HARDEST BATTLE YET

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 279, 22 August 1944, Page 6

HARDEST BATTLE YET

Baltic Trap Relief Bid (Received August 22. 1.35 LONDON, August 21. The Red Army is fighting on the outskirts of Tartu, reports Reuters Moscow correspondent. Heavy clashes are occurring as the Russians pres sthe Germans back iuto the town- Russian g ns have moved up to within easy ■ of the Tallinn-Riga railway, the b.tik bone of the German communications inside the Baltic trap. d Bagramyan’s forces in D at ' l ‘ l . Lithuania are fighting the hardest bat tics of the summer campaign simultaneous onslaughts from two German -irmies. The enemy has come, the nearest yet to forcing a .l’ as ?""® the corridor separating the Happed Ger man armies from East Prussia While the steel pincers of I lie Ger man relief expedition tear against the Russian blockade line at • el£w« a < Mlvivli the fresh Russian fotces furim i enst on the other side of the trap are battering their way toward Riga toU ten a new lock on Hitler’s isolated Baltw ‘ ir The’German radio says that the Russians are increasing their pressure nortbe^t'of Warsaw. They succeeded in makinv local dents, which they arc now making an all-out effort to extend. Jh - Russian High Command .has rushed P fresh forces and also reinforced the air force*. . , . A Rumanian < ’ on l imun ? l qu L..™ p,, }i 1 | strong Russian attacks all Bom, He Rumanian and Bessarabian f> ol >•