Minsk Falls as German Tanks Close Pincers S.W. of Smolensk

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Berlin, By Telephone to The New York
Times, By C. Brooks Peters, Monday, June
30, 1941: Advancing eastward past both sides
of the two Russian armies allegedly trapped in
the Bialystok sector [Bialystok: about 50 miles
east from the most westward bulge of the 1940
German-Soviet demarcation line, 100 miles
northeast of Warsaw, 190 miles west-southwest
of Minsk], rapidly moving tank and motorized
divisions were reported today to have caught
another sizable contingent of Russian troops in
a new pocket between Minsk [400 miles
southwest of Moscow] and Smolensk [200
miles northeast of Minsk], about three-fifths
the distance between the German border and
the Russian capital of Moscow. [This would
have put the German Panzers about 240
miles southwest of Moscow and 40 miles
southwest of Smolensk.] Minsk is said to
be in German hands. ... The German forces
that have joined hands between Minsk and
Smolensk advanced from the south and north.
The southern group proceeded past Brest-
Litovsk [200 miles southwest of Minsk, 100
miles south of Bialystok, 110 miles east of
Warsaw] by way of Baranovichi [115 miles
northeast of Brest-Litovsk, 105 miles east of
Bialystok] and Minsk. The northern group
came from East Prussia through Vilna [100
miles east of the 1940 border, 100 miles
northwest of Minsk, 125 miles northeast of
Bialystok] and then cut southeast to form the
upper part of the pincer movement. ... The
noose about the two Russian armies in the
Bialystok sector is being pulled tighter each
hour, it asserted here. The German forces
advancing through Brest-Litovsk and Slonim
[100 miles northeast of Brest-Litovsk, 30 miles
east-southeast of Baranovichi, 185 miles east-
northeast of Warsaw, 110 miles southwest of
Minsk] northeastward are said to have joined
hands, as already described, with other units
operating from the north in a southeastwardly
direction through Grodno [75 miles northwest
of Slonim, 45 miles northeast of Bialystok]. In
spite of the desperate efforts of the trapped
Russian armies to break through the German
net of steel, all information available here
suggest that the destruction or capitulation of
these forces is imminent. ... On the southern
front, German storm troops are credited with
having taken Lwow [160 miles south of Brest-
Litovsk] at 4:20 o'clock this morning, and
therewith forced the first wedge of their drive
into the Ukraine. In this sector, according to
German information, the Russians had
concentrated their elite troops. ... The capture
of Lwow was possible only after the German
units, after a week of fighting, had forced
newly constructed Russian lines of defense
of the most modern type, German sources
declare. ... With the capture of Lwow the
Germans appear hopeful that their further
advance in the southern sector will proceed
more rapidly. ... It is pointed out here the
progress of the German column advancing
from Lublin [115 miles northwest of Lwow],
south of the Pripet Marshes, across the Bug
River past Luck [85 miles northeast of Lwow],
offers a direct threat to the Russian forces
concentrated in the Lwow area. Here again the
possibility of a flanking movement appears to
present itself. ... In the Baltic regions the
German advance is said to be progressing
satisfactorily. Today the naval base of Libau
[300 miles north of Warsaw] was officially
reported to have been taken and the fall of
Riga [in Latvia, 120 miles east-northeast of
Libua], it is added, cannot be far off.
Jacobson [75 miles southeast of Riga] is said to
be in German hands, and authoritative military
quarters expressed doubt that the Russian
forces still in the former Baltic countries would
be able to escape the German dragnet. ... The
Russian forces in the Baltic sector have been
dispersed and are being pursued, according to
German sources, and there is said to be no
continuous front in this area. Whether the
northward drive in the Baltic area has
Leningrad [300 miles northeast of Riga] as its
objective is not known. There is still no news
available here about what, if any, advances the
allied Finnish and German troops have made in
the north. ... Wherever the Russians had taken
up positions, [it was] declared, they continued
fighting until they had been destroyed.

Berlin, United Press, The New York Times,
Monday, June 30, 1941: Eight more British
ships, totaling 48,400 tons, including a troop
transport and an auxiliary cruiser, have been
sent to the bottom during the last 24 hours, the
German High Command said today. ...
German bombers sank three merchantmen
totaling 23,000 tons, including the transport,
from a convoy off Great Yarmouth, last night,
a communique said. ... The High Command
reported also that German submarines, which
it announced yesterday had attacked convoys,
had carried out new attacks on the same
convoys and sunk another five ships totaling
25,400 tons, including an auxiliary cruiser.

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