Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1944, Cairo, Egypt Middle East september 1944 Lott titty to within Des if strongly defended drove three seaplane v i logo i to outskirts of the fishing r summer resort of via Iacross the to lies less week yanks captured nine Miles Northwest of Flo rot iting on the main High Wayland rail line to Bologna and a vital Road Junction provincial Garberino has als Beeri Flag huh Campaign on to a bitter slugging British troops engaging German defences in san the r last pillage before the Marano Point 449 a crag like he 800 Yards West of the contested i rence own of hands times a the Day from Mark also on a the first Annlot fiary of american landings at dark received to latkes from under of War Pateion and general the cutlet of army commander pro his troops they would soon deliver the blow from which the enemy will not recover and pressed Pride at having the Honor of leading such valiant up frontline Dis patches said the nazis defending the gothic line have invaded the Independent Republic of san Marino on grounds of military san which has a 300man had protested to the nazis to spare them the devastation of Battle in their tiny Patch son wounded twi Alex Ander 24yearold son of commander of the seventh army in has been wounded in action with the first army m Uria steel hit again by super forts on the same of the air sea attack on Mindanao in the Philip super fortresses lashed at important Industrial targets at an in japanese dominated Man Churia an assault which Tokyo claimed was carried out toy As Many As 100 of the big the 20th bomber command re leased porting that Good bombing results were one was listed As missing and presumed lost against enemy losses of seven planes ten others probably destroyed and 11 Anshan is the site of the Showa steel the second largest in the and was hit previously on july Toee China airbase the attempt to Knock out american air bases in China re Mains unchecked and chunking reports that the american base at Lingling has been evacuated As five Jap divisions surge into South China in their deepest penetration in seven years of the reported to have 000 troops in this Are said to be within 70 Miles of the site of another american air during the the port of 225 Miles South of also fell to the heavy bombers of the 14th Saaf Sank a Jap destroyer Southeast of Allied troops were driving ahead in Burma following their crossing of to hts Manipur peace rumours continued from Page i event of an armistice in booms Stock Market peace talk provided the key Stock Market movement in new York throughout the Lyle up correspondent in reported that hard fighting on the european front might possibly be carried on into but the individual whom Many in Washington regard the most informed in the capital on the european military situation according to Wilson Germany might fold up within three weeks by that seems the earliest expect Able Date and it not Best of Luck in All must got to the allies to Auch Quick Wil in mayor or bad Luck might the War through the Philippines continued from Page 1 Troy 150 others on the simultaneously air attacks were also levelled at the adjoining is lands of Negros and following the second Chester Nimitz air operations Are continuing against Strong enemy celebes and in the f Netherlands East were also plastered by land based bombers during the in the celebes the planes met no interception and cratered the air waterfront Palau plastered in one of the heaviest raids of the East of the Philippines was struck by Carrier based planes cooperating with land based Yap and Mindanao the Waters around Mindanao became the graveyard of 68 Jap vessels while its airfields were littered with the wreckage of 268 enemy purus after the one two punch thrown by Aii sea forces Ulithia islands in the Ca Rolines were pounded and Small scale raids on the North of Are Marcus Miles from has taken its first Ameri can air blow Sinkfi May in during a series of attacks which re the non at the Volcano Allied troops Are now in control of Soe Piri Island across the tiny Channel from Biak it was disclosed this week by australian that Jap prisoners made Abo Tivo i tempt to escape from a Camji on August in frustrating Tho escape 231 prisoners were 10 wounded and the remainder quickly australian casualties were american submarines have sunk Fine More Jap including one one gunboat and an escort p61 undefeated in Pacific a test just Back from the South reported that not a sin Gle p61 night fighter had been shot Down in that Call or newspaper St african Street cry is both if i r Prem time at who Daj editor Norman Mck Etina finishing up his Page War news and handing a late Flash to one of nit native mimeograph its the first cd daily published in a by West Africa 4who Dat sounds More like the Challenge of an african guard Ihan the name of a newspaper a matter of its this air depot Only daily on the at started Over 18 months ago a two month drought wherein news was culled from scanty ships while the permanent Caisip was under group officers decided Norman now a staff was Only editor in the group was pulled from his Sig painting Job for the As which Alfred Wilhelm had begun As a Tempo Rary the boys took their unbelievably from the cry that native guards give As you approach the paper has now grown from a daily Bulle tin Board sleet to a two sided mimeographed Sheet that flown to at stations along the aside from sports Harry Miller of und a group of occasional to Elmias is peculiarly Afri the distribution manager is a moslem who Sells camphor balls and other oddments on the africans run the mime card locator assorted errands and Are said to run who Dat with the editor As their mistakes in who Dat Are never made by the Edi but by one of the african Edi another assigned to Supply wrong paper policy is outspoken As army papers when a Uso troupe didst follow the usual Uso tradition of joining in a Chow line and mingling with the men and wanted Bacon eggs and All who Dat reported the incident As one of the Days eclipse off the beam1 Mckenna says the report set off a series of demands by the troupes manager for retract apology and who Dat mildly stated there had been a that hereafter visiting trousers would be warned what to expect and add Battle for Siegfried line opens continued from Page 1 coming assault on the Siegfried but none for the sort of optimism that think Lithe War will be won in a matter of weeks and should germans Hull their formidable line for even a they will win time to reorganize buttered divisions and construct new positions and fluid Obser vers Point out that with autumn fast coming bad time for precision Battle for Germany May stretch out into Many months although there is no doubt As to its Point of the line a faced by patrons third army the second strongest Sec North of the ardennes mountains protecting the Ruhr Indus trial is faced by the ame rican first and British second begun in 193d and named for the Heno of hitlers favorite Wagno Rian the Siegfried line was built on a prodigal scale As a threat to the the debacle of the germans apparently saw no need for letting the Rich agricultural lands around it lie fallow and lifted the barbed wire away the but since the rapid Allied surge in the Hundred Days from they have put up the Laid Down the mines one advantage of this disuse has been that four years growth of Bushes and Trees have camouflaged line far better than men it is not a single but a position of depth running from 8 to 18 first come then Concrete Field works of u gun antitank gun pillboxes and Reserve about 1 try Pill in every thousand behind these fortifications Are Concrete emplacements for fiend and Tackack All the guns set to fire interlacing curtains of steel and while the recent reinforcements have been built by a nation Short of labor und original line was built when both were plentiful by a nation whose military engineers Are among the Haefs announcement that the ninth army is now in France under William Simp son brings to four the american armies in action on the Western Eisenhower called on foreign workers inside Germany to Jeave their factory jobs and go into go to the he the farms Are in need of labor and will give you food the nazis have not the men to spare to search for for a second that the show had been a Good one nearly regular feature has been a feud with the sheets late fide last february who Dat scooped its contemporary with announcement of a total it came four hours late and partial file 13 rubbed in the Boner and who Dat head lined its next off the one thing Good for constant workout is the Texas organized at Duncan the group had started off with a majority of Texas officers and men and into these editor a new York and the rest of the group regularly at Tho with War news As hot As it its getting More of the Page one space previously held by strictly local happenings Page two has always a round up of War and states now ans and bbl reports slip onto Page one with maps and Atlas Good Active War news Means that who dats Long life might be a Little nearer the arid nobody complaining about world peace meet nears half time Bri Tish and russian delegates to Tho Dumbarton Oaks Security conference Are concluding preliminary talks on world peace an has not been reached on a plan offered by the whereby mall nations gain greater influence on the world the proposal would give the Small states numerical majority although the Russia and China would hold the councils permanent As soon As discussions with rus Sia Are the Anglo me rican Powers will begin similar peace talks with the nazis evacuating Aegean the germans Are evacuating is lands the Northern Aegean and arc apparently leaving installations in the Central Accord ing to reliable rho Des and other such larger Are still occupied by the Reuter states that the evacuated nazi troops Are being sent to the Mainland As reinforcements due to the growing Allied marauder bases in France ninth aah marauder medium bombers Are now operating from bases in
