July 9, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 9, 1944:

. ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS.

London.—(UP)—

Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery hurled the full weight of the British Second

army at Caen along a seven mile assault arc Saturday and by evening his shock troops had advanced an average of one mile through at least seven outlying villages captured in addition to heart of the city.

LONDON—(UP)—

Berlin reported Saturday that the Germans had evacuated Baranowicze. Central keystone base of the wrecked nazi defense line across Poland and gateway of the historic invasion route westward to Warsaw and Germany.

RACINE, WIS., SUNDAY, JULY 9, 1944.

British Shock Troops

Near Heart of Caen

Seven Villages

Seized in Drive

To Key City

LONDON—(UP)—

A United Press dispatch from the Normandy front late Saturday said British forces had advanced within half a mile of Caen from the north after Allied planes dropped 4.000 tons of bombs on the German front and rear positions

. ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS.

London.—(UP)—

Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery hurled the full weight of the British Second

army at Caen along a seven mile assault arc Saturday and by evening his shock troops had advanced an average of one mile through at least seven outlying villages captured in addition to heart of the city.

Front dispatches reported even more impressive gams in the new offensive aimed at blasting open the 120-mile road westward to Paris. They said advance elements

were within half a mile of the center of Caen and named two villages captured in addition to the four announced at headquarters plus parts of two more.

Nazi Traffic Reported Heavy.

Reports reached headquarters that the Germans were moving big guns and armor south and southeast of Caen and vehicular traffic was heavy along the only two of 14 roads radiating from the city which still were in nazi hands.

Yanks Blast Nazi

Oil Refineries

LONDON. — (UP) —

American heavy and medium bombers pounded German troop concentrations and gun batteries at Caen and robot bomb installations in the Pas de Calais,area Saturday as more than 500 Italy-based Fortresses and Liberators fought their Way through heavy flak and fighter opposition to hit oil refineries at Vienna and targets in Hungary.

The fleet of 500 bombers escorted by Lightnings and Mustangs, struck at three oil refineries in the Vienna basin, three fighter fields covering Vienna, and a Hungarian airdrome at Veszprem, 65 miles southwest of Budapest.

Germans Admit Fall of Rail Hub,

Keystone Base on Warsaw Road

LONDON — (UP) —

Radio Moscow broadcast an order of the day by Marshal Josef Stalin

Saturday night announcing the capture of  Baranowicse.

LONDON—(UP)—

Berlin reported Saturday that the Germans had evacuated Baranowicze. Central keystone base of the wrecked nazi defense line across Poland and gateway of the historic invasion route westward to Warsaw and Germany.

The nazi-acknowledged fall of Baranowicze. rail hub 75 miles southwest of Minsk, opened the way to the red army for a westward push through Bialystok and Brest Litovsk which would turn the German fortifications both north and south of the Baranowicze gap above the Pripet marshes.

Nazi broadcasts called the loss of Baranowicze an "evacuation" but both German and Russian sources had reported the Soviets storming the town.

Violent Fighting Outside Wilno.

North of Baranowicze 100 miles, the nazis reported violent fighting in the outer fringes of Wilno, capital city of soviet Lithuania, indicating that fast moving Russian assault forces had laid siege to that city some 85 miles from cast Prussia.

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