July24, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 24, 1944:

 

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JULY 24, 1944

2 More German

Generals Die

Blood Purge

Sweeps Reich;

Crackup Near?

LONDON, July 24.—(AP)—

The German radio at Paris said tonight that 'terrorists" had seriously injured Gen. Otto von Stuelpnagel. Military administrator for occupied France. The attack was said to have occurred July 21 during  a  tour of Eastern France.

Gestapo squads, meanwhile, were reported carrying forward a vast blood purge to quell what Prime Minister Winston Churchill termed a revolution in Germany.

U.S. Cuts Off

Guam Airfield

Admr. Hill of

Oakland Is

Invasion Head

U.S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD

QUARTERS, PEARL HARBOR.

July 24.— (AP)—

 The day-old invasion of Tinian Island, moving smoothly from firm beachheads, rushed American conquest of the strategic Marianas today while other Yank forces

isolated key objectives on Guam, 130miles southward.

Admiral Chester V. Nimitz' communique last night' said landings, begun at dawn Sunday by assault units of the Second and Fourth Marines, were being "continued

against light opposition" on Tinian, three miles south of conquered Saipan. The invasion was made under protection of carrier and land-based planes, warship guns and land-based artillery.

American forces on Guam suffered 1,958 casualties in three days' fighting.

They have isolated the island best airdrome and finest harbor in closing their grip on Port Apra.

PHILLIPINE BLOW

The swiftly moving Pacific war spread to Philippine waters with Gen. Douglas MacArthur's announcement that his bombers sank a 100-foot Japanese vessel Saturday 70 miles off Mindanao. He disclosec that this area had been under patrol

for some time, and made the firs mention of the Philippines in a communique since Corregidor's, fall, May 6, 1942.

Lublin Falls

To Advance of

Russ Army

LONDON, July 24.—(/P)—

Premier Stalin announced tonight the capture of the rail center of Lublin

in Southeastern Poland.

LONDON, July 24—(AP)—

The German radio acknowledged today that Russian troops had plunged within

50 miles of Warsaw, with Nazi troops abandoning Sicdlcc and Jaraslaw.

The Transocean Agency said Red troops had "reached the line of

Siedlce and Jaraslaw. Siedlce is 50 miles due cast of the Polish capital. It lies 365 airline miles /rom Berlin, by far the closest Allied approach to that bomb ridden capital of Nazidom. The Nazi communique said Lwow (Pop: 317,000 and third Polish city) and Lublin c 119,000 and tenth Polish city) had become battlegrounds.

The enemy-reported advance to Siedlce marked a 20-mile advance since midnight. The city is about midway between Warsaw and Brest Litovsk and lies on the main trunk rail line from Moscow to Warsaw to Berlin.

GENERAL RETREAT HINTED

The German reference to a Russian advance reaching a line /rom Siedlce to Jaroslaw pointed to a general retreat along a 150-mile front across the center of Poland.

The enemy apparently was being swept along with no signs of letup by swift Red forces that left Lwow and Brest Litovsk by-passed more than 60 miles, behind advanced Russian columns. The Germans appeared to have doomed the garrisons to miniature Stalingrads,

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