Jap
Prison Camp,
Graveyard
of
40,000
Troops
By
RUSSELL BRINES
CAMP O DONNELL PRISON CAMP Jan 23
(Delayed) UP—
Rotting, burned ruins of Camp O Donnell
and the untended graves of thousands of heroes of Bataan is all that remains of
one of the most notorious pestholes where the Japanese herded 80,000 prisoners of
war.
A Filipino colonel who survived O'Donnell
s horrors estimated 40,000 American and Filipino soldiers—half of the 80000
imprisoned—had died of disease, malnutrition and mistreatment in the early days
after the infamous "death march of Bataan several hundred died daily.
The touch of those doomed, despairing
men hangs heavily over this camp.
Tall grass grows over the graves of
some 4000 Filipinos Scores of American bodies lie the American cemetery about
700 yards northeast of the main buildings
Deep in the thickets of grass, I found
small crosses made of unpainted
laths
Dog tags of the dead were fixed to the back of the crosses. That was all.
RENO, NEVADA,-WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
24, 1945
Russians
Hold
50 Mile
Front
On Oder
River
Street
Fighting
In Two Key
Silesian Cities
By THE
ASSOCIATED PRESS
LONDON,
Jan. 24. (AP)
Red army
troops battled to force the Oder river barrier In Silesia today and Marshal
Stalin announced the capture of the Polish hinge stronghold of Kalisz
to the
northeast a tier a four day tank battle.
LONDON,
Jan. 24. CT)—
Russian
troops today captured Oppeln, capital of upper Silesia, Marshal Stalin
announced in an order of the day.
A
sixth Russian army has scored, a fresh breakthrough on the eastern front—this
one in Czechoslovakia by the 2nd Ukraine army of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky
Marshal Stalin announced today In
an order of the day.
Rozsnyo, 33 miles southwest of captured
Kassa (Kosice), was taken in the newly announced drive as Malinovsky's troops
on a 25- mile front advanced 16 miles
through mountainous terrain. That
push, from the center of the southern Czechoslovakian border, appeared aimed
northwest toward the juncture of the Polish, German and Moravian frontiers.
Now identified in the great
winter offensive are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd White Russian armies and the 1st, 2nd
and 4th Ukrainian armies.
LONDON,
Jan. 24.( UP) —
German broadcasts today declared
Soviet troops had broken into the streets of the key Silesian cities of Oppein
and-Gleiwits; and Moscow reported the Red army was ranged along nearly 50 miles
of; the Oder river, Germany's great eastern barrier.
Heavy fighting raged on in east Prussia,
where Rusians were within 18 miles of completely sealing; off the province. A
Moscow dispatch said Marshal Korstantin
Rokossovsky's men were only 10 miles
from the last railway from Germany to the Junkers homeland.
Russian guns were shelling cities
on the western side of the Oder, and Marshal Ivan Konev's troops menaced
Breslau, capital of lower (northern) Silesia---
American Patrols
Skirt Clark Field
Highly
Prized 13 Airstrips
One of MacArthtir's Main Goals
By
RICHARD BERGHOLZ
GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTES,
LUZON, Jan. 24. (/P)—
Yank patrols operated today near
Clark Field whose 13 highly prized airstrips, are less than 10 miles
beyond the front lines of the Manila-bound 14th army corps.
Maj.
Gen. Oscar W. Griswold's columns took cover at times while enemy artillery
positions were silenced on the approaches to Bamban town, already smoking from
American air and field gun, attacks. Griswold is from Nevada.
Six miles beyond Bamban is the
maze of runways, hangars shops and barracks which constitute one
of Luzon's biggest military prizes.
Spencer Davis, Associated Press
war correspondent with the 40th division, said in a field dispatch that
"waves of American infantrymen" were moving cautiously
across vegetable fields toward Bamban.
He said the Yanks crossed
"the small stream south of Capas" and then "sped" south.
Inasmuch as the stream is less than four miles from Bamban, this suggested
columns may be at the town's outskirts.
Jap
Prison Camp,
Graveyard
of
40,000
Troops
By
RUSSELL BRINES
CAMP O DONNELL PRISON CAMP Jan 23
(Delayed) UP—
Rotting, burned ruins of Camp O Donnell
and the untended graves of thousands of heroes of Bataan is all that remains of
one of the most notorious pestholes where the Japanese herded 80,000 prisoners of
war.
A Filipino colonel who survived O'Donnell
s horrors estimated 40,000 American and Filipino soldiers—half of the 80000
imprisoned—had died of disease, malnutrition and mistreatment in the early days
after the infamous "death march of Bataan several hundred died daily.
The touch of those doomed, despairing
men hangs heavily over this camp.
Tall grass grows over the graves of
some 4000 Filipinos Scores of American bodies lie the American cemetery about
700 yards northeast of the main buildings
Deep in the thickets of grass, I found
small crosses made of unpainted
laths
Dog tags of the dead were fixed to the back of the crosses. That was all.
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