Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 6, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Set arcs and Middle Wasif october 1944 secure control a i american invasion forces de but to secure three additional Island bases in the Palau group from which will come the main attack on the principal Island of the new holdings Are identified As Konga uru and Gebus and an unnamed the Cap Ture of Gebus snuffed Jap artillery which had been throwing shells into the Airfield on Pei Eliu Frothi which bombers were Al ready Nimitz announced that organized enemy resistance had lapsed on All five Small pockets of were still entrenched in caves and pillboxes on Pel Elius bloody nose Marine aircraft Are dropping Pound bombs on the i Testone the fanatic Jap defense for every Inch of the islands is revealed in tie enemy casualties of killed on opel Liti and on nearby an Halaeua third strikes again eleven army personnel were lost and 22 others Are missing after the Liberty ship Elihu Thompson struck a mine off Pei Eliu during the returning from its today battering of William m Jim eyes third Fleet its seventh punch at the Phil alpines within one sinking 22 enemy including a destroyer and three destroyer fort three other ships were Carrier fighters shot Down 36 Jap planes which raised the third fleets total to planes during its sweep into philippine the latest action took place off the islands of Negros and Southern la Halsey Fleet lost ten planes and eight men but came away without damage to any american surface Libs hit Borneo heaviest air blow of the week was directed at Balikpapan on site of the sources for 15 per cent of japs aviation in the longest mass raid Ever made in this liberators drop Ped 74 tons of bombs on the tar leaving the refinery in flames and smoke rising to a height of three liberators were lost in this raid on what Macarthur termed the most lucrative target in pulverizing tie Siegfried line japs take second base in China Chennault 14th us aah received another stiff blow this week when it was forced to evacuate and destroy its second base in South China in two the new evacuation took place at about 117 Miles South of Weilin where demolition squads destroyed a major american air base on the base at a wow Hina airbag at Tanchuk has fatten to in their drive to Cut off Hie South China Weilin represented an investment of on the last bombing run from planes sunk a ton whaler in the Formosa 18 two years in the own issued a report that the defeat of Japan will take an absolute minimum of 18 months to two years after Germany geography and psychology were listed As fac tors fighting on the Side of the report cited that Japan can increase production of almost every category of War equipment and military Japan is turn ing out planes As rapidly As we can destroy which is around to each a note of cheer for the allies was in ship sinking of tons yearly against a Jap of labor wants Little steel pact scrapped scrapping of the Little steel formula limit ing wage increases to 15 per cent above the Early 1911 Levels was re commended to president Roosevelt last week by his labor advisory composed of and Cio loaders William Given ant Philip Green and following the said that the president asked Many questions although he did not indicate his disposition toward1 abandonment of the for Callaway Mother Dies new Eulalia for Mother of cab died in Providence she was at lower Royce Vick of inspects a Pillbox blown up by army engineers in the Siegfried line in own twin drives on Bologna slowed by heavy Rains the fifth hammering through Tough German has driven to within 14 Miles of key City of the to Val and is advancing about two Miles a Day along a 15mile front straddling the main Highway from Clearing skies brought the Prospect of increasing momentum since Allied artillery has been bog China answers critics by citing trickle of supplies books to Beckon gis after German defeat new York the army u pre paring a vast educational program to occupy the time Ami minds soldiers who will be out return from after tin collapse of the Lawrence Brook planning stressing that the troops and material to the Pacific and Asiatic Heaters will tie up shipping for a considerable time after the end of uie european Westbrook that a schools would offer America n or vice men Uduma location 01 thu shipment of by Walter bundle up stung by reverses and Allied the spokesman of the chinese military Council stated that the total ton nage of american supplies to the chinese army in East China from Pearl Harbor to the present would not be sufficient to sustain a single British or american army division for one week this statement was in prime minister Church ills com ment in the Mise of common that China had suffered military reverses despite lavish american spokesman added Ilia i1 Only real help afforded armies in Kat China was the air support of uie nth air efforts he Vii aise lie said the total air strength has been maintained in Kat China is so Small that it hard i i if spokesman in Kast of and d after pitifully la Ial met with out of Janior Jai Iai f More thai 10 Divisio Roii inning t Little left for said suits d of e Atul arc ii a v he asserted that chivas sub Stantial contribution to the com Mon cause in Burma is a severe Drain on our military resources at the most critical period of the East China the spokesman also reminded Churchill that while there is cause for Pride in the British in Dian army in the forces in North Bunna Are Erie Fly contributed by China and Eom Mandod by Stilwell and of whom Over fifty thousand have kilted or president defends China Aid referring to the complaint of the chinese military presi Dent Hoo Sevelt defended War Aid to Iriina As epochal in the face of virtually the president no Luteal Hai tire were Only two o material to China the ter Rible Overland trip from near the Caspian across the desert into upper and then to Chung King and the perilous air route from Assam in India he said that the of this route was now it orly tons he predicted that he feat of sup chinese army the efforts t r till 111 Ansel m a e Les the Hilt added i air Force Wei e it for the Tler spokesman ply to Classel China b As air w when Orv can be uld e full sue pos in us t Pri Sosu is of the come menial limits i it bin hich ged in mud for More than a week due to driving Rains which reached almost tropical tracks and Fields in some sectors were reduced to quagmires and even jeeps were finding it difficult to Cross the nazis Are still fighting fiercely and counterattacked several recapturing Spur mount and the alanine but these have in turn been captured again by fifth army in during the yanks took 11 Miles from imply Monte a Peak dominating the florence1 Mola Road and is Miles Southwest of on the Adriatic despite bad troops of the eighth army Monte Albano and Pribola earlier in the however the situation has remained relatively unchanged for the past two Days since the swollen Fiumicini Hiver has been impassable for forces Lar Ger than patrol German counterattacks forced the eighth at my to withdraw from its Bridgehead across the fiume Friday and the rain1 folded Battle areas of hath the italian Iii bounced that a fought lasting several jus ended at Plonte grappa to Miles Northwest of resulting in to and fascist dead and while the italian patriots lost men in Tundid alive train crash kills nine Missouri Iowa three soldiers and six other per sons were killed last week when a fast freight slowed into a rain on the outskirts of Missouri about us other persons were the Acci Dent Knock 1 five cars non the tracks and scat Ere 1 a half wreckage Over Champion Cotton picker nations 1 Cotton picker is Virgil ii Earold Farmer of who walked away with thai Itie and a prize in tie fifth annual Cotton picking of Over la from picking Lomi pounds of an s russians sweep info outskirts of Belgrade russian fighting out aide Are reported to be battling their Way into the Bussian driving deep into Yugoslavia in an attempt to isolate hitlers Balkan armies and out flank Hungary from the have captured novo 18 Miles Northeast of Belgrade and Are con verging on the yugoslav capital from the Southeast and cast after cracking through Hill defend ses along along the Border at three Points and sweeping out into moving with incredible maliiiovsky6 troops have captured banal which places them almost on the suburbs of Bel with the linking of the russians arid marshal Titos partisans for Ces Southeast of tie Bat the of the Balkans is racing to wards a troops of both armies Are mopping up of having pierced the Ger Man defense As the triumphal invasion of with the official per Mission of marshal Conti the russians and Are advancing on a Broad front against Little american mounting Tommy guns and packed with gunners Are storming the highways and byways after the fleeing Eno Iny while masses of infantry and artillery fan out in three one is designed to Swallow while an outlier pushes along the Southern Hungary an other driving on a front toward the Athen Belgrade rail is aiming at which straddles the Railroad and Whoso capture will bottleneck the nazis escape route from and Southern defense line cracked the russians have already smashed the principal nazi de lenses entrenched on and mountains along the wide front extending from West of Timisha Down to the Danu be and below turn where the initial invasion Bridgehead was hundreds of Miles the Battle of Riga has reached final stages despite persistent but futile nazi the avoiding frontal Contact against the network of natural Are thrusting a Large number of flanking Maneu vers which have Cost the enemy Berlin reports that t have landed on the estonian uie of this would Virnia Liv Seal an escape route for i the Battle for Mau is confined Ula it to nid Sant artillery barrages Warsaw proper and the have a loner so itch Thi fistulas West extending North and South of the of which i Are erecting form Ciasle evil enter a Winter line Warsaw patriots surrender i monday evening at the Warsaw patriots Laid their arms and surrendered o he germans after a heroic Muggle against Over Hemia Irmo Robor who a Turda was elevated o i Erin chief of the polish announced the a spokesman said that t per cent of the City bad been demolished my that a probable poles had lost to Weir lives in the struggle with the drive Ino a simultaneous invasion of Slovakia Sauna into action a 17umi1e front last forces drove Carinthia is to loin the open the Way for a Nort veni Pilicer movement Uncao Bor reported prisoner a Nivon the German news Agency announced that commander of be polish in Side Warsaw is a in Ger Ian hands and that with him Ai All his staff officers and