Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 19, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace Four cents go Bill gets War reception Washington the famous i of rights is now the cause hot debate on the floor of the House accor Dinar to press this debate is Likely to continue a few More the main controversy Over the for from the education rep rare ments which John missis Sippi estimates will entail the expenditure of a great Deal of of differences on the education provisions have Cut the House into two main each of Winch accuses the other of seed Ngujo impose bureaucratic control of state and private schools from washing it is pointed the proposal for sending qualified veterans to school or College appears to be the Only major phase in according1 to but before the Bill lined Back from the House vet in whose hands it had in weird for weeks after its unanimous in the benefits had keen Cut from to maximum Soldier Loans upped by 5ft per Here it is Usa fumes new shoulder Patch above is the Usa Fame shoulder the White is on a Field of flame red Over Blue Waves surrounding the pm it now producing which will be issued to men of the command on a of one Patch for each Issue of 7 to 9 patches a this yugoslav youth of marshal Titos partisan forces is training the Middle East on a Stuart Light tank from tha United already half his Homeland has been liberated by Titos which this week seized the Harbor of near Zaia on the Adriatic the yugoslav Leader has revealed that he now has fighters and a potential to continue the fight against the germans after their nations liberation and to build a Truty democratic a federation of All staff photo by Benjamin chinese troops push ahead to link with Stilwell army Ameri can and chinese have stormed into the main Jap defences at fall of the City appears to be in a full scale assault that May presage a tremendous drive to re capture Ami reopen the Burma a striking Force of Chi Nese troops have crossed the tur Bulent Salween River and come to grips with the japs along a 130 mile front in Northern the new drive which is aimed at establishing a Junction with Stilwell troops in Burma is Inak Iner steady Progress through tortuous country South of the chinese Section of the Burma Click Navits airmen Strorigl sup ported the new ripping strategic Points in Western Yunnan draft lineup shuffled Over 30v out for season Washington to defer or not to defer seems to be the theme song of selective these last still another change was made in the status of ii Giles on whose necks the hot breath of the draft has been slightly a Blanket defer ment for a indefinite period was ordered for All men Over 30 in essential Industry while Pessary Mien of 26 through29 re Tain civilian status for the time according to selective service dropped a cheerful hint when he added that he hoped for the time would incan As applied to registrants 30 and might mean six Mouths or with Hershey local draft hoards were ordered to review immediately All cases of men in both age groups who have been 1a and to Grant occupational in Imp with the Broad new agricultural workers were not some Light was thrown on the misleading draft situation by new York times which commented that the new policy coincided with an outline of the needs of the armed forces made a month ago when the drafting of men Over 25 was suddenly at1 that it was announced that men must inducted during the next 12 months with younger whose age and Phy Sical condition Are suitable for Rig Orous combat definitely breaking Down the expected to come from the group of you us Hoys who will be the age of18 during the about troops Are expected to be scraped from the barrel of 25s and approximately men come from the 2030 and from 3030 age groups taking All groups in that order of and along the Burma Thailand Border meanwhile Stilwell Chi Nese forces have smashed to the outskirts of 13 Miles North of the Jap stronghold of a on the Indian British Empire troops have routed the japs from their defensive positions and threaten to Pinch off the entire enemy Force in the Kohima Jap driven China checked chinese reinforcements have slowed temporarily at the big Jap drive into chivas Hunan fish Tinc have thrown the invaders Back from the Gates of the key Strong hold of Loyang and broken Tho enemy hold on the Peiman Hankow Railroad with the recapture of sni in the Allied mighty air offensive continues to reduce to rubble the entire outer ring of Jap during the week american airmen swept through the skies in a great arc ranging from the Buriles in the North a see China on Page 8 re Lutwinski reopens the rest Caine near palest has been reopened under the direction of the american red the Camp will again be operated a furlough Cen this year the red Cross has taken Over the entire operation from the gis Ara being Maccomo dated in what were formerly officers red Cross transportation will meet All Jerusalem trains and those Lucky enough to get space of the irregular planes daily Tours will be offered to Jeru Salem an hourly bus be Nicaj will operate to Beach and Allied Headquarters last night confirmed the German report that pcs Selini stave withdrawn from Casino and the to pre pared on the Hitler during the Day the fighting French seized esp la and drove three Miles into the pillboxes and mines of the germans new with the Mountain buttressed Gustav line effectively breached after six Days of the hardest fighting in the Mediterranean the 5fch and 8th armies now storm the Adolf Hitler Vicant for its name and its position As a final Block to the Boman the Hitler line stretches from North of through Esperia and to the harbours of Scauri arid Formia on the tyrrhenian yanks of the 5th army captured Scauri on the driving toward Formia against Strong German French troops taken which commands an important bastion of Tho Hitler British troops of the 8th Are isolating the German Garrison at employing the left Hook technique with which Mont Gomery trapped von Arnimus for Ces in Tunisia a year Leese moved the same 8th Amy 150 Miles from the Adriatic to wit the a concer Ted attack to break the Mountain lock to the roman action broke out suddenly last thursday Friday with in creeping Forward even be fore the combined barrage Alonga Twentyfive Milo front had finish this was an artillery barrage observers described As greater than the prelude to the quiet of the locus scented Liri Valley sparked by fireflies was shattered by a four hour Shell two thousand Yards was the gala next Day yanks of the 5th Cap tured four strategic Hills around North of the see Italy on Page 8 Russ unleash air Blitz on nazis the Tempo of the russian air War increased this week As the russian air Force extended Tho pattern of its strategic raids against German rail centers and lines of communications feeding front lines from the Baltic to the and while both aides massed troops for the summer soviet Long Range bomb fictive on past 28 continued their softening up Campaign against nazi instal the increasing concentration of air attacks on military troops trains and railroads along the Central plus hints from led observers to Belicov that the red army treat summer offensive will he made across Tho see Russia on Page 8
