European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lord army opens attack along front everything for the front the so Dolly newspaper of armed 196 ripes in european theater of operations s s for the front the Joe at front wants to read this too new 1945 3 map Viet at Black s 4 divisions enter Keich at 7 Points four third army divisions launched a new at tacks on a 22mile front in Eastern Luxembourg yester Day and drove into the Reich across the our and Sauer Frontier Rivers at seven Points Between the duchy Northern tip and the City of Echter i North of the new first army ninth pushed to within 500 Yards of the nazi communications Center of stubborn enemy resistance Between Gemund and Schleiden was slowing the american and in the third of the xxi corps captured the Rhine town of East of attacking doughs used scaling ladders to Force the towns medieval Moats and prance american continued to mop up the broken halves of the former Colmar poc resistance stiffens third army attack in Luxem Borg erupted yesterday enemy resistance which was Light at first stiffened during the the Northern segment of the attack sixth armoured Max crossed the four and on half Miles Northeast of Booth of doughs of the 17th airborne crossed the River due cast of off at elements of the 80th crossed the our eight Miles Northwest of Echter Bich and made another crossing of Sauer near the attacks followed a 90minute artillery on the Southern flank of the i fifth troops drove a across the Sauer at three Points of they finished on for a half mile into the Merman Border doughs of the 90th who iad fought across the Border ten flays ago broke up a German coun i Ter attack of 500 infantrymen in rite Siegfried line town of Brand f continued on Page 8 they meet again to talk of War and peace marshal Stalin prime minister Churchill president Roosevelt nazis counterattack in Effort to Stem reds fighting desperately to Avert a russian the German High command yesterday threw heavy counter attacks against two red armies stabbing at the fortified approaches to the German the reds were across the Oder at a dozen scattered places on two Points 100 Miles in the Berlin Gregory Zhukov first White rus Sian army reported by the germans to have Possession of seven Bridgehead 35 Miles East of fought off enemy counter blows North of Buestrin and South West of the official soviet command is still maintaining a news blackout on operations in the Berlin bulge but Moscow dispatches last night said that Zhukov troops had crossed the River and was advancing toward enemy broadcasts have admitted for three Days that the River had been crossed in this area and said continued on Page 8 blow it out 7 the army disclosed today that plastic Harmonicas will have been delivered overseas by they Are the War depart ment to boost the morale of War weary fighting innkeeper held for using girl to obtain Gas 7 military authorities today held a Rennes innkeeper who had been charged with compelling a girl who owed him francs to have relations with two american soldiers to obtain gasoline from Rennes police arrested the along with his chauffeur and the and turned them Over to the military the names and unit designations of the soldiers were not a French court took Steps to halt the growing gasoline thefts in one influential Farmer was sentenced to a year in prison and fined francs for the theft of 32 five gallon cans of three railway employees received oneyear sentences for plundering cases of Reich told of peril of deadly tall 7 Many position is comparable to walking on a tight rope and a fall is possible at every Kurt principal spokesman of the German High said quoting Frederick the who once said near the end of the seven years i shall to go on walking on a tight rope trying to avoid a but i shall also see that i hit out at the enemy now and then with my balancing Dittmar reminded germans Only extreme Calm and Assur Ance of a sleepwalker can prevent our deadly Hitler on Way out 7 organization of the German gov with Hitler giving up his title of fuehrer and president of the nazi and von Papen becoming was reported imminent today by Der Afton Bla the paper attributed the in formation to rumours in be lir which reached German circles the associated press declared the report had All the earmarks of a German trial balloon designed to sound out Allied reaction As to whether a revamped government would have any Chance to sue for armistice according to the Franz von Papen would be designated of Bataan walk again in the Sun Tomas prison 4 delayed Long ordeal of the Els of Bataan and the Amer army nurses who cared for american and no wounded in the Black Days of the has ended at last and All troops who liberated this civilian Camp found but for All reasons to the nurses would Luse in their newly found work of caring e wounded brought in from the fight to i by Way of Bevelled at again having clean bandages i abundance of drugs brought to them first cavalry had heard nothing of they t soldiers were joking when they a Large american Hospital unit arrive within a few hours and that of those happily working tonight survived japanese bombings on they were Rose Marie of and Rita of some of the nurses freed at Santo Tomas were taken there after unsuccessful attempts to about 100 army nurses were caught in the Philippines when the War began and every Effort was made to evacuate when it became Clear that the islands were two groups reached one by submarine and another Navy flying a third group got As far As Mindanao Island before their flying boat was Many months later they were brought to the Santo Tomas where they joined other nurses in caring for the frail Maude of arid her Josephine of who commanded the huge Hospital 2 on head the nurse Ruby who was Long stationed at Bataan Little Baguio was on recently transferred Eleanor of recently was reunited Here with her Garrett Francis when he was transferred from a War prisoner Hospital to Santo they were married on but were separated when she moved to Vivian of wife of Frank United press correspond the Only correspondent captured by the japanese on the Battlefield in this was found doing nurse duty at the her who was wounded and captured in the Early Days of the Bataan is in a pm Camp on Weissblatt was at Bataan and Corre Gidor for More than two the diet for internment feeding several children and keep their nourished from Only a Small variety of available chiefs gain Accord on joint plans president prime minister Churchill and mar Shal Stalin Are meeting some where in the Black sea area and have reached Complete agreement on joint military operations in the final phase of the War against the second meeting of the big three was disclosed officially last night for the first time in announcements made in London and accompanying the three leaders Are their chiefs of the foreign secretaries of the United great Britain and the soviet and other announcement of the historic conference was followed by disclosure in London that at least 10 and per haps were killed on 1 when a plane carrying some members of prime minister Church ills staff crashed in route to the meeting talk of secure peace Churchill and who first met at in late in have begun discus Sions of the problems involved in establishing a secure it was announced that these discussions would cover joint plans for occupation and control of political and economic problems of liberated and proposals for the earliest possible establishment continued on Page 8 officer freed in looting Case Ario dal of the second officer to be judged in the current Black Market yesterday was acquitted by a Paris court he was charged with wrongful disposal of army property and with neglect of it was the second acquittal since the trials began the first acquittal was that of an enlisted the first officer John of was Given 35 Porto denied he took clothes or rations from he asserted that 50 pounds of which he was charged with was used to feed his Pyle is Back in print from Pacific Ernie Pyle has gone Back to the War this time Hes writ ing about the Joes and the fight ing on the other Side of the his first column on the Pacific Battle front appears of Page