Red Army Advance

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1944, Page 5

Red Army Advance

GREAT PUSH GOES ON

(By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyrisht.) Kec. 11 a.m. LONDON, July 2G. When Rokossovsky's tanks reached the Vistula from their starting- point slightly west of Gomel, 400 miles to the east, they crossed the half-way mark in their advance against Berlin, which is only 375 miles away westwards, says the Moscow correspondent of the British United Press. The break-through to the Vistula occurred west of Lublin. The correspondent adds that the Vistula constitutes no greater barrier than the San River which Rokossovsky hurdled in one day. The German forces before WarsaAv arc crumbling. There is - no longer a solid front there, and the German Command is no longerable to direct troops properly. The only way the Germans can try to stem the Eussian avalauche is by concentrating- forces at road junctions. The correspondent quotes a front-line report describing- the fantastic scene on the broad Polish plain before the Vistula. "Our tanks are moving forward in marching formation past blazing cornfields which the Germans had fired,'' the report said. '' Our infantry is following up without firing a shot. The enemy in this sector is completely worn out."

The correspondent said that in ; their advance to the San River the jj Russians encountered organised resist- \ ance only M'hen they were actually j crossing the river. The speed of the I Red Army's advance appears to haA'e _ LeAvildcred the Germans.. The con- f servativc Moscow newspapers no J longer talk about the Russian units : advancing, they hoav use the word ! "resiling" to describe their progress, j The Red Army, from south to north, is at present mounting six great attacks against the German line—firstly, ■just north of the Carpathians, where ;the Russians are advancing past . Stanislawow and Kolomea, and moving on the mountain passes; secondly, towards Cracow, where Koniev's forces are outflanking Przemysl and mov- ( ing beyond Yaroslaw; thirdly, in the * Vistula sector, where Rokossovksyj, has readied the river south of War-! i saAV, and has also been striking across ! the Wieprz River in a move to outflank the Vistula railway toAvn of Deblin (Ivangorod); fourthly, east of "Warsaw, where the Red Army is at- ' tacking Siedlce, the last important railway junction before Warsaw; fifthly, on the Kaunas front, where a new Russian attack has begun; sixthly, in the Dvinsk sector, where the Russians are trying to smash through towards Riga. , PUSH ON EAST PRUSSIA. Reuter's Moscoav correspondent tonight reported that the Red Army north of Bialystok had renewed its frontal drive against East Prussia. Red Army tanks and infantry are at present pouring into the area of streams and marshes at points within 28 miles of the'Reich border. Russian I cameramen are preparing to photograph the first crossing into Reich ter-i ritory ivhich is expected to occur vviiji•in a week. The ■ German neAvs agency i.ommentator, von Hammer, stated -that StanislaAvow and Kolomea were in, danger. He also said that Bagrarayan's tank army north and east of I£aunas had breached the German line at two points. NARVA TAKEN BY STO.'RM. An Order of the Day from Marshal Stalin has announced the opening of a neiv Soviet offensive acrsoss the north-eastern front in the Estonian Republic. Troops of the Leningrad i-Tont have stormed and taken Narva, a fortress town seven mil _s inside the Estonian border. The Red Army reached the approaches to Narva dujs • ing the great drive on the Leningrad front last winter. - This new offensive means the Red Army is noAV _ attacking on. an unbroken front from the Gulf of Finland down to the Carpathians. * _-. A second Order of thg Day says that Marshal Rokossovsky's tanks and in,#n.Fi.v av. e- taken the- -fortress town of Deblin (Ivangorod) on the Vistula less than 60 miles south-east of Warw?" J^ lel ff po&JBaid the Russians had reached the Vistula on a 30-mile front, and were fanning out along the river's eastern bank, ° Soviet bombers attacked Warsaw last night, and started, great fires in the railway yards. The Soviet communique reports advances beyond ' & an! th oe, of over 100 Places on the Stanislwow sector of the S' a, n 0nt v 2?? e German commander m Lublin, Lieut-General Mauser Willrnar, Sias'beenCaptured