THREAT OF TOTAL DEFEAT

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 239, 6 July 1944, Page 5

THREAT OF TOTAL DEFEAT

Shadow Of Waterloo LONDON, July 4. The Russian Army’s newspaper “Red Star” says: “The shadow of Waterloo is spreading over Germany. The present Russian offensive is charged with such fresh and mighty forces that the enemy is threatened with irreparable and total defeat. “The possession of Minsk puts the Red Army on wide-open roads to the west. “The power of the blows delivered today by the Red Army against the Germans surpasses anything previously known in military might. The German front in White Russia lias been shattered and is beginning to collapse. “In the first five to seven days of the offensive on four fronts, the enemy lost 183,000 in killed and prisoners—a huge enemy army has been put out of action. "On the fields of White Russia there is going on such destruction of German forces as history lias never known.” "The Times” describes the recapture of Minsk and the Germans’ losses thereabouts as marking “the catastrophic end of the invasion of Russia.” The combined operations by the Red Army and the guerrillas in White Russia in 11 days have liberated an area larger than Britain. A large part of the Soviet units which took .Minsk covered 50 miles in two days.