LAWRENCE,
KANSAS, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 22,1944
NAZIS SLOW UP AFTER 40-MILE DRIVE
Eisenhower Calls on Troops
to Deliver Crushing
Defeat
MANY
ROVING GROUPS
In a Confused Situation
Further German Moves
Are
Possible Paris, Dec. 22. (AP)—
The
Germans' winter offensive slowed down today after a 40-mile penetration into
Belgium, field dispatches reported, and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower called upon
all his armies to administer a crushing defeat.
The German high command said
several spearheads crossed the Ourthe river, which at one point in its
meandering course is seven miles west of Werbomont, the deepest previously
announced point of the enemy's dagger-like wedge. At this point the river is
about 30 miles from the Meuse at Namur and about 16 miles south of Liege, also
on the Meuse.
"Last Great Gamble"
The Ourthe is about 40 miles inside
Belgium.
[The Germans also told of heavy fighting
on both their flanks. They name the localities of Butgenbach and Lagleize, four
miles northwest of Stavelot, as focal points on the north. Consdorf, southwest
of Echternachv and Waldbilling, three miles northwest of Consdorf, were listed
as centers of attack on the
south.] . .
Eisenhower declared Field Marshal
Karl von Rundstedt had made a last great gamble in coming out of his fixed
defenses and called upon every man under his command to turn the opportunity
into the enemy's "worst defeat."
The offensive "will
completely fail," he declared. . .
Supreme headquarters still imposed
a -48-hour delay on announcements of the actual positions.
The next announcement from headquarters,
was not to come until after 5 p. m., Eastern War time, and it was scheduled to
cover developments only up to Wednesday night
Russian
Soldiers
In
New Operation
Powerful Red Troops Battle
to Seal Off Budapest From West
TWO
CENTERS SEIZED
Soviet
Shock Troops Are Wedging Into Southern Slovakia
Bulletin
London, Dec. 22.( UP)—^
The Berlin radio said today the
Russians, in a attack in the long-dormant northern sector, had hurled 27
divisions' against the Germans on a 22-mile front south of the Latvian town of
Saldus (Fraudenburgh) about 60 miles southwest of Riga and approximately the
same distance from the Baltic coast.
Moscow, Dec. 22. (UP)
Russian shock troops wedged
deeper into southern Slovakia today while new operations by two powerful
Russian army groups threatened to seal off beleaguered Budapest from the west.
Units of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky's
Second Ukraine army drove to within 14 miles east of the big Slovak rail
cityiof Losonc (Lucenec), seizing 30 OB more localities,including the
(important communications center of Rimaszombat, on the Kassa-Losonc highway.
American
Planes from New Base
Range
Over Philippine Islands
General
MacArthnr's Headquarters, Philippines, Dee. 22. (UP)—
Tank pincers
have snapped shut on the hapless Japanese on northwest Leyte
and
pocketed Nipponese troops are being destroyed while American
planes
range over the Philippines from a new base on Mindoro, less than
150
miles south of Manila, headquarters reported today.
Climaxing a laborious fight north
and south along the Ormoc corridor road,
the 10th and 24th army corps fought to a juncture near the point where a
supplementary road forks west to the enemy escape port of Palompon.
Scattered Japanese units are
trying frantically to slip thru gaps from the east and get to Palompon.
Today's communique reported that an
additional 2,032 enemy dead have been counted in the closing stages of the
Leyte campaign.
On Mindoro, which has -the advantage of being on the western side
of the Philippines where torrential rains do not fall as they have on Leyte,
the air base completed there in five days already is demonstrating its
importance.
The communique told of Mindoro-
based planes downing 11; of 29 enemy raiders Wednesday at a cost of one plane.
SUPERFORTS
BOMB
INDUSTRIAL
BASES
Targets on Honshu and in
Manchuria Are Sky
Raid Targets
FORCE FROM SAIPAN
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