The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-01-11
The Wor On
 Many Fronts


 were believed to have cut the Ger man armies on the Russian front virtually in two today while the Soviet government offered to com promise its boundary settlement with Poland and American troops penetrated German defenSos in Italy.
 The Allied aerial offensive re- sumed full power as a mighty force of American bombers streamed out over Axis Europe 8 few hours after British Wellingtons blasted Sofia in the second Allied raid on the Bulgarian capital in l2 hours.
 Hard-driving vanguards of Gen. Nicolai r. Vatutin's lst Ukrainian army were reported to have swept past the rail junction town of Sarny, 3S miles inside the old Polish bor- Ger. severing the last north and .suth communication line between the German armies east of Brest I,ltovsk l30 miles to the north west.
 Other units of the lst army, rac- mg across the border some 24 miles south of Sarny, smashed the Ger man Slutch river line and overran the major highway junction Ber- eznov and Lyudvioul, 2S miles south Of Rovno, German administrative capital for the Ukraine.
 Farther South
 Still farther south left wing units {. of the lst Army occupied Nemi- rov. only five miles from the Bug river. 54 miles from Rumania'S Bessarabian frontier and 20 miles 4 trunk railway, last practical exit s for thousands of German troops cornered in the Dnieper bend.
 Meanwhile, Gen. Ivan s. Konev'S westward rolling 2nd Unainian army intensified It's offensive around Smela and north of Kirovograd, overr,lnning more than 50 inhabited localities and killing 5000 German tank and motorized troops who re- fused to surrender their arms. Many prisoners were taken.
 In the Caucasus, the German DNB agency reported, Russian troops landde at dawn yesterday on the north coast of the Kerch peninsula ! at the eastren tip of the Crimea. To the north in White Russia, re- inforced Red Army units have driv- cn important breaches" in German defenses in the Vitebsk area the Nad Paris radio said.
 CurEon Line"
 The Russian government, Sug- gesting the 1919 "Curzon Line as a possible Boundary, offered to re- turn to Poland approximately 1000 of the 77,7O0 square miles occupied by the Red Army in 1889.
 The Soviet offer, which If accept cd would remove the most serious threat to United Nations unity, also included a proposal for a treaty Of mutual alliance with Poland against the Germans.
 The Polish exile government met in London to consider the Soviet offer. Most observers anticipated a favorable reply within the next 48 hours.
 Some quarters believed the Rus sian proposal might precipiate a resignation or reShuffling of the Polish government in exile, which
  of all Russian occupied Polish ter ritory. The Russians in making their offer attacked the incum- bents as incapable, severed from their people" and Incompetent to organize an active struggle against the German invaders"
 Three Mile Advance
 In Italy, American Fifth Army troops advanced within three miles of the German fortress of Cassino and surrounded the enemy defense point of Cervaro after a day-long mountain battle.
 Attacking with growing fury on both sides of the inland road to Rome, the Americans stormed over Mount Piperni and Mount Trocchio, key hegihts overlooking Casino and Ccrvaro, while British units on the eft of the 10-mile front pushed onward after strengthening their hold on the bend of the Garigliano river.
 Increased patrol activity was re- ported on both sides of the British Eighth Army front along the Adri- atic coast. New zealand infantry men ambushed one German platoon and cut the enemy soldiers to pieces.
 Bomber Parade
 Following a British nuisance raid on Berlin last night, an hour-long parade of heavy bombers, believed to be American flying fortresSes and Liberators streamed out over the Channel in an apparent resumption of their assault on the continent after a three-day layoff.
 Simultaneously strong formations of medium bombcrS and fighters hammered targets on the French invasion coast
 Last nights nuisance raids on the German capital were carried out by twin-enginer British Mosquitoes after the air ministry had estimated that the knockout campaign against Berlin was 40 per cent completed.
 Guided to Sofia by flames kindled yesterday by American flying for resses, the -engined Yelling ,ons hit the Bulgarian capital last night in what was described as a highly successful" raid. They start cd fires visible for more than so miles in what appeared to be part of an aerial offensive to blast the Axis satellite state out of the war.
 
 Lieut.. Davis Waybur of Piedmont,