Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-08-10
|NewF|ankM Move
+Peri|s Warsaw,
East Prussia
Berlin Tells of Red
Operations West of
Upper Norew River

BY the Associated Press.
LONDON, Aug. 10.-A grave
new Russian thanking threat to
both East Prussia and Warsaw
in the area west of the Upper
Narew River" a famous battle
ground of the last war, was dis
CLOSED today in the German COM
munique.
West of the Upper Narew River,
repeated Soviet attacks were either
beaten off or checked" the Berlin
bulletin said
The German radio also reported
Russian troops were across the Wis.,
lula only Is miles southeast of War
saw. the nearest crossing to the
Polish capital yet reported The
report said Soviet troops succeeded
IN establishing bigger bridgehead
across the Pilica" River which flows
eastward into the Vistula below the
capital. The dispatch underlined
an immediate f1anking threat to the
south of Warsaw, as well as to the
north.
The NareW, where Falkenhayn
broke Russian lines Just % years
ago and forced armies of the Gear
to evacuate the Warsaw salient,
meanders near the south border of
East Prussia, generally to Is miles
away. 1t flows through the impor-
tant communications center of
Lomza and joins the Vistula River
just northwest of Warsaw. The
communicate suggested that Lomza
might indeed be in Russian hands.
Entrapment Threatened.
Any appreciate advance west Of
the Narew would outflank East Prus-
STA and expose German armies there
to entrapment, Just as the 20 to Is
divisions of the 10th and 18th Armies
have been cut of in Latvia and Es-
tonia. Similarly, such drive would
outf1ank Warsaw to the north, just
as the Polish capital has been flank
ed loosely to the south by 4l-mile
bridgehead west of the Vistula in the
area about ITO miles below Warsaw
Moscow dispatches said the Red
Army had driven deep thrust
into the German left flank north
east of Warsaw" but did not men,
ton the Narew River.
The Red Army now has East
Prussia open to an outf1anking
movement, Associated Press Cor
respondent Daniel De Luce reported
from the Russian capital.
Russian communicates this week
have told of renewed Russian drives
in that area west Of Bialystok.
Boundary Towns ShelIed.
Moscow also reported Russian
artillery near the eastern frontier
of East Prussia was necessarily
Smelling German communications
and boundary towns. The German
communique said "counterattacks of
our troops are going on at Vilkav-
iskis." in Lithuania, IL miles from
the holy soil' of Germany.
For week or so, Marshal Stain S
Russian communicates have shown
IlldU I1tlSulCdll 1ciHldil uClClloC
stands have slowed the Red Armies
along the 1.200mile front. Other
reasons for the pause are the neces-
sites of consolidating the vast sum-
mer gains, improving communica-
tons and regrouping the Russian
divisions and armies for new thrustS.
The German announcement to-
day and the suggestions in last
nights Moscow bulletin indicated
that the Russian armies between
Warsaw and East Prussia were
charging forward again. At points,
the Narew River flows within 3l5
miles of Berlin.
The Germans told also of Russian
deployments and tank concentra-
tons. particularly in the big Vistula
bend" so miles or so below Warsaw,
and west of Kaunas," in the area
approaching East Prussia.
The Berlin communique reported
Russian breakthroughs in the Sa-
nok area, where the Russians are
within 20 miles of Beskid Pass lead
ing through the Carpathians into
Czechoslovakia, and at Melee, in
the area of the Russian breach in
the ViStula River line.