TITUSVILLE, PA.,
MONDAY MORNING, AUGUST 28, 1944
All Germans
Cleared from
Lower Seine
Nazi
Resistance Grows
118
Miles from Reich,
May
Abandon Le Havre
ROUEN
THREATENED
By WILIJAM F.
BONI
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED
.•EXPEDITIONARY FORCE,
Monday, Aug. 28.—(AP)
After virtually clearing all
Germans from the-Seine., between Paris and Troyes, U. S. armored spearheads
wheeled northward today in a move taking shape as a ; flanking drive against
the retreat route-. of the battered German 15th .Army from the Channel coast to
Belgium and the Reich.
One of the probing spearheads : reached
the Marne in the vicinity of Lagny, 15 miles-east of Paris and within ten miles
of Meaux, where the Kaiser's armies were, halted 30 years ago
Far to the southeast, forces,
which reached Troyes last week, thrust a column northward 12 miles toward Arcis-sur-Aube,
encountering stiffened
Nazi resistance. This force was but
118 miles from the Reich border The Algiers radio said U. S, spearheads had
crossed: the Marne at Vitry 45 miles southwest of Verdun.
Thousands
Are Trapped
In Romania
Nazi Escape
Passes
In Carpathian
Mts.
Blocked by
Romanians
'NEW STALINGRAD
BY TOM YARBROUGH
LONDON, Monday, Aug. 28.—(AP)
An avalanche of Russian tanks and
motorized infantry poured into the rich Polesti oil region in the "heart
of capitulated Romania yesterday, shattering
the Galati Gap defenses between the
Danube and the Carpathians and overhauling thousands of 'Germans trying to
escape to Hungary. In a disaster of Stalingrad proportions, the Germans were
overwhelmed at Focsani and Galati, anchors on the defense line- and the
Russians rolled on through, the petroleum fields of Ramnicul-Sarat, 22 -miles
beyond Focsani and only 75 miles northeast of Bucharest.
Pro-Allied
Hungarians Call
On Nation To Get
Out of War
By WADE WERNER
••LONDON, Aug. 27—(AP)
Pro-Allied Hungarians called on
the last big Axis satellite in Hitler's collapsing Balkan front to quit the war
today as the Germans strove desperately to keep
Weakened Hungary in line by
rushing defense construction workers to her imperiled, frontiers.
With Bulgaria awaiting delivery –of
American-British armistice terms and persistent reports that troops of
capitulated Romania already were fighting
'the Hungarians in disputed
Transylvania, the Free Hungarian Council in London issued an appeal -to all
Hungarians-to. overthrow their government and turn their weapons against the
Germans.
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS,
Pearl Harbor,. Aug. 27.
—(AP)—
The dropping of 42 tons of bombs
on Japan's Iwo Jima, in the Volcano Islands, by American Army Liberators, was
reported –today by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. .
The smashing attack, a
continuation of neutralizing raids in that area, was staged Friday by 7th
Air Force bombers. They met intense anti-aircraft fire and strong fighter
opposition, indicating the islands still are strongly fortified and that the
Japanese have no intentions of lessening resistance in that last defense
sector. on the direct sealane from the Marianas to Tokyo.
110 Killed, 719
Injured
Few Hours After
Visit
By General
Eisenhower
And Some Field
Chiefs
CITIZENS ANGERED
BY DAMAGE TO
CITY
Germans Also Shell
City Sunday
Morning,
Paris Radio
Asserts
By DON WHITEHEAD
PARIS, Aug. 27.—(AP}—
The suburbs of
Paris were bombed by/German –planes
shortly before midnight, and early today the skies were aglow from the light
of fires.
The Paris radio .in a broadcast
recorded in London said the Germans also shelled Paris early Sunday morning.)
At this hour there is no estimate
of the damage and it is not known whether any historical buildings or monuments
were hit.
The death toll from the raid ;
was placed at 110, with 719 persons injured.
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