INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, 'SATURDAY,
FEBRUARY 10, 1946,
Hit Secondary
Defenses, Nazis
Flood The Roer
PARIS, Feb. 10.—(AP)—
Canadian 1st Army troops bursting
through the main concrete belt of the Siegfried
line in the Reichswald, struck
today t6 within 2 1-2 miles of Kleve, while the Germans flooded the Roer river
on the U. S. Ninth Army front through cushing spillways of the Schwammenauei
Dam.
Canadians and British forces,
gaining two more miles, were assaulting earthworks of the Siegfrieds secondary
defense in a power drive rolling 'toward the outskirts of Kleve, northern
anchor of the original west wall.
Other units battled in the Rhine
town of Milligen, six miles northwest of Kleve, in the army's .swift-developing
threat to slice behind the Rhine and the rich Ruhr
industrial area.
Waters of the lower Roer river,
along which the American Ninth Army is arrayed, rose a foot and a half in an
hour at some points as the Germans opened floodgates of the Schwammenauel Dam
impounding 170,000,000 tons of water.
Stiff Fight
Along Oder
By JAMES F. KING
LONDON, Feb. 10;—(AP)—
The Red
army closed toward Koenigsberg today, apparently, preparing to storm that
beleaguered
East
Prussian capital from all directions with a force
which
the enemy said, included American amphibious tanks.
Moscow
accounts said that Elbing, farther west, was receiving a terrible pounding from
big Russian guns drawn up around the encircled Nazi- garrison. The Germans
declared that Nazi naval units led by the 100,000-ton; pocket battleship
Admiral Scheer were taking part in the Elbing fighting.
Simultaneously tremendous battles
for position raged up and down the Oder River front as the First White Russian
Army of Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov maneuvered for a big push on Berlin.
2200Planes
Smash Reich
Rail Centers
LONDON, Feb. 10. (AP)-
Continent based light bombers of
the Allied tactical air forces, keeping up the
air attacks on Germany, blasted road
and rail convoys-.in the Netherlands and the Western Reich last night.
Sixty-eight Nazi planes,
including five jet-powered Messerchmitt-262s were destroyed in daylight,
yesterday and Allied losses were 26 planes German jet planes escorted by
regular fighters challenged 1,300
American heavy bombers and almost 900 escorting Mustangs and Thunderbolts over
the key rail targets of . Lutzkendorf, Weimar and Magdeburg. It marked the
first time the 110-mile-a-minute jet craft had penetrated the American fighter screen
for a direct attack on the bombers.
Suicide
Stand At
Manila
MANILA, Feb. 10, (AP) —
Mined streets and Japanese
mortars firing from the upper floors of office buildings slowed American
infantrymen today in their stubbornly resisted drive through the heart of Manila toward dock areas south of the Pasig
River. It was clear the desperate and trapped
Japanese would fight long and bitterly in defense of the flame blackened
Intramuros district, thru which the Yanks must pass to reach
the dock area from their
amphibious Pasig River crossing.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur in his
Communique today, described the fighting as "of the fiercest" and
said the enemy was set for a "final stand.
While the llth Airborne 'Division
pressed the southern side of a three way trap, five battalions of. the 148 and 129th
infantry regiments of the 37th Division gained 2,000 yards from the Pasig as
they headed into the strongly-defended Intramuros
(Walled City), a highly-congested
commercial and residential area.
Late Wire Bulletins
\
(By The
Associated Press) ,
.The
Tokyo newspaper Yomiuri Hochi Shimbun
today (Saturday)
reflected
some concern over the possibility Russia might enter the
war
against Japan as a result of the present conference between
Premier
Stalin, Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt.
LONDON,
Feb. 10—(AP)—
A
full-scale offensive along the whole Western Front was predicted today by the
German and Russian radios;
Sizing
up the Canadian First Army offensive at the northern end
of the
Siegfried Line, the Berlin radio said "It must be assumed this'
attack
is only the beginning."
The
Moscow radio, in a broadcast directed to the German people,
said
that with the Big Three meeting, "it is certain the Allies In the
west
will soon launch a major offensive."
LONDON,
Feb. 10 — (IP) —
Complete
economic subjugation of Germany for years to come was endorsed by the CIO today
before World Trade Union Conference.
J. B.
Carey, secretary-treasurer of the CIO, said the organization favors
Internationalization of a part of the Reich's Industrial areas, and believes
German labor should be' required to rebuild the war wrecked parts of Europe. He
told conference delegates that the CIO supports measures
which
would completely destroy "every vestige of Nazism and Fascism."
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