MARCH ON PRUSSIA

Evening Star, Issue 25225, 12 July 1944, Page 5

MARCH ON PRUSSIA

Red Army Only 60 Miles Away Germans Already Removing Factories Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright (Eeceived 10.50 a.m.] LONDON, July 11. The Bed army is rapidly reducing the distance to the East Prussian border, and developing a war of manoeuvre in place of the slogging battles on the roads to the Baltic and Warsaw, sayg Reuter's Moscow correspondent. According to the latest reports the Russians beyond Lida have reached a point within 60 miles ol East Prussia. This is an advance of about 10 miles from their previously reported position. y The Germans have begun to remove factories from East Prussia as the Russian spearheads approach the border. Telephone communication between East Prussia and Berlin has been stopped. The German military command has replaced" the civil authority in a deep area along the border. ', ' . New disasters confront the Germans everywhere, adds the correspondent. Heavily-armed Cossacks and powerful armoured' columns are operating in what the Germans considered onljr a few weeks ago was deep in the rear. The front line to-night is mile after mile of swirling confusion, in which Cossacks and tanks are operating on the main front, where the German command is' moving up divisions from the reserve pool to support the battered" units in a grim bid to hold the Vilna-Grodno-Bialystok-Brest-Litovsk line.