European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                It of extra 188 daily newspaper of armed i in the of operations extra new 1 70 l among first to receive new Winter shoes Slars Ana stripes Statt photo two doughs the fifth pfc George of left and pfc William of try on the new Winter which some outfits Are beginning to receive on the Western 3d gets so lid hold across our River third army smashing into the Reich in a cold yesterday took the German town of Welchen eight Miles South of after throwing a Bridge head Over the our River from the Corner of Belgium North of the first army juried triple at tacks through the snows toward the Siegfried line on an assault front which widened from the St Vith sector to White lad infantrymen seized three Miles of Siegfried line in a Surprise attack through Waist deep in the Monschau Forest of a front reports up reported from the front that the 78th and an attached tank unit advanced Northeast of Mons seized Konzen and broke into Huppe Broich and gain East of Bullinger to the the first reached the Village of two Miles East of in an attack which kicked off at 0045 below this Advance other infantry cleared the villages of Eime Scheid and eight Miles Northeast of southward in Franco american forces battled toward the Rhine a Kilometre above the North Ern outskirts of this drive appeared to be to directed toward clipping the German Rhine corridor which Points toward Strasbourg from its Colmar pocket British troops in Holland cleared Small enemy pockets from the continued on Page 8 officer Given 35year term thirty five years at hard labor and dismissal from the army were ordered yesterday for 43yearok John of the first officer to be Triet in the railway battalion cigarette Blac Market five More officers still await trial the Paris court convicted the first officer to undergo a Public trial on the continent during this after he had pleaded innocence and denied on the stand that he had Ever received Money from pm from Blac Market in testimony Springer admitted he had received from 20 to 30 Cartons of cigarettes from his but said that housed them to get jobs done around the i found cigarettes Here and there would Pep the French he a Railroad Man for 3c admitted in a confession read before the court that he been neglectful in not reporting the thefts of cigarettes and pm rations from boxcars bound for the doughs six hour Battle takes them into 3 countries by Bud Button stars and stripes stall writer the our River infantrymen fought in three countries within six hours in the action which today saw them Well across the our River and into the craggy Hills abutting the Sieg Fried i combat men of the second Kol a Veteran infantry commanded by col Jack of jumped off from positions in the Snow covered Hills of Northern three afterwards they were across the Mil wide tip of Belgium which its southward along the Iver Between Luxembourg and bitterly fighting German rear staged delaying actions in Hemlock wooded gullies Lead ing Down to the our and the Vil Lage of and across the along equally precipitate slopes less than half a mile German guns fired on almost open by six hours after they pulled out of their positions in the men of g led by 1st it Jack were across the our and into the South of the Waters Edge town of the whose regimental designation has been censored in a Security blackout All along this found the term River misleading where it separates Ober Hausen and is six feet just enough to establish the International despite mortar and machine gun continued on Page 8 i foe admits big new gains Hitler asks fight to death bulletin the German High command reported Early to Flay that red army spearheads had crashed through the Brandenburg line and emerged into one vast tank borne army racing West toward Frankfurt and last big cities before these sudden Frank German admissions placed the reds less than 70 Miles from the German Well beyond the area where Berlin at Midnight had reported the nearest earlier Adolf in a speech marking the 12th anniversary of to had appealed to every German to do his duty to the millions of refugees fleeing before the russian Advance swarmed across g and Berlin was reported Seething with unrest and As Zero weather and to of shortages added to the chaos of three nights of bombing by the riots reported in nazi capital t As millions of refugees streamed across Germany in Zero weather in flight from the onrushing red Adolf Hitler began his thirteenth and probably last year of Rule with a fervent plea to every German to do his the reflecting a fear of How the German people would act in the present Hitler told them any sufferings our enemy May inflict on German towns and coun and especially on our peo Are nothing beside the irretrievable suffering and misery which would follow Victory by a plutocratic bolshevism in this i Appeal to the whole and above All to my old comrades and All to Arm themselves with an even greater and tougher spirit of unrest in Berlin even As the fuehrer counselled his nation in its gravest hour since his Rise to Berlin thrice bombed in three seethed with German radio announcers had reported the russians Only 80 Miles from the and appealed to the people to be extreme cold and a dire food shortage added to the Neutral capitals and Berlin correspondents wired stories of food riots in which women were killed and of Street cars being overturned and set afire to warm the refugees passing striking a keynote that echoed his fear of the German Peoples Hitler said it is now More than Ever Neces sary to strengthen our solemn de termination to fight no matter where and no matter what Circum stances until final Victory crowns our he in this hour i Appeal to the whole and above All to my old comrades and All to Arm themselves with an even greater and tougher spirit of i expect every German to do his duty to the German Tran Ocean news Agency old the Story of the refugees streaming Westward in apparently endless some of them 30 40 Miles Village by refugees Start out in groups varying from a few people with arts Long queues composed of thousands of grim Winter weather is making things very difficult for the continued on Page 8 Vatican labor problem 30 the daily telegraphs Rome Cor respondent reports that the first Trike in the history of the Vatican state is threatened by 400 work men who Are impatient at a delay in giving them More reds nearer London than own capital red the army today pointed out that marshal Zhukov More than 200 Miles in 20 reached a Point in the German province of Brandenburg which is 200 Miles closer to London than to this distance was measured from Russia held which is 700 Miles from the English capital and 900 Miles from the soviet absent from capital 30 president Roosevelt will take no direct Public part in the nation wide Observance of his 63rd birth Day an american radio commentator the whereabouts of the presi Dent have not been disclosed and it is not possible to report further How he is spending the commentator Observance of the Day is overshadowed by his impending meeting with Churchill and not Only the president but three of Are absent from Harry Hopkins has been conferring with British and French leaders in London and James director of the War mobilization is reported out the and Secretary of state Edward Stettinius is said at the state department to be out of other soviet units driving on Stettin the red smashing to a Point within 80 Miles of the German yesterday expanded its Berlin bulge inside the Reich Frontier to a 260mile although official Kremlin reports gave no information As to where fee main drives by marshal Gregory Zhu Kovs first 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 three Ger Man Pomerania and one Zhukov one men acing headed Down the Netze River toward a railway Junction at the con fluence of the Oder and Netze 16 Miles North of Frank Furt and less than 80 Miles North East of the German drive toward Stargard 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 German port of heavy tank and infantry Battles were reported raging in this the russians claimed More than German officers and men were killed and another thousand taken prisoner in one engagement alone the third red army at the Southern end of the 100mile was rolling in the direction of Glo big German Industrial and rail Center in on the Oder German radio said that Zhukov continued on Page 8 yanks make new Landing on Luzon As key City Falls bulletin Mac Arthur announced last night that american troops had landed on the Western coast of just North of the Bataan they drove Inland 11 Miles and captured an sixth army infantrymen on captured the important Road Junction of san 34 Miles from and american armoured units have thrust on to Ward 25 from the Philippines the infantrymen met no opposition As they swept into san Fer Nando on the needs of several Hundred japanese who fled toward Bataan on the Northern front in american troops broke up a Savage japanese counterattack at san Manuel yanks mopping up in the town found 49 wrecked japanese tanks and 789 dead enemy who reported the new american advances yester also said that the japanese already had suffered More than casualties on Amer ican casualties total including Macarthur airmen blasted fort near a Corregidor at the Mouth of Manila and also hit the Cavite naval base and enemy Arnold announced in continued on Page 8