July 25, 1944;

HUNTINGDON, PA., TUESDAY, JULY 25, 1944.

ALL NAZI ARMIES

ON CENTRAL FRONT

BROKEN BY ALLIES

By M. S. HANDLER,

United Press Correspondent

Moscow, July 25. —

Russian armor raced westward less than 50 miles from Warsaw and to the south struck within-sight of the Wisla (Vistula) river as military" sources proclaimed jubilantly that the entire group of German armies on the central front had been virtually destroyed.

(The London Evening News quoted a Morocco broadcast as saying that the Germans were preparing, to evacuate Warsaw and Krakbw.)

German military power in the east appeared to be tottering in the balance

under .Red Army blows opening the way for a whirlwind advance which promised to bring Warsaw under siege by the weekend.

New Drive in France Opens

OFFENSIVE AIMED

AT BREAKING LULL

ON WESTERN FRONT

By VIRGIL, PINKLEY,

'United Press Correspondent 'Supreme Headquarters,

AEF, July 25. —

The British Second Army drove forward more .-than a mile through two.town's in a new offensive below Caen today,, and 'to the west the American First Army launched .an attack supported by 3,000 planes, including more than -1,500 U. S. heavy bombers—the biggest force ever dispatched on a single mission. Both Allied armies ; bucked fierce German. opposition  in the synchronized assault toward the heart-of Normandy, and the Nazi airforce  swarmed out.' in the greatest strength

 since D-Day to join in the defense of the ring around the Normandy beachhead.

BULLETIN

Rome, July .25.—

 United States bombers attacked the recently constructed Hermann Goering tank works »t Llnz, Austria, today. –

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By WALTER CRONKITE

: United Press Correspondent -

London, July 25

American and British .warplanes- smashed at :the German' battle : lines .in Normandy: and secret rocket bomb installations elsewhere in northern. France- today after 'a great fleet of RAF night raiders had set. the German industrial

city of Stuttgart ablaze with 2, 500 -ton's of  high explosives and more than 30,000 fire bombs.

Giant Lancasters of. the RAF bomber command opened the daylight- offensive with an attack on robot bomb platforms in northern France and a mysterious target

which the Air Ministry said ."appeared to be connected with the-enemy's  threatened use of long-distance rockets."

MARINES, PLUNGING

MILE INTO TINIAN,

FIGHT FOR AIRSTRIP

By FRANK TREMAINTB

United Press Correspondent .-, .

Pearl Harbor, July 25.—

American Marines, plunging more than' a mile inland on Tinian Island, today engaged . the Japanese in fierce fighting for the Ushi Point airstrip, while' Army troops on Guam sought to isolate the Apra harbor naval anchorage after cut-,

ting off Orote Peninsula and its important airfield.

In the first days fighting on. Tinian, the second and fourth Marine divisions—the units which conquered. Saipan — spread their beachhead two and one half miles

along the northwest coastline and drove one-third of the way across the Ushi Point airstrip.

"The situation is considered was in -hand,"  Admiral Chester W, Nimitz said in his 'second communique, of the day (Radio Tokyo .. claimed in a broadcast -heard--by: the United Press.in San Francisco that.1,200.

Americans were killed in the in-

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vasion of Tinian and were "routed in disorder, toward Saipan." The broadcast repeated earlier %Tokyo claims that Tinian defenses had set one battleship and two destroyers ablaze.)

Marinas and Army troops on Guam, 120 miles to the "south, meanwhile, were meeting bitter opposition.

But they drove to within two and a, half miles of a junction along the eastern shore of Apra Harbor, cutting off that former United States naval station –from further Japanese use.

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