06 World News Today

World News Today brought to you by Admiral Corporation in behalf of distributors and dealers all over America and in many foreign lands. By shortwave broadcast, direct them important overseas stations and leading news centers of our own country, CBS reporters are waiting to bring you first-hand news from the world's political and battle fronts. Now here's Douglas Edwards.

American tanks and men are swarming across the Brittany Peninsula today, and the cleanup campaign has begun at rest. Other American columns are turning eastward toward Paris. More than one thousand of our planes are bombed in Berlin and the Hamburg and Kiel areas of Germany.

In the east, the Red Army's campaigns against East Prussia and Warsaw are entering the last stage. Berlin says the Russians have made a breakthrough north of the Neiman River. German shells are crashing inside Florence today, but the British 8th Army has planted itself firmly along the Aano on both sides of the city.

In the Pacific, a fast American task force operating off the Bournon and Volcano Islands has wiped out a jack convoy. And now for news on the Battle of France, Admiral takes you to Normandy, Bill Downs reporting.

Senior British Staff Officer said tonight that the German Seven Army, assigned to hold the Allied troops within their Normandy beets, had suffered a major defeat. And at the event of the past 10 days, had given the American British and Canadian forces in France their first big victory.

This high staff officer said that since the day, the Allied troops in France had virtually eliminated 13 German soldiers, and no army could stand to lose the memory of prisoners alone that the Germans have lost to us without suffering a major defeat.