ALL STANBS BROKEN
NAZIS STILL RETREATING
-r. . -i- ~ LONDON. July 26. Exploiting ilvttv great break-through from Chelm autt Lublin, the Russians have advanced another 20 miles. AU day yesterday the Germans tried to make a stan/l across the Lublin-War-saw route, b_t Avere driven out of line after Imc with heavy losses.
Troops have almost reached the suburbs of Bialystok. on the northern end of the three main routes to War-sa-w, and. "Moscow reports, are rapidly forginp/ ahead, smashing the enemy piecemea/. At Brest Litovsk. on the central -route, the German garrison is practic?__ly neutralised from the battle furthey west, but is fighting on fiercely. Mo__ow reports that the German garrison inside Lwow has been finally enc n-cled.
The Russians are noiv on the outskirts of Stanislawow, the oil centre near the Carpathians. The big northern junction of Dvinsk is noiv nearly encircled Avith the cutting of the 'last of its railways, the line running north-west to Riga. The military commentator of the German news agency stated today:— "The Russian thrusts constitute a serious menace to the whole edifice o£ German defence. The danger of encirclement on the grand scale is beginning to show itself." He said the German General Staff would know how to control the present situation, but added the warning: "Germany's life and whole existence were never before at stake in this total sense in this war."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 23, 27 July 1944, Page 5
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