January 25, 1945; Yanks Push Forward into Germany:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 25, 1945:

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Silesia Ripped Thru

At Buzz-Saw Pace

Tommies Push Hard

For 3 Roer Spots

By AUSTIN BEALMEAR

PARIS, Jan. 24.—(AP)—

The British second army made advances of up to 2,000 yards today and pulled within three miles of the Roer river at three points inside Germany  while the U. S. First and Third armies methodically continued ironing out the Nazis' flattened Ardennes salient against stiffening resistance.

The French First army's attack at the southern end of the long front also progressed steadily, securing several crossings of the Ill river, but in northern Alsace the Germans sharply increased their pressure on the. U.S. Seventh army and it was

disclosed that the American withdrawal, announced yesterday, had amounted to an average of seven to eight miles.

Silesia Ripped Thru

At Buzz-Saw Pace

By W. W. HERCHER

LONDON, Thursday, Jan. 25:—(AP)—

Ripping through German Silesia and East Prussia at blitzkreig pace, the Russians yesterday captured Oppeln, upper Silesian capital, and reached within 4 1-2 miles of Breslau amid reports that they already had crossed the Oder river line and had snapped shut the war's greatest trap on East Prussia.

In westernmost Poland, against apparently stiffening opposition, the Soviet forces nevertheless plunged ahead a dozen miles in the neighborhood of Poznan on the most direct path to Berlin, 137 miles west of Poznan

Japs Report B-29

Raids on Osaka

Navy Pounds Iwo

By FRANK TREM INE

U.S. War Correspondent

PEARL HARBOR, Jan. 25—

Tokyo reported two more B-29 nuisance raids on the Japanese industrial center of Osaka, a naval bombardment of  Iwo in the Volennos and a 120-plane carrier-based raid on Palemband in the Dutch East Indies in the quickening Pacific war

today.

(Radio Tokyo in a broadcast recorded by United Press in San Francisco identified the Palembang raiders as British.)

A Japanese domestic broadcast said lone Suprefortresses bombed the Osaka area 250 miles west of Tokyo a t 8 o'clock last night and again at 1 a.m. today (Tokyo

time), but caused no damage.

American surface ships, including four cruisers and eight destroyers, bombarded two, Japanese stepping stone island 750 miles south of Tokyo Wednesday and inflicted "negligible" damage, another Tokyo broadcast said. Superfortresses from the Marianas blasted Iwo in strength with "good results" Wednesday, according

to a War Department communique, and it was possible that the Naval bombardment tied in with the air attack. Twice before B-29s have hit Iwo in conjunction with surface vessels.

One of the attacking cruisers was damaged heavily by Japanese shore batteries in the latest bombardment, Tokyo said.

Tokyo radio said the raid was launched from a British task force, built around three large aircraft carriers, and was part of the British fleet "which is coming in from

the Indian Ocean area."

A Japanese imperial headquarters communique reported the carrier-borne raid on Palembang, one of the most important oil-producing centers in the Dutch East Indies.

It is situated on t h e southeastern end of Sumatra, about 300 miles south of Singapore.