London, June 30.
Two huge armies, trained in al. most identicd metiieds of modern warfare, ure furlanly hammering at each other In a confused melee of tanks, guns and men in two great hatiies that have been raging for three days in White Russia and cast. fern Poland, according to the latest reports received here.
The sanguinary struggle is swaying t9 and fro over a vast battlefield fof some 3,000 square miles ranging from Minsk, the White Russian cap. tal, in the north, to the important Polish town of Lwow in the south, The Russian army {s claimed to be holding its own in the fighting, in which armoured units, with motorizdetachments following behind, have thrust far ahead of their main forces of Infantry and artillery.
Behind these units the battle is continuing with unabated fury.
Earlier the Soviet High Command had stated that a German tank rush in. the Minsk direction had been stopped. Soviet troops were said to bbe. counter-attacking the main Nazi forces behind tanks in an effort to prevent them bursting through and foining "up. between Minsk and Baranoviteh, #0 miles to the southwest.
Turning to the campaign in the Baltic States the Germans mention the capture of such places as Grodno and Kaunas, but the only new claim that they have gained the town of Bewidze, on the river Dzisna, rough-a point where the boundaries of Lithuania, Latvia and Russian Po-
None of this is surprising offer Russian reports of their withdrawal in this sector during the last few days.
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