Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1945, Cairo, Egypt Lit t Jan my near in Poland timer Mats Al tit of Frank of the soviet 25 cabled Sherii Les into German Nida and the reds the Zis across Southern Poland i up hives steamroller has Cracow and Czestochowa have been and straight ahead is the German the great Industrial Region where Coal and Iron As Weir As steel and Glass make tip a District important to Fitt Estrer As the Ruhr and the of second offensive was announced by Stalin on tuesday he said it is aimed straight at led by marshal stains Deputy com the 1st Iwhite russian army ripped open enemy defences on a 75mile front below and after seizing swept Northwest in the direction of second City of its fall is Zhukova forces by passed War Sawon the South and advanced beyond the left flank of his offensive swung southward to Ward Kielce in an apparent Effort to join Warsaw was liberated by joint actions from the West and when troops of the first White russian front bypassed the Capi Tal to the others forced the Vistula North of the cutting it completely thus and a half years of nazi the torn capital was it is occupied now by formations of tie red army and the list polish on wednesday marshal Stalin in his order of the that still another russian offensive had been launched on a front of the Nares North of after heavy red troops linked two ways Wigi a sat k fee b i Afcin b6clin Cas if u m a a waft Fau h fans Britvic i Austria so or Tel we Marona Western fronts blazed with action week As Martha Stalin a loosed his anticipated and Eisenhower Boom Era need Back at him holdings in Belgium and lower red gains were enormous Allied Progress was Good in the belgian slow pol Tusk and numerous other radio Berlin also stated that another new offensive flared up in East on 13 where the 3rd White russian army hurled tanks and infantry into Battle of a 110mile front Between a flt Kau and germans admitted on tuesday that Schloss Berjer had Moscow confirm German reports that a fifth Offen Sive is raging along a 75mile czechoslovak loan front Between the rail cities of Lucentc and Kosi Lucentc was in the red army has seized control of More than per cent of the sprawling acce Rarrig to ups Henry Sha this is t the wars greatest Battle of massed it is estimated that men Are locked in Battle in the sections of East Prussia and so the soviets Are at fight separate Bridgehead and advan1 Varia where ced More than 25 Miles to capture i 14th army nears Mandalay situation in China improves the allies continued to push their offensive on All fronts in Akaab on the Bay of Bengal where a beachhead was established and in the North Cen trial areas of Shebo and to Kwa where Allied forces Are driving on last reported Only 17 Miles around an arc to he China Burma chinese troops were closing in on wanting Mon Day after seizing the strategic Road Junction of last Burma town blocking use of the Ledo Burma the Allied forces stormed ashore on my ebon Peninsula in Hunters 32 Miles Southeast of the West Burma port that fell to the allies the Landing was made to Cut off retreating japs from Akkad and Strong resistance was particularly a Tille Ryand machine gun of the British 14th army units were meeting Success near leaving the coastal Road and the kyats in and my Eborn Rivers in Between these two actions As the Only escape routes Onen to the the first american Convoy in years carrying War supplies from India to China arrived in the historic Convoy Vered the first 262 Miles of 1000mile trip from Ledo on Indian Border to and will wait at my Itkina until the few remaining Miles of the new Cut Road from my Itkina to Are completed or until the last 25 Miles of the old Burma on co the the Road from Nam Khan to wanting Are cleared of the patrols of the chinese first army the chinese expeditionary Force in the Meng a area of China in the first Junction Between Burma and China forces on the India China Supply bombs of the 10th air Force this week touched off a sending tons of Earth cascading Over tracks of the Mandala Lashio one of the few remaining lines left open to the japanese in North chinese retake 3 cities the military situation in China improved this week with the Chi Nese recapture of three coast in Surprise they re entered yams Iii and Simchow on the Kiangtung province coast West of Liichow Peninsula and the port town of Jiapu on the Fukien coast at Formosa the japs had held Yahsien and Simchow since last and had seized Jiapu 6 for 12 Days when the chinese recaptured despite these Reconquest by the chinese the enemy has Heenon solid aging his on the Southeast China in anticipation of possible american a chinese spokesman the japs Are consolidating bases at Soochow and at Amoy on the Fukien coast and Hong Kong and Kwang showman on the Kiangtung it was they also have been fortifying Hainan and we Chow islands no Compromise minister Chur chill told commons this week that the allies will fight on until Ger Many surrenders unconditionally if such a policy stiffens nazi resistance and prolongs the he said he did not that the unconditional surrender slogan was of great political value to the Churchill endorsed president Roosevelt views that objectives of the Atlantic charter were As valid As they were in 1941 although All were not Likely to immediately and the charter is not he also disclosed that British Empire casualties from the Start of the War to last 30 totalled of which were from the United to Eaid British casualties in Greece up to 6 were including 237 but put off other questions on yank Ace victim of american fire George pred of who had enemy planes to his Cre crashed and died on the West Ern front Christmas Day when his plane ran into a Field of american he said the fusillade of Inachin gun fire by an american antiaircraft Battery which had been thrown up to trap a fleeing German fighter wrecked pied Dys p51 and sent it spinning to the ground in a tragic ending to a spectacular dogfight in which he had already brought Down two nazi the 11th armoured in France third army Bel Gium own the american eleventh armoured division under the command of Char Les Kilburn is fighting with the third army in the Bastogne this is the tenth armoured division to be identified on the West Ern Washington combat losses in this War have been More than two a half times the total of american casualties in the last it was revealed by the All service casualties up to now have totalled of which Are the compared with a grand total of for the War the totals cover months of yank participation in this War and 19 months in the huns fall Back continued from Page 1 from Houff Alize Are joining main German Force in a Las ditch defense in which advantage is taken of every Ridge i the mommies bite out 5mile gain above the Field marshal sir Bernard Montgomery unleashed a counteroffensive with troops and tanks of the British second army attacking the 15mile German Triangle Between Roer Geilenkirche and sittard in the Southern toe of White Clad mommies struck in a morning fog Hiorth sittard with heavy tanks camouflaged in bed sheets and lace a five mile gain indicate Good Progress against moderate below the bitter Battles Are raging i the Alsace it appears that the German High command is attempting to counterbalance the Retreat in Belgium with new the Wehr Machts aim is probably to Force Back Alexander Patch seventh army and capture Stras Strong nazi reinforcements Are moving up from the Siegfried line to join the major assault launched against the seventh army in the streets of 23 Miles North of the alsatian capital of Stras american troops who have been locked in swaying Buttles with the germans for Over two weeks staged a new counteroffer Tore Back into the Center of Hatten in a combat scene Irmi nascent of Between Hatten and putt los men chalked up Small gains against the Bridgehead which the germans recently bit out of the Western Bank of the no important change has occurred on the French first army sector South second bombing error second bombing error this month occurred on wednesday when 12 fortresses accidentally dropped 500pound bombs on ame rican positions East of some american soldiers were killed and Good flying weather Lias enabled Raf and american bombers to strike out in great Pum Melling Oil storage de pots and Rhine River the air Arm is reaching out to Strain Vehr Maht efforts at supplying or its extended of chirfa4aied super forts bombed wednesday As an aftermath of a three Day Carrier raid on that Island and 350 Miles of China coast in which Over 35 japanese vessels were Des troyed or partial reports listed at least tons of shipping sunk or damaged in raids on Amoy and for Moses Takao naval japanese planes made no at tempt to defend Hon Kong or can ton and opposition was extremely Light dispatches said Halsey third Fleet apparently was Able to roam the South China sea unimpeded by japans Navy or Continental air Power while the showing of the enemy air Force suggested that it lacked strength to spread out along Asia tic shores and als6 Challenge super fortresses Over Fleet bases plastered Singapore and Tokyo also were b29 targets this week As the huge planes continued their methodical reduction of Jap military might from China and the As abased planes of the 20th paid a visit to Singapore on the malay the first blow was struck on Dis patches indicated this bombing May have carried1 out to bottle up remnants of the Jap attempting to head off the Ameri can landings on Luzon and Render ship repair facilities unsuitable for Jan ships toeing crippled in the running sea Battle off the indo China Georgetown Harbor on Penang Island off the West coast of the malay Peninsula was also this port being an Axis sub Marine for the South China sea and Indian Han Sells super forts from Saipan at tacked targets on Honshu by Day Light hitting the Nagoya Industrial area on the main Jap anese radio Tokyo said the raiders remained above Nagoya for 90 Alaska eleventh air Force liberators bombed the Jap Island of Para Ushiro in the Buriles for the third straight Day after an earlier Force of Mitchells pounded Morishima a Small Island outpost on the approaches to the liberators encountered four Jap fighters before reaching the target but the nip ponese made Only halfhearted attempts at interception and pilots said All bombs landed in the target rescuing yank columns continued from Page 1 in a futile attempt to land sup plies for defenders North of the near san the enemy lost a big freighter transport and 45 loggers sunk or the Navy disclosed that rear Theodore Chandler and Robert Fleming were killed in action during the Luzon Chandlers last announced assignment was As commander of a Cruiser while Flem a ing hero of Buna Campaign killed Herman Oneman army1 who became a legend in the Southwest was killed on Leyte by Jap mortar fire on Bottcher won a Battlefield pro motion from staff sergeant to Captain for his Lone reconnaissance work behind the enemy lines Dur ing the bloody Buna reds have own plans for nazi criminals article in pravda by Llya prominent journal list and declared that Russia intends to Deal with the German War criminals in her own we ourselves will judge our torturers and this we will entrust to a Hinburg we Wake with the thought of Berlin and with the same thought lie Down to when we Are silent we Are thinking of Ber Lin and in our sleep we do not forget Russia is not a member of to Allied War crimes commission in
