London, June 26.
MGHTING in the best panzer tradition, with the army and air force closely ce-operating, the Russians appeared to have thrust a wedge into southern Poland, judging by this morning's war communiques.
The Russians claimed to have captured Przemysl. It appeared that the Russian thrust was in the shape of a two-pronged drive, since the Russian communique mentioned a counter-attack on Brady and Lwow (Lemberg), which is northeast of Przemysl.
The main battle, however, still rages along a northeasterly, slanting 100-mile front from Vilna to Baranovichy, just west of the old Russo-Polish frontier, but perhaps it is significant that the Russian communique does not mention Lithuania where the Germans claimed to have captured Kaunas, In the south, despite all the German claims, the Russians continue to insist that the Nazis have not crossed the River Pruth and that attacks on Cernauti have been driven off.
On the other hand, repens from Ankara" said that two German columns were advancing into Bessa~ able, one along the road towards the Bender River and Tiraspol, aim.
at Odessa, and the other towards Kishinev, aiming at Kiev.
'A third column, these reports added, after invading the Bukovina sec-tot in the direction of Nan and a claimed erossing of the north part of the Pruth River, was now report. ¢4 fo have switched to the southeast in an attempt to outflank the Russian ight wing defending Bessarabia.
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