ABILENE, TEXAS, SATURDAY MORNING,
FEBRUARY 3, 1945.— TWELVE PAGES
One Force 18 Air
Miles From Manila
By The
Associated Press
American
advances on all Luzon fronts, with one Yank force only 18 miles from Manila's
northern city line, were reported by Gen. Douglas MacArthur late Thursday,
On the
northeast front the Americans pushed ahead 32 miles to capture Cabanatuan,
Santa Rosa and Gapan, while strong motorized forces penetrated to Sabang.
"This,"
said General MacAilhur, "gives us dominance of all major roads and railroads
in the central plains" and totally; severs Japan's troops on north and
south Luzon in the front approaching Manila,
the Yanks were nearing Malolos, a road-rail center. Blocks on the main road in
ihe Umingan sector gave the Americans complete control of the . highway in the north-central
plain. Heavy; fighting was in progress
on the outskirts of Umingan. From the Olongapo naval base the Yanks pushed six
miles across the mouth of Bataan peninsula. Japanese resistance was light.
Reds 38 to 51 Miles
Distant From Berlin
LONDON,
Saturday, Feb. 3.—(AP)—
The
Soviet high command announced last night that Russian troops in a 15-
mile smash
through the Knstrin-Frankfort defense arc had rolled to within 51 miles of
Berlin, while the Germans said the Red army already was attacking Kustrin and
had-reached the Oder river at new points only 38 miles
from the imperilled
Reich
capital.
Simultaneously, the right wing of
Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First White Russian army penetrated to within 36 miles
southeast of Stettin, the Baltic port for Berlin, threatening to cut off a
13,500-Square-mile sector of Pomerania, the
Polish corridor and Danzig
territory.
This stroke, a two-day 19 mile
fighting advance northwest of fallen Landsberg, was aimed both at Lessening the
danger of a German flanking attack against Zhukov's Berlin- bound central
spearheads, and also at the eventual seizure of the prize ports of Stettin,
Gdynia
and Danzig.
Berlin said that Soviet tank
forces had begun attacking Kustrin, 40 miles northeast of bomb-ridden Berlin,
after coiling around northwest, of that ancient fortress city and reaching the
Oder river 39 miles or less from the Axis capital.
Nazis Leaders
Work Against
Call To Quit
LONDON, Feb. 2.—(AP)—
Nazi propagandists sought tonight
to stiffen the German people against an expected "last surrender
call" from* the
Big Three conference by warning
of "political trickery in the decisive round of the
war."
Neutral and German reports said that feverish preparations for defense of
Berlin continued and a Moscow broadcast claimed that Propaganda Minister Paul
Joseph Goebbels already had deserted the capital with his propaganda ministry for
Bavaria.
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