London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Fly German lesson is Eine us Zeitung Ess Eine Sonjai Toong i is there a Detour new York edition Paris the daily newspaper of armed forces 5 is in the european theater of operations 1945 daily French lesson Puisze Vous Fairen Cadeau Pwee Voo fair an cad0 May i give you a present Stalin says reds 95 of Berlin yanks plow y near for nazis 1st army Ink he second Kiflay of their renewed attack toward the Siegfried were reported yesterday to have broadened their front to almost seven Miles As they slowed another 1j Miles through the Snow drifted i the Advance was said to be going slowly More because of the Snow than because of the resistance put up by scattered enemy doughboy of the 1st division Cap tured ten Miles East of Mal and about the same distance North East of taking 100 prisoners and counting about the same Numier of enemy farther other units seized where the toil was Cap Tives and 50 German the 1st was now about tw0 Miles from the German Border and perhaps five Mijes from the Siegfried which is Atout three Miles East of the the enemy opposition met so far indicated that the germans had pulled Back to their Forti dispatches from the 9th army said it was estimated unofficially that a Quarter of German air strength in the West had been shifted to the Eastern where the russian Advance has had an effect on German As evidenced by increasing desertions of troops on the Western i Many of the German prisoners taken were found to be Bakers and reports the 3rd army was reported to have gained control of an eight mile stretch of the our River where it forms the German Lui Lemburg Border in Tai Southern f in and French troops of the French 2nd corps than a mile from at the rior Thern end 1 of the German pocket the 1 in the the French is corps was said to have gained a total 05 five or six Miles in its push Northwest Oij say Hopkins i see preparations for the big three which is expected to Seal the Fate of entered the phase last night Harry Hopkins flew from Psiris to presumably to Confer with Pope Pius Xii after talks in London with prime minister Chii chill and foreign Secretary Anthony in a whirlwind information tour of euro Pean capitals As the spokesman for presi Dent there was speculation thai the presi dents personal envoy might even go to Moscow before the Heads of state them selves get lifting of the american imposed censorship that had banned any mention of movements in London and for Security allowed i speculation that the poli Tkal reshaping of Europe would play a big part in the conference of the three Allied t Hopkins tour appeared intended to Gore Roosevelt a View on All european problems before he meets Churchill and marshal Stalin at the conference Hopkins is believed to Haye told diaries Degaulle that the would go into the conference agreed that France should have full partnership in he Cuccu pation of the a Paris dispatch i that Hopkins did not extend Ian invitation Iff to Degaulle to attend the big three con  elevate cd command Jruth army Jani 29 renter Anthony who kid the 101st airborne division in its stand at Bastogne and who sent the famous reply nuts to a German demand for has been named commanding general of the 103rd Divi i the 103rd smashed the German Pene 1 traction of the american Jin Sfat Schillers a Doit in Northern Alsace during the recent enemy Mcauliffe succeeds Charles Hafliger who relinquished his com Mand owing to ill report Duce Tours Italy front has completed a today ii inspection tour of the italian Ger n Ian news Agency said yesterday buried underneath the ruins of a building in what was once might be enemy camouflaged Yankee infantrymen take no chances and approach their object with nation hails chief at 63 29 nation tuesday night will Honor president Roosevelt on his 63rd birthday by attend ing dinner dances and other festivities arranged by the March of dimes committee organized in his Honor to combat infantile the presidents whereabouts today remained a military but As she did last Iii Pomerania berliners Are warned to flee marshal Stalin last night announced that russian troops had crossed the German Frontier and penetrated the province of Pomerania to a Point Only 95 Miles from Berlin As Robert nazi labor front warned residents of the capital that the City might have to be yielded to the red in his order of the Stalin disclosed that marshal Zhukov army had swept across the pomeranian Frontier on a 30mile front and captured 14 Miles inside the Border and 95 Miles from the capital of the other towns captured included six Miles inside Germany and 95 Miles from Berlin on the Border and on the main Berlin Danzig Highway about five Miles inside the Luka Kreuz is located on the Berlin Schneidmuhl Danzig which earlier had been reported at the nearest Point Zhukov troops were 55 Miles from Germany greatest Baltic shortly before Stalin told of the thrust into the germans admitted fighting in the area West of they also said that Kreuz had the germans admitted that Schneidmuhl had been which meant that the Berli Danzig Railroad also was Cut stains announcement meant that Zhukov forces have advanced 250 Miles in just Over two Leys statement was made As Berlin radio revealed that the russians had bit into the province inside which the capital his remark apparently was intended to prepare Berlin residents for the worst As he said we shall fight before for Berlin and behind farther the germans said soviet troops had probed no further West than a line from Kreuz to three Miles inside the polish Border on the Posen Frankfort one German report said that fighting flared up on the Obra River which forms the Frontier Between Germany and Poland in this at one Point the Obra is Only 95 Miles from Zhukov troops were fighting their Way through the streets of Posen and Only a Small portion of the German Garrison the fall of Posen would re lease a Large Force for Zhukov fallout drive toward marshal on Zhukov continued on Page 4 red flames in the nazi Sunset these pictures illustrate the weight of soviet might being Flung against nazi in an ominous fireworks display russian guns Lay Down a barrage supporting red army infantrymen in while tank borne russian Tommy gunners below smash at German lines at the approaches to for 1933 for 1945 the president then and now will conduct a whirlwind tour of assisted by John Roose wife of her youngest stars of and radio Are already descending on the capital to take part in the birthday party at the White Myrna Veronica Alan Linda Monty Danny Kaye and tiny Margaret Obrien have already Turk  the japanese government has ordered the internment of the turkish ambassador and his staff in Tokyo As a reprisal for the internment of the japanese ambassador in Tokyo radio announced Turkey has severed diplomatic relations with cleared the japs from the Convoy in China 28 delayed first Convoy of War materials to travel the newly opened Bur Aledo Road from India arrived in China after a 470mile journey through Mountain and Jungle and across the Saweli River Valley More than 100 vehicles crossed the chinese Border near the ruins of captured headed by Lewis of who was in charge of construction of the Ledo the Convoy still had another 500 Miles to go before arriving at its the Road was Only finally cleared of the enemy when chinese american tanks from seen for the first time by the tattered Salween forces from raked the Mountain sides and nazi tank railroads blasted by heavies renewed activities of the air Force grew in intensity yesterday As More than of them heavy at railroads and a tank factory in the six marshalling Yards in West Germany and the Herschel and Sohn former locomotive and truck factory East of Cologne now turning out Tiger and Panther Felt the weight of the Stohs lands turn was Slick he fell on behind in love a 9th of service command Joel who shows movies to the gis in this service group is a very obliging 1 recently he was reeling off Lana Turners sexy marriage is a private when the shot of Lush Lana arising in a Flimsy on the morning after the nuptials was the Joes groaned Conron stopped the rammed his head through the Hole in the projection and asked his audience if they would like to see that one you know the Joel reversed the film amid the howls of the i sent an undressing Lana Back to after the Joel he fell Down twice in front of the on a sidewalk Slick with Frozen China sea closed to japs Japan has lost control of the South China principal sea route by which Tokyo fed its War machine with supplies from conquered William Halsey declared in a press summing up five months of operations since he took command of the 3rd dispatches reported during that tune the whose Carrier Craft have inflicted crippling damage on the has sunk 89 enemy 563 merchantmen and other vessels and destroyed of which were shot Down and the remainder wrecked on the Halsey announcing what amounts to a virtual naval blockade of the South China sea East of the Philippines and Souc Huig French Malaya and the dutch East Halsey said forces of the Pacific Fleet can go into it any time they want Halsey said the Fleet had contributed greatly to the Reconquest of the according to yester Days reports from american forces were Only 34 Miles from Manila after capturing the Road Junction of three Miles Northeast of the Sampanga provincial capital of san on the Northern Luzon the yanks captured Rosario and reduced Strong Jap positions in san in the same the 6th with four More airfields in its grip following the capture of above said that great amounts of supplies had been captured at Clark with More than 200 air Craft stores of ammunition and 40 artillery pieces in the from the b29s again struck in Daylight against iwo in the Volcano islands Between the Saipan base and the Jap gis entrained for front now sewed hot Meads army reinforcements Riding up to the front in Continental trains Are getting a taste of hot food before combat duty As a result of Kitchen car innovations instituted by com z officials in the replacing the cold k and c ration hot food is now being prepared in a rolling Kitchen unit attached to each troop More than 50 such units Are now in operation Between Continental ports and army the daily menu on each train offers two hot meals and one Sandwich biggest target of the Day was the marshalling Yard at where it is usual for Railroad cars to be handled daily along the 30 Miles of Tail lines serving the Ruhr at where the Herschel and Sohn works Are and at Coblenz were also the three other rail targets were marshalling Yards at Outh of Northeast of and in Northwest there was Light fighter opposition near with the 55th Mustang group coming out of it with four kills on me other groups in the escorting Brce of 700 Mustangs and thunderbolts swooped Low to shoot up rail air ields and Road the Raf continued its renewed Offen Sive As a Strong Force of covered by Mustangs of Raf fighter blasted the marshalling Yards at just South of where evacuation of certain government offices is underway because of the russian according to reports from Neutral had fur ther cause for worry sunday night when Raf planes hit the German capital in spaced half an hour apart ordered to sell i avers 29 was a sensation in the Paris court martial or soldiers charged with Black Market operations when Edward Palmer Testi fied today that John of los had ordered him and other enlisted men to sell Cartons of Cigar which had presumably been Palmer also described pilfering by members of a rail battalion at a rail Yard As so common that soldiers formed a Chow line 20 deep waiting to receive cases tossed to the 43yearold defendant is the first officer to be tried up to now in the mass Palmer told the court that Springer had invited him to share a room in his Billet and then had ordered him to take 50 Cartons of cigarettes and sell nine men were sentenced they were cps Rosario Chicago James Chicago Oscar fort John mass Raymond Chicago Edmund All who received is and Sylvester Chicago pets John Camp and Chester ten Byrnes overseas 29 mobilization director James Byrnes is now it was revealed