Show Russian Drives Aim at ai Bug River Rail Hub HubRed Red Army in North Adv Advances nc s 35 s sMiles Miles Into Poland D By Henry C. C los 1 Spearheads Spearheads of Gen Genet et oral cral al N Nikolai i k o 0 I 1 a I 1 First t Ukrainian army plunged within 15 miles of the Bug river Monday and neared rail rail city on the Bug serving erving as main mam con control rol point for German communications to the bend Other units slashing s southward sent deeper one jaw of ot ofa ota a possible trap for thousands of Germans in the gap a a nazi nazi- held zone in the rear extending eastward to the river This southward drive was pushing to toward toward toward to- to ward a junction with General Ivan Iyan S. S Konev's Second Ukrainian i ian army advancing w west v e st ward through Alexan r above d. d Farther north the soviets were within five miles of S Sarny rny 35 miles inside old Poland r I w we western e s t e ern r n advance guards seized 15 miles from froma a a bend of the Bug river is 30 miles southwest of and 33 miles from the important Warsaw Odessa-Warsaw railway rail raU way Natural Defense Line The Bug river natural defense line is the eastern border of t t the h e c soviet area awarded Rumania by the Ger Ger- mans Other units units' pushed through 19 miles east of Vin Vin- nitsa itself threatening to cut the most important west east-west railway left the Germans in the Ukraine The Tile German high command announced announced announced an- an an an- the Soviets a al l landing west of in th the Black sea between the mouth and th the naval base of Odessa Odes Odes- sa but were thrown back hack There w was was was' s' s no Russian confirmation of oC the he reported landing anding which might be e a flanking assault to bottle up t q ns th r. r bend B Berlin rUn reported report d' d local fighting we et S p f ro J ord ft-ord L declared red Russian Attacks west of Berd chev had been frustrated The soviets were beaten back in inthe the area the co u add added d. d Complicated l maneuver er s army was vas was engaged Ina Ina in ina a complicated ma maneuver pressing westward even while driving to to the he south and mopping up areas to o the rear Capture of at Sarny a junction On ba n Vilno Wilno line would f force farce rc the Germ Germans ns to o r rely ly for or south north north so th communications meetIng meet meet- on railways ing ng a at Brest st 1 0 mil miles mile farther west iest The Warsaw Odessa railway ay on wh which ch the Russians w were re advancing from captured is is' the main escape s ape apeline line ine for German troops In southern south south- em ern Ru Russia sl Stockholm dispatches describing describing ing ng the German retreat as almost chaotic quoted German military spokesmen in B Berlin as ai admitting that that their armies were fleeing dur- dur Inga ng a desperate battle battie upon which the outcome of ot the whole war depends Nazis Face ace Disaster The Germans also faced disaster ter in eri-in In a wide pocket west of t the e river riveras as the first and second second sec see ond Ukrainian red armies the armies the first pushing south through Buki and the other driving west through narrowed narrowed the hc jaws jaw of a possible trap to less ess than 75 miles A A. junction of f ther the ther two armies would close a ring around the Germans in in the gap in an area 80 miles deep running back to t the e right bank of the On their entire front Sunday the armies of Generals and Konev swept swept- up more Continued on Page Two f Seven 1 Russ Drives Near Bug River 4 Stab 35 Miles Into Poland Continued From Page One towns and hamlets killed 2300 Germans in two actions alone and captured huge stores of war material material mate mate- rial a soviet any pounced The Russians took just inside province provInce province ince bordering Rumania in an advance advance ad ad- vance of ot 50 miles west of mir mfr which brought them to within 22 miles of a junction Junction junctIon Junc junc- tion on the and lines The First army's southern drive which was reported making the most progress took some of General General General Gen Gen- eral forces through Buki while other units mopped up the west bank of ot the south of Kiev capturing 12 miles southwest of Konev's Second army encountered encountered stiff resistance around recaptured recaptured re re- captured I but occupation occupation tion of 35 miles to the north helped straighten the front The They also cleared the Germans Germans Ger Ger- mans from 40 other localities A said that in an unspecified sector of the second Ukrainian front the Germans launched several counterattacks employing large forces of ot infantry infantry try and tanks but h having ving mauled the Germans and bled them white soviet troops by the end of the day again passed to the offensive and advanced successfully Berlin correspondents of B 6 ish isle newspapers said that the theman theman man high commands command's plans plan fOr methodical retreat went a when the red army struck I denly and swiftly in numerous tors A slow and org organized r re t 3 had been prepared but the I M Russian smashes tangled tangle ed l Gc n 2 communications and caught tb tb tw with insufficient air nir su support a short shortage ge of fuel oil oU one Sea V correspondent wrote J j Tass the Russian news ag J said only inhabitant e mamed in out of ct i I prewar population of |