(See below, U. S. fags (cigarettes) sent to the enemy.)
New York London Edition Paris
VOL. 5 No. 25—Id. Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the
European Theater of Operations THURSDAY, Nov. 30, 1944
Canadians
Advance
Into Reich From
Nijmegen Salient
The Germans admitted yesterday
they were making a major withdrawal from Alsace-Lorraine before the drive of
the U.S. Third and Seventh Armies on the southern sector of the Western Front,
while to the north it was disclosed that Canadian troops were already a mile
inside Germany after a regrouping of the forces along: the Nijmegen salient in
Holland.
Observers looked for important
events soon on the 400-mile front following the meeting in Belgium Tuesday Between
Gen. Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery, and it was assumed that the
powwow between the Supreme Allied Commander and his chief aide could only
result in another dose of bad medicine for the Germans.
On the extreme southern end of the
front, the French First Corps was reported to have trapped a sizable German force
between Mulhouse and Belfort.
More than 30 towns were freed,
and a steady stream of prisoners was said to be coming in.
The Germans, continuing their
Tuesday reports of tank operations north of tank operations north of tank
operations north of Sarrebourg, said a tank battle was going on in the region
of Sarre-Union.
Third Army
Advancing
Massing a great threat to the
Saar Basin, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third Army was moving forward on a
35-mile front, and 26 of those miles were inside Germany. Patton's men were
said to have passed beyond the greater portion of the Maginot Line, though they
have not yet come up against the Siegfried defenses.
The 95th Division,' meeting
strong artillery and mortar fire, was reported to be only 3+ miles southwest of
Saarlautern after a two-mile advance, while the 80th Division made further
gains on the road to Saarbruecken after throwing back a tank-led Nazi
counter-attack.
Other units were said to have
crossed the border at a point southwest of Saarlautem, and farther south
mechanized cavalry entered the outskirts of Sarre-
Union.
First Army doughboys and tanks cleared
the villages of Hurtgen and Kleinhaus and .continued northeast to Grosshau,
where they were fighting from house to house, a consistent feature of the battle
in this sector. To the north, infantrymen were still working to clear the Germans
from the eastern parts of Inden and Lamersdorf.
Gateway to Cologne
B29s Hit Tokyo
In 1st Night
Raid
U.S. Superforts made their first
night raid on Tokyo last night, Japanese Radio reported. Appearing over the
Japanese capital shortly before midnight, a "small force" of B-29s
was reported to have dropped incendiary bombs.
An earlier Japanese communique
announced an attack by Jap planes on the Saipan B-29 base.
Meanwhile, on Leyte Island, the
battle for Ormoc continued, as U-S. naval units; operating off-shore hurled
shells into enemy positions, Gen. MacArthur announced yesterday. Fifteen
Japanese planes were destroyed by ack-ack.
Interned Japs
Send U. S. Fags
To the Enemy
This should be of particular interest to those in the U.K. with corrugated tongues stemming from the imposed diet of cigars and smoking tobacco—and English cigarettes, when the shillings are willing. It's a reproduction of an article from the camp paper at Tule Lake Relocation Center, Cal.—showing how Jap internees pick up American cigarettes and ship them out to Jap soldiers.
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