Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 13, 1944, Cairo, Egypt Phi Nowfel anti Middle East october 1944 6d this week lash 6ilei Jap the described As a com v 58 enemy Ete Maged Andi More Jap planes j forces of Carrier planes Shore installations which lie 400 China losses were described m As ships suf t of Jap losses Jap Homeland feel the might of Hie Fleet this week when a task Force smashed 58 ships and 89 i including a 14 others probably sunk and 12 More than 20 Small Craft were sunk or Marcus Island shelled a file this Force was steaming Waters another Squadron of third Fleet warships heavily shelled tiny Marcus 1100 Miles East of in a Daylong the big Ima Ival guns knocked out the greater part of the islands coast defense action in Palau group flared up with american troops going ashore on Gar Kayo Miles North of marking the tenth Island of the group to be invaded in less than a Unita of the 81st army division met Only Light opposition and con quest the islet was completed within 24 Jap deaths in the Palau invasion operation Are numbering More than 10 to 1 against american enemy troops killed and 185 taken Pri Toner compared to 771 Marine dead and 251 army Ameri can casualties since the 15 assault Are second strike at Borneo on has be come a prime target for bomb ers with liberators hitting the Jap held Oil refineries for these cond time within five the which made the scored Many direct hits on the re finery causing fires and sex heavy antiaircraft fire was encountered Over the target and seven liberators were which is the greatest number of american bombers lost in one chinese halt 2 Jap drives chinese resistance stiffened on two fronts this not Only did they repulse repeated Jap tank at tacks along the Hunan Kwangsik 23 Miles North of Kwei but they smashed Back an enemy column driving against the port of the important base of had already been abandoned by the 141 h on the Sahleen River District of Southeastern China and North Ern american and chinese have plunged Forward to a position where a Junction of the new Ledo and old Burma roads be Rma fighters of the 14th of operating on this front wiped out an entire Jap cavalry to Luann on Road Between Zuchow and Shur Akal the planes bombed Ami strafed the column in the face of ground the War a the so West Jap were Dowel and live other Hewy air blows Deli Vered against in the Sot Itheria ammonia and the Bonin 615 Miles skip Jer of the american Tanker Yamhill reported a Daylong Battle vol the a Jap submarine in which 4he tankers gun Crew exchanged shot for shot with enemy the Tanker dodged five torpedoes and eluded Many shells from the Jap deck gun be fore Navy by arrived an for the enemy Raider to dive for the Yamhill escaped in Aachen continued from Page 1 enemy Laid Down his heaviest artillery barrage of the Western Cam but this didst keep Hodges men from closing the Aachen escape Gap from six to to two Miles by wednesday they Cut that in half and commanded the rest by Cross from the most advanced Spear through Cologne is 30 Miles key Industrial City of the Rhine already feeling Allied air bombings several times from the outskirts of up correspondent Jack Frankish told of american infant advancing Indian fashion in Light oif the waning Moon to skirmish in House House conflict at the Edge of the City first impression is that it would be Sim ple to walk into the town Termi tent rattle from All sides prove the enemy is not ready to give fort Friant holds out further patrons third army slogged along the 20 Mue front Between Nancy and beleaguered guarded by fort Friant where the moated fortress is bitterly like Hodges Anen these troops report their opposition is the most concentrated artillery bombardment since they entered Eastern France in the met Nancy Ita the Belfort seventh army forces took a few strategic towns on the approaches to the but reports from this front were comparatively at the the canadians managed to push across the Road and railway forming the last Mainland link with Wal Cheren and the be Veland which Sharief describes As a major Victory won in the face of very stiff oppose while Dunkirk Garrison has not yet fallen to the the historic siege of 1940 came Back into the news when liberated townsmen told of How the spectacle of British firing from their rifles Chest High in the had helped we never gave up Hope even when France we remembered How they had fought we knew they would come Back in the Western front sidelights sidelights on the Western front week after 125 Days of operation in Britain since the invasion sheaf pulled up stakes in Lon Don and moved to overlooking Aachen a group of yank engineers loaded an abandoned trolley which used to ply Between the City and the near by state with High explosives and prepared to Send it Roll ing Down to the town about German troop still hold out in the Channel islands of Jersey and leaving i milians to shift for promising to fight it out until i hair own food rims Jan uary the Spanish american divisions were expected to arrive to keep the anti fascist Spanish Maquis from overrunning from France into Francos m along the 450 Miles of the Siegfried German defences strive to bog Down six acted armies for the new York times allies show Germany planes nearly planes struck Ger Man cities last saturday in the greatest Force to Scourge German targets in a single Over heavy bombers from both italian and French bases embraced a wave of Good weather to strike Industrial targets from the Baltic to our combined losses were 51 bombers and 15 Between them the 9th arid 15th Saaf dropped about tons of bombs within Ger Many proper and on sunday noon London estimated that within the preceding 60 tons had been Berlin shows fight targets included the Krupp works the Plant at Oil refineries at Ruh land and the Raf Mills eyed a Pounder on the Kambs 10 Miles Southeast of i Mulhouse on the Rhine recce showed the water bursting out to threaten German positions guard ing the Belfort the 9th alone reported it destroyed 113 enemy next Day some flying bombs fell in Southern monday some american heavies hit and Schweinfurt and lighter bombers pummelled communications Cen ters nearer the tuesday the which had hit Berlin and Hanover earlier in the attacked and 65 Miles Northeast of the Luftwaffe showed fight Only Over big on Oahu Honolulu the army will soon build a new on Oahu to Cost Robert commanding general of the Pacific Ocean it will be a nine floor building of reinforced Stalin r i w in Moscow Chur foreign Anthony Eden and a Comuso British Staiff members Are in Moscow for conferences Are officially described As Sequela to the Roosevelt Churchill meeting in Churchill conferred with Stalin at the Kremlin for three hours before attending a huge banquet attended by rus Sian and american Daniel de Luce of the a ambassador Averell Harriman attended the and will be kept informed of the Churchil Stalin although not actually one of the subjects for discus Sion will undoubtedly be the polish an polish Premier Stanislaw has accepted an invitation from Moscow to join in the polish quarters in London Are optimistic regarding this Mission and believe that Mikolajczyk this time will bring a Complete Unity agreement from president signs reconversion Bill Roose velt has signed into Laws Indus trial reconversion and surplus War property disposal Bills but he called for additional legislation to Deal with the human Sidie of re under the surplus property act is established a Threeman to help the army and Navy Dis pose of approximately 000 Worth of property when the War is for into civilian life must also be reconverted Industrial agricultural land on which training Camps Are built and other install the president said that he permitting this Bill to become a Law in Hopes Liat Congress will reconsider some provisions which he said will in Many instances delay rather Nan expedite recon version and sets up new Board the reconversion Bill sets nip an office of mobilization and re conversion to coordinate the whole vast of contract Settle surplus property vocational unemployment compensation and Public the president indicated that Congress had dropped from the original George Bill such pro visions As unemployment compensation for government workers and transportation costs to help Mig rate get Back Home after their present War jobs Are finished new i egyptian Cabinet formed to Swift action last King Farula of Egypt prime minister Nahas Pasha from office and ordered Ahmed Maher Pasha to form a new the new Premier was educated at the american College at Oxford and the openly urged Egypt to enter the War Orr the Side of the allies and is founder and head of the sadist which claims to follow the True nationalist principles of the venerated Sand Zaghlul his Cabinet is a coalition of the three principal Liberal and Independent most noted member is the minister of Makram author of the Black mama Steps out Elma John Becker obtained a from his Mother of 13 children who Range in Ages from 4 to he charged War costs Washington War spending by the government was during the month of sep tember As compared with in
