European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 1, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1 Man Speicht Deutsch of collapse the daily newspaper of armed 189 new London the european theater of operations Lei on Parle Francais base Moi de Bazay Moa dub a close 1945 45 from Berl Kurt Jei is Tel Nave Ion led to in to in Ige w Ide Buna of As f t 82d smash into Reich elements of two american driving hard toward the West advanced along a 30mile Snow drifted front in Belgium and Luxembourg yesterday As front reports said two divisions pierced the Border and american artillery Ham mered the Siegfried stars and stripes correspondent Russell Jones with first army said the 82ndairborne crossed the Reich Border near 12 Miles Northeast of while first doughs smashed eastward Yards to Cross the Border near artillery of both divisions was pouring shells on the first Siegfried line Jones As ninth troops to the North moved Yards closer to the great for a front reports said that 78th infantrymen and armoured units Cut across the headwaters of the Roer River East of Monschau after capturing three Miles Northeast of and taking More than 500 prisoners from Siegfried line six divisions move six infantry divisions and Armor of the first and third annies moving eastward along the Somile assault arc from Kester North of Monschau in Ger Many to the third army our River Bridgehead at just across the Border River from the Southeast tip of this Bridgehead was expanded yesterday to five Miles along the our and deepened to one and one half southward to Vianden in Luxem two More third army Divi Sions fought toward the German Border and their patrols ranged up to the our along a simile Bridgehead is expanded the 78th was battling in the Vicinity of Kester Nich at the Northern tip of the other divisions along this front were the the the ninth and the first an armoured division combat at least one More division was in action but was not the second cleared the towns of Krinkels and continued on Page 8 Bonds sold in Eto drive Eto troops purchased Worth of Bonds by class b allotments and Cash during the sixth War loan drive from 1 to theater Bond of announced figures for showed that 56 percent of All Bond purchases by soldiers out Side the were made in the yanks capture Subic Bay Isle key base Falls bulletin Macarthur announced last night that american troops had landed on Grande at the Entrance to Subic on the West coast of he also reported the capture of the Subic Bay naval base of other american troops were within 25 Miles of Manila on the after reaching Calum gain along entire front  in giant strides across the Frozen approaches to red army tank spearheads were reported yesterday by German radio to have reached the North of Frank Furt at a Point not More than 45 Miles from the Reich although the German High command w As hurling powerful counter blows at the on Rushing soviet Armor in a Las ditch attempt to hold the nowhere in the Berlin bulge did the red army appear to be Berlin and Moscow dispatches agreed Thair marshal Gregory Zhukov first White russian army had crashed 60 Miles inside Branden troops of the new who made a new american Landing on Western were advancing swiftly Inland blasting any Hopes the japanese May have held for a Large scale withdrawal to the Bataan Penin announcement of the carried monday from 150 was the first mention of the eighth it is commanded by Robert who led the Buna Campaign on new not a a ship or a plane was lost As the 38th and a combat team of the which had fought on Leyte in the Central Philippi were put ashore in Luzon Zomba Les the Landing was made 60 Miles Northwest of along a 10mile stretch of coast above the Bataan Peninsula and Between the Mouth of the Santo Tomas River and san filipinos said that no japanese had been stationed in the area since thus the eighth army men went 11 Miles Inland on the first Day for the juncture with the sixth army that would Seal off and continued on Page 8 of Swalde Soldin sch Weld Etc Swalde Frankfurt Beeskow Lubbe Nav stars arid stripes map by Bald red spearheads were reported yesterday beyond Soldin and lands Berg and at the Banks of the Oder River North of Frankfurt this places the russians 45 Miles from berlins and less than 30 Miles from the Baltic port of Stettin 17 babies dead awol figures in Home Blaze baby Down the line to Joe to air service had been and with Good the shafts in the 824 Power generators were cracking like dried experts said they were too so the mechanics dashed into their shops and turned out a modified ver still they the colonel barked at the the Captain ate out the the sergeant caught Aell and the privates All still they i and every time one 01 them i out it meant that other generators in the plane would Road and Burn that in radios and machine go f then somebody bad an j private on a pair of phones land connected them the or stage it clattering like a kid running a stick along a picket the maintenance men had sudden spurts of powerful were snapping the a Small adjustment both the Clatter and the destructive surges of every b24 which was grounded for Generator repair was returned to the air within 24 31 the sudden explosion of a stove in a wooden boarding Home for babies of War workers today turned the building into a raging inferno and caused the death by burning or suffocation of 17 Small children and an most of the who ranged in age from three months to three died in their their Heads thrust through the slats in futile struggles to Only eight of the 26 occupants of the converted farmhouse the adult victim was Rose 50 years an whose Fivey Earold son Robert also Eva the hysterically related How she was awakened just before Dawn and found the buildings Interior gutted by she said she leaped from bed and grabbed two but As she raced for safety she stumbled and crazed with she dashed leaving the babies both severely her arms were revised by pm approximately american soldiers in the Eto were awol on Milton theater Provost declared an earlier statement from the Provost marshals office had said that Between and men were currently Reckord said yesterday that the figure had probably been computed by adding the approximately 600 new awol cases reported each Day during Actu Reckord there were awol on 31 who had been reported by their units during the month and who had not yet re turned or been in there were some Lon term who had been gone from their outfits More than a month and were still at he of the men absent on the last Day of the according to than 40 per from the age reinforce ment the provinces of Burg and forming an almost solid front from 30 Miles South of the Baltic port of South through communications Strong Point on the Berli Danzig to the town of on the Berli Warsaw Highway 15 Miles from official Kremlin reports placed Zhukov forces less than 68 Miles from Berlin in the Vicinity West of Landsberg near marshal Josef Stalin announced in an order of the Day that the reds had captured Meseritz and three other which formed the powerful bastion covering approaches to Frankfurt new super tanks a Reuter dispatch from Moscow announced that Zhukov was using new superheavy breakthrough tanks to shatter the Frontier line and pave the Way for the main push to the German news Agency said the soviets also were bringing up heavy equipment to Ford the Oder to open a frontal assault on the German the appearance of More and More vol Sturm troops emphasized the desperate plight of the German High command trying to round up reserves for counter the 20th Day of the Winter Offen Sive found the reds still slugging ahead fill along a 400mile fed by fresh reinforcements and a steady flow of the a re ported from Koneva troops Advance on the Oder River 150 Miles South of Zhukov Berlin the first ukrainian army under marshal Ivan Koniaev was reported pouring across a Bridgehead North of advancing to a ten Miles West of the River the area around Luben and Ohlau while heavy Battles still raged for encircled Konies troops seized 40 places in a push South West of on the East Prussia Ivan Chernia Kovsky third White russian army stormed into continued on Page 8 czechs recognize poles in Warsaw the colonel promptly com mended the continued on Page column 5 weather Calls a halt to air blows at Reich fog and Low ceilings ruled out Anglo american air activity against the Reich yesterday after a week of jarring blows against nazi figures released on fighter bomber tolls for the week ending 27 showed motor vehicles destroyed totalled and More than fifteen Hundred Railroad cars were destroyed and More than 2 000 a nazis to Valley lines hit 31 Reuter aircraft flew More than sorties attacking German communications in the to Valley and rail junctions in the Zagreb and Mai Faor areas of on the fifth and eighth army activity was limited to general election for Canada 31 prime minister Mackenzie King announced today that a general election would be held in Canada before april 31 czechoslovakian government in an unprecedented policy move today formally recognized the polish provisional government in but did not break off with the London czech spokesmen explained that for the time being the government of Eduard Benes would continue to recognize the London regime while entering into diplomatic relations with the Warsaw they said the move May have been prompted by the prospective Early Depar Ture of Benes to take Over the administration of parts of Czechoslovakia already