The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1944-07-25

Besides their traditional weighed
sabres, the Cossacks we're battering
down feeble enemy rear guard re-
sistance with Tommy guns, anti
tank rifles and mobile artillery. The
larger Cossack units even have their
own tank groups and aviation.
Front dispatches said Soviet van
guards came within sight of the
Wigla river after capturing Lublin
ON the Kiey- Warsaw railway yester-
day. Lublin lies 100 miles SOUTH
east OF Warsaw.
Cossacks from Marshal Konstan-
tin X. Rokossovsky's list White RUS
sian Army drove into the outskirts
of Siedlce, strategic railway ana
highway junction 80 miles southeast
of Warsaw, after capturing Lukow,
IS miles 10 the southeast.
The fan Of Lukow cut the last OF
the iOul escape railways for the
German Garrison Of Brest Litoysk,
nearly 90 miles to the east, and left
It only a few secondary roads over
which to flee.
The LIST army also captured
Chernaychitsy, eight miles north Of
Brest Litoysk, and Chotylow, Is
miles southwest, and were reported
fighting In the western outskirts OF
the city.
Koneys army on the southern
front severed the eighth of Lwows
nine radlating railways and brought
the sole remaining line, running
southwest TO 6ambor. under artil-
lery fire.
Two stations were captured on the
trunk railway running due Vest to.
ward Krakow, M0seiska, II miles
east OF Przemysl, and SadOya-Wi-
szepia, % miles west of LwOw
6taroye-selo, 10 miles southeast OF
LwOw on the Lw0W 6tanislaw0y
railway, also was captured,
i0-Mile stretch
The Soviet high command gave
no details Of the forcing of the San
River, but the Russians reached the
east bank along q a0-mile stretel
north and south of Jaroslaw "a
hours earlier.
The deep Cossack inr0ads into the
German rear appeared 10 be layil q
the foundations for another series
OF entertainments and annihilatlon of
enemy forces, similar 10 the liquida-
ton 81 German pockets east OF
Minsk end northeast of LWoW.
The Soviet information bureau
disclosed yesterday that the LIST, and
and sFd White Russian armies and
the LIST Baltic Army, which bore the
bFnnt OF the fighting in the frs
days OF the Soviet summer offen-
slYe, had killed 38l 900 Germans
and captured l57054 IN the month
from june 20 10 July 20,
Another $4,000 were killed and H.
ITO captured by the LIST UkFainlan
army In the elimination of the
pocket behind Lw0w, bringing the
total Tor the first month of the
summer offensive to at least A86, l29
slain or taken prisoner, The White
Russian forces and the lgt Baltic
army also were credited with eApv
turing 0l destroying 6Gl enemy
planes, s,735 tanks ana aelfspro,
PEELED guns, and R,702 field guns,
North OF arest LiL9Vsk, the Rus,
slams drove 10 within six miles east
0f Blalystok With the capture OF Ka-
mellka and also seized R0kolna, 20
miles 10 the northeast aud only I'll
miles hel0Y the East Pgussian h0r.
leT-rthe closest Soviet advance yet
70 the All'edEree0gnlzAd border of
GERMANY proper,
The Germans thTeg two reg
lmeDts Of Infantry and so tanks
from the newly arrived 18th Ger.
man tank division from Holland
into Q eounteg.attaek on the ap-
pr0aehas to Bialyst0k, but the enc.
ny units FetFeated In disorder after
loklng $50 men and 81 tanks,
Gen, Ivan g, BaeFamian's lkt Bal,
re Army gained new ground In 4
ihFi s-pr0ERea drive toward Inc Ral.
ne, capturing Plusy, 20 miles south.
eaet OF pausavpilg lDvlnskl. W..
balniEkaA, "a miles south southeast
OF Riga. and ukmeree, ~ miles
north % KRunaa.