20 World News Today

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Now here's Douglas Edwards. efforts. Allied headquarters announced today that elements of 14 German divisions and parts of four others have been caught in the Normandy pockets and are being blasted to pieces by artillery fire.

The Germans say American forces have crossed the sand northwest of Paris. In the south, the seventh army is sealed the doom of Poulon-Marcy by a 20-mile advance toward their own valley. On the eastern front, the Red Army is hammering at four salience as the Germans report a new attack on the south.

Here at home, Russian Ambassador Gromi-Co has arrived in Washington for the world's security talks. The War Department announces another raid with the B-29 Superplanes on industrial areas in the vicinity of Yawata on Kyushu Island on the Japanese homeland.

And offer our first news direct from overseas, Admiral Taeksut O'London, Richard C. Hottlet, reporting. The Germans this evening report that American tanks are across the Sane River after airborne and parachute troops had established a bridgehead somewhere between Vernor and Mont. The enemy says that heavy fighting is in progress at this point.

There is no confirmation in London and there isn't likely to be under the present policy of secrecy, but a delayed report from this part of the front this evening makes the German story sound logical. A roger correspondent said that American forces were stretched out along the West Bank of the river from miles north of