COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA: FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL
14, 1944.
Reds Blasting
Nazi Foes From
All of Crimea
Press Forward in
Hope Sevastopol Hay
Yield Before Night
MOSCOW, (AP)—
The prospect of the fall of
Sevastopol Friday—the Russian orthodox Good Friday gripped the imagination Russian
people ----
Estonian
Youths Forced
Into
German Labor
STOCKHOLM, (AP)—
All 17-yearold Estonians have
been threatened with severe punishment if they fail to heed an order effective April
16 directing them to enlist in the German labor service, dispatches from
Tallinn to the Helsinki press said Friday.
The dispatches said the youths
were being signed up loi one year's service in Germany and that in their free
time they would be given political instruction and
military exercises by the nazis.
U.S. Airmen
Stage Biggest
Raid of War
More Than 3,000
Planes Swarm Over
Germany Thursday
' LONDON, (AP)—
RAF Mosquito bombers struck
Berlin and western Germany Thursday night in climax to double-header daylight
assaults Thursday upon aircraft and rail targets by nearly 3,000 U. S. bombers
and fighters that bagged at east 139 German planes.
It was the first blow against the
gouged nazi capital since a Mosjuito attack March 25 and a 2,800- ton British
raid March 24. All the swift plywood planes returned.
Americans Blast
Ships and Planes
Severe
Damage Is
Inflicted
at Hollandia
By Richard C.
Berghoiz.
(Associated Press War Editor.
The ships and planes with which Japan
hoped to revive its smashed defenses at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, were left
burning and battered after a massive co-ordinated air attack Wednesday, allied
headquarters in the southwest Pacific
reported Friday.
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