The general situation on the whole front is summarized here today as follows:
Finland and the far north, German and Finnish troops have crossed to Kandslaksha, on the White Set where Finland is narrowest, This is said to have cut off the Russian forces in the Murmansk or Kola peninsula to the north. The Russians state that their forces in the Murmansk sector have halted the enemy advance after had gained some ground, In the Baltic States, the Germans claim to have captured Riga after at advance force under the command of American Marines Arrive in London London, July 2.
American Marines assigned to guard the United States Embassy here arrived: in London early this morning.
They arrived here aboard a train and were greeted by a single uniformed captain of the British Security Police and a few early-rising workers. The Americans then were transported to the United States Embassy in motor-coaches—
United, Pre Colonel Lasch had on June 29 made penetration into 'a southwesterly district of the town in a rapid thrust bby way of Afltau. Mitau is about 27 miles south-west of Higo, Russian counteraallacks "in the sector along the river Dvina between the coast and a point In the southeast are ported by' both sides, but Tlussian {reops in Lithuania and Latvia seem to be ina tight corner, Strong Resistance the Minsk sector,'the Germans claim that their advance units have Teached the river Berezyno, while the Russians report strong resistance their troops' in the area of True och, which fs on the Berczyna 85 miles south-east of Minsk, Both sides mention force fighting by an isolated Russian army further west between Bialystok and Minsk, In the Lwow sector. the Germans claim the capture of Lwow, which {he Russians "admit. they have eva. nated. 'The Russians claim that their counterattacks have inflicted heavy fosses on the enemy inthe sector about 40 miles east of Lwow, 'The 'Germans, however, may be develop Ing a pincer movement from Lwow fon the' north and. Bukovina on. the south, with extra tentacles thrusting ahead of ft, On the Rumanian frontier, fierce fighting on the river Pruth is men= toned by both sides, with the Rus sans. claiming the repulse of an 'According to Swedish correspond ents in the Helsinki area, an artillery duel has been proceeding at Bange Since June 25, "The silence of the Russians on Saturday' gave rise to rumours that they were. prepared 19 yield. It is computed that there are 25,000 Russians in the Bange aren, These correspondents are unable to confirm that the Finns began an at-{ack yesterday on Bange. or tha Viborg has been assailed, The latest Russian communique on the war states: "On July 1 our troops carried out stubborn battles in the direction of. Murmansk, Kexholm, Dvinsk, Minsk and Luck, In other directions and sectors of the front our troops hold the state frontier and continued the struggle against the enemy, who attempted to Isolate the frontier a "In the Murmansk direction, "our troops are stemming by fierce fighting the advance of numerically superior enemy forces, In the direction of Kexholm the enemy "launched an offensive at several points and tried to penetrate into our territory. By vigorous counter-attacks our, troops repulsed the enemy with great losses, "In the direction of Dvinsk our troops are engaged in stubborn Aghting against enemy tanks and infantry, His attempts to penetrate towards the crossing over the western Dvina were beaten "back, "In the direction of Minsk Aghting continueg against enemy mobile units. Our troops are applying, on a large scale, barrage fre and counter-
In the direction of Luck our troops have stopped an offensive of import ant enemy: formations, During the battle, which lasted several days this sector, the enemy sustained heavy losses in men and material, "Our troops, carrying out a retreat according to plan and obeying orders, have loft Lwow. According to more exact data on the operations of our air force, 80 German planes were shot down on Jung 30, 60 of them in aerial combat," Our losses amount to 17 alreratt, "Perfidious Enemy"
"Our heroic tank drivers, artillery and infantrymen are fighting with self-denial, overcoming numerous ob-Stacles in' the struggle against the perfidious enemy of our country for every inch of our Fatherland, One unit, attacked by superior. enemy. forees held back during a whole day the assault of the enemy, The Fascists repeatedly flung themselves into the attack but were thrown back every time to their original positions, tone day alone the Germans lost 50 tanks, "Soldiers of one infantry unit destroyed six enemy tanks, An antl= tank battery commanded by Uteshin ut eight enemy tanks out of action in, one: battle, "In one of the sectors of the Kate. Yan Isthmus, a battalion of Finnish White Guards crossed our frontier, One of our infantry battalions engaged {in the fight with the enemy and forced him to retreat, The enemy lost three (auks and about 100 men in Killed and wounded, The communique then denies "men~ daclous reports" by the Germans that Soviet pilots, while machine-gunning. railway train, used dummdum. bul lots, Apparently the object of this provocative report "is ip. disguise their own intentions." The com. munique also denies German reports that "during aerial combats Soviet bombers bore German markings."—Reuter, Troops Said Caught London, July 2.
Despite British warnings, the Russians apparently permitted big mas of troops to be caught close to boundary of German and Russian Poland, were German panzer units Janced through while hostilities wore hot much more than minutes old, it was disclosed here yesterday, Observers recalled that the Poles made the same mistake in 1930, Then most Polish troops were mobilized before Chancellor Adolf Hitler struck, but were quickly. thrown -into con. fusion by overwhelming alt and land attacks and whole armies were en= circled before they had time to put up more than a show of defence, "The Red advance -altforce. was caught, largely, on the ground and losses the first'day of Aghting were believed (0 have been severe,
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