ABILENE, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING,
DECEMBER 17, 1944
Mac's Troops Seize
Mindoro Air Field
By The Associated
Press
American forces of liberation,
operating on Mindoro island within 155 miles of
Manila, scored advances of from
seven to nine miles inland from other beachheads and took the town of San Jose,
General Douglas MacArthur reported today.
The Yanks, meeting on negligible
Japanese opposition, pushed toward Mindoro s central mountain range from the Island's
southwest coast where they landed Friday morning.
American and Australian engineers
were rushing work on an airfield in the invasion sector. San Jose, five miles
inland from the beachheads, has an air field.
— The 6th U. S. Army invasion of
Mindoro island plus new American Fleet tactics
and Filipino guerrilla successes
put a new and mighty crisis before Japanese war
leaders.
Sailing 600 miles between islands
which the Nipponese in nearly three years in the
Philippines have failed to
conquer, the Yanks made their beachheads Friday
morning on southern Mindoro, with
little loss, General Douglas MacArthur said.
With American troops firmly
established on Samar and Leyte islands east of Mindoro, MacArthur said the
latest landing not only cut the Philippine archipelago in two but will enable
the Allies to "dominate sea and air routes which reach to the China
coast."
Greek's
Peace
Spurned
ATHENS, Dec. 16.—(AP)—
Lieutenant- General Ronald M. Scobie rejected peace proposals of
the EAM (left-wing National Liberation Front Party) today because the Leftists'
offer failed to provide immediate cessation of resistance and fighting
continued in the Capital.
A British Headquarters statement
said, "General Scobie must continue to insist upon satisfactory fulfillment
of this condition."
Scobie, the British commander in
Greece, has demanded that all ELAS (fighting branch of the EAM) supporters in
Athens and Its port, Piraeus, stop fighting against British and Greek Government
troops and surrender their aims.
The tone of his reply to the EAM peace
offer today, however, was regarded
as hopeful.
GREECE
British, Greeks battle ELAS, who
seek to seize government;
Britain pledges support to Papandrou's administration.
BELGIUM
Disorders mark protests against Pierlot,
Cabinet; Left-Wings accused of attempt
to overthrow government.
France
Resistance movement demands
representation in, reform of returning government; long exiled
Red Leader Thores returns from
Russia with slogan "Win War First."
ITALY
Britain "veto" of Count Sforza
as premier fans new strife flames; Italian Fascist purge demanded
by Socialists
YUGOSLAVIA
.Bitter internal feud preceded emergence
of Tito's movement as dominant
authority; all-party federal
government studied
Reds
Seen
As
Leader
for
Peace
BURCOTE BROOK, NEAR ABIN-
«EN,' Berkshire, Dec. 16—(/P)—
John Masefield, England's Poet
Laureate, said today he believes Russia will be one of the strongest forces for
peace in the post-war world. "Russia seems determined there shall not be another European war, that
the craze for conquest shall not again get out of hand on this continent, "the.
69-year-old gray-haired man of letters said in an interview.
Masefield predicted that Russia "could
come out of the war "with plenty of weight behind her convictions; for we
have seen an astounding feat in the east. A profoundly significant rebirth of a
vast option within a generation.
''"Russia will emerge
triumphantly from the war, knowing her political system will stand almost any
shock and with the knowledge that she virtually has saved Europe. Her voice
will be strong indeed in world councils."
Masefleld said the two
"danger points" in Europe as he saw them "are . Germany and the
Balkans.
Russia
will have her realistic way dealing with the Germans, and she may well be a
means of controlling threats in the entire Balkan area."
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