Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 30, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Sussan Iliae sweeps in to ins four russian armies arc Pound ing Westward on the open Road to Minsk in russian greatest single drive of the along a 300mile front from captured Vitebsk to the germans Are flee and shattered with the fall of their fatherland at unprecedented rus Sian troops have advanced within 50 Miles of the capital of White violent Street fighting is reported in bypassed where five More Jerry divisions were and in an order of the Day on wednesday marshal Stalin announced the capture of strategic stronghold Southeast of the germans Are being pounded mercilessly by pursuing soviet to bile forces and by massed air supporting the russian the 1st Baltic army also Cap tured 60 Miles South East of Minsk and took 20 Miles from the old polish Border in a Westward drive which carried them 26 Miles Northwest of encircled new drive in the South at the same another rus Sian army has blasted open a new drive toward Baronovich and Brest Litovsky in a sector to the on the finnish soviet driving up the karelian be tween lakes Ladoga and have advanced beyond the connecting River of syr and pushed see Russia on Page 8 american airborne troops got acquainted1 with the younger population of a liberated French in the an american Flag flies Labowi memorial to the Allied dead of the last own or resident Bill nto historic Law of l Long await Edge Bill of Kights became a reality last week As president Roosevelt signed into a Law the Bill granting widespread benefits to veterans of world War using six pens which he later distributed among the Bills Lead ing the presidents Sig nature climaxed extended discus Sions of certain provisions of the historic chief Point of difference being postwar unemployment according to As the main provisions of the Bill Are compensation of weekly will be paid to veterans for As Long As 52 weeks Over a two year v the toil stipulates that in order to draw unemployment Bompensa Eugis must Register and re port regularly to a Public employ ment he must be Able and available for work during this and if he is fired for mis quits his Job just cause or is made Idle through a labor disturbance in which he Par he is automatically Dis qualified from unemployment be government guarantee the government guarantees Loans up to at four percent in Terest for the Purchase of Homes or simile of his the government Guaran tees half the loan and will pay interest of for the first year thereafter the Borrower must pay interest on the full in All cases of servicemen the vet must occupy or operate the property 01 equipment bought and veterans administrators will make appraisals on such property to determine that the Veteran is getting his moneys schooling made easy under education ninety Days of service entitles a Veteran to one year of further education benefits depend directly on the mans length of service since september when the selective service act be came any Veteran who was under 25 years of age when he entered the armed forces is eligible for four years of ser vice time spent in army or Navy College training programs is de from the schooling time allowed a servicemen who wish to continue their education will be Given tuition up to 8300 yearly for at tending any secon Dary a Ximiness religious institution or see go Bill on Page 8 Hull gives briton lesson in history Washington in answer to British War Cabinet member Oli ver Lyttelton assertion that Jap an had been provoked into attack ing the americans at Pearl har of state Cordell Hull Lias made the following statement the statement of the British minister of production is entirely in error As to the facts and fails to state the True attitude of thu United states both during the earlier stages of military preparation for Conquest by Germany and Japan an during the later aggressions toy those two this government from the beg inning to the end was by the single policy of defense against the rapidly increasing Dan Verlo this nation the Aid to great Britain and other coun tries who were resist Rig Conquest in the words of the lend lease vital to the defense of the United Japan for years had notoriously pursued a program of the widest in 1931 she seized Man in 1937 she invaded in 1940 she entered and finally in she launched the unprovoked attacked on the United states at Pearl up Germany has started moving huge reinforcements from the East and from the Reich itself for the expected final Effort to smash the Normandy according to Aerial Caen sector British troops have made scheduled advances after the bloodiest fighting in this area had continued for 12 nonstop sixty German tanks were with Allied ships already unloading in Cherbourg strategic which Felt to Bradley yanks Montgomery has unleashed a Strong offensive at the East end of the line after holding the flank during the the mommies crossed the Odon and Circle Caen on a three Way West of Caen tanks and infantry advanced across the Odon under one of the terrific artillery barrages with which Monty has proceeded each of his offensives since his object is to Cut off Caen from use it As the Start for a drive on from this front of the newly announced British second commanded by 47yearold Miles Christopher who Lead the infantry from Mareth up correspondent Richard Mcmillan reported the germans appear to be Wear j ing the general impression i get is thai the enemy May Well be near the cracking Point on this but while the Story of the East end of the line still is being enact this weeks activity in nor Mandy was mainly an epic Cli maxing in the fall of the spearhead of yank forces advanced on the port in belly belly with infantry digging the replacing troops knocked out by the Aerial and artillery rounded up every available Rifleman to build the greatest volume of Small Anna fire our forces Ever have enc Oun fanatical resistance american artillery was out of the picture for some time in View of the possibility of mauling our own vrho bypassed German Strong Points for rear elements to yanks winning bitter Battle for Saipan Island on the most difficult terrain encountered in the Pacific since american forces have dog Gedly rolled the japs Back in the Battle for Saipan in the Marianas and now occupy approximately one half of the 75square mile area of the Marine veterans of the Southwest Pacific Campaign have battled their Way to the Summit of overlooking the Harbor of and now have a sweeping View of both ends of the 15mile Long Only Miles from is described As the most important prize aimed at so far in the Pacific offensive by military the Conquest of the Island with its Airfield might Well inaugurate the allies first shuttle bombing run which would have its other terminus in Saipan caves have been a Tough variation of the Fox holes in the Sandy Coral atolls of the Centra Pacific and the taps have used them the Campaign has marked by dozens of Cave Battles which necessitated direct but flame grenades and machine guns have converted them into enemy american patrols have already penetrated 10 blocks deep into the Marianas Ca Pital Allied commanders expect no Quick Victory in View of the Jap forces of on the is jape lost heavily the japs threw in everything they had in the area to thwart the invasion and in the futile attempt lost 747 planes destroyed and 30 ships 51 ships two see Saipan on Page 8 commissions for gis on Battlefront Washington an estimated men will be Given Battle front promotions As commissioned officers during the next 12 the Baa these Are not Given As but will go to soldiers who demonstrate in action that they Are officer the Emp a invasion casualties Sharip Allied casualties in the first fortnight of the inva june g to killed Woun ded total killed 859 Ortun ded total killed wounded total More than a Quarter of the allies casualties represent mis sing Man of May turn German casualties in the same period were estimated at include tier five generals mop through Cherbourg streets our infantry advanced from House to House Hunting Down snipers1 surprisingly few mines and Booby traps were left in the City by the germans Thi opposition came from machine gun nests and guns in the forts of the most effective of these was the do Roule built on a Moun Tain with a Maze of underground passages and flanked by a series of Multi roomed All of which had to be attacked by crawling infantry before do route itself could be germans holding in bowels of the fort evidently in tended die Lor the fuehrer first patrols in the fort searching for see tank Battle on Page 2