Charleston, West
Virginia, Wednesday Morning. October 25. 1944.
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, AEF'.
France. Oct. 25.—i Wednesday)—(INS)—
A triple-pronged British
offensive, rolling through at least seven towns in advances up to more than
five miles. closed on the heart of 'S Hertogenbosch in south central Holland early
today and hammered a 20-mile German defense line into a state of'
disintegration.
The fall of 'S Hertogenbosch.
six-ply communications escape hatch for some 65,000 to 70.000 Nazi troops in
the southwest Netherlands, was expected "momentarily." it was
announced at supreme Allied headquarters by a spokesman this morning.
One of three British 2d army
columns converging on the .big Dutch junction crashed through the suburbs of
Bruggen and Rosmalen and into the northeast outskirts of 'S Hertogenbosch where
it stormed Fort Orten on the edge of a water reservoir only 1.000 yards from the
city's business center.
Action
by American
Forces
Is Screened
By
Radio 'Blackout'
Major
Sea, Air Battle Looms as U. S. Philippine
Attack
Draws Enemy to Decisive Naval Action,
Japs
Sighted in Sula, Sibuyan Seas
PEARL HARBOR.
Oct. 24.—(INS)
—In a possible prelude to a major
naval and air battle affecting the fate of the American-invaded Philippines. Japanese
imperial fleet formations,
including battleships and cruisers,
were revealed today to have been sighted and attacked by U. S. carrier planes
in Philippine waters..
Units of the Japanese
battlefleet, which the American navy has been trying for many months to lure into
decisive combat, were sighted, yesterday and evidently subjected immediately to
opening assaults by planes of Adm. William F. Halsey's 3d U. S. fleet under
command of Vice Adm. Marc A. Mitscher.
Nlmitz
Announces Action
Announcement of this possibly momentous turn
in the battle of the Philippines and of the Pacific the Philippines and
of the Pacific was made in a
communique by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of the U.' S. Pacific fleet.
Yanks
Capture
8
More Towns
In
Philippines
Invasion of
Samar Island
By Americans
Reported;
Third 'Drome
Taken
GEN. M'ARTHl'R'S HEADQUARTERS,
Philippines, Oct. 24. — (INS)—
Having c h a s e d the enemy out
of eight more towns on the island of Leyte, bringing the total to 11, United
States-------
the southwest Pacific.
Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur's
latest communique revealed that the slugging doughboys 'and cavalry men
liberated the eight towns as they pushed north and advanced three miles beyond
captured Tacloban in pursuit of the fleeing enemy.
Report New Invasion
Meanwhile, a British radio report
heard by CBS in New York said that MacArthtur's troops have staged a new
invasion on the island of Samar. across a narrow strait north of Tacloban.
Samar island larger than Leyte and a strategic link with the island of Luzon,
on which Manila is located, and is bllieved
to possess a number of, good air strips.
Heaviest fighting thus far was centered
around the Tacloban-Palo sector where the advancing Americans were meeting with
dogged resistance by units of Japs dug in steep hills flanking the main road.
Northwards of Palo, the Japs
attempted a counter-attack which was hurled back after a bitter battle.
Rear
Guard Battles
On the outskirts of San Pablo, seven
miles west of the corral town of Dulag. captured last Saturday, advanced
elements of the 24th army corps have been engaging the Japs in rearguard fights
and night raiding, while northwest; of Dulag' in the Cagman hill area, the Japs
were attempting to harass the Americans from their dug-in positions high above
them. However the doughboys, were by-passiing the natural fortresses and enveloping
them.
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