Januay 15, 1945; NAZIS TRAPPED:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 15, 1945:

Vol. 7-No. 119 Long Beach 2. Calif. Monday, Jan. 15, 1945

U. S. Troops Slash Highway

Artery to Ardennes Sack

By THURSTON MACAULEY

INS Staff Correspondent

PARIS. Ian. 15,—(Monday)—(INS)—

American armor and infantry forged a steel arc three-quarters of  the way about

Haullaize. keystone of the entire German Ardennes salient, threatening that enemy stronghold early today from positions' scarcely three miles away while other Yank units gained nearly five miles and slashed the vital Houllaize-St Vith escape highway.

As the United States First and Third armies came within three and one-half miles of a junction.

Elements of the latter force linked. In their northward drive with the British Second array in the Champion area.

The Juncture of the Yanks and Tommies, as well as slashing of the Houllaize-St. Vith highway, trapped additional enemy hordes retiring eastward toward the Belgium-Germany frontier under  relentless aerial and artillery pounding..

Assault Troops Cut

Polish Rail Line;

Seize Nazi Fort

By JOHN' CAMPBELL

INS Staff Correspondent

LONDON. Jan. II.—

Moscow announced today that Italian assault troops had cut the Krakow-Kielce railroad In southern Poland and seized the stronghold of Lurcnec. on the Hungarian-Slovakian border while Berlin reported the opening of two new Red army offensives north and south of the Polish capital of Warsaw.

An official German high command announcement admitted that Russian forces fighting on the east Prussian front had penetrated nail

lines west of Ebenrode and at Schlossberg. Ebenrode Is seven miles inside east Prussia, and Schlosborg. 11 miles to the north, is 11 miles Inside the German

border.

Cross Agno River

Without Opposition

By CLARK LEE

INS Staff  Correspondent

GENERAL MacARTHUR’S HEADQUARTERS Luzon Jan 15

(Monday)

Yanks of Lt. General Walter Kruegers sixth Army have crossed the Agno River without opposition,   seized Bayambanc. and are now nearing the boarders of the Taralac province where the Japanese "ghost" army must almost certainly make Its stand if Manila is to be defended. Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced today.