European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                On Francot Este quil Fera plus Chad feh Fah Pleto show will it get warmer one Feano to tit two hmm Milt to Oprah to one Feano sprit of 1st die Strasse Fri 1st strafe Frey is the volume number hew York Dijon Penis feb Rwy yanks hold half of Manila russian tanks drive into North of Oder 5 red army grinding Northwest around the Battles raging for the key Berlin bulge cities of Frank Furt and today drove into the Northern Elbow of the Oder River to reach a Point slightly More than 30 Miles Northeast of while along the Oder in Silesia the germans claimed that the soviets had opened the Sec Ond phase of the Winter with Long Range guns pouring an endless barrage of steel on Ger Man fortifications on the West marshal Gregory Zhukov troops probed for weak Points on the Oder River line As assault Accord ing to enemy held a half dozen Bridgehead across the River on a 100mile front from South of Frankfurt North to a Point near German radio said that Zhukov was massing thousands of troops Between Frankfurt and building up for a frontal assault on the German capital while a Mored forces were being moved into the Oder Elbow where an Effort will be made to outflank Berlin from the violent armoured clashes at Kien on the West Bank of the Oder 23 Miles Northwest of were reported last night by the marshal Ivan Konies possibly throwing the gained 14 Miles in a push West from an Oder Bridgehead at German official reports said last describing the attack As the beginning of the second phase of marshal stains Winter dub said Koniaev had concentrated powerful tank and infantry formations in the Brieg area be and heavy widening Fife breach Mast kit Al paratroops land South of press Forward 5 stars and stripes Over landed South 01 one sniper fire toward Complete liberation of the p troops of the 1st cavalry and 37th infantry won control of k pm the of for Nurt entered the Northern part of Manila a Roosevelt hails Entrance into Manila 5 a american entry into Manila was hailed president Roosevelt in a message which he sent to Sergio president of the let the japanese and other enemies of peaceful nations take warning from the great events in your Roosevelt aggression and enslavement can not survive in a struggle against our world of Freedom and the president also told Osmena the american people rejoice with me in the libera Tion of your two armies Battle inside Siegfried line Oil toners Burn in Day they penetrated As far South As the wide and deep pasig which divides the first cavalry in an encircling move at drove to the Santo Tomas internment Camp from the East and liberated civilian most of them american women and children who have been held there since May the 1st cavalry fighting in memory of its former it Gen Jonathan who was captured by the Japa Nese in first into a there was no major apposition from the japanese As the 1st Cov ered More than 140 Miles in a Little More than 60 racing Down to Manila h the Highway that skirts the Central Luzon Plain on the a dynamited Brid prevented Gen Macarthur from entering the City with one of the first Spear he turned Back to find an other the japanese in the Southern Section of Manila were destroying installations there and preparing for a Las ditch these enemy troops faced a new from the 8 Para troopers of the 511th by Bichard writer 5elemente of Isa Lor the communications town of 23 Miles Northwest of continued on Page tighter gop seen after hew Republican Liaison 5 Senate and House republicans have forged a new Liaison and the tighter gop Vandenberg Ocie by chairman of the sen ate minority said leaders of both branches had agreed to Confer at least twice a result May be a front in Arthur agreed month to Exchange Vaji Denberg himself plans to reopen foreign policy discussion in a speech tonight in there he is expected to reiterate and enlarge upon his previous proposals in the Senate that the major allies get together now on waterway system formed by urfa and Roer Rivers to reach Eastern Belt defences of the double tracked Siegfried line on the shores of urfa Northwest of 3rd army forces hit the West Wall forts at Points along a two mile stretch of the line West and North of Prum on the Edge of the Schnee Eifel South of Strasbourg in the Rhine French and americans clipped the Colmar bulge in what was de scribed officially As a Model Mili tary operation isolating upwards of nazis from escape routes across the the Cut was made Early today when the 12th armoured of the 21st driving South from met units of the 1st French army 4th moroccan Moun Tain driving North Rumor has Berlin alerted against paratroopers 5 treaty for perpetual disarmament of the Axis after the War the Junction was made at Midway Between col continued on Page 4 m we thought of food think about while a Vinai me has ordered All Berlin on the Alert against a possible Allied attempt to land paratroopers in the Burn refugee packed terror and confusion were reportedly mounting hourly with the reds and nazi leaders themselves admitted tacitly Berlin s desperate plight by clamping a news blackout on the City and for bidding civilian refugees to leave without special a trickle of news is still seeping through censorship to Stockholm and these accounts indicate Ber liners Are beginning to crack under threat of the russian the first real break in berlins morale was apparently caused by  new Oil tankers were aflame in new York Harbor one of them sur rounded by sheets of burning Oil airborne landed on tag Aytay City fire boats Weie dispatched 32 Miles at 905 followed by four top and aug Tot the enemy by coast guard fireboat carrying a Surprise Large Supply of the Ridge commands a network to m highways leading to Manlas Back soon after the Para troopers had they were Only 18 from the be Hind them were other american forces taking the same route to the Liberator bombers struck again at the Corregidor fortress and the Cavite naval other libera tors flew to Formosa and attacked an in Ceylon seac Headquarters announced yester Carrier planes of a powerful naval task Force had struck two heavy blows against japanese Oil installations at palembang in Southern Suma British naval observers said that the on Jan 24 and have deprived Japan of approximately 75 per Fitial a coast guard report said there were a series of explosions from one of the cause of the fires was heavy Black i slate to Brooklyn and Staten Island Resi darkened the sky and Burn ing Oil on the water was reported to have floated toward docks on the Brooklyn this aspect of the fire was being controlled and no damage was the fire broke out shortly be fore 9 am off Staten Island germans claim eleven ships sunk off England m n new the Ger Man High command claimed to Day according to that Ger Man boats Sank 10 Supply ships totalling 67000 tons and a troop transport of tons and three escort vessels in Waters around Alied officials recently warned against revival of enemy submarine warfare but have not i jail cent of her aviation fuel the task Force included four carriers the illustrious Victori Ous indomitable and among the ships accompany ing the carriers was the battleship King George a the Allied ships escaped m 1ury while 15 planes were at least 21 japanese planes were Spiot and 38 on the Uso hero under fire 5what More Han was apparently caused of a terrible p american Daylight army 4th service on saturday when a thousand yesterday the Story of a Pennsyl heart of 1 Estius in bombers literally Tore the heart or the City with a ton according to a War a j resistance by the German army when you dont so sets of Rice throw the German the japs butchered sometimes they a said Alfred san Frankfurt Steinau the German military position will be the spokesman Vania private who went awol in he late summer of 1943 and spent 15 months hiding underneath the service club at his Camp until fire destroyed the building and brought about his the commands announcement identified the Soldier As Henry Beaver who was assigned to an antiaircraft Bat Talion at Camp Steward Gathen he disappeared in the army said he was now under treat ment at an unnamed regional hos Pital while a military Board deter mines his mental and physical