ASSAULT ON RIGA DEVELOPS

Dominion, Volume 38, Issue 4, 29 September 1944, Page 5

ASSAULT ON RIGA DEVELOPS

(By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Received September 28, 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, September 27. The fact that the struggle has again flared up on the East Prussia front is indicated by the German news agency military commentator von Hammer. He said violent fighting has broken out north of Suwalki. The Russians made a local penetration.” . Tonight’s Soviet communique says the Russians south-west of Parnu continued to clear up scattered enemy groups on the west coast of Estonia and captured the island of Vorms. The Red Army m the Riga sector captured 200 places, including three stations on the coastal railwav from Riga to the Estonian, border. Russians south of Sanok occupied several places. , German' Position Hopeless. Colonel Akimov, a Russian military; commentator, declared, “The Germans strategic position in the Baltic is now hopeless. l The remnants of the German forces are pressed into a semi-circle around Riga, the diameter of wh ch is 30 to 45 miles and continuing to duninThe Russian guns can now be heard iU Approaching Riga, the Russians are advancing at an average of 15 miles a day. in spite of swamps, lakes, and woods, which are helping the Germans to put up a fight. . .» A supplementary communique from Moscow says Russian troops have reached the Gulf of Riga on a wide front.