December 6, 1944; HEAVY LOSSES INSIDE GERMANY:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY. DECEMBER 6, 1944:

War Fronts

By United Press

WESTERN FRONT —

Nine divisions of U. S. Third army advance on 80-m!Ie front, span Saar again, advance to within five miles of Saarbrucken and threaten several industrial centers with artillery.

EASTERN FRONT —

Soviets gain up to 12 miles across western Hungary, reach lake Balaton, capture Marcali, 53 miles from Austria.

AIR — ]

More than 1850 U. S. warplanes attack Berlin and Munster, down 91 German planes in air battles; RAF pounds Hamm rail yards.

ITALY—

Canadians drive into Ravenna, Adriatic coastal city.

PACIFIC •—

Navy announces loss of U. S. ammunition ship, two minesweepers, one landing craft and a motor torpedo boat.

Salt Lake City, Utah, Wednesday Morning, December 6, 1944

Seven Allied Armies Boost Nazi

Casualties to 9000 Daily;

Patton's Wide Front Gains 3 Miles

By Allies (Official)—By Associated Press

SUPREME HEADQUARTERS ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY

FORCE, Paris, Dec. 5—

Breaking across the Saar river at a new point south of Saarlautern, Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's American. Third army hammered a second wedge into the Siegfried line Tuesday as the battle for Germany, six months after the allied invasion, raged unabated. It was estimated Tuesday night, that seven allied armies—five of them fighting on German soil and two others drawn up along the reich's Rhine river boundary in the south — were eliminating Germans at the rate of 9000 daily, a loss of about five nazi divisions every week.

Third Gains Three Miles

Heavy fighting, costly to the allies as well as to the Germans, slowed the advance on much of the western front, but the Third army, now holding a stretch of Germany 40 miles long, made gains of up to three miles during the day, grinding within six miles of the bombbattered industrial city of Saarbrucken

and within three miles of Sarreguemines.

See Saarlauton Climax

(A German Transocean Agency broadcast said the battle for Saarlautern "had reached its climax" after a day of desperate fighting, with part of the city occupied by the allies and part by the Germans.)

The estimate of 9000 permanent casualties daily for the Germans was based on a probable loss of 3000 a day on each of the three main divisions of the front—the Aachen gap "area beyond the Siegfried line, the Third army front partly in Germany and partly in

France, and the Sixth army group's front in the south.

91 Nazis Drop

As Forts

Blast Berlin

LONDON, Dec. 5 (^—

American fighter pilots sent 91 nazi aircraft hurtling down in flames on the German capital along with 1500 tons of bombs dropped by more than 500 Flying Fortresses.

Twelve bombers out of some 550 which hit the Berlin area, as well as the big rail center of Munster, 50 miles north of the Ruhr Industrial region, are missing. Twentytwo fighters failed to return to their British bases, but at least 11 of them are believed to havelanded in France.

Greek Parties

Identified

LONDON, Dec. 5 (UP)—

Here are what the initials identifying the various warring factions in Greece stand for;

EAM—Ethnikon apeleutherotikon, metopon — the national liberation front, a leftist political group dominated by communists.

E L A S — Ellinikos 1 a i k o s apeleutheratikos stratos — the military arm of EAM, or the Hellenic peoples army of liberation.

E D E S—Ellinikos dimokrati-, kos ethnikos stratos—the Helleriic national democratic party, a rightist political party.

British Tanks

Thunder in

Greek Rioting

ATHENS, Dec. !5 (UP)—

British tanks went into action late Tuesday, to quell growing fighting which raged throughout Athens between armed forces of the leftwing EAM (national liberation front) and police and right-wing elements.

Premier George Papandreou offered to resign in a last-minute effort to avert civil war, but later was reported to have withdrawn the offer after receiving new British assurances for support of his crisis-torn government.

170 Person Killed

An unofficial estimate showed 170 persons killed and 393 Wounded in three days of rioting which began Sunday when police fired on EAM demonstrators protesting an order by the government and the allied military commander in Greece, British Lt, Gen, Ronald M. Scobie, disbanding Greek guerilla forces.

U. S. Units Sink

6 Jap Ships

U. S. (Official)

By United Press

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

Leyte, Philippines, Wednesday,

Dec. 6 —

American air and naval forces have sunk six more Japanese vessels, including a destroyer, in Philippines waters and a seventh off Borneo, Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur disclosed Tuesday, while on water-logged Leyte, ground forces have punched out local gains against counterattacking Japanese at the north end of the Ormoc corridor.

The Japanese destroyer was sunk by a navy Liberator off the southwest coast of Luzon Sunday. LJ. S. patrol planes also strafed

two enemy coastal vessels in the same area.

MacArthur's communique did not disclose whether the destroyer was one of two enemy warships, probably destroyers, left afloat after a battle with American destroyers in Ormoc gulf the night before. One enemy vessel sunk in that action and another damaged, and an American destroyer was lost.

War Fronts

By United Press

WESTERN FRONT —

Nine divisions of U. S. Third army advance on 80-m!Ie front, span Saar again, advance to within five miles of Saarbrucken and threaten several industrial centers with artillery.

EASTERN FRONT —

Soviets gain up to 12 miles across western Hungary, reach lake Balaton, capture Marcali, 53 miles from Austria.

AIR — ]

More than 1850 U. S. warplanes attack Berlin and Munster, down 91 German planes in air battles; RAF pounds Hamm rail yards.

ITALY—

Canadians drive into Ravenna, Adriatic coastal city.

PACIFIC •—

Navy announces loss of U. S. ammunition ship, two minesweepers, one landing craft and a motor torpedo boat.