BUTTE, MONTANA, SUNDAY MORNING,
JANUARY 28, 1945
Upper
Silesian
War
Arsenal
Is
Knocked Out
Nazis
Report Marshal Zhukov's First
White
Russian Army Has Begun
Attacks
on Rail Center of Schneidemuhl
By
RICHARD KASISCIIKE
LONDON, Sunday. Jan. 28.—(/P)—
The Red army surrounded the big
western Polish stronghold of Poznan Saturday and Berlin announced that Russian
troops had raced on 43 miles southwestward across the snow-swept plains and
reached the German Brandenburg frontier within 98 miles of Berlin.
Striking 50 miles northwest of
Poznan other Soviet tank columns began attacking Schneidemuhl, German fortress
four miles Inside Germany and 135 miles northeast of the reich capital, the
German radio said, as the Russians began deploying on a broad arc facing
straight toward the heart of Germany.
Germans Abandon
Industries
of Upper Silesia
Nazi
Command Is
Preparing
People
for Worst
By
ROMNEY WHEELER
LONDON, Jan. 27.(/P}—
The Germans announced Saturday
night that in the face of the Red army offensive they had abandoned the industries
of upper Silesia, regarded as second only to the Ruhr as a Nazi arsenal.
The Industries have been stopped and
the territory given over to the German army to defend or surrender a Berlin radio
announcement said.
The wording of the announcement
indicated the Nazi command was preparing the people for a blow which had
already fallen. Moscow, in the last four days has announced capture of
much of the most valuable area of upper Silesia, Including the cities of
Sosnowiec, Dabrowa. Bedzin and Myslowlce In Poland and Hindenburg and Gleiwtiz
on the German side of the border.
Together with 20 or more other
Nazis
Fall Back
All
Along
Western
Front
Third
Army Sweeps Up to German Border
at
Five Points After Overrunning
11
Towns in Gains of Nearly Four Miles
PARIS, Sunday, Jan. 28.—(U.P)—
Berlin broadcasts reported Sunday
that American forces had opened an offensive
in the Moselle valley east of the
Luxembourg border, striking for the Rhine in the vicinity of the manufacturing city
of Coblcnz, 70 miles away.
Berlin identified the attacking
units as parts of the U. S. Seventh army, but placed the scene of operations as
"southeast of Remlch," a sector held by Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's famous
Third army, according to Allied dispatches as late as Saturday.
The Yanks were attacking with
battalions of Infantry, each supported by some 20 tanks, the enemy broadcasts
said, and had achieved some penetrations in the area of Butzdorf.
Butszdorf lies in the Saar basin
15 miles southeast of Luxembourg city and was reported captured by Third army
troops Friday in Allied reports.
Carrier
Planes
Sink,
Damage
100
Jap Vessels
Nimiiz
Reports on
Attacks
Against
Formosa,
Okinawa
By
FRANK TREMAINE
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS,
Pearl Harbor, Jan. 27.—(U.P)—
Carrier aircraft of Adm. William
P. Halsey's hard-hitting Third Fleet destroyed or damaged 100 Japanese
ships and small craft and 419 planes at Formosa and
Okinawa Jlma last Saturday and Sunday
In one of the fleet's most destructive assaults In the Pacific war, It was
announced Saturday.
More than 125,000 tons of
Japanese shipping, including 30 enemy vessels, was sunk or damaged at Formosa
In Saturday's strike and 311 Japanese planes were destroyed or damaged, a
second communique by Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nlmltz
Revealed
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