January 10, 1945; MARCH ON MANILA BEGINS:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 10, 1945:

SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1945

MacARTHUR PRESSES ON

FOR DECISIVE BATTLE

Japs Taken Completely by

Surprise at Lingayen

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

United Press War Correspondent

WITH GENERAL MacARTHUR ON LUZON, Jan. 10.— (U.P.)

—In a tour today of much of the long American beachhead in Lingayen gulf I saw troops, armor, and supplies pouring smooth]y ashore in quantities unequaled in any previous Pacific operation.

As the materiel for the campaign to retake Luzon and its great capital city of Manila piled up on the beaches, reports coming back from forward units indicated that, our troops have gone a number of miles inland along almost the entire front and are meeting thus far Very light resistance.

Three Drowned

One of our divisions had suffered only three fatal casualties, all by drowning during the landing yesterday. At intervals along the miles of low beaches, groups of LSTs lay with their ramps in the sand while tanks, trucks and supplies of all

kinds were hustled ashore.

Thousand Ships

Pour Yankee

Army Ashore

Jap Resistance Light, But

Fighting to 'Get

Tougher

WITH GENERAL Mac-

ARTHUR ON LUZON,

Jan. 10.~(UP)-

An American

invasion army— 100,000 strong— today drove down the highway toward Manila, 100 overrunning miles away, San Fabian and other Lingayen gulf towns against feeble Japanese resistance which cost our forces virtually no beachhead casualties.

Reports from forward units indicated our troops, supported by the greatest flow of armor and supplies ever put ashore in a Pacific operation, already have advanced

a number of miles inland along the entire invasion route.

Light Japanese, forces fell back under the impact of the American blow. So far there has been little Japanese air reaction and advancing American vanguards found the Japanese had only made half-hearted efforts to wreck bridges as they

fell back in confusion.

Germans Move

Back as Both

Flanks Crack

Allied Armies Pushing in

Relentlessly on Both

Sides

PARIS, Jan. 10.—(U.P.)—

American armor by-passed the Ardennes anchor bade of La Roche today and captured near-by Samree by storm after winning a big tank battle there, while

British forces advanced two miles on the heels of German troops retreating from the nose of the bulge.

Front dispatches made it clear that Marshal Karl von Rundstedt's forces were engaged in an orderly withdrawal from the western end of the Belgian salient, leaving only a brittle shell of rear-guard resistance to cover the retreat. Parade Out

"The parade out of the salient, which began January 7. now is in full swing," a dispatch from U. S. First army headquarters said. "A steady stream of German traffic has been observed moving eastward as the tempo of the withdrawal increases.