three days 0f the a0vBallf drive that carried 10 the Bug, south Of Brest Ntoysk, where the troops were only l2 miles east of chelnl, one 0f the outlying protective bases before Luhlin,
 Furious tank battles WeFe report cd al0ng the front, Wtth the oeFs mans losing scores Of eFmoTed Vehig eles and more than leAop dead yes' ieFday,
 The battle (eT Lweg, one Of the greatest railway eepters ig Europe, was believed approaching Q eliWek, Nilh k0neV's forces hamlDeFing at the elly's outskirts with artillery alld tanks from poFoshey which tell yesterday,
 9hs bkrplnisp troops alse ln, creased the pressure 0D Lwew from lw0 sides, They snlashAd around the north flank 70 Rawa Rllska, el miles 70 the northwest, to cut ihe road and FalD lines t0 Lublln and WaFkaW, and captured PrHemyslyany 29 miles RontheaGt 0f the city,
 Approximately e000 0ermalls weFe Killed lD the powerful Soviet drive Co EaWa RllRka, aHd aD estimated l0000 70 10000 Mag FnfanlTymen wefe believed trapped ln 2 50eE square mile pocket between Lwow and DTNdy,
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