Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 14, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Page 2 stars and Middle East december 1944 fires Gui Tolyo plants As Hake fourth strike attacking Tokyo for the fourth ume within six Days hurled hundreds of tons of bombs on the sprawling Musachia aircraft works sunday and left big fires whipped by a Gale like wind raging behind twelve of the Fleet of attacking japanese fighter planes were Des troyed or damaged seriously and one was lost in 80 minutes of fighter action according to japanese Broad the super forts attacked to Kyo in flying at Levels up to six Miles up said there indication that the day1 Light attack was by far the nost successful of the our on reported that jubilant flashed the news to Headquarters that they were at tacking in Clear weather and drop Ping their bombs with pinpoint Haywood commander of the 21st bomber commander on disclosed that photos of the Sun Clay attack showed the Musachia factory suffered damage but had not been by any snid in a press con Ference that much remains to be accomplished on Honshu where a great part of the enemy shipbuilding and aircraft industries Are Tokyo in a commentary on the recent air raids and the japanese sought inst week to prepare the japanese pub Lic for further attacks by telling Why worry Lethe enemy planes All you have to do shoot them and of a fire starts All you have to do is put it 10shep Jap warships off Leyte in spirited naval action marked the Battle for Leyte this week As one american destroyer was blown in half sent to the Bottom in Oroc the lost a destroyer and probably suffered damage to another during the of the destroyers Crew was rescued by Navy Catalina flying earlier in the american fighters and fighter bombers Des troyed their seventh japanese con Ivoy of the sinking ten More heavily Laden Jap vessels bound for Leyte with plus enemy this action brought the toll of Jap losses at sea off Leyte to 29 transports and 18 escort on waterlogged yanks have battered Down repeated suicidal night attacks As the enemy strove to break out northward through the 32nd division Block North of despite continued bad filipinos fight on Samar barefooted filipino in the first Al guerilla operation since Macarthur return to the have driven Back Superior Jap forces in Eastern Samar to occupy the town of Midway up the Oast Large scale Aerial warfare continued throughout the Southern Philippines As yank bombers slashed at Jap Aird Romes and while Nippon airmen raided american positions on Carigara North of and Mora Tai i to Island in the Volcano group was also heavily hit by a Jap Cruiser Ami 18 othci1 ships have been sunk by american Emann marines working along the enemy Supply lines in Iho Pacific and far three years after Pearl continued from Page i never was carried but yes Lur Day it Atill was posted in Stras Berlin Lias threatened that if Euch a policy is Germany will retaliate on French deportees and the Frenchi Havo answered that is Likely to Lead to most severe French from the seventh army Cut the German escape route Between Strasbourg and Basle and have rounded up most of the Ger Man police in the shipping them to the rear As regular prisoners of Battle for stadium a comparatively Small scale important Battle of the week was for be at a huge stadium fortified into a stronghold to Block approaches to the Tho ground is Low and flooded the rising at one Posi the yanks waited patiently for four neck deep in for a Chance to sneak into the out most Dur ing the greater part of the yanks who fought their Way into stadium traded hand grenades with lie defending the stadium finally was not a broken Force during the three week drive Weh nacht is estimated to have lost about about thousand daily either Cap tured or seriously from inside Germany Veteran up correspondent Virgil Pinkly the nearer one gets to the the More one hours that will no require some months yet to crush Germany the closer one comes under direct enemy the More one learns that the germans Are is broken Force but arc still capable of nig ged China crisis As japs smash ahead chunking the chinese faced one of the grave it Mili tary and political threats of her Lightyear War with Japan As enemy forces drove to 80 air Miles from strategic the up Chiang Kai Shek has been Trad ing space for time but is now run Ning out of space and China faces the necessity of holding until the Burma Road Waii be re it was sundays communique said two enemy columns Are attacking less than seven Miles from to Shahan while another Force 15 Miles South was halted near Linehau wills on lost of 300 enemy Albert a news task thursday that the situation in China continues unfavourable but it is reason Able to expect that remedial Mea sures now will halt commander theater said tonnage now being flown into China from i j eve i e forces Steij isolated three years after the Day that wit live in the japanese Homeland rocks with the weight of american bombs As the War is carried Back to three years after Pearl Harbor the japanese Are being Defeated on Leyte and bombed from liberation of the Philippines will give the air bases for striking at Supply routes in the South China further moves might be invasion of the Ryukyu or Bonin India is and that fort is being concentrated on this on the political Side in foreign minister Soong emerged monday As the Man of Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek and the y Man in Hie chinese soon it was elevated in acid nov vice president and Laior to acting president of the executive by the National supreme defense coptic it of Chiang is Eluigi i the loony look Niece Dence Over Bis vice presic Lenl of the the reported i hat Soons of Linde inward communists is known to he moderate Iid Saint he is regarded in Washington Niu As pro Bahlev Hilins ii url de Frayne Dies Van cd of nine Fiir mor sports editor of i in is further changes loom As shakeup hits state Roose velt monday overhauled the slate departments top command by nominating As undersecretary the former ambassador to Japan Joseph accepting Tho sur prise resignations of three assist ant secretaries and naming three new lie also announced that then will be other strengthening up some reorganization had been expected since Secretary Edward Steul Nius took the place of resigned Cord Ell Hull but none so sweeping As these moves which saw the president accept the resignation of assistant secretaries Adolf How and Shaw and Breckinridge replacing them Are William Clayton of Rose from an a stenographers Job to he the worlds largest Cotton Archibald older and editor who is now librarian of Congress and once beaded the office of facts gird forerunner of Nelson grandson of John and now coordinator of inter american in Washington most interest was focussed on the selection of club ten to handle foreign economic affairs luring the critical period in this american economic policy shifting from War lend lease to postwar commercialism will play a dominant Idle in deciding whether nations be Jiu a new of fierce economic warfare or achieve a limited degree of economic Clayton was until recently sur plus War property Macleish will have charge of cultural and Public relations while Rockefeller will oversee latin american Pearl Harbor inquest reveals no incriminating evidence Washington simultaneous announcements were made by of War Stimson and of the Navy Forrestal that the evidence amassed by so Vecial boards does not warrant court martial or other proceedings against any officer in the army or Navy As a result of the Jearl Harbor Stimson said thai As a result of the army my conclusion is under All the Cir the now be corded Doeg now warrant the institution of any further proceedings against any officer in the separate naval Board investigations led the Navy to take the position that Pearl Harbor evid ence now available does not warrant any general court mar tial proceedings against any Ner or persons in the naval ser army forces in were commanded by Walter Short ail the Pacific Fleet com Mander was hear husband in Kimmel at the time of the Jap anese attack Lom wire relieved of their following the War and Navy Short issued the following statement because of my sense of loyalty to my country and my service of Over 40 years in the army 1 have refrained from making any state ment concerning Pearl the interest of National Security still prevents my making a full Anil Complete statement of my when the entire Story is unfolded i am certain of com plete vindication in the eyes of the american army and Navy both mentioned further in Quiry would he conducted had said full reports could not be re leased until after the War Foi Stihi Writy Roth reports however thai the evidence showed errors in judgment on the part of officer Boih at Pearl Harbor and in Wash can los counsel for asserted that the Navy announcement Means Kim Mel has been when he people have the full facts they will he said at Roslon Senate approves War i pensions continued from Page i would Start at monthly and Range up to for three orphans of the same pins for each additional under legislation benefits to widows of War la vets the wife of a Veteran is eligible for pension although she May have married the a Soldier As Many leu years after the end of the vets get Legal nod in a current Issue of its official Hie Legal of the National association of manufacturers maintains that a return Veteran is entitled to i former Job even he displaces a Man of greater ability or More tin article stated that the Lan Guage of Hie selective service supports that premise they did differ with selective service in its interpretation of a War veterans unconditional prior ii to his old Job for one year after resuming in that seniority should be i determining Factor in buy War Bonds