London, Feb. 23—
All German attempts to
"introduce disharmony in the camp of the anti- Hitlerite coalition."
are doomed to failure, Premier Josef Stalin told the Russian people today in a special order
of the day commemorating the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Red Army.
Allied Headquarters, Naples, Feb.
23—
American and British troops on the
Anzio front held firm under new German counter-attacks, a communique said
today, as front reports indicated Nazi armored forces were massing in great strength
for a third major attempt to crush the Allied beachhead.
Moscow, Feb. 23—
Red armies that already have
liberated threefourths of the Soviet territory seized by Geimany swept lo
within eight miles of the strategic railway junction of Dno on the northwestern
front 1oday and regrouped for the final crushing o£ Nazi forces in the
southwestern Ukraine.
Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Feb. 23—
Japan's air and
shipping strength at Rabaul was reported at an "all-time low" today,
following the 18th consecutive day of Allied air raids on the New Britain base
EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1944:
NAZI
ATTEMPTS
FOR
DISHARMONY
WILL
BE FAILURE
Premier
Stalin Discusses Ties
Between
Three Nations on
26th
Anniversary of Red
Army.
PRAISE
ARMED FORCES
FOR
GREAT SUCCESSES
Declares
Nation Is Bearing
Brunt of
War Effort
Fighting
Alone to Very
Edge of
Castastrophe.
London, Feb. 23—
All German attempts to
"introduce disharmony in the camp of the anti- Hitlerite coalition."
are doomed to failure, Premier Josef Stalin told the Russian people today in a special order
of the day commemorating the twenty-sixth anniversary of the Red Army.
These "desperate
efforts" to split the coalition o£ Russia, Britain and the United States
by a separate peace cannot succeed, he explained, because the underlying interests
of the three countries demand the defeat of Germany.
Praising the Red Army
"fighting alone" for smashing Germany "to the edge of
catastrophe," Stalin again emphasized his contention that Russia has been
bearing the brunt of the war effort, but declared:
"All the more hopeless will
the situation of Hitlerite Germany be when the main forces of our Allies go
into action and the powerful and growing offensive of the Allied states is
launched against Hitlerite Germany.
WEATHER FACTOR
AS ENEMY FIRES.
USES ARTILLERY
Headquarters
Says Nine
Nazi
Divisions Suffered
Considerable
Loss,.. Regroup
For New
Attack.
FOUR
GERMAN CITIES
ARE
HEAVILY BLASTED
London
Suburbs Are Bombed
By
Nazis Planes, Stockholm
and
Finland Damaged
by
Russian Bombs.
Allied Headquarters, Naples, Feb.
23—
American and British troops on the
Anzio front held firm under new German counter-attacks, a communique said
today, as front reports indicated Nazi armored forces were massing in great strength
for a third major attempt to crush the Allied beachhead.
Covered by bad weather and a
day-long artillery barrage that sent hundreds of shells crashing in. to the
beachhead, the Germans thrust repeatedly against the Allied lines yesterday and
moved strong formations of tanks and shock troops into position for a general
attack.
Two Nazi attacks against the
American lines west of Cisterna were beaten off after a brief, bitter fight,
and British artillery for the second straight day broke up an enemy
concentration in the Aprilia sector.
REDS
PREPARING
FOR
FINAL BLOW
Jap
Strength at Rabaul
Sinks
to ''All-Time low,"
Only
Few Vessels Seen.
Moscow, Feb. 23—
Red armies that already have
liberated threefourths of the Soviet territory seized by Geimany swept lo
within eight miles of the strategic railway junction of Dno on the northwestern
front 1oday and regrouped for the final crushing o£ Nazi forces in the
southwestern Ukraine.
The fall of Dno, defense outpost,
for Pbkov on the invasion route for the Baltic stale-:;, was believed only a
mailer o£ days as the Russians made giant new
strides in the same general area
in which the Red army won its first victory over the Germans 26 years ago
today.
More than 2JO towns and villages
on a broad arc around Pskos' and Dno were swept un by the Russians yesterday in
their pursuit of German unils Clceing toward the approaches to Latvia for a new
stand.
On the southern front, the fall
of' the mining center o£ Krivoi Rog after a fierce street battle knocked out
the northeastern anchor of the German bulge in the southwestern Ukraine and set
the stage for co-ordinated drives by the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Ukrainian armies
into Rumania and
southern Poland.
Premier Marshal Josef Stalin, in
an order of the day commemorating the 26th birthday anniversary of the Red
army, disclosed the Russians had liberated 525,000 of the 708,000 square miles occupied
by Germany since (he summer of 1941.
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Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific, Feb. 23—
Japan's air and
shipping strength at Rabaul was reported at an "all-time low" today,
following the 18th consecutive day of Allied air raids on the New Britain base.
Reconnaissance units, which accompanied
American m e d : u m bombers. as they dopped 52 tons of explosives on Lakunai
area.
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