London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1945, London, Middlesex                                New York daily newspaper of armed forces 5 w be hell London edition Paris of pain the european theater of operations 1945 daily German lesson auf Stehen off Stathen stand up reds sweep 20 Miles inside Reich Border planet photo Utterman tanks on wooden ramps serve As artillery against nazi formations stacking on the 7th army front in Alsace As the Battle for Strasbourg French gain in South threat while 1st and 3rd army troops continued yesterday to squeeze from North and South against the base of the German salient in far to the South French 1st army forces chalked up further gains in the second of their offensive against the nether Edge of the nazis Colmar ire enemy troops have been holding out for the last two presenting a threat to the going the attack in Izzard advanced four Miles in the initial stabbing into the enemy held stretch along the Rhine at Points along a 21mile front from the Vosges East Svard to the River a German attack from this area had been coordinated with nazi Fezi rails target for planes after two Days of operations limited by severe weather conditions heavy bombers of the 8th air Force swung Back Iago Large scale action Over the weekend As they dropped crushing loads on nazi lines of Over 900 fortresses and liberators were out yesterday with an escort of 500 thunderbolts and hammering m Yards at Heilbronn fld while in the absence of nazi air Tore Down to shoot up airfields and rail attacks on 25 Miles North of and key Junne completed a one two punch forthe saturdays Force of 750 fortresses and liberators having num bored among its targets the Heilbronn Yards and a Road and rail Ridge at Mann third announced target for Satur Day a rail Center at just North of harass railway centers Mustangs of the 55th and 78th fighter groups harassed rail traffic centers yesterday and returned with High 355th Mustang which did the majority of saturdays v booked 32 locomotives and 15 freight tars on its destroyed or damaged there was some enemy air activity when the 357th Mustang group took on four Jet propelled planes and destroyed two Widi a loss of reports on and fighters lost on weekend operations Are while fortresses of the ital based Force were bombing Oil and lightning fighter bombers v i serfs raiding similar targets at fiume in an International association for safeguarding Vienna we informed in posters in the capital appealed to warring Nitt Frons to spare the most 00 l Catholic european capital after is sind the Cradle of Art and Symbol j Vignette of 5tb claims army the 95th infantry dial his feats Sag eight incredible Days around Metz this division have nominated of As candidate for the title one Man Iblis activities include knocking out 28 6an two and guns and killing 82 germans  in result of his a the first Battlefield Coromis Dae divisions  Albano dug him Ftp a position atop a slag pile from under a rain of mortar artillery automatic weapon he knocked and killed 20 of including part of a 15man sent out to dislodge ibis big Day came 26 at he rushed a killed pm and used the weapon to destroy he killed another Fourman Sun Crew and used that gun to More and an he later a gun two More 40 dead germans and ten ices to his moves North of and the French drive was seen As intended to throw the enemy off balance before he could begin the saying three to four French divisions were in admitted a rather deep breach in their As of noon saturday no new attacks Iliad been made by the germans in the Gamb sheim 11 Miles above Stras following the repulse by 7th army troops 150 nazis near sheaf dispatches said the germans were reinforcing their Bridgehead above and that the 10th Panzer Veteran of Normandy and had shown up in that after having been held in Reserve in the ardennes in the Hagenau was the germans have committed five or six divisions to in the Snow and ice Clad ardennes continued on Page 2 take Tannenberg Konigsberg and glittering prizes loomed before the russian armies last night As they drove Forward toward ithe greatest prize of now less than 200 Miles All the Way from East Prussia through Poland to Czechoslovakia the red army swept Forward at High on the tenth Day of the great soviet Winter Offen Sive the Battle increased in violence but at no Point on the Long 450mile front were the germans Able to establish a line of marshal in an the Day to marshal last night made the first official announcement that russian troops had crossed the Border into the great Industrial area of the German previously had admitted that the Frontier had been stains order said that Konies advancing West from broke through Strong German defences and plunged 20miles into Silesia on a 50mile the towns capture there nine Miles inside Germany and 60 Miles Southeast of Breslau capital of Silesia three Miles inside the Frontier and 50 Miles East of Breslau five Miles inside the Border and 30 Miles Southeast of Czestochowa Kreuz ten Miles inside Silesia and 51 Miles Southeast of Breslau and on the Border Northeast of the location of the towns would indicate that Konies thrust was aimed straight for Breslau and the upper part of the Oder where it could easily be German radio earlier said that Konies tanks were within 28 Miles of Breslau at five Miles inside German news Agency reported that russian troops in Silesia had reached the town of Gross locate Don the recipe for goulash a la russe a russian antitank Crew lies in Drahush behind its big gun along a hungarian Roadside As the Battle for Hungary develops into a drive on the picture was main railway from Oppem to the silesian Coal Center of Gross Strelitz is 18 Miles Southeast of the capital of upper All rail arid River traffic from the polish and czech mining areas and the synthetic Oil plants at Buchhammer and Oertal passes through Oppeln on the Way to Ernst von who gave the said it was Clear that the storm Center of the East now has shifted to upper Konies forces have stormed More than 150 Miles from the Vistula since they started the drive across All along the line of the soviet drive has been so rapid and consistent in the last few Days that either a Complete rout or massive withdrawals to the Oder were Moscow radio said a meeting of military leaders was held continued on Page 2 japs rammed shot survivors san Crew of a Jap which torpedoed and Sank the Liberty ship John Johnson and then rammed one of the machine gunned the american killing ten and wound ing it disclosed a Navy Rescue boat picked up the survivors of the which occurred in november Between California and japs on Luzon Cut Iii half yanks occupy 2 More islands another Carrie plane raid against japanese Island Strong hold Between China and the was reported by Tokyo radio yesterday As Douglas Macarthur announced the enemy forces on Luzon had virtually been Cut in there was no confirmation of the Formosa which Tokyo said included 450 the japs previously Elas Toffee had its hostages International red Cross representatives in Athens announced yesterday that the Eam Central political group which controls the Elas military had agreed to abide by the Geneva convention in treating prisoners of War and also to release All hostages held by last except those considered to have been nazi collaborationist or guilty of criminal in a letter dated a week ago yesterday in reply to mediation efforts by the red the Eam said it would release All civilians arrested after with the exceptions this move seemingly removes the last Barrier to peace in Athens Dis patches swedes Send food to dutch two swedish carrying food sup plies donated by Sweden for the destitute population of German occupied will sail this week following agreement by the belligerent Powers to Grant Safe con duct to the Neutral swedish radio announced Lebensraum is getting a Little tight around the neck these concentric circles ringing the Reich like a Gia it noose being drawn taut indicate the distances involved from front to front and illustrate what inroads Allied armies Hare made along the Way to reported a raid against chief port in occupied Macarthur communique said the americans on the left flank of the Lin Gayen Gulf beachhead had captured 37 Miles of the strategic Manil Baguio thereby practically isolating the japs in the North from those in the though Macarthur claimed enemy resistance on the left flank had the americans still had not captured five Miles beyond the Northern most american held Point on the High there were no further official reports on american advances on the Central Luzon Plain toward but Tokyo said the 6th army were 60 Miles Macarthur announced that two More Small islands Between Leyte and Ponson and been occupied by soldiers from Light Aerial attacks were the Only opposition a gloomy Outlook for the japs was painted by Premier Kubiako Koiso in a speech before the Tokyo calling for a ruthless increase in the fighting strength of the a Coso warned that the present War situation gives no reason for the japanese to be in View of the material superiority of the a Tokyo dispatch to German news Agency reported that a new total a Nobili nation decree had ordered every fit including women and engage Only in War allies Settle with Hungary has agreed to pay in reparations to Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia under the terms of the agreement signed at Moscow yesterday by representatives of the hungarian provisional government and russian and Allied it was disclosed of this which will be paid in River Grain and live Stock Over a six year two thirds will go to Russia and the remainder to the other two the provisional government also agreed to turn Over to the allies All War facilities and German material and plans in her Tito to get Relief supplies 21 signing of an agreement Between marshal Tito and Anglo american authorities at Belgrade on under which Britain and the United states with Urra Aid will Send Relief supplies and services to was announced officially Jugoslav authorities will administer the Dis Tribu