London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Pacify German lesson tveisme Fujine Dee Vysa Fauna Theav Hite Flag new York London edition Paris daily newspaper of armed forces you 5 in the european theater of operations ims daily French lesson Vous etes differ Ente Voo deejay front you Are different tit or Tvr fines Lear nazi jails doughs gain More towns armoured units of the 3rd advancing northward in the Saa Moselle Triangle against resist Ance described As were reported yesterday to have gained Niles and overrun almost a dozen German communities bypassing the town of they the Confluence of the two Rivers below the important German Center in this of the Western zone of the operation is beyond Luxemburg Southeastern Frontier with the where the running and the heading form a roughly shaped Triangle South Vest of fighter bombers helped to sap the German enabling the Armor to pass Haarburg and close to within 3i Miles of the Rivers the troops going North joined up yesterday with other units which had Trust across the Moselle from Luxemburg of tuesday and captured five Niles West of More than German prisoners have been taken on this surrendering on dispatches to the steady pressure gouged farther gains in both the Prum and Echt Mach cutting the Gap Between them to about 12 on the 7th army sector below the 3rds Campaign doughboy were three Miles of Saa Brucken and were fighting House to House in five Miles Southwest of some districts of Forbach were afire after heavy pounding by German artillery and mortar on the Northern end of the Western front rocket and canno firing tactical aircraft attacked enemy positions in the path of the Canadian 1st push Between the Maas and the Fol lowing up night Mosquito raids on 34 towns and villages behind the Battle ground gains were held Down by stiff scottish infantry used tanks and flamethrowers to Clear out the i southwestern Corner of the German stand above battered by planes was reported elsewhere along the Canadian sector the Allied push was again on the move after having been brought almost to a halt there were no reports of activity from the sectors held by the 1st and 9th armies and the British 2nd but German declaring that the too american forces will be entrusted with the Burden of a new said strategic reserves had been brought up to the front Allied preparations for the offensive have reached a very advanced the commentator i air object now is obliteration 21 Allied air onslaught against German centers is now described As obliteration although admittedly bombing of popu late areas is bound to cause the forces Here take the position that Tew is a byproduct of bombing and my its intent or which they de Tente As of Road or rail Ottlene rfcs within the War bound cities Are natural bottlenecks of com actions arteries Over which the e population is and the wehrmacht is moving forces it the land assaults from West and the City is the chains of War still Fetter Steve Early at sheaf 21 Secretary Stephen Early arrived re today to serve temporarily As an it Porto sheaf on Public Luzon japs 21 Jap acting with the greatest savagery in treatment of has been compressed into an area by 800 Douglas Macarthur announced today As artillery continued to Pound the walled District in an Effort to crush the suicidal resistance which has already ruined about on fifth of Jap casualties in the Luzon Campaign so far totalled about against losses of including 245 missing and Mac Ashur his figures indicated that last weeks fighting had Cost the japs men and the americans on yanks swarming Over the rocks topside were using liquid fire and explosives to sear japs putting up a fight in the few crevices not yet mopped 5th army seizes peaks Southwest of Bologna Allied 21 Reuters 5th army in the second Day of a local offensive in the have seized two villages and gained control of two peaks about 17 Miles Southwest of depriving the germans of two valuable observation it was announced Hies fight for 2nd Field h 8 Square Miles of hell Gen Holland Smiths hard fighting taking advantage of cover by huge Shell holes created by naval inched their it erday toward the second of i to three Advance columns sing the Southern fringe of the Field main body pressed on doggedly troops warded off a Jap attack on the southernmost air tuesday consolidated their and then moved ahead in the increasing Jap mortar Ciket and Over territory dotted represented a new obstacle to the japanese brought Apps into play from Clifftops and where they have dug themselves in for an evident fight to the enemy guns in the High Northern area still sweep the sea and Beach approaches to the Jap held portion of the reports from the Battle area described the Island As eight Square Miles of the enemy counterattacked but the 27th Marine division quickly drove the japs away from the hard earned air which is said to be Large enough to accommodate adm Nimitz disclosed that the marines suffered casualties up until yester and that had been indicating that some 600 were either dead or missing in he added that the greater part of artillery is now ashore and that the Navy fired More than tons of ammunition into the Island Dur ing the pre invasion bombardment and during Landing these first pictures of Manila show top supported by medium entering the City past the body of a dead while below a filipino family pick their Way through the debris Ami ruins of fire gutted buildings ravaged by the reds fight for Guben to flank Berlin defense driving West along the Berlin Side of the Oder River despite powerful German marshal Konies troops last night were closing in Gin important communications Center Only g5 Miles Southeast of hitlers according to frontline Konies 1st ukrainian army had slashed Forward after capturing Crossen and Dobersberg and was fighting through the Forest East of Guben with the City already under artillery the fall of Guben would enable the soviets to outflank the Berlin outposts of Forst and some 20 Miles to the German reports placed red army spearheads about eight Miles from to the Konies Wizig edged closer to Gorlitz and in this area the germans admitted they were falling Back to the Neisse River with the front Assum ing the shape of a semicircle around about 30 Miles East of on marshal Zhukov front due East of Berlin the nazis reported increased they admitted that 2chukovs troops had enlarged their Bridgehead across the Oder at Kienitz by pushing Forward a few Hundred Kienitz is Only 33 Miles from the Reich capital and is the Northern tip of the arc being built around the the Center of activity on the Eastern front yesterday was in East where the nazi Garrison was reported making frantic efforts to break out of encircled Konigsberg and fight their Way to the port of dispatches said soviet planes were patrolling Danzig Bay waiting for enemy evacuation while the russians were fighting continued on Back Page web pulls a Bloomer right off the gals new 21 new Yorks garment Center was shocked today when it discovered that by inference the War production Board had ruled women panties Nonessen they pointed to web announced monday from aimed at placing priorities on Wool and Cotton so vital civilian articles could be produced at Low vital items listed included mens diapers and but notably absent was women escaped i said pcs shot by stars and stripes staff writer is army american Soldier who escaped from a German prison Camp said he saw an american sergeant shot when he was late Foi reveille and that other prisoners had been killed Tor refusing to the Frank of was captured Christmas he escaped by feigning illness and roaming for four Days behind enemy lines before he was rescued 8 by troops of the 99th Andrasovsky said prisoners were held in a Barracks built for 400 most of them had he but none was allowed to leave the Barracks except for the building was never the germans forced him to work on a rail line under fire from Allied Andrasovsky the prisoners received a loaf of bread every eight Days and a can of soup he p47s blast Yards near hitlers Den with More than fortresses and liberators of the 8th air Force pounding Nuremburg for the second Day in a Row and rocket firing thunderbolts of the ital based 12th air Force Darling directly into hitlers air at to fire rail lines n that bavarian Mountain nazi suffered another huge blow far More than Allied aircraft walloped transportation and Oil targets Over a wide area of German radio warned last night that More heavy bomber formations were Over the heading for North West the Roundt Hemlock blow began late tuesday when the picking up from the 8th after its initial raid on sent Over planes through the night and yesterday morning to hit the rail Center of Dortmund and two big Oil plants near joined by 15th of heavies from the 8th were joined Ter Day by 15th air Force which raided Vienna rail Yards for the ninth straight Day of attacks on nazi communications in Southern Light Aid medium bombers of the Mediterranean Allied air Force again ripped nazi communications up and Down the to in Northern and along the Brenner rail the Thunderbolt storm Over Berchtesgaden marked the first time the War had come to hitlers Mountain the associated press reported that the opera Tion was a second Best Mission for the pilots finding Clear weather Ever the Village after they had been unable to Fly Over their original they met intense flak and Small arms fire As they zoomed in to hit the Berchtesgaden rail Yards and shoot up a troop train in the but Over the town not a shot was fired at Convoy the bombers Over 600 Mustangs and thunderbolts conveyed the Stohs bombers As they poured tons of bombs on the Nuremberg factories and marshalling Bombardier had to use instruments to Pierce the heavy Cloud Over the targets during the hour Long reconnaissance photographs taken after the tuesday attack on Nuremberg revealed severe damage levelled on the cites marshalling huge fires and explosions showing among the rolling Stock parked in the ten bombers and 23 fighters Are missing from this Calls mar Iii inexperienced9 21 out that Walter co of the 716th railway As a former locomotive Engineer was primarily concerned with railway his counsel argued today that if he had been a Garri son Soldier he might have discovered his mens thefts of army Marlin has pleaded not guilty before a court martial to a charge of neglect in performance of More than 100 of his men have been sentenced for Black Market there is no evidence that Marlin knew of the wrongful taking of army his counsel or that he participated in any Way in illegal marlins Everett executive officer of the 2nd military railway had said Marlin was a locomotive Engineer in civil he had not had enough experience to handle the but would have made a Good Road Foreman of american Railroad companies which were requested by the army to make up military battalions from their personnel chose men they could Best spare rather than the Best quails quails also testified he had sent letters and telegrams telling of the widespread pilfering in the Eto but did not receive any acknowledgement from Marlin until Stassen accepts bid to United nations meet new 21 Harold former Republican governor of announced yesterday he had accepted president Roosevelt invitation to serve As a member of the eight Man delegation to the san Francisco United nations conference in he said he would discuss plans with Republican