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raises cotton textile prices in accordance with Bankhead amendment; Admr Bowles on effect on mills
US State and Treas Depts authorize White to s for US delegation and keep press informed; White repts on alternate proposals from experts at Atlantic City conf, June; admits criticism from Amer Bankers Assn, individual banks and other US groups; silent on Fed Reserve bankers stand; stresses Eccles part in planning and conf; outlines tentative conf agenda including comm and subcoms on stabilization fund; Morgenthau gets lr from Sec Hull; text; Sen Wagner lauds delegates cooperation
5th Army infantry takes Cecina in fierce house-to-house fighting after other units complete wide flanking movement; 3 French columns battle for Siena; 8th Army Adriatic units advance; occupy Loretto, Macerata and Valfabrica; S African tank forces and other troops gain along Lake Trasimeno shores; Gers retreat toward Arezzo; elements of 24 Ger divs encountered since May offensive start; Allied air forces attack northern rail communications and battle area targets
Stalin order of day and salvos announce Minsk cut off from all rr communications southwest and to Vilna and Baltic States; Stolbtsy, Krasnoye, Sloboda, Nesvizh and Yundzilovo among towns taken; Gers suffer heavy casualties; DNB says Ger aim is to hold Minsk; map
1944World War II: The Minsk Offensive clears German troops from the city.[†]
The Minsk offensive was part of the second phase of the Belorussian strategic offensive of the Red Army in summer 1944, commonly known as Operation Bagration.