beyond Lublin and less than 10 miles from the Vistula.
Correspondents in Moscow say the Russians
may now have reached the Eastern banks of the
Vistula. Stubborn resistance takes place near
Bialystok. The defenses of the town have been
pierced and Russian troops are only 3 miles
away. Russian forces are west, south and east of
Dvinsk and now also to the north of it.
Tilsit in East Prussia has been bombed by
the Russians and the railway bridge over the
Njemen (Memel) wrecked. In Italy our troops have
come closer to Florence and gained 3 miles in one
area. Our planes made some 1700 flights destroying
65 enemy planes whereas 26 of ours were lost.
1.13 end
26/7/1944. 6.= pm.
The Americans also started a new attack east of
St. Lô early this morning. Progress has been made
across the road St. Lô - Périers. Attacks are now
going on southward from St. Lô on both sides of the
place. Yesterday in their first attack the Americans
advanced 1 1/2 mile on a front of 4 miles wide.
In the Caen sector we had to withdraw from
2 villages but for the rest we maintained our
positions. The synthetic oil plant attacked
last night in the Ruhr was at Wanne-Eickel.
Early today flying bombs came over but
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