FURTHER VICTORIES

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 24, 28 July 1944, Page 6

FURTHER VICTORIES

RED ARMY SWEEP

NEAR GERMAN BORDER. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright.) Rec. 1.15 p.m. LONDON, July 27. ■Marshal Stalin, in a fifth Order of the Day, announced the capture of Siauliai, 70 miles north of Kaunas. "Isvestia" reports that fighting is occurring in Brest Litovsk, and the German news agency commentator, Major yon Hammer, admitted that Frzenysl was outflanked from north, south, and east., "Isvestia" said the Red Army, in its relentless fight westward, had approached within the immediate vicinity of the East Prussian frontier. It adt'.f>d that the inhabitants of East Prussia can already hear (he victorious roar of the Red Army's guns. Reuters Moscow correspondent points out that the fall of Bialystok extends the great offensive arc pressing on Warsaw which extends from Bialystok around the Brest Litovsk sector in the general direction of Radom, from which Warsaw can be outflanked from the south. Bialystok is 50 miles from the East Prussian border. The main VilnaWarsaw railway runs through Bialystok. The Moscow; correspondent of "The Times" says thct reports from Poland state lhat tha loonl inhabitants enthusiastically received Rokossovsky's forces. The First Polish Division jvas pelted with flowers in its march to the Vistula. The assault against Warsaw Is described as proceeding with clockwork efficiency. ( Today was one of the blackest days Eor Germany on the Eastern Front. The capture of Siauliai, in Lithuania, is perhaps the most important strategic victory of the Russians, for Siauliai controls all Lithuania's main roads and railways. , It mpp.ns that the Red Army has eul the railway frcm Riga tr> Tilsit, in Ea~t Prussia, and that the German Sixteenth r.ncl Eighteenth Armies in f.atvin. and. Estonia-, cr.n get away only b?^ miner escape routes. Tilsit was heavily- 'bombed last light, and dozens of fires, were started, and five German military trains were destroyed. ' DOUBLE DRIVE POSSIBLE. The fall of Bialystok has cleared the way for a' Russian double drive an Warsaw and East Prussia, 50 miles away. A more serious threat to Warsaw comes from'the south-east where the Russians have caDtured Garwolin, 37 miles from the city. Fifty miles due west of Warsaw street fighting is taking place in Siedlce, a place which ths" Germans said they had evacuated a day or two ago. Tha capture of Stanislawow means that the Red Army has seized one of the main reproaches to , the . Carpathian passes into Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Tonight the guns of Moscow fired 100 salvos from 224 guns, and radio programmes were replaced by special Announcements and folk songs from the regions liberated. The people of Mwow are jubilant.