European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Short Story postman delivered a letter addressed Harry Telephone Washington the s nmn ppr of 1 Arani one franc to crap it intr Opic Itam oni Fabano note we would Cut put other things the Teprather teilin0 How he sabotaged nt2i volume number s7 new Yordi Vonparis Jim vat report reds 80 from Berlin 3rd takes we Thenhausen fanning out into 3 nazi provinces franc american forces drive to clip Rhine line by Richard staff writer 3rd army driving across the our River into took the German town of Welche Hausen today after throwing a Bridgehead Over the our River from the Corner of Bel Gium North of first army hurled triple attacks through the snows toward the Siegfried line on an assault front which widened from the Vith sector to White Clad infantrymen seized three Miles of the Siegfried line in a Surprise attack through Waist deep drifts in the Monschau for est of a front reports up from the front reported that the 78th and an attached tank unit advanced Northeast of seized keen arid broke into Huppe Broich and in franc american forces battled toward the Rhine a Kilometre above the Northern out skirts of this drive appeared to be directed toward clip Ping the germans Rhine corridor which Points toward Strasbourg from its Colmar pocket British troops in Holland cleared Small enemy pockets from the vill Ages of Kaarlo and Hulst in the German dutch salient North of Linnich and Allied artillery pounded Strong Points in the town of Midway Between Heinz Berg and third army forces in just North of the Luxembourg hammered a Bridgehead three quarters of a mile deep and two Miles Long on the Side of the after taking the villages of Vewiller and staubach West of the these towns Are from six to seven Miles South of Vith along the Rivers the our River Bridgehead continued on Page 4 Luftwaffe nil in West with 9th Germany 30 estimates today indicated at least 25 percent of the Luftwaffe in the West Al ready has been withdrawn to the Eastern Gearman air activity Over the Western front has been practically nil in the last few the Allied noose tightens the 19th Day of Battle found the reds win Ter offensive still roaring Westward with Street fighting in Progress in the polish City of Posen and in two German provincial Breslau in Silesia and Koenigsberg in Ger Man radio placed Zhukov a army 80 Miles from on the West front 1st army infantrymen launched a new attack on the Siegfried line on an assault front which widened from the Vith sector to thus arc the russians on the East and the allies in the West drawing the noose around san Manila Falls to 6th Allied Pacific 6th army infantrymen on Luzon have captured the important Road Junction of san 34 Miles from and american armoured units have thrust on toward 25 Miles from the Philippines the infantrymen met no opposition As they swept into san Fernando on the heels of several Hundred japanese who fled toward the Bataan on the Northern front in american troops broke up a Savage japanese counterattack at 4 san yanks mopping up in the town found 49 wrecked Japa Nese tanks and 789 dead enemy Douglas who reported the new american and Vance today also said that the do utmost duty to Hitler begs his Reich millions of refugees streamed across Germany in Zero weather in flight from the onrushing red Adolf Hitler began his 13th and probably last year of Rule with a fervent plea to every German to do his duty to the reflecting a fear of How the Ger Man people would act in the pres ent Hitler told them any sufferings our enemy May inflict on German towns and and especially on our Are nothing beside the irretrievable suffering and misery which would follow Victory by a plutocratic bolshevism conspiracy in this he i Appeal to the whole above All to my old comrades and All soldiers to Arm themselves wih an even greater and tougher spirit of re it is now than eve continued on 4 1 Dee face Herb i Appeal anese already had suffered More than casualties on american casualties total including Macarthur airmen blasted fort near Corregidor at the Mouth of Manila and also hit the Cavite naval base and enemy Henry Arnold announced in Washington that 119 japanese planes were destroyed or damaged daring the super fortress attack against Tokio last five super Orts were the japanese reported a super fortress attack on Hachijo 20 Miles South of and said that Allied Carrier planes had bombed Oil targets on in the Netherlands East Halsey said naval Power had broken japanese control of the South China and declared that our Pacific Heet can operate there any time we want crash victims soaked twice 30 Serviceman wrote the Miami her Ald saturday that a bus Driver who picked up three Navy fliers after their plane crashed into the near the overseas Highway collected fares before bringing them u the Serviceman said the Driver stopped the bus and waited while the fliers made their Way from the partly submerged plane to Shore and then collected dollars in fare from the Driver told the airmen that he would be glad to have his com Pany Bill the Navy army crushing bitter enemy resistance in a Swift thrust Down the Berli Danzig were reported tonight by German radio to have reached a Point approximately 80 Miles from while other russian troops expanded their Berlin bulge inside the Reich Frontier to a 100mile fluid although official Kremlin reports Jave no information As to where the main drives by marshal Greg Ory Zhukov 1st White russian army were Moscow Dis patches and Berlin radio reports indicated that three soviet columns were fanning out in three directions Over wide areas of the German provinces of Pomer Ania and one Zhukov one acing headed Down the Netze River toward a railway Junction at the Confluence of the Oder and Nutze Rivers 18 Miles North of Frankfurt and less than 80 Miles Northeast of the Ger Man the second red army thrust was reported heading Northwest from captured Driesen in the direction of important Highway and rail Junction less than 20 Miles from the great German port of heavy tank and infantry Battles were reported raging in this and the russians claimed that German officers and men were killed and a thousand More taken prisoner in one the third red army at the Southern end of the 100mile was rolling in the direction of big German Industrial and rail Center in Silesia on the Oder in the army newspaper red Star announced that officers of Zhukov army had ordered All vehicles marked on to and pointed out that the army today was 200 Miles closer to Lon Don than to Moscow marshal Konies 1st ukrainian locked in heavy Battles along the 150mile Oder River continued on Page 4 former editor Dies new Tek Van 80yearold former managing editor of the new York died sunday death was attributed to Shock at hearing of the death of his miss Blanche Van an hour reds lick Trench foot new rus Sian army has the problem of Trench foot pretty Well says time heres the using the buddy russian soldiers Are paired off and required to Massage each others dogs regu if your buddy gets Rench you catch and it officer sentenced to 35 years hard labor years at hard labor and dismissal from the service were imposed by a court martial today on 43yearold 1st John the first officer to be tried in the railway battalion cigarette Black Market five More officers still await first officer to undergo a Public trial on the continent in this pleaded not guilty and4 denied he had received Money from enlisted men from Black Market Springer admitted in testimony today he had received from 20 to 30 Cartons of cigarettes from his but said he used them to get jobs done by French employees around the rail most of springers under his attorneys was devoted to showing that he worked 16 to 18 hours a Day and was so burdened with technical tasks As general Yardmaster he had no time for anything he claimed that he notified superiors verbally that pilfering seemed widespread and said he understood a letter was sent to Loire Section Headquarters about a letter was then produced by the signed by the 716th rail Way battalion adjutant informing the Headquarters that Large amounts of Money were being sent Home by enlisted men of the two enlisted men awaiting sgt Edward Palmero and Edward both of whom bad previously testified against took the stand again to repeat claims they had Given him Money from the of stolen