Show Reds Pass By-Pass in Flanking Drive Capital of Ukraine T Threatened by Circling Movement LONDON Aug 6 UP The UP-The The red army announced a Russian offensive had broken through h the German lines on a mile 46 front in the area for advances up tip to 37 miles mUes MOSCOW Aug 6 UP UP lc Vic tory-flushed tory soviet forces wheeling southwestward from captured Belgo Belgorod Belgorod Bel Bel- go gorod rod Friday passed by Russia's fourth city and industrial capital of the Ukraine in a flankIng flanking flank flank- ing drive threatening to encircle the great held German-held base Northwestward miles red army forces surged forward in a pincers maneuver against Bry Bry- m most st powerful stronghold on the lower central front against which the soviet conquerors of Orel were moving in hot pursuit of the tattered German units The red army's first summer offensive offensive of of- was picking up momentum fast its pace and power beginning to rival the winter campaign which smashed the Germans westward from the Volga at Stalingrad to the near approaches of the per Nazis Get No Xo Rest RestI I Heeding Premier-Marshal Premier Josef Jose Stalin's order to give the battered enemy no rest the Russians fanned swiftly out from Orel and Belgorod Belgorod Belgorod Bel Bel- gorod in drives threatening to undermine ine th the whole German position po po- In inthe th east The e C Cfall fall fair Belgorod of Belgorod north of laid o open en the G German flank north of the war war- torn forn cit city keying the whole eastern eastern east east- em ern Ukraine Leaping to the opportunity opportunity opportunity op op- op- op soviet striking forces passed by and swung ar around und in what shaped up as a determined and confident effort to cut the railroad lines radiating from the major communications hub I The forces on the march were those of the and newly- newly created steppe fronts which evidently evidently evidently evi evi- evi- evi dently emerged from the processes of evolution and reorganization which fitted the red army to strike its first paralyzing blows in the summer I I Stream Westward Russian moto motorized units were streaming westward from the Orel area to reinforce the armies Which launched the synchronized drives against from the north east and southeast The concentric drives against Orel Ore had carried the Russian columns columns columns col col- col- col northwest of the city down into the German flank to within with n less ess than 30 miles of Which is 75 miles northwest of Orel The red army also was reported shifting troops down from the front w west st of Moscow to join in the assault on Thus the soviet policy apparently was ws to roll Toll up the Uie German lines i il the south on a a. front reaching aching r from the Sea of nt b beyond yond the a area a. Orel and Belgorod I ITha er a mont month to tl the day after Ma Marshal l 1 Gunthe Gunther r Voh Von l launched nis s 's Mv I r t c y Tr ops of the steppe Ite pe and Vo Vo fronts smashed the offensive offensive of of- and routed touted 38 German di divisions divisions di di- visions numbering upward of men then l lashed hedback back The red air force supporting the Russian offensive offensive- with the greatest concentration of aerial might ever employed on the soviet front was blasting r relentlessly at retreating German armies in an I effort to keep them disorganized and on the run i S Some me of the heaviest aerial Cont Continued on Page Pitt our Four Column Seven I f Nazis Reel Black Back k on 01 M Messing Messina ss ir dr As Allies Smash Ahead i Continued from P Pa Page g One ODe fighting of the summer raged over woodlands south and southwest of Orel where German columns were retreating frantically over two dirt roads in an attempt to escape encirclement encirclement en en- by eight converging Russian columns The Russian air command was deploying its maximum effort to transform the enemy retreat Into a rout that would disperse and destroy the German forces before they could reach prepared dee de- I f eases A soviet correspondent Just returned re returned returned re- re turned from the Orel front estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated th that t Russian planes flew more than 2000 sorties daily dally over overa a mile six sector during the height of ot the Russian attack All AU reports indicated that the Russian high command has concentrated air power on the south central front fronton on a scale never before witnessed in this country hopping Hedge-hopping raids red air force bombers and assault assault as as- sault pla planes e blasted and strafed t tanks armored vehicles trucks and infantry clogging the two escape escape escape es es- es- es cape routes leaving them littered with flaming wreckage and the bodies o of German dead Down 72 Planes two Seventy-two German planes were shot down In air combat over the Orel front Thursday and 66 over the Belgorod area Moscow was jubilant over the capture of Orel and Belgorod Thursday first announced by Premier Premier Premier Pre Pre- mier Marshal Josef Joset Stalin in an order of the day It WI was by byl orders that the the guns 20 guns bo boa hoca hoc boa a a a. salvo 12 salute Thursday m night Happy crowds jammed ed capitals capital's streets until 2 a. a m Ill u ji der a special relaxation of the fife few Stalin in his capacity o ot preme commander of soviet arm arm- forces told the d southern southern-centA front armies that their victo victOr II had exposed the German l lege legend L d that soviet troops allegedly ar to unable to carry out an olio in the summer Eternal glory to the heroes R o 0 fell in the struggle for freedom freedo of I our country 1 The order t of ot to ft th day concluded Death to the cS Ger- Ger man mart occupants |