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Russian Stesmvoller “Strikes Toward Berlin
‘Open New Hungary Drive
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| Oder southeast of the Silesian capi {tal of Breslau, ? Konev opened a shattering bom- | bardment of German defenses across the river, and closed against la number of key towns in the industrial “Ruhr of the East.” ®ncoming Russians, “The Battle of Silesia swiftly |
Others set fire to their villages, | neared. Robey Sirsagy | poisoned the wells and even smashed entrenc n p
{their houSehold furniture in the (broad front, fanned his forces out greats before fleeing across the north and south and reached points |e, 10 to 15 miles from Breslau,” &| ~ gimilar evidence of the Nazis de{Moscow dispatch reported, [termination to convert their home“The Germans are reported mo- land into a desert before letting it bilizing every able-bodied man, | fa nto the Russians’ hands came {woman and child to fight with afm the East Prussian front.
Pighting with a fanaticism born of despair, German men, women and even children battled the in- [ tooth and nail for their Silesian towns. Soviet front dispatches said individual Germans stayed behind in their homes to hurl grenades at the
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report that Gleiwitz had fallen. | 2 A Nazi broadcast supplementing|force had been
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{fanaticism unparalleled for thel. The advancing Soviets found Germans in a desperate attempt t0 gown after town burned to the defer if riot avert: the doom of the | oround. reich's last important arsenal.” | Rosenberg and Guttentag were Nazis Scorch Earth : | among the. Silesian towns reported Applying the scorched earth pol- | | wiped out by he retregting Ger:
| mans. {icy to their home soil, the Germans Military ‘observers in MOSCOW as Twere-reporied-frour-Moseow- oe sertedtint the decisive hour ofthe laid waste the Silesian towns and
Z| villages marked for seizure by the! vas a or Loe Indusitiag province Red arniy. Vilont fighting was going on in| Direct Advance the streets of Oppeln and Gleiwitz, Koney’s right wing was advancing the two main cities of Silesia south- | directly on Breslau on a front of east of Breslau, Berlin admitted. | more than 21 miles that carried as (The N. B. C. quoted a British|far as 33 miles inside Silesia. D. N, B. said one Russian tank | “wiped out” after to within 2%
mand sources as saying that be- | miles of the city. 'N » Ii O tf 7 tween Cosel and Breig “a wild bat-| Breslau itself was outflanked by a azis u Ing u roops tle had flared up on a wide front. "| column that raced 28 miles north From Bulge fo Stem Reds
This indicated that the Nazis had|of the city to take Militsch, 168 (Continued From Page One)
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Soviet nities are rolling ahead all along the front. In East Prussia they have driven into Konigsberg and are threatennig to cut off 200,000 Germans in a drive on the Elbing gateway. are storming Poznan,
In Silesia they are at the outskirts of Breslau and are fighung in Oppeln and _Glelwitz. .
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no accurate picture of the situation | miles southeast of Berlin. This is and were “prepared for word that'the westernmost point of advance the Oder had been breached. claimed officially by the Soviet high A Berlin broadcast asserted thal|command: still another Russian army had| For the first time since the start| affected by the German efforts to joined in the great winter offensive. | of the offensive 13 days ago, Moscow | Poster the lines shattered by the It was repopted striking at the reported that German reinforce- Red army. miles southwest of the Rhineland remnants of 300,000 Germans ments in. considerable strength| Divisions Pulled Out and industrial center of Munchenhemmed into a narrow coastal cor-| were flooding into the front. adbach. ridor in western Latvia. | This indicated that the Nazi high| Along the British- pow Duteh) Goth ie put them five miles Front dispatches meanwhile lifted | command finally was committing its | front correspondents reported twol. .- Germany northeast of Sttla 48-hour official blackout on the reserves to a showdown battle that| German divisions definitely had} drive across western Poland, could settle the fate of Germany. | been. pulled out of the line and | It was revealed that tanks and) SSr——————— sent east. | British and American tactical air |
matched the American gains with | the capture of Aphoven, Scheifendahl and Straeten. The British drove to within 17 |
Manila With Bamban Within Grasp.
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French Gain Far to the south, the French of-
of the final assault on Manila.
stronghold before the German bor- |
In central Poland they |
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|ited possibilities for aerial support $10,000, according to public reports.
[Germans Evacudting Sil ~ Nazi Radio Warns of Crisis ©
“By ROBERT DOWSON A brief flurry of optimism In Qer- - United Press Staff Correspondent | ma press and radio comment yes LONDON, Jan. 24. —M o s ¢ o w| ‘erday was dampened by the Wehrs broadcasts today reported . mass) HCL ciel Shoe, 14. Gen, evacuations of Germans from Si-| He warned the public that the |lesia, northwestern ‘Germany and Russian invasion sweep has not been, | western Foland, : | ed y immedi te indi He id unrest in the ere 1s' no ediate Indication Spal Bu SSians said unrest, led to Nise or when it will*stop, Dittmar {clashes with Elite guard units. sal as shrill Aad of propaganda! At the same time, Dittmar | broadcasts clogged the European air|Prushed aside Naz propaganda | waves. | claims of big successes in the west. Some reports said panic had | He asserted that Marshal Karl broken out in Berlin and that the|Von 'Runadstedt’s counter-drive into Germans had begun to dig-trenches| the Ardenies was only a “local” op= ~around their capital. | eration. | The often inaccurate Paris radio] “Many an unlimitedly grave situae | said the Germans were ringing Ber-| tion will still have to be mastered,” lin with trenches in apparent prep-| Dittmar said in commenting on the laration for-a last-ditch defense. = |Russian offensive, i “A Brussels broadcast quoted | Berlin reported today that 18 | Swedish reports that the evacua-| {American and British “agents” | tion of Berlin was going on. | were executed after their .capture | A Moscow broadcast immediately | in Slovakia, where they allegedly | following a Free German commit- | were engaged in sabotage behind
3 {tee appeal for an uprising in Ger- [the German lines. : ~Brpadcast Nag Qipao sade
es sald Big scale evacuations |from Silesia, Pomerania and the the Americans and British were border area of Poland were under | caught in civilian clothing, adway, with the people “being driven | mitted their identity and purpose on foot toward the interior of Ger-!in Slovakia, were court-martialed imany."” - land shot.
__ Wallace Would Win Conirol Over War Plants in Switch
(Continued From Page One) | Mrs. Kreps would he a'Z$l-a-year woman. Well, she got $1, but hasn't been paid since, by the governs ment.
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large loans from the Reconstruction Finance Corp. during the depres-!
sion, either have paid off such ob- Jones was sort of close. I
|guess,” Mrs. Kreps said. “Maybe relatively small sums. Mr. Wallace will be ‘a little more The Fletcher Trust Co. is retir- generous.” ing its remaining $500,000 in cap- «= ital debentures, Security Trust Co
still has $100,000, Peoples State bank, DROP PLAN 10 TREAT $60,000, and Central State bank, G. I'S NEAR HOMES 1 he
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 24 (U.,
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Filipino civilians said American Of several other organizations here
infantrymen had Jaunched a frontal ted tof | planes destroyed scores of Japa- |’ ovement o / —Indi - assault on- Poznan, the last ne POLAND ASKS ALLIES forces repor eavy move fensive north of Colmar in French | nese planes on the runwavs and istration has an experimental lab- P.).—Indicating that the total num
clso. The Civil Aeronautics Admin- |
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der, 40-odd miles to the west. Russian flanking columns looping around the
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German military traffic on the Hines | Alsace cut both the main high-
leadi from the Ruhr. | revertments at Bambanr 10 RULE UNTIL PEACE EE ar He % iggested.- that {way between Colmar and Stras- | — side of Weir Cook municipal air-
| t, an inspection branch and a the German 6th panzer army was|bourg and carried across the Til B- 29's Hit Japan, | por : being sent east hurriedly. { river. communications division here.
(Continued From Page One) = | another speculated that the 5th| ne American 7th army again ‘Nip Radio Says
oratory in a hangar on the north!
Weather Bureau Included
| ber of men wounded in combat the|aters has reached nearly 100,000 per {month, Maj. Gen. Norman T. Kirk, surgeon general of the U, S. army, announced today that an earlier {plan to place wounded evacuated to
(/\ reported i city He . from the north and south in an| (/ sh iL 2 oad enveloping sweep. Presumably they carried many linclined to look upon the Polish miles closer to the Nazi frontier in| offer as coming too late.
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The memorandum was | stood to ignore the existence of the
The fall of Poznan and its valu- | provisional government in Lublin | {able road and railway communica-| which is recognized by the Rus-|,
tions would strip the Germans of! sians. | their best defense line short of the | But the exile government's sugOder river,
back to within 35 miles of the Nazi | tamount to an offer to surrender =| "ry ¢ {its claim to rule ‘Poland. To the south Marshal Ivan 8. The memorandum obviously was | Konev outflanked Breslau, ‘capital | designed to strengthen the hands] jof German Silesia, and the rich of President Roosevelt -and Prime] mines and factories of the province. | Minister Winston Churchill at their | Konev broke through to the Oder| coming meeting with Marshal Josef | lon a 37-mile front. Stalin,
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that his army had crossed that|if a democrate and trustworthy base river, which forms Germany's main in liberated countries could not be eastern rampart. : | found, then some sort of temporary | The German D. N. B. news agency international trust might have to said Soviet units had broken into| De Set up. the streets of industrial Gleiwitz, 86] Tne Polish move came -as this miles southeast of Breslau. {government reiterated one. of its It also said the Russians reached | P51 foreign policy tenets—that. its, Oppel’ on the Oder, almost mid-| Malor interest is in seeing political | way between the two cities and 35! {unification within ‘liberated areas miles inside Silesia. {which will allow the people to] . aan choose their own governrhents ba A RRR 2 eventually through free and fair) L M 0 R E # | elections. ; Acting Secretary of State Joseph n 1 h D A Y S #10. Grew stated the desire for po- ; #1 litical. unification with respect to ] TILL {both China and Yugoslavia in two ‘NATIONAL VELVET Jil formal statements yesterday. | The National Hit ‘| Grew revealed that the United ! ’ States had already used its friendly LOEW S FEB, 4 f good offices to that end. Unity Wanted Most & x ce “| With réspect to the current YugoGas on Stomach slavian crisis, Grew emphatically [stated that the United States was Relieved in 5 minutes or | primarily interested in she estabVou doubls your money hack stat. | iSHMent of a unified government ng ms. sour pom ach 4 heartburn, ors usually so that both the exiled government n ro tomato TIAL madre Tk, those in Beans |and the factions within the country s back ea Teiurn of bois | cOUld begin to work out their problems together. His statement appeared to be preparing this governmént for: what now seems an inevitable result of the current crisis between King Peter and his former cabinet— recognition of ‘ome government, HT probably under Marshal Tito, by the Soviet Union and Great Britain, while. the United States continues] its recognition of King Peter.
LONDON, Jan. 24 24 (U. P).—=The| Poiish exile government proposed an inter-allied military commission to govern Poland and the Yugoslav government defied its ouster by King Peter today as the struggle for power in liberated Europe intensified, Both the Polish and Yugoslav political crises, along with the situation in Greece, were expected to bulk large in political discussions at- the impending confefence of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin. Diplomatic sources said Stalin also may ask Churchill and Roose- |
to supply troops to garrison the liberated far northern area of Norway and thus release Red army forces for the March’ on ‘Berlin. Mr. i / Roosevelt and Churchill were ex-
¥ under- |
| gestion for an inter-allied authority |
On that front the Oder—ecurves to administer Poland also-was tan ora infantry of the 82d airborne NaNs were attempting to infiltrate goutheast coast of Honshu, the |
Churchill suggested recently that|
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Paiper army also was headed iat | was in contact with the Germans PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 24 (U. P.). The weather bureau atop the] {this country in hospitals near their hese two armies were the spear- | all along the line north and east of | Tokyo reported today that six | Postofiice building and at the air-| [roimes has beer ghafioncsl. aoe ead of Von Rundstedt’s Ardennes Haguenau, 15 miles north of Stras- | superfortresses attacked the main Port mis we pars. of Lhe, commerce) {that the casualty evacuation rate ed was little change, however, jet Ig. ’ . {Japanese island of Honshu andi No one in any of these places of 30,000 to 32,000 per month would in the grim character of ground| Ihe 7th previously had made 8 Korea in the last 24 hours. | would stick his or her neck out pub~ decrease until fighting ceases. fighting. |strategic withdrawal from the Magi-| Two B-29's dropped bombs ‘on the| licly to say what he or she thought | Here on an inspection tour of The American Tth armored di- |ROt line in northern Alsace. lindustrial city of Nagoya, and a how Henry Wallace would be as army hospitals, Kirk said at a press vision with the assistance of the | A front dispatch said the Ger- | third attacked Hamamatsu on the secretary of commerce. | conference that only 30 Jo 40 per But Mrs. Lillian Kreps is hopeful. | cent of the total number of wounded division, shoved east of recaptured the American line, but gave no clue | radio said. Mrs. Kreps represents the com-|Werereturned to the United States, |8t. Vith, | to their success, if any. | Three Superfortresses were re-| merce department here, the census| The others, he declared, are The push was designed to drive| Supreme headquarters declined to ported over Keijo, the Korean capi- | bureau, the bureau of foreign and treated at theater hospitals antl are the Nazis back into the Siegfried | delineate the area yielded volun-|tal, Kanko and Hanan. | domestic commerce and there used [returned to their units after they | positions from which they launched | tarily to the enemy. Other Superfortresses attacked to be several others before they! tare fit for further combat. [the Ardennes drive Dec. 16. | While it might cover anywhere Japanese installations on Iow, step-|were snipped off by congress. ST ATE POLICE RES Third army forces moved up pi Fg foe Ling Tile, mm Sone Ha midway between| ars ‘Kreps is paid the Indi-| CE RESCUE | emins of one and two miles, sa, “no large 3g okyo and Séipan. anapolis -Chamber Wigs Commerce, | Lines Restored | abmntloned; | ——— suet where her office is. This unusual| - SNOWBOUND PUPILS LIGONIER, Ind., Jan. 24 (U. P.).
30th Seizes Towns MYITKYINA, Burma, Jan. 24 (U.|arrangement stems from the fact] | Along about half the Argennes; pushing |that the commerce department, in —Ten pupils of the Perry township
| P.) —British commandos, sector the lines were virtually where] The 30th infantry division (trained {inland after a new amphibious/a penny-pinching mood several school related to classmates today (they had been before Field Marshal af Camp Atterbury, Ind.) captured | landing below Akyab, threatened! years agoy decided to close its dis-| how they were rescued from a deep Kar] von Rundstedt attacked. |Neundorf, one and a half miles|today to cut off thousands of Japa- trict office here. snowdrift on a country road by In. | At its maximum the bulge aS southwest of St. Vith: Crombach, |Dese on the Arakan coast while the| The local Chamber of Commerce diana state police. Officers transabout six miles wide. { American Mars task force trapped didn’t want that, and offeréd to pay ported them to their homes after | The American tactical air force | two and a half miles southwest, and |; 14 eds in east Burma by sever- Mrs. Kreps if the commerce de- they had been marooned for three meanwhile “reported it had de-| Weisten, three and a half miles ing the old Burma road near Kosi, partment would continue to supply |hotrs yesterday when a school bus t
Stuy 70 more vehicles in strikes) southwest. 135 miles southwest of Wanting. s services.” That was the deal.'stalled. ay.
The British reported they had| hit more than 160 trains in 48 hours, many of them loaded with {troops and war materials. Six thousand vehicles, tanks, horse-drawn transport, railway cars and locomotives were destroyed or damaged Monday and Tuesday in the first two days alone of the bombardment. There were strong indications! that the German 6th panzer army | had been caught on the move.
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Advancing close behind the re-| treating enemy, the American 1st and 3d armies sent patrols into Vianden, southern anchor of the| Ardennes bulge on the rim of the! Siegfried line. The Yanks also seized a ninemile stretch of the Clerf river in Luxembourg and beat off four rear-guayd counter-attacks around liberated St. Vith, northern anchor of the bulge. . | A dozen or more towns=and.vil- | lages weme overrun in the advances that compressed the German salient almost to ‘the vanishing | point. Lt. Gen. Sir Miles C. Dempsey’s { British 2d army north of Aachen
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