MADISON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1945
Schlossberg
Falls to Reds
Soviets
Hammer
Along
Entire Front
BULLETIN
LONDON
_(U.P.)—
The Red
army captured Radom today,
the
Moscow radio reported.
(Map on page 2)
LONDON —(U.P.)—
Moscow announced today that the
First White Russian army, joining the all-out
S o v i e t winter offensive, had
smashed westward from the Vistula up to 37 miles on a 75-mile front in a
mighty onsurge flanking Warsaw to the
south and carrying to the outskirts of Radom. Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov of the
Soviet supreme command was revealed to be in command of the First White Russian
army, which charged westward across the Polish plains from two Vistula bridgeheads
and in three days overran more than 1,300 towns and villages.
Premier Josef Stalin announced the
new offensive now beating at the gates of Radom, great transport center, 5&
miles south of Warsaw and 25 miles west of the Vistula, in a special order of
the day.
Zhukov's drive paralleled that immediately
south of his offensive front by the First Ukrainian army, in which Marshal Ivan
S. Konev's forces were narrowing the 45-mile gap between them and the German frontier
while threatening Krakow, the old Polish capital.
Strasbourg, Aachen
Areas Struck Hard;
Houffalize Occupied
By BOYD
D. LEWIS
(United
Press War Correspondent)
PARIS — Lieut. Gen. Sir Miles C.
Dempsey's British Second army opened u new offensive today against, the. German
bridgehead west of the Koer river in the area of the Dutrh border town of
Sittard, 1.7 miles northwest of Aachen.
Simultaneously tLe American
Seventh army at the opposite end of the western front seized the initiative
along the upper Rhine, stormed the German bridgehead north of Strasbourg, and
gained almost two miles to the outskirts
of Gambshieim, 9 miles from the
Alastian capital.
Close
Against St. Vith
The new Allied blows were struck
as American and British troops, grinding down the wilted Ardennes salient, were
occupying its one-time anchor post of Houffalize, which the Nazis abandoned,
and closing against St. Vith, the last big German- held base west of the
Siegfried line in that sector.
Luzon
Advance
Now 30
Miles
from
Clark Field
Stiff Fighting Rages
ot Northeast Corner
of Island Beachhead
By
WILLIAM H. DICKINSON
United
Preii War Correspondent)
GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,
Luzon — American tanks, mobile
guns, and infantry swept on unchecked and apparently unchallenged across the
great central Luzon plains less than 75 air miles north of Manila today.
The biggest invasion of the
Pacific war entered its second week with American spearheads nearly 35 air and
40 road miles inland from the Lingayen gulf beachhead— almost a third of the
way to the Philippines capital.
Stiff fighting was under way along
the Rosario-Pozorrubio line at the northeastern corner of the beachhead, but
the unopposed frontal advance already had carried to within nearly 30 miles of the
great Clark field air center and perhaps a dozen miles of the provincial capital
of Tarlac.
Camiling
Captured
Camiling, 29 road miles inland from
Lingayen and 5 miles inside Tarlac province, fell Sunday to two converging
columns which advanced 9 miles from Bayambang,
to the northeast, and Mancatarern,
to the northwest, and merged into a single powerful army aimed straight at
Manila. Tarlac lies 22 road miles and 17
air miles south of Camiling and
maybe engulfed by the advancing Americans
within the next 24
hours, if it has not already fallen.
For the first time, the Americans
on Luzon were fighting under conditions in which their mechanized equipment and
great firepower can best be used.
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