BULGARIA PROBES FOR PEACE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 88, Issue 201, 23 August 1944, Page 5

BULGARIA PROBES FOR PEACE

Recd. 9 p.m. London, Aug. 22. Premier Bagrianov informed the Russian Charge d’Affaires that Bulgaria was prepared to accept the federated Yugoslav States provided Bulgarian minority rights wore preserved, says the British United Press: .correspondent at Ankara. Bulgaria is also willing to return Thrace to Greece provided she is given a corridor to the Aegean Sea.

on over the approaches to German soil. The enemy is throwing large groups of tanks and self-propelled guns' into counter-attacks which, however, are all being repelled. After self-propelled guns had reached Sesupa, Russian units dislodged the enemy from his last positions and threw him over the frontier. Battles of extreme ferocity are raging day and night on the approaches to Warsaw. East of Vaga hundreds of batteries are thundering from both sides over fields crisscrossed by tanks’ tracks. The Germans, drawing up ail available strategic reserves, formed powerful assault forces in an attempt to drive a wedge into our lines. They are launching counter-attacks into which they throw as many as X2O tanks at a time, with powerful artillery and air support. The Russians, faced with ten or twelve such attacks in a day, are not repelling the Germans but are considerably improving theii’ positions.

RUSSIANS SINK FOUR GERMAN DESTROYERS Reed. 9 p.m. London, Aug. 22. The Russian Baltic Fleet in Narva Bay sank four German destroyers, says Moscow radio. Destroyers rescued 107 of. the crew. Including the commander of the Sixth German Destroyer Flotilla. ARRESTED BY NAZIS London, Aug. 20. The German news agency states that Karl Goerdeler, former Mayor of Leipzig, has been arrested in West Prussia. (Berlin radio, after the attempt against Hitler, stated that Goerdeler was to have been Chancellor if the attempt had succeeded. The reward of £BO,OOO was placed on his head).