COUNCIL BLUFFS. IOWA:
MONDAY EVENING, JULY 10, 1944.
British Sweep on From
Caen in Effort
to Prevent Rommel to
Reform His Troops;
La Haye Taken by
Bradley's Army
SUPREME ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS
EXPEDITIONARY FORCE (AP)—
British and Canadian troops
driving into the German flank south of Caen captured
Maltot and Bretteville-sur-Odon Monday,
supreme headquarters announced. Maltot is four miles southwest of Caen and a
half mile west of the Orne river. Bretteville-sur- Odon is a mile southwest of
Caen.
The supreme command also announced
the capture by the American1st army of Sainteny, halfway between Carentan and
Periers on the. Cherbourg peninsula road
To Cautances.
Fierce House to House
Fighting Raging With
Reds Paying Heavily
(by The Associated Press.)
Mileages on the routes which allied
armies are traveling toward Berlin now read: $
(1) Russian front—470 miles (measured
in a direct line from a point just north of Kowel).
(2) Italian front—610
miles (from near Ancona on the Adriatic).
(3) Normandy front—613
miles (from Caen).
* * *
LONDON, UP)—
The red army, fighting less than
100 miles from East Prussia and on both sides of
Wilno, has cut the rail line
between Daugavpilos (Dvinsk) and Kaunas, the pre-war capitol of Lithuania, a
German broadcast said Monday.
Northeast of Wilno, troops of the
Baltic front, sweeping up more than 700 towns, captured Druja, little more than
a mile from the Latvian border. Also seized was
Braslov, southwest of Druja and only
25 miles from Daugavpils,
Moscow announced.
Large Force, With
Improved Weather,
Aid Land Troops
By Gladwin Hill.
LONDON, UP)—
Large forces of
allied bombers and fighters streamed across the English channel in improving
weather Monday in support of the British and American troops advancing on the Normandy
battle front.
During the night
RAF Mosquito and Boston bombers ringed deep into France and attacked 18 trains and
railroads leading to the German front, highway convoys and Seine-river bridges.
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