London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1945, London, Middlesex Hin Tegen f lie Down new York Paris of firmed forces 5 London edition in the european theater of operations 1945 daily French lesson a Manger Ahva Voos a Mong Jay have you food nazis flee West front under record air blow Miles from Berlin capture menace sweep on to Danzig Rucks hit 19thtaf germans were pulling stakes the ardennes melting in eastward to the Siegfried Tine As Allied tactical air forces turned the heat against two packed transport at including tanks were spotted trying to escape along Snow drifted roads and pounded hour r hour with such weight that the record the greatest previous Days destruct of enemy transport was already sur d by Jael dispatches said the 19th Taf smashed the record it set last 833 motor vehicles were blasted in Jeziers and Metz area and South of one unit alone said it de 228 motor vehicles and damaged including Many tanks and armoured in through overcast skies against two columns crowded so closely ther that we the were believed to have virtually utilized at least one of Field marshal re von Rundstedt two Mobile Reserve lacing the foe with and dialled press said there was every Ilion the ruin would be the greatest the hectic Days of the Falaise two Road jams found to Road jams were one in the of in Germany East of the belgian Crossroads Center of where of vehicles streaming Northeast toward the Rhine of the about the same was spotted As it attempted to by the Luxemburg Border town of already under american Artil this second column also was eth the 1st and 3rd Riding to were meeting less stance As the nazis scuttled out of first indications of the Ger i pullout came on when the army chalked up a Fourmile biggest single Days Advance since the was 1st cleaned up 3 pies from killing 120 germans id capturing with the germans on their Way Back Vith pummelled into Rains by uniting attacks when weather permitted lost much of its the line is about 17 Miles be five Miles Northeast of Houff Alize running to a Point above Vith the 3rd army troops were iting in the Luxemburg town of Wiltz Ich the germans at one time had Appa itly banked on As a Southern Anchor a defense line for their now continued Papage 4 this blow aimed at nazi solar plexus gathering momentum As they smash across the polish soviet troops last night were 28 Miles East of Posen and but 166 Miles from Berlin at that other red spearheads pointed toward Konigsberg after ins Terburgh Danzig which would Cut off Prussia and Breslau in 6th army captures 65 Miles from Manila seizure of the provincial capital of Tarlac and two adjacent announced in a belated communique from Douglas Mac thurs Headquarters sunday placed 6th army doughboy 22 Miles North of Clark former army air and gave them an important Road and rail Center on the Central Luzon 65 Miles from doughs attack Noho Metal 22 letter in today Washington Post signed by 28 Frostbitten infantrymen criticized John Sherman for his comment published in the stars and stripes that the soldiers he visited in Europe do not favor a proposed rotation system of the letter said we Battle weary soldiers of this infantry platoon would like to make this Challenge if Sher Man could spend one night that we have spent in the past two weeks he would give one of his limbs to go a fur Lough from this Frozen hell would be a new lease on ousts Jesse Rives Wallace Commerce Post risking a certain Senate armally nominated Evic president in Spry Wallace today to be Secretary Job for which predecessor i Jones said Wallace was daring that Henry Wallace deserves any service which he believes he Roose asked Jones to resign so that the Ner Vic president May be Roosevelt written was Jesse Jones Henry Wallace within the reconstruction finance corporation and its subsidiaries and ques toned wallaces Cali fictions for the in private life director of huge financial and Industrial claimed the assets and responsibilities of his St were to be turned Over to a Man in business and Wallace is said Jaq have told friends last week that he know some people regarded him As a poor but if he got the Commerce assignment he intended to make a record for Senate opinion on Wallace was reported and a fight was expected to develop out of the known disapproval of him from conservative members of both Roosevelt asked Jones to accept another Post in the and pointed out that several ambassador ships Are vacant or about to be Jones replied that he did not want a Diplo Matic Wallace pledges jobs for All if approved Sanade Public last night by who also Ive out a copy of his reply in which the would accede to the decision the chief but added that he wallaces appointment As his would be hard forthe business financial world to reply to the Jones that the Job carries with it vast in and War production agencies action of Victoria and la two towns ear the by troops protecting he left flank of the Tarlac Reuter correspondent John Leonard who entered Tarlac a few hours Behim american reported that much o he City had been destroyed by the fleeing the capital in which the aps had placed petrol Drums in Ever Oom and exploded was a charred he the railway station dwellings and a Large part of the business Section were almost gutted b the japs also had destroyed Grea quantities of War equipment before abandoning their Leonard the Jap amounting t fled in trucks and carts 24 hours before the americans the mayor of the City told Tokyo radio reported that Ameri cans have been killed or wounded on Zon since the landings at lingayen an unofficial recapitulation at Allied continued on Page 4 22 mum National employment by private business was pledged today by Henry a Wallace if his appointment As Secretary of Commerce is he added that the government mus accept the duty of seeing dial All men Are in health and have the common Man need not tolerate less Prosperity in time of peace than he had in time o fall represents a penetration f 43 air Miles from the lingayen Beach Ead established simultaneous with s Macarthur reported the occur map of Luzon on Page 2 Berlin was Only 166 Miles away last night As the red army Gigantic Winter gathering Forward toward Breslau and marshal Zhukov 1st ukrainian army was nearest the Reich capital and had captured 166 Miles straight East of Berlin and 28 Miles Tom the capture of announced by marshal Stalin in his fourth order of the meant that the left spearhead of Zhukov army advanced 50 Miles in the last 48 hours and covered the 145 Miles from Warsaw in five it also meant that the russians covered half the Way from Warsaw to Berlin since last Zhukov troops also were 182 Miles from the Reich capital at ten Miles Southwest of the big town of German hedgehog Posi Ion along the Northern route to the capture of Labi Szyba was announced by marshal Stalin in his second order of the other places taken in this area included 32 Miles Southwest of in wroclaw and defense bases covering the approaches to in an earlier order of the Day Stalin revealed that Cherny Kovsky troops had stormed and captured important communications Center and Hub of Tufe nazi fortification zone in East Ansterburg is located about 20 Miles West of 24 hours 40 Miles inside the East prussian the East prussian is Only 50 Miles from stains third order of the his twentieth in less than a announced the capture of Allenstein by marshal to Kossovsky who now have penetrated 40 Miles into East Prussia from the Allen Stein is about 50 Miles from the Baltic and right in the heart of East its capture Means that to Kossovsky forces have advanced about 16 Miles in 24 hours from which fell stains fifth and the second to Rokos Sovsky last announced that the 2nd White russian army have captured 16 Miles inside the East prussian Border and about 22 Miles Southwest of Osterode is located about 40 Miles from the Baltic and 70 Miles from 200 forts blast nazi of Plant a Large nazi Oil Plant at just West of which was put out of com Mission in was blasted again yesterday by 200 flying fortresses of the 8th air Force which had to Battle through intense flak and 65below weather Over the the Plant had been hit three times by the Raf and four times by the 8th before the november report by photo interpret but the Raf blasted it again last thursday a an indication of the Speed of German bomb Over 100 Mustangs went along with the but met no fighter opposition As the bombers smashed the Plant which sprawls Over 413 the 55th fighter group shot up an Ai drome and a rail Yard on the Way nine bombers were Tost in the opera Allied planes also had a big Day in Northern Italy As the drive against nazi rail Points was Raf fighter bombers and lightnings destroyed or damaged 155 24 locomotives and 125 railway twelfth air Force Mitchell bombed rail routes leading to Brenner to Kossovsky drive into the South flank of the nazi positions in East Prussia apparently was headed for Dan by cutting through to this great Baltic port City he could bypass the formidable Konigsberg Cut All the escape roads and and trap an estimated germans in East while the right spearhead of Rokos Sov says army headed toward Danzig its left Wing pushed Back the germans along the continued on Page 4 escort cripple 2 boats 22 Navy revealed last night that a destroyer escort had rammed a surfaced boat at full sinking and that the destroyer Wainwright in action off Algeria had forced another submarine to surface and attacked so vigorously that the enemy Crew scuttled and abandoned the the actions were narrated in citations accompanying awards of the legion of Merit to David of skipper of the unidentified destroyer and Walter of the Wain Wrights a Toboggan run that glides right into Berlin with the Snow too deep for jeeps pm the ardennes sector of Mazall Keystone photo Western toboggans Are used by Here registration clerks and
