Current Events March 4, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MARCH 4, 1944:

 LONDON, March 4.(AP)

U, S. army headquarters  a n n o u n c e d  today that American heavy' bombers attacked targets in eastern Germany and that one formation "reported attacking a target In the Berlin district "

 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES, March 4. (AP)—

Three small German attacks against the beachhead below Rome were smashed yesterday and Thursday as the Nazis continued to stab weakly at the Allied lines after the failure of their latest all-out offensive, headquarters announced today

 Nazis Put Torch

To Ancient City

LONDON, March 4. (AP)—

Russian troops have smashed their way into the outskirts of the Baltic gateway city of Pskov from the east, Moscow announced today, and unofficial Soviet reports said the Germans have put the torch to the ancient Estonian fortress town of Narva as the Soviets lunge nearer.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, March 4. (AP)—

Reinforced American invaders of Los Negros in the Admiralty islands are inching forward a mile and three quarters inland against Japanese bitterly resisting from ridge positions.

 RENO, NEVADA, SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1944

Daylight Raid

Made on Reich

Capital Today

First Air Raids

Made By Americans

On Heart of Nazis

LONDON, March 4.(AP)

U, S. army headquarters  a n n o u n c e d  today that American heavy' bombers attacked targets in eastern Germany and that one formation "reported attacking a target In the Berlin district "

DIFFICULT FLYING

The headquarters announcement telling of the attack on the German capital for the first time by American bombers said: "Formations of heavy bombers today attacked targets In eastern

Germany.

"One formation was reported attacking a target in the Berlin. district. "The flight was made through difficult flying conditions with clouds often as high as 30,000 feet "

Earlier a German broadcast by the propaganda agency, international information bureau, said bombs had showered Berlin, but DNB, the official Nazi news agency, declared not a single explosive fell on Berlin itself. This confusion in Berlin broadcasts, however, apparently was the result of hair splitting as to Berlin's boundaries.

One German broadcast by the propaganda agency, international information bureau, said bombs showered on the city, but DNB, the official news agency, declared not a single explosive fell on Berlin itself. This confusion in Berlin broadcasts, however, apparently was the result of hair splitting as to Berlin's boundaries.

Weak Nazi Stabs

At Anzio Repulsed

Unfavorable Weather Curtails

Ground Operations On All Fronts

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, NAPLES, March 4. (AP)—

Three small German attacks against the beachhead below Rome were smashed yesterday and Thursday as the Nazis continued to stab weakly at the Allied lines after the failure of their latest all-out offensive, headquarters announced today.

A dusk assault against American troops along the Cisterna-Montello road Thursday was beaten back by artillery fire and three tanks were destroyed. Two .strong enemy patrols probing British positions around Carroceto were dispersed and i n f i l t r a t i o n attempts in the Moletta river area also failed.

Unfavorable weather curtailed ground operations on all the fronts, a communique said, with action in the Cassinno area limited to "normal patrolling and exchanges of fire" The eighth army repulsed a small Nazi thrust In the mountains.

Reds Approach

Baltic Gateway

Nazis Put Torch

To Ancient City

LONDON, March 4. (AP)—

Russian troops have smashed their way into the outskirts of the Baltic gateway city of Pskov from the east, Moscow announced today, and unofficial Soviet reports said the Germans have put the torch to the ancient Estonian fortress town of Narva as the Soviets lunge nearer.

CLOSE TO CITY

Red army units now hold positions in the environs of Pskov from two directions. Even before yesterdays advance they had plunged to within six miles of the city from the north.

Japanese Resist

Los Negros Drive

American Invaders of Admiralty

Islands Inch Ahead During Day

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Southwest Pacific, March 4. (AP)—

Reinforced American invaders of Los Negros in the Admiralty islands are inching forward a mile and three quarters inland against Japanese bitterly resisting from ridge positions.

The several thousands of Japanese also are being reinforced from Manus Island on the west in the battle for a dominant position in the Bismarck sea. But the Nipponese are undergoing a terrific pounding from Mitchell bombers and Boston attack planes and the only appearance of their planes since the invasion opened Tuesday resulted in a costly defeat.

This was the situation depicted today in a headquarters communique.

Destroyers put dismounted cavalrymen of the sixth army ashore at Los Negros on the northeastern side of the Admiralties Tuesday to test enemy strength there. The Japanese, obviously expecting any attack on the Admiralties to come from the south, were so outmaneuvered that the landing force quickly captured Momote airdrome.

Deprived of air support in the Admiralties by the bombing out of Lorengau airfield on Manus and the capture of Momote on Los Negros, the Japanese finally got a formation of 15 planes over the invasion scene, presumably from New Guinea bases more than 200 miles to the west. A group of Thunderbolts only half that size shot down eight of the formation definitely and are believed to have bagged four others.

The invaders hastily constructed pillboxes and dug foxholes to strengthen their position along the one-mile, north-and-south beachhead while engineers repaired the captured airfield, slowed up in their work by rain.

EJT