December 4, 1944; B-29 RAIDS ON TOKYO CONTINUE:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, DECEMBER 4, 1944:

RACINE, WIS., MONDAY AFTERNOON, DECEMBER 4, 1944.

Defiant Leftists

Given Orders to

Leave Area

ATHENS.—(AP) —

Gen. Catsotas, acting military governor of Athens, gave armed formations of the leftist Eam 72 hours notice today to quit the area as a consequence of Sunday's violent clashes. Twenty-one persons were killed and 140 injured in the clashes with police yesterday. A general strike ordered by the Eam

had the Greek capital in a tense grip today.

Numerous incidents developed into night-long shootings last night. The Elas, the armed formations of the Earn, seized two government police barracks at P i raeus, the port of Athens.

Marchers Disarmed

The streets of Piraeus were filled with striking dock workers armed with staves, knives, sticks and a few firearms. They were parading and shouting slogans.

Apparently unorganized formations had taken up positions in air raid trenches with machineguns and had posted themselves in other points of vantage.

A semi-private war between the Elas and royalist bands raged in the Thesseum district of the capital.

1 Super-Fortress

Lost in Tough'

Bomb Assault

SAIPAN, Marianas Islands—(/P)

—Industrial Tokyo lay in fresh r u i n s and flame today in t h e wake of the fourth thunderous bombing raid—and the most successful—by American Super-Fortresses based on Saipan.

A sizable force of B-29s, striking in midafternoon yesterday, found the Tokyo area clearly outlined in sunlight and for an hour and a half unloaded their bombs with pinpoint accuracy, despite intense ack ack and swarms of interceptors.

One B-29 Lost.

Results were good, said the20^th air force communique. One squadron reported 75 per cent of its bombs fell within the target area.

The prime objective was the Musashina engine factory of the extensive Nakajima aircraft plant, one of t h e empire's top producers of military planes. The plant, built compactly of one-story concrete structures, was the target of the initial B-29 raid there Nov. 24 when considerable damage was inflicted.

C0SSACKS Smash

50 Miles From Austrian Border

By ROBERT MUSEL.

LONDON — (UP) —

A thundering battle that German strategists predicted would seal the fate of Austria was joined along t h e eastern shores of Lake Balaton today as Cossack flying columns smashed headon into a powerful nazi defensive screen thrown across the "invasion gate," barely 50 miles from .Austrian soil.

The German DNB news agency said "major" soviet tank forces broke through to the northeastern rim of the lake, but asserted that German reserves were attacking them on both flanks and that the penetration had been sealed off..

Historic Fight

Shaping Up

At Roer River

By WES GALLAGHER

With the U. S. Ninth Army in

Germany, Dec. 4—(JP)—

To American school children in the next 10 years t h e Roer river may become as well known as the Argonne  forest.

There are strong indications that one of the great battles of American history is going to be fought along t h e banks of this comparatively unknown stream.

Mighty Nazi Fortress.

In two weeks of fighting t h e U. S. Ninth army reached the west bank of the river and the U. S. First army came within artillery range of it.

At present the great percentage of German armored strength in the west, and about one-third of the infantry strength, is consrntrated in 19 miles centering on the  Cologne plain, from Linnich in the north to below Duren in the south.

Since t h e t o t a l German strength from Switzerland through Holland is estimated at a r o u n d 70 divisions, t h i s gives a rough idea of t h e wall of men

and machines the German high command has thrown up to block the entrance to the Ruhr.

Chiang Rallies China

To Face New Crisis

CHUNGKING.—(U.P) —

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Sheck today took public cognizance of t h e " extremely difficult" military situation but called on China to rally and annihilate

Japanese forces which have driven into Kweichow province, a bare 200 miles from China's capital.

Faced with an explosive military and political crisis, Chiang took further steps to reorganize his government, naming Foreign Minister T. V. Soong, brother of Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek, acting president of t h e executive Yuan, a post which Chiang had held

himself.

Chiang then summoned his new cabinet ministers and in an address called upon China to rally against the Japanese.

"The present war situation," he said, "is e x t r e m e l y difficult but it is near the stage of final victory."

Enter Crucial Period.

Chiang said that the military developments at t h e front, including the dangerous penetration by the Japanese of Kweichow province "were without our anticipation."

Murder of 29 Yanks Described

By Soldier Who Escaped Japs

HOUSTON, Texas —

Thirty  American prisoners lined up at the rail of a Japanese ship, waiting to be shot. They had been recaptured after an almost four-mile swim for

liberty following the torpedoing of a Japanese prison ship off Zamboanga peninsula last Sept. 7.

The 30 were roped together and their hands were bound behind them. Then, the Japs began shooting them one by one—shooting

them in the backs. Twenty-nine of those bound and helpless and hopeless men were killed. The , other got away—just as death was closing in.

Today that man, 23-year-old Tech. Sgt. Denver R. Rose, home with his parents in Houston, told the story of his miraculous escape.

'March of Death' Veteran.'

Veteran of Bataan and Corregidor and one of the thousand prisoners on the terrible "march of death," Rose lost 70 pounds during two and one-half years in a Japanese prison camp.

He weighed little more than 100 pounds when the enemy transferred him and other captives from one part of the Philippines to another.