January 30, 1945; Soviets/Yanks Surrounding Berlin:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 30, 1945:

OGDEN CITY, UTAH, TUESDAY EVENING. JANUARY 30, 1945

Russians Within 80 Miles of Berlin;

Yanks Seize Siegfried Line Sector

Americans Surprise

Nazis, Attack

In Waist-Deep Snow

PARIS, Jan. 30 (AP)—

The Seventy-eighth division captured three ;miles of the Siegfried line today in a surprise attack through waist-d e e p snowdrifts in the Monschau forest, three miles inside Germany.

The First army outfit struck just north of the eliminated Belgian bulge while other troops of Lieut. Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' command and the Third army moved

up to the west wall defenses along 40 miles o£ the Ardennes front.

The Third army expanded its Oder river bridgehead nearly a mile into Germany on a two-mile front.

Three-Pronged Drive

Threatens to

Cut Off Nazi Capital   

LONDON, Jan. 30 (AP)—

Marshal Gregory Zhukov in a sharp new surge toward the Oder river has driven ahead 12 miles into Brandenburg province and about 80 miles from Berlin, the German radio reported tonight.

Moscow dispatches said soviet armored spearheads were forging ahead in a huge three-pronged assault which threatened to cut off | the nazi capital if a frontal attack failed. They fought forward in a blizzard as German broadcasts declared

the Russians had launched a heavy armored offensive on a- 42-mile front inside the border of | eastern Germany on a "beeline for Berlin," and that "the first onslaught

gained  a p p r e c i a b l e  ground."

First Objective

The broadcasts said the first objective was the communications

enter of Kustrin on the Oder and Warthe rivers, 42 miles from Berlin.

Unconditional Surrender

Explained to Germans

PARIS, Jan. 30 (AP)—

On the eve of the widely-heralded big three conference, the allies have begun showering German lines with leaflets explaining the "unconditional surrender" goal announced at-Casablanca, it was disclosed today.

Yanks Hit Last

Jap Defenses

Guarding Manila

Nips Suffer Serious

Losses in Three

Savage Counterblows

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S

HEADQUARTERS, LUZON,

Jan. 30 - (UP)—

Vanguards of the American Sixth army swung down on the last Jap defense line north of Manila today, driving into the swamp lined Calumpit bottleneck barely ten miles from Manila bay and 23 miles from the enslaved Philippines capital.

Front dispatches indicated that only a thin Jap covering force lay between the advancing doughboys and Manila, although the difficult terrain was expected to prevent a quick march into the city.

Far to the north other American troops were running into their bitterest opposition since the Luzon invasion began 22 days ago.

Fanning out northeast and east from their Lingayen Gulf beachheads, the Americans were threatening the entire Baguio area where the bulk of the enemy

island garrison was believed concentrated, and the Japs reacted savagely.

Nips Suffer Heavy Losses

Reinforced enemy tank and. Infantry units counter-attacked three times against the American spearheads over the week-end and were routed with serious losses after a touch-and-go battle. The Japs tried their biggest counter-blow shortly after midnight

Saturday night around San Manuel, 24 miles south of Baguio and 18 miles inland from Lingayen gulf.