London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1945, London, Middlesex Daily German lesson 1st Olle Straite Gesperry 1st Dice Stra site Gaspe hot Litlie Road blocked new York London edition Paris daily newspaper of armed forces 5 in the european theater of operations 1945 daily French lesson Yos parents Sautils Ches eur to huh Are your parents at Home army gains 2 Miles in Surprise blizzard attacked Baltic drive takes Memel pit through snows Almedy spearheaded by the 1st infantry the 1st angry went Over 1 to the offensive at 4 am capturing four villages and gaining two Miles in the sector ten Miles East of Almedy As the doughboy struck in the midst of a blizzard and took the germans by flanked by seasoned the 1st blowing through a fresh four Inch captured three other infantry units took the an associated press reporter with the 1st army said each doughboy carried two hair Pound chunks of dynamite to help blast a foxhole when the time came to dig in to hold he added that heading breaking trails i through snowdrifts three to seven feet i deep in had to be relieved about i every 60 Yards because of j Clad in Snow capes and issued Arctic the the drive toward the Siegfried line for the first time since the germans broke in the their heaviest opposition from there no preliminary artillery farther to the 9th army and British 2nd army troops had cleared West Bank of the Roer River along almost the whole 20mile stretch Between where the Roer joins the and Allied forces Are now Dravyn up for 80 Miles along the of the Maas Roer from in to a Point South in list arrays right the 3rd scoring gains Over the weekend of As much As four Miles at had and i Vance a male of the German h some units were already on the West Bank of the our which runs along the but the Siegfried in the area Are from two to four a Niles East of the farther in French 1st army hammered to within four Miles of the Rhine East of Colmar find entered outskirts of on tie Southern i end of the German improvement in flying weat Iier enabled Iraq planes to attack German railways in Haroin and Fli Zion yanks Jio of Manila new super fort blows against the gains to within 40 Miles of j Manila and a huge stride Westward by the says he were among the chief developments Over weekend in the dispatches said a covering 2021 pro Fleet blows against Formosa and Raul Cyl islands off was issued Pacific flee from his advanced Haj in the for 3 this Forward area was riot but Nimitz some time ago said that Guam in Jess one if the places considered for advanced Guam is rules West of after Miles Smiith and iof Tokyo and Miles East of on where troops captured h Airone Miles Fronzi tie was revealed that the 6thl army con of iwo corps the commanded Innis Leader of Llhee Campaign in the admiralty 7md made up the 25th and 43rd divisions and the 158th combat team and the 14th by consisting of the 17th and infantry Simitis giving detailed lie sults if the strikes aimed at breaking fun Jap reinforcement moves toward said 3rd Fleet planes in 20 trails against Formosa had sunk or damaged Jap shipping re destroyed or damaged More than 300 on the following Day the Flattop planes Ink or damaged 70 enemy ships at in the Ryukyu and accounted for nearly As Many the Chain stretches northeastward Jerom Formosa 1o Only 15 3rd planes Weie j the 14uj corps took s unopposed on the Northern Luzon continued on Page 3 t life sentence for Maurras neb royalist Tader and was sen de yesterday to solitary confinement and of All civil rights on charges of Intel gence with the Simank red army pinups their own pins russian women do Many jobs with soviet combat As shown in these two women warriors with rifles watch from concealed positions for the at a soviet girl operates her signal while at right a girl administers first spid on the soviet fighters on Rajie red army gals Are keep their Charm despite it by Kaplansky russian array correspondent 28 special to the stars and Are Many girls in soviet combat we Are accustomed to meet them at the front armed with a signalman wearing a nurses or answer ing a Telephone when a far off Exchange is called that has such charming signal codes As Lilac or when you first meet Anna Gritzenko you might take her for a traffic a nurse or a Telephone she has merry eyes and a roguish smile and her soldiers Greatcoat and Cap do not make her less but Anna is a real terror for the Ger she is a skilled and daring trained in War Anna began her fighting career 5n a partisan near in after the germans had killed her she became one of their Best when her native Region was liberated she joined the red before going into attack our men needed a prisoner who would Supply she told our scouts found difficulty in getting i decided to take a you see in not Only a in also a girl and it int so difficult for a girl to deceive the i changed into Ordinary dress accompanied by one went behind the enemy we had walked through a Wood and had reached an open space not far from the enemy trenches when a German Soldier seemed to come out of the Earth almost under our i dropped to the the German my companion stunned him with a blow from his and so we brought our prisoner guardsman Olga former medical volunteered during the grim Days of the Leningrad Olga made her Way to the battalion com Manders he and told him Ive come to an offensive was in Progress and the company was waging Handt hand fight continued on Page 3 reds say drives toll nazis so far this is the official toll taken by the russians in the first 13 Days of their end the War offensive nazi aircraft tanks and self propelled machine guns captured equipment included aircraft tanks and self propelled 835 Burma Road renamed Stilwell for vinegar Joe 28 is not the Burma Road any but the Stilwell a joint statement broadcast from Here today by Generalis Simo Chiang Albert of troops in and Patrick ambassador to Stilwell was commander of troops in the Chi theater until he was recalled to Washington last october after differences with say Berlin province pierced As 8 armies join in stranglehold Breslau and Konigs Faery tottered under the weight of russian assaults last night As marshal Zhukov 1st vat site russian army probed at the Frontier of less than 100 Miles from marshal Stalin announced that another russian army had gone Over to the offensive in Lithuania and captured the important Baltic port of capture of a powerful stronghold in the German apparently was the first step in a drive to liquidate the German forces around another Baltic port North of the new thrust North of marshal position in East Prussia was directed by Bagramyan and was made by the 1st Baltic i unconfirmed reports from Moscow said that Zhukov forces in the Center of the russian offensive aimed at Berlin already had crossed the Brandenburg Border and were smashing across Germany toward these reports placed the russians within 95 Miles of the Reich the germans admitted that Zhukov had reached the old German polish Border at the Obra 95 Miles due East of All along the Eastern front the russians crashed Forward in the seventeenth Day of their mighty Winter offensive and threatened to Anarch across Germany Eastern Frontier All the Way from the Baltic to while Zhukov main drive toward Berlin was taking shape along the shortest route to the marshal Konies 1st ukrainian army was cleaning up the area of Silesia and establishing Bridgehead across the Oder cleared from Coal marshal Stalin announced in his first order of the Day yesterday that Konies troops had cleared the enemy from the Rich Dombrowa Coal District and secured an Iron grip on upper Silesia with the capture of Center of the Coal just inside and four other towns also were tie big Battle in this area was for where a Savage fight was re the City was surrounded on three sides and its fall apparently depended on the enlargement of the russian Bridgehead on the West Bank of the Oder had moved up huge reinforcements and apparently was ready to take the City with an fallout German commentators last night said that fighting was taking place Well to the West of earlier they had acknowledged the fact that the great silesian Industrial area had been lost to the by losing the germans gave up the wehrmacht second greatest it was surpassed Only by the Ruhr District in the at the Northern end of the line Chemia Kho Vaskys troops were closing in on tie East prussian and were within four Miles of the they also were working their Way continued on Page 3 and keep it in family Only one peace at a time by Irvin Taubkin stars and Stripe staff writer somebody had suggested since everybody else who tried before had sorta messed things it might be a Good idea this for the Church to sit at the peace but the idea fell Fiat on its face the first time it was trotted and the Man who pushed it was the Man who comes april and its warm enough in the Drafy Cathedral for him to been head the Church of eng the right Geoffrey fran Cis Bishop of London until the King named him archbishop of can warmed himself briskly at a f brisk fire in Fulhan Palace puffed briskly at his Shook his it wont he said what Church would you have All spiritual leaders of the world then youd have to have two peace for the statesmen and1 one for the Church he went on making peace Bishop Fisher pipe and briskly is a political a Job for the inevitably it will involve Compromise and conniving at Compromise in a sinful All the Church can do and should do is to keep boldly before the states men the inflexible principles of right and that the one thing anyhow All the churches of the world Are agreed in his brisk acts like a Man who always fighting the clock for extra hours to do All the tilings he has to do Fisher puffed out some some smile and some More of the worlds they Tell he that your soldiers four of his six sons Are in the army worry a great Deal about Security after the Security is certainly one of our chief but not Only the economic Security we hear so much talk certainly the state should and must help to achieve that kind of Security for but even More important is family if a Man int secure in his or a wife in her no other Secu Rity neither for them nor their family Security is tie Basic Security of the Church first Job is to return the world to that Secu in an he making briskly for the things will be bad after the the forces of in sanity will continue to fight the forces of what weve All got to do is keep pulling for the forces of 8th attacks nazi rails on birthday the 8th air which set up its first Headquarters in a National guard armoury with 74 81 enlisted men and no marked the third anniversary of its activation yesterday by dispatching Over planes and airmen to lash at Oil railroads and Bridges in the the ending a fou Day Lull in operations and coming two years and a Day after the first bombing attack made on comprised the first attack since the fortresses and covered by 250 still had to Battle severe weather conditions that were How compared with those that enforced the four Days of liberators of the 2nd air division struck at the roots of the German synthetic Oil Industry through openings in they plastered the 3minute silence honors 8th ass dead a three minute silence was observed yesterday on the occasion of the third anniversary of the 8th air Force As thousands of men and women at fighter and bomber stations of the 2nd division paid tribute to the men who have died in die air War against every i from William division to the Mechanic on the line quit work for the Kaise Stuhl and Greisen a Benzyl plants near both of which produce from which Benzyl the germans Are reported to have been mix ing Benzyl with gasoline to stretch their dwindling fuel Accord ing to Carl us staf Are smaller than at any other time in the railway were the grember four Miles Southeast of the Hohe Budberg near and the Rhei Hausen railway Bridge Over the Rhine at the Broad Hohenzollern Road and rail Bridge at hit by 8th bombers on was attacked again it was so double she lacking for the grember the Raf also ended a Lull in operations yesterday by sending a Strong Force of screened by Mustangs and to hit the Yards serving Cologne and the Western first officer gets 10 in Butts Case 28 Marvin of charged with Black Market activities in dismissed from the service and sentenced to ten years hard labour by a general court martial Here Davis had a room in a Flat occupied by a French woman Black Market he was accused of helping to carry a Case of american cigarettes from the woman garage to her where four Black Market sales were made totalling almost he was also charged with having stolen govern ment he admitted receiving from the sub Jap toll now 979 28 submarines Are pushing up toward the Mark the number of japanese vessels reported yester Day another bringing the total to
