September 3, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1944:

 

MIAMI, OKLA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1944

BRITISH PLUNGE

'ON AS ENEMY'S

, DEFENSES FAIL

Main Nazi Positions in Italy

Menaced from Both

East and West

'By GEORGE TUCKER

ROME, Sept. 2—-UP)—

The American Fifth army lashed out in a new offensive today; burst across the Arno in a wide front, seized Pisa and stormed dominating heights on the east in concert with a new drive by the famed British Eighth army through a 20-mile hole in the Gothic line.

As the whole Italian front rj» flamed into action, the vaunted Gothic line—which Field Marshal Gen. Albert Kesselring had ordered held for three more

weeks to hold open a route of escape through the Brenner Pass appeared crumbling on both the east and west.

Taking advantage of German preoccupation with the smashing offensive of the British, Canadians and Poles at the Adriatic end of the line, the Americans first launched a flanking movement across the Arno.

TOURNAI SEIZED

BY YANK UNITS

IN GREAT PUSH

Germans Flee from Brussels as

two Columns Approach

Belgian Capital

By AUSTIN BEALMEAR

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS,

Allied Expeditionary

Force, Sept. 2— (AP)—

Two American columns rolled swiftly into Belgium yesterday, capturing the seven way road hub of Tournai within 46 miles of the capital at Brussels, and other U. S. armored forces to the southeast rolled almost to the German frontier in a week - end. of sensational gains virtually ending the

battle of France.

Tournai, five miles inside the little country, was taken quickly as flimsy enemy resistance was brushed aside and the Yanks sped on toward the famous Flanders battlefields.

RUSSIANS PUSH

HITLER'S ARMY

ACROSS DANUBE

Reds Advance to Bulgarian

Border on Winding 150-

Mile Front

By W. W. HERCHER

LONDON, Sunday, Sept. 3—(AP)

The Red army hurled the Germans across the Danube river on a 65-mile front southeast of Bucharest yesterday and reached the Bulgaria frontier on a winding 150-mile front extending inland from the Black Sea coast to the big river port of Giurgiu, Moscow announced last night. In a Balkan disaster surpassing that suffered by the Axis at Stalingrad, the Germans and former pro-Axis Romanians lost 418,600 men killed or captured between Aug. 20 and Aug. 31, a special Moscow communique announced.  Of those captured in that period, 97,100 were Germans.

HITLER TO TALK

ON WAR TODAY

Der Fuhrer Will Make 'Sensational

Speech,' Lisbon

Diplomats Declare

LONDON, Sept. 2—(AP)—

Adolf  Hitler will make "a sensational speech" sometime Sunday, German diplomats in Lisbon announced today as Allied armies beat toward Germany on all sides, nearing and perhaps even crossing the frontiers of the Reich and Belgium.

There was no immediate amplification of the German diplomats' statement in neutral Lisbon, nor indication of what decision Hitler might broadcast to the people this darkest hour of German fortunes in five years of war.