September 24, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1944:

RENO, NEVADA, SUNDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 24. 1944

200 GERMAN

TANKS LUNGE

AT CORRIDOR

Isolated Air Army's

Patrols Contact

Rescue Drive

By PHIL AULT

United Press War Correspondent

ALLIED SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,

London, Sunday,

Sept. 24. CUB—

Patrols from the heroic Allied parachutist band around Arnhem fought their way south across the upper branch of the Rhine Saturday and established

contact with the British Second Army as a new sky army of thousands of Anglo-American troops swept down by glider to join the crucial battle.

Reach Frontier

Simultaneously, the Second Army broke three miles east from Nijmegen on the main branch of the Rhine and reached the German

border at the frontier town of Beek.

Berlin called the struggle at Arnhem the decisive test of  the war in the west and in an attempt to nip off the Allied corridor. Adolf Hitler sent 200 tanks lunging against its base 25 miles to the south. They were hurled back after temporarily cutting off the vital Eindhoven- Nljewgen highway and driving

a wedge in the salient.

MARINES WIN

MAJOR PART

OF PELELIU

7020 Japs Killed in

Nine Days of

Fighting

By MAC B. JOHNSON'

United Press War Correspondent

U. S PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS,

Pearl Harbor, Sept. 23. (U P)—

American marines have resumed their northward advance on Peleliu in the Palau group, winning approximately three-fourths of the island and killing

7020 Japanese in nine days of bloody fighting, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced today.

The advance was resumed after American planes and warships smashed a desperate Japanese attempt to reinforce the besieged garrison, sinking all seven of a group of enemy barges seeking to push men and supplies ashore on the Coral Island.

Echo Tokyo Fear

The puppet Philippine government, echoing Tokyo's fears of an imminent invasion as the Americans stood on island thresholds leading to the Philippines, declared war on the United States and Britain.

Tokyo continued to report that three or four powerful American task forces still were ranging Philippine waters after having

twice attacked the Manila area. A Berlin broadcast recorded by CBS said a third attack was made Friday.)