LONDON; July 13.—(AP)—
Wilno, gateway
to the Baltic and capital of the Soviet Lithuanian republic
since 1940, fell
to the Red army today after five days of street fighting in which –more than
8,000 Germans were killed and 5,000 captured, Moscow announced tonight, while
continuing advances to the southwest placed the Russians less than 30 miles
from the borders of East Prussia
WASHINGTON, July 13.— (AP)—
The pressure of Allied offensives
on three fronts and in the air is wiping out German manpower reserves and.
forcing the enemy to make crippling reductions in army supply and combat
reserve units. Acting Secretary of War Patterson
declared today.
PEARL HARBOR, July 13.—(AP)
—The sustained seaborne attack on
Guam and Rota islands, southern rungs of the Marianas Island ladder pointing
toward Japan, was carried well into the second week by American task force
smashes reported today by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz.
QUARTERS, New
Guinea. July 14
—(Friday)—(AP)—
The 45,000 Japanese
trying to break out of a British New Guinea trap northwest of Wewak have
suffered heavy losses headquarters announced today.
Gen. Douglas
MacArthur said a large enemy force moved west Wednesday to attack Aitape and smashed
into Yank outposts
Charleston, West
Virginia. Friday Morning, July 14, 1944
Soviets Encircle
Latvian Rail Hub
Russian* .SeizePruzhany,
Advance 35 Miles
LONDON; July 13.—(AP)—
Wilno, gateway
to the Baltic and capital of the Soviet Lithuanian republic
since 1940, fell
to the Red army today after five days of street fighting in which –more than
8,000 Germans were killed and 5,000 captured, Moscow announced tonight, while
continuing advances to the southwest placed the Russians less than 30 miles
from the borders of East Prussia
Several hundred
towns and villages were taken in the general Soviet advance all along the
Central, Baltic and Finnish fronts, the Soviet midnight communique announced,
with noteworthy gains being made in the
steady encirclement of Daugavpils, big rail hub in southern Latvia.
Pruzhany
Captured
One of the day's
significant. Advances was in the center, where the
Soviet communique
as recorded by the Soviet monitor said Russian
troops took the
town of Pruzhany, 45 .miles northeast of Brest Litovsk.
anchor-point on
the Germans' next defense line and border city in the
1939
German-Russian partition of Poland.
Nazis Rob Supply
Corps
To Man Battle Line Gaps
WASHINGTON, July 13.— (AP)—
The pressure of Allied offensives
on three fronts and in the air is wiping out German manpower reserves and.
forcing the enemy to make crippling reductions in army supply and combat
reserve units. Acting Secretary of War Patterson
declared today.
A Nazi military order 'seized on | the Italian
front, he told a news conference, disclosed that several months ago the enemy
already had been forced to the arbitrary reduction of all supply units by 25
percent, and of all rear echelon
combat units by 20 percent.
American
Barrage
Stuns
Hitlerites
U. S. 1st Army
Overruns
7 Norman Towns
SUPREME HEADQUARTER
AEF, July 14.- (Friday) (AP)
The fall of St. Lo seemed
imminent today as American doughboys stormed heights a mile and a half to the east in fire at point-blank range
on escape routes and into
the heart of the fortress itself,
guarding all enemy positions on the Cherbourg peninsula front.
Attack
Hints
U.
S. Planning
Guam
Landing
Seaborne Assault
on Isle,
Neighboring Rota
Goes
Well into 2d
Week
PEARL HARBOR, July 13.—(AP)
—The sustained seaborne attack on
Guam and Rota islands, southern rungs of the Marianas Island ladder pointing
toward Japan, was carried well into the second week by American task force
smashes reported today by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz.
Cruisers and destroyers of a speedy
and powerful fleet shelled Guam Monday and Tuesday, making four consecutive
days of naval bombardment of that American island lost early in the war.
Carrier aircraft bombed and
strafed Guam and nearby Rota Tuesday and Wednesday, carrying the aerial attack
through the ninth straight day on Guam and
eighth on Rota.
Landings
Suggested
The continuity and weight of the
assaults were suggestive of the bombing and shelling that preceded American
invasion of other Japanese islands in the Central Pacific.
Gun emplacements, blockhouses and
warehouses were hit by the j naval shelling of Guam and five barges were sunk, Nimitz reported. There was
no damage to American ships, indicating that previous air and sea attacks may
have knocked
out the enemy defense
batteries. Defense installations,
runways and other military objectives were the targets for carrier aircraft.
Many fires were started on Rota. Again
there was extensive use of rockets, as reported by nearly every ! communique
since the current series of attacks was launched. Piti, on the central western
coast of Guam, apparently was a major objective. Military installations there
were hit and gun emplacements strafed.
One Plane Lost
Jap Attack Hit
By Air Assault
ADVANCED ALLIED
HEAD
QUARTERS, New
Guinea. July 14
—(Friday)—(AP)—
The 45,000 Japanese
trying to break out of a British New Guinea trap northwest of Wewak have
suffered heavy losses headquarters announced today.
Gen. Douglas
MacArthur said a large enemy force moved west Wednesday to attack Aitape and smashed
into Yank outposts.
(The wording of
this report tend ed to indicate that the Yanks may have given ground at their
advance positions 20 miles below Aitape.)
As the big scale
battle built up Bostons, Mitchells and "Beaufighters of the far eastern
air force sprayed 93 tons of explosives among Nipponese concentrations.
Yesterday
MacArthur had announced the by-passed 18th army forces of Gen. Hatazo Adachi
opened the attack Monday. These Japs appear to be in a hopeless position inasmuch
as they are more than 600 miles behind the most advanced Yank positions on
Noemfoor island off north Dutch New Guinea.
Ahead of them
are massed blocks of Yank invasion forces at such potato as Aitape. Hollandia
and Maffin bay.
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