London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Daily German lesson Chr Seid desc Kragen Eer Zite a Shah Gen you Are Defeated new York View thesis London edition Paris daily newspaper of armed forces 5 in the european theater of operations ims daily French lesson Deus Sil Vous Plait duh Prum Yair Seel too play two firs class please reds Cut Bres Auberlin rail canadians push 9 into Reich stiffened German resistance was reported in West front dispatches yesterday to be slowing the Canadian 1st army push into Germany after maximum gains of about nine Miles toward where Veteran nazi paratroopers were fighting bitterly in and around this fortified Road Junction one of the main Siegfried strongholds on the Way to the some of Henry Crefars with main Concrete installations of the Siegfried defences West of Cleve already were said to have advanced the town in the northernmost of three thrusts taking shape in the new the Ether two drives were being made through the Reichwald Forest South of the along the Bank of the Maas Cleves Western suburbs were in British but in the Southern part close Quarter Battles were raging Between the attacking British and the towns defend who have been reinforced by elements of two Parachute one of which recently fought in although the going Here was canadians roving near Thuc Rhine on the flooded Northern flank Haft virtually lost Contact with the the moving through water were on the Rhine at one Point in Holland after capturing the nazis in Cleve were fighting from makeshift pillboxes and the rubble of buildings blasted in the recent Raf raid on the tanks and infantry were rooting them on the Road from Cleve South to the germans were using self propelled guns to hold up the on the 1st army sector the Battle for the Schwann enamel chief of the several which control the Roer and subsidiary was reported with americans holding the Northern end of the dam and the germans the dam itself remained a sheaf communique but the germans blew up All the flood flood Waters have broadened ii user on the 9th army front to about 400 Yards North of Julich and about 300 aids of the the River ordinarily is Only about 100 Yards How the Peak of the flood was said live been dispatches describing the Battle for the main dam said 400 1st army guns had shells daily for six Days against the killing 200 of continued on Back Page subs played hell near Canada ports 11 German submarines Haie prowled the North Atlantic this Winter in a constant threat to Allied convoys using Canadian and in one 22day period Sank a Canadian warship and five merchant lifting of censorship has a seventh a Canadian freighter from new York to a Canadian also was torpedoed Long Range submarines caused tension Quong Navy men by mysterious opera along the North Atlantic Seaboard Many weeks before they actually there was some belief they might picking targets for weapon icy were spotted at Many Points close to s nov Scotia hell Tell it to the Marine Shell say thank you dam to general 11 the Wair department announced yester Day that Benjamin Only Felegro has been awarded the first distinguished service medal Given anyone of his completing 46 years of army Davis was cited fibr Meri trip us service in duties great responsibility As an inspector of troop units in the Field and a special War counsellor on mat ters pertaining to negro Davs entered the service As an enlisted to Man during the Salmi Shameria can War and Rose through i the it was also announced that Secretary of War Henry Stimson yesterday gave the legion of Merit to Joseph commander of army for his exceptional record As commander of the Chi he is serving in the Saaf makes Berlin most bombed target 11 Berlin has become the us oafs most heavily bombed target in the War department announced in fhe eleven months since the first american attack on the German capital last March tons of bombs have Jeen dropped on it by the 8th air Force Mujib devastating of the fortresses 16 attacks was on 3 when at least were on the basis preliminary the sum nary 937 planes took Ujj this Way German shells dont Hurt Hii i planet photo officers Tittle gift from the on the Eastern front attempted to re Littre an encircled Garrison by dropping ammunition in these containers from All fell within russian the drama of a Rescue in the Pacific is told in this picture of marines carrying Lutzy Kozon wearing life Ryer Union from the surf after his plane crashed into the sea just off a Pacific 8th of shoots up Oil depot feeding West front germans Adverse weather Cut Down the intensity of 8th air Force attacks against the Reich Over the but More than 275 heavy bombers and 430 fighters Cut through severe overcast saturday and yesterday to hit strategic and tactical targets tied up with German troops resisting the Allied offensive on the Northern end of the West a Force of 125 protected by some 50 was oat yesterday for episode two in a today blow against a motor fuel depot at Southwest of from which nazis in the Northern sector of the Battle line draw their fuel on Over 150 covered by 130 combined a blow at the Dolmen depot with one aimed at submarine pens on the dutch coast near in an operation apart from yesterdays heavy More than 250 Mustangs strafed and dived bed transportation lines Over a wide area in Western Ger knocking out 60 180 Railroad 35 Oil 18 trucks and five armoured Only opposition for the raiders was a moderate barrage of flak sent up Over the Oil depot two bombers failed to return from saturdays Mission and one fighter did not come Back upping the Stohs losses since Friday to 20 bombers and four the toll for fridays raids on Oil and Industrial plants and communications when bombers and 850 fighters ran into scattered Luftwaffe was set yesterday at 19 bombers and three mosquitoes of Raf bomber command sandwiched in a raid Over Hanover late saturday bbl reporter Mia Guy a correspondent for the British broadcasting was re ported yesterday missing in action follow ing the heavy raid on Berlin by the 8th air Force on the in which Byam flew to record a bbl was hit by flak the crippled plane did not return to its hint sidetrack for Marthur 11 army and Navy journal said yesterday that reports were current that Mac Arthur might be sidetracked from com Mand of the armies that will invade in an editorial the unofficial service publication said in View of the Superb leadership he has the Signi seems weve heard this Joes name before new 11 electronic corporation of America sent a congratulatory cablegram to Douglas the Phil lip Pine but it was returned by Western Union with request for the generals serial num Ber and cant results obtained by purely american forces and the Low number of casualties his men have it would seem that there would be no question about his continued leadership of military operations to be conducted in the Homeland of that far Eastern reports Are current that plans for invasion which have been approved contemplate his retention for the cleanup Job in the Philippines and the assignment of another officer As com Mander of the punch Hole 37 into nazis line red army troops streaming West Ward along the left flank of marshal Zhukov front facing Berlin were reported last night to have dug a Hole More than 40 Miles deep in German defences and to have reached the sober River Between Bunzlav and spro Tau is approximately 100 Miles of the German the first official announcement that marshal Konies 1st ukrainian army had crossed the Oder River in this area came last night when marshal Stalin in an order of the Day disclosed that a Bridgehead had been established North of Breslau and that Konies in four Days had extended their breach to 100 Miles and advanced 37 during the Stalin the towns of important Industrial Neu Heynau and Kanth were of these Heynau is the farthest but it is some 20 Miles from the Bunzlav area to which the germans say russian tanks have Means loss of rail link the capture of a key Railroad Junction on the main lines from Breslau to Berlin and Central meant that the nazis had lost the last rail link Between the silesian capital and the rest the the ultimate objective of Kontess thrust was he May continue West toward Only 77 Miles from or Advance on Berlin to Coyer Zhukov Southern Sank when he begins a frontal there was news from Zhukov a position in the Frankfurt Kustrin except German reports that Large formations of russian troops were being concentrated and grouped for the Berlin there has been no official confirmation that Zhukov had effected a crossing of the Oder in the Central although the nazis have admitted Bridgehead established at nine separate the stated that Berlin will be defended As no City has been defended according to Moscow at least 15 is divisions have been assembled to defend the capital is Dietrich was said to be in command of the fortress of one German correspondent said Nurnberg had replaced Berlin As the while Zhukov Central Force prepared for a thrust Down the shortest Road to the German his right Wing drove North toward the Baltic port of Stettin continued on Back Page occupation plans e on guerillas hinge 11 Allied policy and planning for the occupation of Germany May have to undergo some Radical alterations if nazi plans for an indefinite continuation of a War even partially it was Learned prolongation of resistance through guerrilla warfare and stubborn Las ditch fighting in the bavarian and sudeten mountains would present problems not previously contemplated by Allied and would make transition from military to civilian control a hazardous and necessarily Long delayed it was military control under combat com Manders May therefore be continued for a much longer period than originally expected and give Allied occupation a More military flavor than had earlier been but you can hear them coming the reds Are steeling up on Berlin by roman Karmen United press Stecial correspond Cut with Zhukov 11 All the roads that run from the East to Berlin tens of thousands of russian Mobile Oil tankers and infantry carriers Are the columns never Stop moving night or they stretch across the country for scores of Miles at a in All my experience with the red have i seen such masses of men and All thrusting in a single the staffs of Mobile units change their Headquarters several times a Day As the units under their command move the same roads Are lined with thou Sands of crippled German guns and tens of thousands of German bodies still lying in the Snow drifts where they tank Crews Are mobbed mile after mile by Happy survivors of nazi prison often the tanks sweep past the out skirts of leaving the infantry to swarm into them to mop up the it is organization that determines the Success of these tank the rear works like clockwork so that the tanks never have to wait for gasoline or All communication Between them is by the Zhukov generals and their staffs move on in jeeps As part of the tank on each tank Turret is inscribed one phrase on to one of these tank units can average 37 Miles a they have come More than 300 Miles since the offensive started and they Are still moving but this is not Only a Campaign it is one of girls from Kiev and poltava and condemned to German run out to meet the tanks from their hiding places in the forests and from the cellars of empty in the parts of Germany that the russians occupy there is order and the roads Are filled with hundreds of vehicles bringing the German people Back to the Homes they fled at the approach of the red the tank columns moved too fast for hitlers Appeal for a universal1 armed uprising of civilians goes unheeded the people Are even Over by the unparalleled might of the russian War machine As it flows past