The. officer expressed appreciation to Lithuanian insurgent troops who able to gain control of two important bridges over the Memel ang Vilija rivers leading to Kaunas before the Russians were able to destroy them.
A Kaunas radio. broadcast at noon proclaimed Lithtania was a free and independent' state and announced that Lithuania adhered to the principles of the new order in Europe.
Lithuanian quarters said the radio gave the names of new Government officials. The Government was head-for Yo Bein, Gen. Kags Skrpes to Skirpas, who was said to be in Berlin. Kaunas airfields were blasted by "wave after wave" of German bombers Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, said uanian quarters here. United "Li attempted daylight raids over occupied territory yesterday 22 British aircraft were lost to Germany's three, claims a German High Command communique, which virtually ignores the Russian campaign.
Te is remarked in London that the German habit of rehashing claims of enemy aerial losses reflects anxiety to divert the people's attention from the unpleasant fact that they now have a campaign on two fronts.
The communique records that a long-range battery shelled British shipping in the English Channe) On Monday night German aircraft bombed harbour installations and objectives in south-east England, causing large. fires, British bombers on Monday night dropped a few high-explosive and incendiary bombs on north-west Germany hitting residential buildings, killing and wounding several civilians. The enemy lost three planes in these operations in which German night fighters registered their "200th night victory," the announcement conchides—Reuter.
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