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"3 Cfmcs FRIDAY, JULY 7, 1 944-Flart I Staraya Russa Baltic Sea 31 A. -T- I A Tt It A vJll; 4 Command Shift Proves Nazi Strategy Failure Normandy Battle Developing Into Test of Strength Between Germany and Allies Of ICCt A U.S. FLYER IN RUSSIA I PLAYS 'BOOGIE' FOR GIRLS American bombers and fighters completed their first shuttle four of Europe yesterday with stops in Russia and Italy after the take-off from England June 2. Lt Frank Petrdil of Cicero, who speaks Russian, tells here of experiences in Russia.) German Staff Held Guilty in Killing of Jews Ne York Timet LONDON, July 6. When the time ocmes to punish those responsible for the deportation and slaughter of Hungarian Jews the German general staff should be the first to be dealt with, Brendan Bracken, Minister of In-fotmation, said today.

In a speech, Bracken said the Germans were setting up abba-toirs in Europe, shepherding thousands of Jews into them and dispatching them with the brutal efficiency in which the Trus-sian delights. "This is the biggest scandal in the history of human crime," said Bracken, "and the responsibility rests on the German people. They may later say, 'Oh, it's the wicked but the German people have the responsibility, and also the general staff, who could have stopped it. I hope when the time comes to give exemplary punishment to LITHUANIA PoloQ JKey German JW Vitebsk Supply Unklfa FA ST 1 JJf? PRUSSIA I lxxMolodeczrioii Y'Z' i Warsaw Vsv Gomel BY LT. FRANK PETRI) EL A FLYING FORTRESS BASE, ENGLAND, July 6.

(JP) I never expected to find myself in a Russian home, but there I was playing boogie-woogie for three Russian girls. With a friend, Lt. Tom Kemp of Chattanooga, I walked about seeing the sights. A Russian girl wearing a babushka and a voluminous blouse was trying to be hospitable. She invited us into a cottage and called two girl friends.

Then I sat down at her piano and started playing boogie-woogie. Girls Like Boogie-Woogle Our hostess, whose name was Nina, went for it in a big way. "Miraculous," she said in Rus- but the Russians all had a ready smile and greeting. I saw young girl soldiers right with the men women footsloggers wearing decorations. They wore skirts and the inevitable boots.

They could lick their weight in wildcats, and I wouldn't want to mix with any of them. Two Russian officers seized, me when they found I spoke their language. "The second front is a wonderful achievement," one said. "You are to be congratulated." He just about shook my hand off. I thought for a minute I'd managed the invasion.

One evening a Stormovik pilot brought us to the Russian Pilots' Club. We had some vodka; it is potent stuff. We hoisted them up for Stalin and Roose'elt; then for Roosevelt and Stalin: then for Stalin and Roosevelt. Tretty soon I had to sit down. of a far cry- On the contrary there is every indication that the enemy intends to make this present battle the one supreme test of strength, fully knowing that a collapse nf his forces here may prove fatal to the course of the entire war.

More and more, as one follows the details of the fighting in Normandy, one is lod to the conclusion that this thing looks very much like the te-ginning of the Battle of France and even that of the Battle of Europe. In studying Frime Minister Churchill's account to the House of Commons, regarding the activities of the Nazi robot bombs in the last few days, one is relieved to learn that damace, relatively speaking, was rather lisrht, while the effectiveness of Hitlers much vaunted new weapon had been successfully taken care of by our bombings before these new engines of destruction had a chance to get under ay in a larger scale and play a far bigger role. TARGET OF NAZI WRATH The fact that killings in London were almost equal to the number of bombs loosed by the Nazis against the British capital, has proved once more how little the Germans have understood British psychology and how much they overestimated the element of torroriza-tion when dealing with any of their enemies. Once more London has become the target of the Nazi wrath and once more London has shown that it can take it. the people responsible for these sian Then the girls started to dance STATUTE MILES cutrages, the German general staff will be the first to be dealt with." jpt wirepnoto KEY CITY FALLS Communications center of Kowel was captured by Russians yesterday and other Red army drives (arrows) included advances toward Warsaw-Riga railroad (behind notched line.) Ringed cities are main objectives of the Soviet drive.

Fishing Ban Extended LONDON, July 6. (F) Supreme headquarters of the Allied Expeditionary Force today hroadcast a warning to European fishermen extending for another week the Bob Crosby Now Marine Bob Crosby, band leader and brother of Bing, joined the 5th Marine Division at Camp Pendle- Russian folk dances to the music I was playing. Well, that's the strangest sight I ever hope to see. They insisted that we have some kapusta, a concoction of cabbage, gravy and meat with a peculiar flavor. We pretended to like it a lot.

The town proper was a wreck. encircled since the close of the ton as a second lieutenant, it was ban on fishing between Bayonne, Soviet winter offensive and announced yesterday by the Ma-vulnerable to capture. irine Corps. France, and the Frisian Islands. RUSSIANS NEAR WILNO IN THRUST INTO POLAND j.iii.RiiBiiisniicn.

habited localities, including five I railway stations. West and northwest of Minsk Gen. Ivan jCherniakhovsky's 3rd White Continued from First Tage Brest Litovsk," and the German radio said a reason for the withdrawal was to forestall a Russian pincers movement. More than 550 other places were taken during the day as Russian army captured more than places. Both drives directly threatened Wilno, disputed in battle for centuries, and the communique disclosed fresh bombings there and at Biaiystok Wednesday night by huge fleets of Russian bombers.

Rowel's capture tore a new BV rOLYZOIDKS The Rattle of Normandy is developing into a supreme test of strength between Germany and. the western Allies. Once more, on the basis of lafe information from that front, it begins to look as if Hitler is to throw all his power into a tingle huge gamble, without regard to what may happen to Other regions in Europe. Elimination of Field Marshal Karl Rudolf Gerd von Rund-ftedt, as commander-in-chief of Germany's anti-invasion forces, constitutes the best confirmation of one of the major Nazi strategic failures, when that old Prussian soldier was outsmarted and outman-euvered by the American Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Rund-Ftedt failed to foresee the Allied landing in Nortnandy: he was unprepared when the Wow came; he lost valuable time and ground in the following three weeks, and was thrown on the defensive. Kluge Younger Man His successor, Field Marshal Kwald Guenther von Kluge, is relatively speaking a younger man who gained some re-Tute by his techniques in staving off for some time the first Russian counter-offensives. Still, when this is paid, von Kluge too proved no less a failure Russia than Rundstedt has proved in Normandy. The one detail, however, that may prove to have particular significance on the French front nowi is that von Kluge is evidently being given a free hand to deal with an increasingly bad situation. Hence the latest concentration cf practically immense German forces on the front held by the Americans, the British" and the Canadians.

And this is the new character of the Normandy fighting, which is assuming larger proportions every hour. There is something of the Verdun epic of about the battles around La Haye du Pints and the one below Caen. Here, on a narrow front, Germany is throwing no less than seven armored divisions, under the leadership of Col. Gen. von Schweppenberg.

former military attache in London, while another four divisions, constituting hand-picked elements of the German army, also are being used in this great double battle, where losses are terrific and where no quarter is asked or given by either side. VITAL FRONT From the way the fighting Is going in Normandy one gains the impression that for the moment this front is the only one that matters to the German high command. With Allied reinforcements arriving hourly and with the kind of artillery and tank superiority that we are beginning to enjoy in France, and furthermore with the advent of clear weather that permits the free and easy operation of our air forces, the enemy is having an extremely hard struggle on his hands. STRUGGLE SEEN Still, to conclude fmm this that the liquidation of the Normandy campaign is a matter of only a few days, is something Soviet troops smashed westward; all aiong th front and the Mos-j cow communique said more than 5000 Germans were killed as the! Russians continued their methodical mopping-up of the area; French Official Reported Kidnaped east of Minsk. An entire regi- LONDON.

July 6. (F) The Berlin radio said today that Jacques Chevalier, 62, former merit surrendered with ns com- gap mrnugn wmcn xorces man' lor, the war bulletin stated, jean strike toward Warsaw and Gen. Ivan Bagramian's drive: the heart of Poland. French Minister for Education, had been kidnaped from his northwestward from Polotsk, al- The city, 36 miles from the home in C'erillv bv a force of ready within a few miles of the 1039 line from which Germany "terrorists." and that his where- i borders of Latvia and Lithuania, launched its war against the about is unknown. swept into more than 150 ln-j Russians, had been two-thirds OUIIBIIISOIICI).

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