ON OFFENSIVE AGAIN

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 282, 25 August 1944, Page 5

ON OFFENSIVE AGAIN

Russians In South Poland ALSO ATTACKING RIGA GAP (Received August 24, 7 p.m.) LONDON, August 23. Marshal Stalin, in a third order of the day, this time addressed to Marshal Konlev, Bays that troops of the First Ukrainian Front, developing the offensive, today carried by assault the town of Debrica, large centre of aircraft production and important communications junction in south Poland in the Cracow direction (04 miles east of Cracow).” Tonight’s Soviet communique says that the Russians south of Tartu f----ht their way into 25 localities. The Red Army south-west of Jelgava went over to the attack after repelling enemy infantry. The Russians south-east and south of Lomza continued the offensive and fought their way into over 80 localities, including the railway station of Malkinia. The Russians north-east and east of Pra.ga warded off new attacks from German infantry and tanks. “Grand-Scalo Offensive.”

The German news agency commentator von Hammer says that the Russians west of Bialystok and between the Bug and the Narew Rivers launched a grand-scale offensive after an artillery barrage lasting for hours and under waves of battle planes. The battle lasted all day before the Germans withdrew their lines for two miles. The Russians’ powerful offensive is threatening to overrun and cut off strong German units. . . Messages from Moscow (says British Official Wireless) show that the Russians in the north, by cutting the Tartu-Valga road and railway, are making their way through the waist of the trapped German. Baltic army and have already advanced far more than half-way from Pskov to the Gulf of . Riga. Simultaneously they are lending tremendous weight to the thrusts by the armies heading toward Riga and Tallinn. A Soviet naval communique states that Russian torpedo-cutters in the northern sea have sunk 14 enemy vessels.