The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-26
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 Evacuation
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tContlnuAd from Page O 900 other towns and villages, along with over 1000 German prisoners and huge quantities of war material.
 Haapsalu, 64 miles southwest Of Tallinn, fell Go Russian flying cole umns that struck S2 miles west from Mariamaa in a hours, riding down feeble enemy opposition In their path,
 German survivors pocketed against the seacoast north and south of Haapsalu had no alternative but surrender or risky evacuation to the Estonian islands of Hiuumaa and aarenaa, 12 miles of the coast, through the Red fleet blockade.
 Only one small port---Virtsu, 20 miles to the south--remalned open to the Germans and that was threatened by another Russian force that swung down from Marjamaa to take Vigala, Si miles northeast of Virtsu,
 The southern wing of GovoroV's Army drove southward from cap- tured Parnu, clearing 22-mile sec. ton of the Estonian seacoast and seiHing Haademeeste, eight miles north of the Latvian border Far. ther inland, Govorov's troops pushed down the parnu-Valga Railway to the Latvian frontier, taking Molsa. kula, 33 miles southeast of Parnu.
 The thrust carried GoVoroV's VaI- guards within l2,miles of a junction with Russian 3rd Baltic army forces that moved up the railway from Valga to Virkenu. At the same time, the Srd army drove westward toward the gulf of Riga on 0 40-mile Lat. vian front below Virkenu, rolling up the northern flank of the Ger. mans riga defenses,
 Lode Captured
 The Third Army captured Lode, eight miles northeast of Cesis, Q railway junction town less than 50 miles northeast of Riga.
 Cesis also was menaced by units of the End Baltic army which cap- tured more than 200 inhabited places in e companion drive toward the Gulf of Riga, including Vesel- auskas and Klaustes, seven miles cost and six miles south of the junc- tion.
 While the Soviets' lst Baltic army hammered into the outskirts of Riga itself from the south, the southern wing of the End army lashed out suddenly against the strong German Notifications due east of the capi- tai. Hurllng powerful tank and in- fantry forces Into the attack, the Russians smashed the Na2i winter line" east of Lake Plausas and drove on six miles to take Saunkeipne, 39 miles east of Riga More than l,600 Germans were killed in the day-long battle yesterday,
 (Herlln said the Soviets threw more than 1000 tanks into the as- sault against the Riga line and re. ported furious fighting on the ap- breaches to the eity9
 Soviet Silence
 The Soviet early morning com munique did not mention fighting along the Hungarian border, which 0 Romanian announcement yester. day said had been crossed in the Arad area. nor did 1t confirm the reported invasion of Slovakia from the north, although 1t was indicated that some Russian units already were operating inside that Nazl pup- pet state.
 (Ankara dispatches continued to report peace demonstrations in Bu- dapest, following the arrival of the Red army on Hungary'S borderJ
 Cossack horsemen and infantry unIs of Gen. Ivan Y. Petrov'S 4th Ukranian army famed out along . BS.mile stretch of the Polish-Slovak border, seiSing more than 50 Polish towns and villages and pushing five to i5 miles deeper Into the Carpath- ion mountain passes leading to Slo" Vakia and beyond to Hungary.