London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1945, London, Middlesex                                New York the London edition Paris daily newspaper of armed forces 5 in the european theater of operations 1945 Over Oder a drive on tears in nazi eyes planet Lioio marshal to Kossovsky red army forces Are moving fast in the direction of important Baltic shown Here Are some of his Shock troops attacking Ger Man positions defending Danzig Southern yanks Halfway to Manila b29s fit aircraft plants with Field dispatches reporting spearheads of the 14th army approaching bomb lasted six Miles North of Clark Douglas Macarthur forces on Luzon yesterday had advanced on half the distance Between their lingayen Gulf beachhead and Manila in Little More than a fresh super fort raids on japanese aircraft Industry at Nagoya and on iwo Jima in the As Well As another attack by Carrier aircraft of the Pacific Fleet against r y u k y u islands Northeast of Frere re ported from Wash there were no details on the Ryukyu which occurred in death March Camp heroes lie on Luzon this is the first Story by Russell associated i press correspondent in the after his return to the Philippines where he was held for two a japanese concentration the Camp was captured yesterday by Mac Arthurs 50 Miles to Manila v by Russell Brines associated press correspondent Camp Odonnell prison 23 the burned ruins of Camp Odonnell and the unattended Graves of of heroes of Bataan Are All that remain of this notorious pest Hole where the japanese herded prisoners of a filipino colonel who survived of Donnels horrors estimated that american filipino half of those died of malnutrition and in the Early Days of the infamous death March of several Hundred of these died tall grass pos Over the Graves of some in the american behind 25 rows of officers 15 to a were 30 rows of larger Mounds grouped in 39 each might have contained five men or thick White ashes on the rolling ground North of the cemetery Are All that remain of the Flimsy prisoners bar one of the ruins was still the barbed wire enclosure covered perhaps 30 i found Only a couple of water faucets and primitive sanitary facilities among the there was no evidence of a torture the japs had left few traces the filipinos said the japanese Garrison had fled on january 21 toward the Distant Hills where they joined others holding out against the american and nazi murder of 8 More Gipp is disclosed 24 murder of eight More Ameri can prisoners by the germans was Dis closed today when a belgian spinster who saw the atrocity led a burial squad to their Frozen bodies in a Roadside the All were victims of the same Panzer is division reconnaissance patrol which on the same some 100 other american prisoners at five two Miles reports Jap Premier agrees to shakeup yielding to pressure from his Jap Premier Kuniski Kois Jaas agreed to form a new Al powerful political which will try to shape the National Structure for a broadcast said Macarthur behind the frontline dispatches in announced the capture of Camp to which Allied soldiers made their in famous death March from Bataan in and a Highway town just 50 Miles North of though the com Munique located the main body of dough boys about ten Miles North of the 13 highly prize airstrips at Clark yank patrols were reported operating four Miles farther South near the Bamban where the japs Likely will make their first real stand of the Luzon Cam Bamban lies 58 Miles South of the lingayen the 20th and 21st bomber com mands simultaneously announced super fort assaults against japanese install Nagoya was the target for the 20ths and 62 enemy intercepting planes were reported destroyed or with the loss of one b29 out of a sizable British land again along Burma coast attempting to Cut off thousands of japanese troops in the Myo Haung and Kaladar sectors British troops made a new fourth this the a akan coast of a seac communique reported push ing Inland they have encountered stiff opposition from the japanese one mile from the Myo Haung Allied troops have taken 32 Miles from in their drive for the key reconnaissance photo graphs released yesterday showed the japanese digging in to save the Prussia nearly take Oppeln soviet troops last night were re ported to have crossed the Oder natural Barrier East of the great russian Winter embellished by a new drive in Eastern threatened Germany with the loss of All East Prussia and Long stretches of her Eastern a German radio commentator admitted that the russians had crossed the but claimed that the attacking Force was wiped in another German radio Ernst von Hammer disclosed that marshal to Kossovsky forces had driven through East Prussia to the Estuary of the Vistula near this meant that Rokos Sovsky had broken through almost to the Baltic and that East Prussia was virtually Cut off from the rest of the the capture of Elbing would mean that the last Road were Sev and rail the threat from the East was shown in reports that Long lines of women and children were streaming West from Poland and East crammed into perched on tops of and Riding in carts and vehicles towed by wehrmacht these refugees were headed toward Berlin which already was reported marshal Stalin announced the new offensive in his first order of the continued on Page 4 5 More guilty in butt thefts 24yfive More american soldiers charged with theft and the Sale in the Black Market of army pro Perty and cigarettes were sentenced to 25 years imprisonment the men sentenced were Tony of Chicago Anthony of Newark Robert of new Orleans Herman of and Nathaniel of Diomedes was charged with stealing 500 packs of cigarettes and three and the other four with stealing packs of chewing gum and tooth the men belonged to the 724th railway operating Batta today court martial brought to 51 the number of men convicted in the Black Market their joint sentences total ing bulge was death Keystone photos the ardennes salient has become a graveyard for germans and their they lost of whom were taken top Graves of German soldiers on a lonely Southern Belgium Hillside near Center outside amelines lies wreckage of German lower More nazi Armor litters the Road to taken squeeze nazis for bomb urge yank push nears Border units of the 1st and 3rd armies were reported yesterday to be within four Miles of the German Border As they squeezed the enemy from his last positions in the Belgium Luxemburg now less than on eighth its maximum weather Cut Down tactical air operations following the record Lear named Eto Deputy stars and stripes Paris Bureau Ben Lear has been appointed Deputy theater com Mander of the Eto and has arrived Here to assume his new Eisen Hower announced until recently commander of the army ground Aid Eisenhower in the administration of american at he will have no part in the direction of the Allied sheaf among his new Lear will supervise the allocation of Ameri can manpower in the and will be in charge of the stepped up program shifting rear Echelon personnel to reinforcement depots and thence to com Bat Gen Lear in Lear will be in charge of All matters having to do with the morale and welfare of troops in the he will also make a final review of recommendations for awards and decorations on behalf of the supreme bom in Canada in he is one of the oldest Active generals and one of the few Spanish american War veterans participating in the present As com Mander of the 2nd army in 1941 and Lear played a vital part in the training of troops now fighting on All american 8th bombers grounded heavy bombers of the 8th air which have been hitting nazi rails and Industry in some of the worst weather of the were kept Idle yesterday by bad flying first tune since last thursday that they have been in seize know from nothing but who the Crews by Russ Jones stars and stripes staff writer North of is not horror at the a Force of infantry and ads moved Yards through Woods and deep Snow today to a Point dominating roads into As the infantry approached the John of called we just captured seven Brand new 88s Complete with what shall we do with them John turn the Damn things around and use and Wemple what Jim i to use of my tanks and then so the wait a ill Call division youve got seven bran new 88s Complete with ammunition get them out on the Road and be Down to get Ford told Wemple and Wemple get them out on the Road Why in hell do they think the germans left them there they  get them out any More than we so they called division again and we cant get them out on the what shall we do division turn them around and use of said Imback where i no Goddam Way to get them out on the roads and no Goddam Richard new York the pm came in just no Crews i can fix Vou he i put those Crews in the pm Cage last toll of the two previous Days when 9th air Force planes destroyed or damaged including 207 in attacks on transport columns fleeing into the Raf blows against rail traffic on three main lines running Northeast from Dussel Dorf to during which 165 trains were attacked on monday and also were the volume of the traffic indicated that the germans might be pulling out Large armoured forces from the in French 1st army now attacking against the germans Colmar pocket from both South and gained several Miles on the latter sector and captured a Bridge Over the 111 which might have been a formidable obstacle to their so com plete was the that the nazis had no time to blow up the beat Back counterattacks on the Southern Edge of the where an estimated germans hold the French threw Back repeated counterattacks and maintained their previous British 2nd army moving up under heavy enemy fire As they advanced into Germany on the sector North of were closing in on the Wurm and Roer Rivers and steadily crushing the Ger mans sittard in the units of the 7th armoured having captured in one dispatch As prob die Kirch Miles is  ably the most battered town in threw Back four German thrown in in an attempt to relieve a nazi Force still hanging on to the Soud Iwest of the 256 prisoners taken the 7th took 256 prisoners in both prisoners and dead had been stripped of on the 7ths the 30th infantry division took Tiree villages Southwest of three villages farther along fell to the 75th and 84di infantry Divi the 3rd army now has pushed the germans Back across the Clerf River into a narrow strip of Luxemburg territory Between the Clerf and the our which Marks the German elements of the 6th cavalry division hold a nine mile stretch on the Clerf West of Fly