GALVESTON, TEXAS,
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1945
Prisoners
Scooped,
Up
in Droves as
Yanks
Rush Onward
PARIS, Feb.
27. AP
American infantry and armor smashed
across the flatlands of western Germany today in advances of ten miles or more,
plunging all the way to the Erft River and within V/2 miles of Cologne
in a great drive that threatened the whole industrial Ruhr. German prisoners
were scooped up by the hundreds and town after town fell, to the waves of
troops racing forward by truck and afoot.
The spearhead of Gen. Eisenhower,
apparently demoralized t h a t a complete news blackout tonight was
clamped on all operations of Ninth Army divisions which have broken
through In this area. It was thought the Germans themselves might not know the
full extent of the American break-through.
Conquest
of Iwo
Seen
in Few Days
United
States Pacific Fleet
Headquarters,
Guam, Feb. 28
(Wednesday).
AP
The
more than 200 Superfortresses raiding Tokyo Sunday burned out 240 blocks In the
heart of the city, an area Including factories and the business districts, the
21 tit Bomber Command dlsclaimed today.
BY RAY
CROMN Associated Press War Editor
The furious battle of Iwo Jima thundered
into its 11th day today (Wednesday United States time) with the American marine
commander predicting that this island
gateway to Tokyo probably will be
conquered in a few more days.
Meanwhile It was disclosed that Japan's airplane industry
suffered a vital blow last Sunday when Yank carrier planes hit the Tokyo region.
Five major assembly and
engine plants were virtually
ruined.
Soviet
Gains
Near
Trapping
Danzig
Nazis
Break-Through
Told
by
Stalin in
Order
of the Day
London, Feb. 28 (Wednesday). AP
Smashing 44 miles n o r t h w a r
d through permanent German fortifications
In Pomerania, the Russians
yesterday drove within 22 miles of cutting the last enemy escape route from
Danzig, the north Polish corridor and northeast Pomerania.
This continuing offensive by the
second White Russian Army group threatened quick entrapment of the German
forces remaining in that great 5000-square-mile arc along the Baltic Sea.
The break-through, which began
four days ago in forested lake country, was disclosed by Premier Stalin in an
order of the day.
Security
Pact
For New World
Is Proposed
U. S. Postpones
Action
on Measure
Sought
by Latins
Mexico City, Feb. 27. X>
The United States managed to
postpone for 24 hours today a surprise move to
commit all the American nations to
guarantee the frontiers and political independence of the countries in this
hemisphere with their armed might.
Sen. Warren Austin. (R-VA),member
of the foreign relations committee, intervened just «J m commission of the
inter-American conference here was about to pass the plan by acclamation. Dramatically
entitled "the declaration of Chapultepec," the resolution, combines
proposals put forward by Uruguay, Colombia and Brazil. Conference sessions are
being held at Chapultepec castle.
The surprise came in the
determination of the other countries here to forge links of steel among the American
republics immediately, without waiting for establishment of a world security
organization, at San Francisco.
The "declaration of
Chapultepec" goes beyond the Dumbarton Oaks plan In one important point:
That
signatory nations would be obliged to use force when aggression or a "sure
threat" of aggression developed on this continent.
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