The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-07-25
By LOUIS P. KEEAgI.E iUniiea Press War Editorl

The Allied First and Second Armies resumed their interrupted olfensiyes in Normandy today in co-or6inated attacks on both sides Of the front. while in Poland the Russians hammered the disorgan- ized Germans back towards War saw and the Wisla (Vistula) river with increasing speed.
 The Allied air offensive over Eu- rope meanwhile proceeded on q major scale curing the night and iOday from Britain and Italy. The ground forces in Italy frightened their grip on bitterly contested Pisa and pounded towards the German Gothic defense lire against stub born resistance across the penin- gula.
 British and Canadian forces Of the Second Army in Normandy be- gan their attack before dawn with a heavy artillery baTrage supported by bombers of the second tactical air force. The troops struck south east of caen along the highway leading to Falaise and by mid-morn- ing had fought their way into the towns of May-SuT -Orne, St. Mar ttn-De-F -Fontenay, Verrieres and Tllly-La Campagne on an are four to five miles below caen. The ad- vance in the first few hours was generally up to about one mile.
 The Americans made their move on the western half of the front shortly before noon after a heavy aerial bomhardment American headquarters said the list Army was "adVaneing against heavy resist anee" but did not define the area under attack,
 It, Gen. Sir Bernard l., MOnt- g0meFy's 2lst Army group head quarters warned that the Second ATmy's offensive was not an all-out attack designed to smash through the enemy's lines towards Paris, but had only ''limited 0bjeetiyes,"
 Tine combined operation gas pos- slbly line -stTaightenjpg mapeuyer to prepare the way for 2 larger ot- fenslVe, and to deepen the British position south and east of GaeD for fTank protection,
 As the attacks opened Sir James GTlgg, British secretary for war, told the House of Commons that Allied forces in Normandy probably killed 10000 Germans in the first seven weeks of the invasion and took 67,750 prisoners up to July l6,
 On the Russian front, eossaek h0Tsenlen tp the vanguard Of We Soviet avalanche westward were within sight of the Wlsla after the capture of Lublin on the kteyTWaTs say railway and were less than 30 miles from Warsaw beyond pyT passed 6ledlee, from which the Ger mans were being driven,
 Military men in Moscow declared the German armies on the cenVTg Front had been militarNy broken Front reports indicated that k9e entire German line from Rledlce south to the CaTpathlan Mountains had collapsed and that the way was open for 8 speedy march 10 WaFsaW'
 LWoW and RTest Lltoysk, byTpass.. ed stF0ngholds, already were op miles behind the advance soylel columns and were VlFtlally enelFelea Russian troops were pouring across the San river 60 miles west Of LWow and the fortress towns Of JaFoslaW and PEsemysl appeared about ~ fall,
 Steady Russian progress also was reported towards the northern en1 Of the front ip the Baltic area, az though not on the same headlong scale as iD the south, The Soviet information bureau announced yes. teTday that in the first month oI the summer offensive, which began June 22, Soviet forces had Billed 0F captured 496,l29 Germans,
 The effect Of the eastern fF0M disasters on the home front lp Tes volt shaken Germany was being closely watched by Allied observers and by Germans who are convinced that Adolf Hitler has lost the war,
 sixteen captured German generals ln Russia issued Joint appeal 10 German officers still in aeil0n 10 break with hitler, refuse to obey