London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1945, London, Middlesex                                I f daily German lesson kor men Sie Mit Kontzen Zee Mit with me new York London edition flew work m the Stas a Paris daily newspaper of armed forces 5 to in the european theater of operations 1945 daily French lesson Queste que Ceci Kess Kuh subset whats this Erlin says reds 100 away auks gain l e assail it org Over to the to relaunched by troops Western front since the germans Ber breakthrough into the army with the id division in the attacked at yesterday along the fright flank of advancing British 2nd army and beaded the West Bank of the Roer River overrunning 97 Siegfried Liine pillboxes against Little organized re of stance by the surprised i the enemy attempt to duplicate the Stab into Belgium and Luxemburg by thrusting into Northern Alsace against the Ith army was meeting Little Dis watches the aided by wiped put the German Bridgehead Over the Moder two Miles West of rooting out the nazis from positions they had hoped to hold in the Woods along a three mile it retch of the i counterattacks by the 7tl have cleared the town of overrun in the initial German in which elements of seven or More nazi divisions when nazi meets nazi it makes 2 for Gas with is infantry German Soldier dressed in in american uniform and equipped with dog slipped into this divisions area to disrupt com he became Dis i1 courage at what he going to the first Soldier he could 1 offered to in a German declared the you Aije a they made so much Notee quarrelling that time Reail i Over and captured i Ngeup Are taking part in what reports described As the prestige Battle for the Rhine town of v1he Campaign in the ardennes was officially considered Over so far As the 3rd army was said a dispatch from a correspondent with on the ill Orsbern sector of the 1 the 1st army was continuing to k up daily gains of about i Miles captured four More lug boys of the 9th put in their South of the assault sector of the 2nd which yesterday closed up to the River Wurm of a two mile i forcing the to pull out Pfrem their positions beyond the a tributary of the Roer farther to the North the were still putting up stiff Tei stance to the the 9th captured about Miles Southeast of taken in the after hard bad weather Cut Down air operations i against German escape traffic still Stream eng into the Reich from ithe trampled belgian enemy bulldozers were i said to have cleared Road leading from the Battle zone and repair gangs have got the lines Back in operation following the record Alireal air blows t Road and rail Andrus chief of fighting first 1st army cuff Andrus has appointed ill command the 1st known As the fighting succeeding Clarence who has been assigned to a new Andrus directed the stand at when the germans broke through into the he was com e wander of the its artillery in the pass in and afterwards Belgium and the War goes on this remarkable photograph was made exploded on the 5th army front in army signal corps photo under heavy fire just As a German Shell one Man was wounded by flying fight for Breslau Baltic breakthrough May trap russian armoured spearheads last night moved toward two towns less than 100 Miles from according to German who frankly admitted that marshal Zhukov after bypassing had penetrated to the Vicinity of the province in which Berlin the Brandenburg Frontier at the nearest Point is about 42 Miles from Posen and 120 Miles East of at one place the Border is Only 91 Miles from the Reich the German reports said Zhukov tanks were headed for 95 Miles Northeast of 99 Miles from the and Schneide on the Berli Danzig it was later claimed that the Schneide Muhl spearhead had been wiped there was no confirmation that soviet forces were near these far behind this Point two big Battles were taking one for the fortress town of the largest polish town still German and the other for the Oder River South of Breslau and for Breslau Jap shellings frequently forced american troops on Luzon to hit the dirt but have not impeded their advances toward on the outskirts of san shells drove these doughboy momentarily into a shortly afterwards they captured the town and moved yanks capture Clark Field sea air attacks blast boning army engineers yesterday were Rushing repairs of Clark Fields 13 airstrips soon after on his 65th had announced that 6th army troops had overrun the Field and fort Stotsenburg in their Zhukov forces already have swung around and the on which he germans had counted to guard the approaches to the German was under attack from three russian Senate group rejects Wallace for Cabinet Ike contacts says Abc reporter Eisenhower has established Contact with that was the statement made thurs Day night in a censored broadcast by National broadcasting system correspondent Merrill who has re turned to new York from he he had Learned of the Contact in a talk about a week ago with the supreme Allied 1 cant say any Mueller later told according to new York fast moving thrusts toward Luzon stars have birthday 26 capture of Clark Field was a Welcome birthday gift today to the two highest com Manders on Douglas supreme commander in the Southwest who is and Walter 6th army who is for five starred a Sun burned Man with thinning but still dark it will be a Day of More paper work than because he will to the Many greetings from the worlds great and Miles to Manila 26 Carlos v philippine resident commissioner paid tribute in the House of representatives today to asking where in history has one Man done so much with so Little few and Jerry agreed smart to play it dumb by a stars and Staft writer with the 79th Robert Pruitt spent a night with a German Soldier in i and by an unspoken agree ment each Man kept mum about the or when noncom both sides came around to Check men in lib hair f lost in the dark when this platoon Pruitt a when a american artillery w opened up and a few minutes a Jerry tumbled in behind her i spoke a word Oldie others age and nether had a weapon for a single hand lore worried about the artillery than f about each the pair stood Back Toback for hours and sweated out the neither was sure whether troops in the Vicinity were american or once a German noncom approached and asked the German Bow he was the Jerry said Fine and omitted to mention he had later an american noncom came searching for shouted he was and said nothing about the when Daylight Pruitt heard the voices of his buddies As they reoccupied their old he grabbed the Jerry and the Jerry seemed glad it was All late reports placed the yanks 42 Miles from Luzon while the japanese reported that american troops had landed on Mindoro american doughs in Macarthur Central line were driving Down the Luzon As doughs on the right flank moved Down the West coast to capture Santa Cruz below Edasol Bay on the Road leading to Bataan left flank units drove into san Manuel against stiff the former naval base at Cavite on Manila Bay was pounded with 95 tons of explosives by Jap held installations on the Rock of Corregidor were set japanese bases within bombing Range of the Philippines were being steadily attacked to prevent interference with Mac Arthurs Chester chief of the Pacific announced yesterday that a coordinated sea air attack by b29s and surface units had left iwo japans main Bonin islands a mass of flaming american super forts appeared Over a japanese communique no damage it Chi abased planes raided Pei pings damaging several grounded air another Jap report the japanese news Agency stated yesterday that air transport had reached Leyte precluding airborne support to american forces on Stark gets top award to Navy the in guest award yet Given a Navy officer by the British government in this the knights grand Cross of the British was authorized yesterday for Harold Stark by King for his outstanding service As commander of the naval forces troops were reported fighting in the soviet forces also were reported to have crossed the Warthe North of to Complete the encirclement of the City but the report was not the fall of Posen would Clear the Way for an fallout drive toward Frankfurt ten the outer guard about 45 Miles due East of German defences at Breslau were said to be cracking As soviet shelled nazi positions in the City As Well As along the West Bank of the the soviet guns were tearing gaps in the West Bank defences preparing the Way for assault continued on Page 4 so sorry seeing Send Over wrong leaflet to yanks with 9rh Germany 26 germans apparently Are seeing red on All today they fired propaganda leaflets designed for the Eastern front into the american the in russian warned that America is preparing to attack the soviet in the Only a Strong Germany could save Russia fron the Anglo american the the germans corrected their mix up a few minutes later by sending Over leaflets in English charging that the russians were seeking to destroy Britain and the United and Only a Strong Germany could save the allies from the bolshevik menace 26 Senate Commerce committee today re Elcied president Roosevelt nomination of Henry Wallace As Secretary of com Merce by a vote of 14 to former Vic president of the and Secretary of agriculture in Roosevelt second term had been named by the president to succeed Jesse whom he had asked to Josiah Bailey chairman of the Henry Wallace Senate said the Wallace nomination would be reported unfavourably to the Senate on this Means that it cannot be acted upon until the ensuing meeting of the unless the unanimous consent of the membership is the committee at the same time approved a revised measure by Walter to shift the reconstruction finance and other government lending agencies permanently from the Commerce department to the Federal loan announced he had dropped his duties As informed of the committees vote upon arrival in new Wallace declined to make any earlier Wallace told the Commerce committee he was willing to take the Post of Secretary of Commerce even if the rec were removed from his he insisted that if the rec is left in the Commerce i will use its Powers in of All the american butt ration up to 7 monday effective seven packs of More than the present be issued weekly to All Eto com z Headquarters announced one weeks Back rations May be it was under the present soldiers Are permitted Only the current weeks Cigar smokers will be allowed ten cigars and three packs of pipe smokers will have a Choice of either four packs of tobacco or two packs of cigarettes and three packs of report Eto awol open drive against go crime by Ernest Leiser stars and stripes staff writer and american equivalent of one and a half infantry now awol in the the theater Provost marshal disclosed this r about Tivice As High As before please commanding the Seine base declared that More than half the awol Are mixed up a some Way with Black Market cigarettes and cases Are increasing along with be Rogers explained that the army was not conducting a Witch Hunt Ira its stringent prosecution of x716th railway soldiers for the theft and Sale of front bound he said these prosecutions were part of a concerted Effort to whip the rising crime most awol make their Way to Rogers and since they Are not on any payroll they have to steal in order to official figures in the Seine base Provost marshals office showed that Between 120 and 334 men were picked up in Paris More than 850 Are now awaiting about 400 of whom Are charged with dealing in army equipment or with robbery and other Provost marshal statistics show arrests in several Hundred of whom were rounded up during the repent Paris wide spy Hunt there were american soldiers in Paris guardhouse i Ernest Seine Section Provost formerly Provost marshal for the London said there was increasing channelization of crime among soldiers into