RACINE, WIS., TUESDAY AFTERNOON,
OCTOBER 10, 1944.
Bolster Front
For Big Punch
Toward Rhine
LONDON—(AP)—
The U. S. First
army completely surrounded Aachen today and delivered to the German garrison
there an ultimatum to surrender within 24 hours or
be conquered by
ruthless attack. Doughboys had sealed off the Siegfried line city with a wall
of troops, tanks and guns, and already were building up
a 25-mile front
six to 10 miles inside the reich for a breakthrough punch toward the
Rhine.
The U. S. commander told
defenders holed up in Aachen that unless the city was "promptly and completely
surrendered unconditionally, American army ground and air forces will proceed
ruthlessly with air and artillery bombardment to reduce it to submission."
Aachen is "now completely surrounded"
by fire army men, his ultimatum
said.
Chop
Escape Route
Earlier today the two jaws of a
doughboy vise had chopped the German escape lane northeast of the city to only
a mile in width, and choked it off with curtains of machinegun fire.
Americans Invade
10th Palau
Island
(By The Associated Press)
AMERICAN
amphibious troops in the western Pacific have established a firm beach-head on
another of the Palau islands — the tenth to be invaded in less than a month. Only
light opposition was encountered by soldiers of the 81st army
division when they landed on Garakayo islet and pushed inland, Adm. Chester W.
Nimitz announced last night. Garakayo is two and a half miles north of Peleliu
where U. S. forces hold a fair fleet anchorage and a good airfield, both of
which will be used to support Gen. Douglas MacArthur's forthcoming invasion of
the Philippines.
Twenty-five Liberators, escorted
by fighters, made the first neutralizing strike at Zamboanga, which has been a
fortress guarding the southwestern tip of the Philippines since Spanish days.
Huge fires were blazing on the
waterfront, half a dozen seaplanes destroyed and three small ships set
afire.
Hampered
by Typhoons.
Nimitz indicated that weather conditions
may delay the Philippine invasion. "The typhoons have given us much
trouble," he said, and will give the Japanese a defensive advantage until
the stormy season ends in December.
Reds Open Fire
On Memel, Push
Toward Tilsit
MOSCOW—(AP)—
A storm of Russian artillery fire broke today
on besieged Memel, German-held port on the Baltic, while to the southward two
soviet armies wheeled and hurled their full weight into a drive on the East Prussian
fortress city of Tilsit
The great Baltic offensive of
Generals Ivan C. Bagramain and Ivan Cherniakhovsky, ripping apart the German
coastal flank protecting the heart of East Prussia, matched in spectacular success
the sweep of Gen. Rodion Malinovsky's forces into northern Hungary.
5O
Miles from Budapest.
Invaders Capture
Corinth
ROME—(U.P.)—
British forces and Greek patriots
have captured Corinth, freeing the entire Peloponnesus from nazi grip, and
other British forces are storming Porto Edda, key to south Albania and northern
Greece and chief supply port for the strategic island of Corfu, it was
announced today.
Capture of Corinth liberated about
one-fourth of Greek territory and gave the British a springboard for an advance
on Athens only 48 miles to the east.
Launched
Early Monday.
News of the attack on Porto Edda,
scene of heavy fighting in the Greek-Italian campaign of 1940, was the first
indication how the campaign of British paratroopers to clear Albania from the
Germans is proceeding.
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