25/7/1944. 9.= am R. Robertson
In Normandy United Kingdom and Canadian
troops resumed their attacks south of Caen on a wide
front this morning. A statement from General
Montgomery's Headquarters within the last 2 hours
said the attack was being made astride the
Falaise road which runs southeast from Caen.
It added that heavy fighting was going on.
The Russians have pressed forward along the
700 miles front running down from Lake
Peipus to the Carpathians.
They have made spectacular progress in the great
plains before Warsaw and Krakow and
have captured the fortress of Lublin.
To the South our Allies have almost encircled
Lwow and further down the line another
new offensive has carried them to within 30
miles of Stanislaw. The King has been visiting
Italy to inspect Allied forces. He arrived
at Naples on Sunday afternoon having flown
from Britain via North Africa. Allied troops
now hold the Southern bank of the Arno river
from its mouth near Pisa to a point 30
miles inland. Hitler has decreed that in
future all members of the German armed
forces must give the Nazi salute instead
of their traditional salute. In the Central
Pacific the US. marines who have landed
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