Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 7, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                1 be lbs sick Mariner continued from Page 1 the v continuing at an untre y n v h o cemented Onishe i a Ake Ladoga and five finnish islands have been taken v russian Advance up thai the on last thus freeing the last of the Murmansk the red armies have rolled Oyer the approaches to Poland and the Baltic states like a surging driving before them the shattered remnants of a once powerful Ger Man last three armies converged in a frontal drive on while two spearheads swung out and South to strike at Minsk  from the the 1 in soviets reached theold Der South of Polotsky and Cut the lateral railways run Ning behind Minsk All of which have Blonce been Minsk Falls on the last stronghold on the fatherland Borisov quickly fell before the russian and Vance while northward Polotsky was Salhi announced in a special order of the Day at that the Minsk Bisetti Tomsk and the mins Vilna railroads have been thus Leav ing germans stranded in Minsk without effective Means of Breaks with Inrush regime Washington the Lias diplomatic relations with Finland whose decision to stay in the War As Germany ally precipitated the rupture the state announced the diplomatic break three Days after Finland established a new close Alliance with Germany which sent nazi troops swarming through finnish cities and towns in virtual in making the Cordell Hull said not with standing the esteem in which american people have held the people of further relations Between the government of the and the government of Finland Are now it is unofficially predicted that the does not intend to de Clare War on Finland despite the break in she has Long sought to make peace Between Fin land and on monday the 11day summer offensive which had rolled Forward More than j50 Miles on a front 300 Miles Long was climaxed with the capture of capital of White with the Strate Gic Minsk in Bagramyan and Chernyakov says troops slashed in twin spearheads towards Vilna while to the marshal to Kossovsky forces pre pared for a frontal assault on bar his other forces Are driving along the Niemen River towards Baltic drive Polotsky fell on removing a major Barrier in the direction of a Omsk and Riga and with its Bagramyan men began a two pronged drive apparently de signed to strike North through Dvinsk and Riga to prevent Ger Man forces in the Baltic from fall ing Back to East while Moscow has issued no re port on the haul of prisoners and scenes of wholesale surren Der by regiments and battalions Are reported from the russian the germans Retreat to the peasants Are reported to be taking abandoned weapons and ferreting out nazi stragglers in swamps and guerillas Are derailing troop trains and the red air Force methodically pounds rail and Road junctions to frustrate to the German on comeback Trail Seattle the Mother of sex actress Frances Farmer has announced that her daughter is completely recovered from men tall trouble11 and will toe released from the Western state Hospital a Lew allies Clearing India of japs in the Allied drive to Chase the enemy completely out of British troops have slashed their was through the Monsoon soaked Manipur Jungle to capture the Jap base of 31 Miles Northeast of in North Burma the Battle for my Itkina has gone into its 17th Day with three quarters of the Jap bastion now in Allied one Jan Force trying to reach the embattled City was annihilated by chinese 14th Saaf has Boen credited with holding air supremacy and inflicting enormous casualties on the invading japanese in Hunan province in Central chinese defenders Are reported to be maintaining All their positions Heng Warior in face of heavy at tacks by encircling enemy Chi abased from still los command rammed Home a heavy air raid on the Dicks and harbours of Takao enemy shipping Center on for in r i w faed which Breaks into a Hall smile As he talks for 26 he has sailed the seven seas under the flags of More nations can Belgium and to Nai nera Jis a Veteran of and his fa6e and Melid Are buy the scare Arent noticeable Caritj tit tick eyes full of humor rather he my life has been dynamite and somehow you know just trying to be Bis service Rebord would like something out of a Street and Smith adventure that it really Yac Thouk has been torpedoed five times i this War and once spent 46 in an open watching six of his Comra Des he fought in Spanish War on the loyalist and spent six months in a Spanish in he even spent three Days on a German the Little russian a gun in world i and in the russian first l fight for White rus Ithen red i fight for lots of people he navigates Cairo Yac Thouk is a resident of Ward 8 at the base having turned in there As result of a Chest injury suffered his last ship this time he spent Only 26 hours Myrthe considering the in Cidell of Small except for the caused by an explosion in uie Hospital a he has already recovered enough to want passes to it was in 1941 that Yac Thouk has his first Brush with a nazi torpedo and his Grimm est experience of any his ship was orned oed off the coast of and with 21 other the Little Boatswain took to a we had three ounces of water a Day to and ate compressed food after three weeks the water ran out and we had to Fatch Rainwater in the sails whenever it we started to get no body talked just about some men Jot Svok and the rest Hist sat am wondered who would be one Man got mad and Shook his fist at the sky and said Dum you when we dont need you but now you dont Goddam Yon shins fishhooks from crucifixes some men were so hungry they tried to drink storm hut Only threw it was too we also tried eating but they we rent so Good either out of rings and we made made fish somebody Dexter Fellowes Baltimore the Dexter Fellowes has been the famed circus publicity merchant Seaman Trephina who has been torpedoed five times in did a bit of browsing a the Rase Hospital look what he is a Veteran of four staff photo by Benjamin Jerries treated to old fashioned 4th Normandy the fourth of july was celebrated at High noon by hundreds of american guns opening up simultaneously on it Nan although the bombardment did not last each gun firing Only one the split second barrage was the greatest display of artillery fire yet seen in the the number of guns involved More than Montgomery tremendous barrages at Alamein and it was followed by the firing of thousands of pamphlets into the German lines explaining that this was americas Celebration of Independence Day 1944 and ask ing the Heinie How they liked hammered them into shape with a big piece of we first used a Little food As then after we caught we dried the out sides and ate them and saved the insides for More mostly we caught they were pretty Between and Brazil some the elusive ship did finally and Yac Thouk with his 16 comrades were All his other shipwrecks since that Yac Thouk has considered somewhat once he was in a Lifeboat 16 but suffered Only from the extreme heat of the Day and cold on two of he to abandon for a once for nine Days and later for eight spent hitch on boat before his Etc Rhuday he spent three Days inthe German sub which has sunk his then Thev ordered him to get the hoi1 out and put him to sea in a from which he later was picked up off the Irish in yacht Houks adventures were All on but he considers himself pretty Luck to Jet out alive in what he Calls the International after fighting for the loyalists a he was captured and to a Franco because of his fluent he passed As a South by Beh Viii soon became a trusty among the one Dav with another Yac Thouk walked away from the prison Camp As if on routine never went he escaped across Border into Dodge the and got aboard a ship at he also knows several other Lan picked up from his including you and Boatswain Yac Thouk is 42 years old and most of that time Lias been spent travelling about the world As a 3mt he still thinks his native Kiev is the most Beautiful of All possible he lives therewith his 11 Brothers and six Sisters in the family has a seven Story one of his Sisters is a surgeon who was wounded in the defense of one brother is Cap Tain of a ship another is a chief Yac Thouk himself has a wife in the United at 292 9th new York and six children of his he says he Hopes to have six More before hell consider his family he tries to make his philosophy a practical i dont keep in my head bad stuff or Good stuff what is past is what i think about is he wonders sometimes if is a in new be some of his shipmates  go about with him because they though he was bad yacht Doest take any Stock in this in really he Saipan Harbor captured by yanks continued from Page 1 Island is now under american the Allied leapfrog offensive made another Stripe in the South West Pacific this week when ame rican sixth army units invaded heavily battered Noem foor off dutch new later seizing Korn Soren Ai drome and driving Inland toward two other Noem foor is about 100 Miles West of Biak How Al most completely under american simultaneously Mac Arthur announced the capture of the important Maffin Bay air drome in dutch new new Carrier assaults meanwhile a Carrier task Force steamed up to the Benin is North of the Marianas and Only Soo Miles from to de liver smashing while aircraft were destroying 25 planes and sinking or beaching three Jap accompanying cruisers and destroyers went in close to Shell one of the previously a Carrier task Force pulverized targets on Guam and Rota in the prime target for bombers for the week has been Yap island1 which has been raided for the fourth consecutive Truk and the marshalls also came in for their regular scoring heavily in the new wide spread Pacific sub marines have sunk 17 More Jap including a Light buy More War Bonds