Mac
Arthur Cries 'On to Tokyo’
As
Supreme Command Hinted
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VOL. 5 Ho. 82—Id. WEDNESDAY. Feb. 7, 994S
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Bridgehead
Near Breslau;
Nazis
Admit More in
North
Marshal
Stalin last night announced that Russian troops had established bridgeheads across the Oder River southeast
of Breslau— the first official statement that the river had been crossed at any
point—as the Germans admitted
that Marshal Zhukov also had
forced the "water barrier at several points along the Berlin bulge. Stalin's
order of the day to Marshal Koniev indicated that the crossings were made three
days ago.
It was about this time that
Berlin said Koniev had gone over to the offensive. In three days' fighting, Stalin's
order disclosed, Koniev's 1st Ukrainian Army broadened their bridgehead to 50
miles and advanced 13 miles. Smashing through long-prepared German defense positions,
Koniev's army cut the Hindenburg Autobahn (express highway) and captured a
series of westbank towns, including Ohlau, Brieg, Lowen, Grottkau, Thomaskirch
and Schurgast. Grottkau is about 13 miles beyond the nearest point of the Oder.
There was no official word from
Moscow that the Oder had been crossed by Zhukov's forces, but German Radio disclosed
that these troops—only 35 miles from Berlin on Monday night—had established at least
six bridgeheads on the west bank of the waterway in the Frankfurt-Kustrin
sector.
Yanks
Nearly ,
Through
Main
Siegfried
Line!
Two fortified Siegfried Line towns,
marking the eastern limits of the German prepared defense zone, were Singer from
1st Army artillery yesterday as doughboys of two divisions closed s to within a
mile of one and half of the
other. Once the towns are passed only
supplementary defense works bar a path to the Rhine.
Farther north the Americans won control
of two dams in the chain of 'water barriers controlling the Roer, Urft [and Olef
rivers, moving in before the Germans
Had time to breach the walls and flood the
path of the 1st Army's advance. The
Troops were about two to three miles from remaining
dams, disclosed at SHAEF
yesterday to have been a key
objective for many weeks.
Tear
Hole in Main Line
On the 1st Army's right flank, troops
of the 3rd Army had torn a hole a half-
,mile wide through the main
Siegfried line and were pushing through what seemed
to be the last chain of
pillboxes,, which on one sector were lightly held. The 3rd
army, scoring a general advance of
about 1 1/4 miles on an eight-mile front
in Germany, captured Habseheid, six; miles'from Prum, but met a counter-attack farther
south at Brandscheid, entered previously,
The Siegfried towns under fire
were Gemuud and Schleiden, both of which
were threatened by the 1st Army's
2nd,and 9th Infantry Divisions. Doughboys
from the latter outfit and others
from the78th Infantry Division seized the two
dams to the north.
Mac
Arthur Cries'On to Tokyo’
As
Supreme Command Hinted
MANILA, Feb. 6 (ANS)—With the Jap
defenders of Manila caught in a
three-way trap and their
destruction imminent, Gen. Douglas MacArthur
issued a statement today
declaring that Japan is the final goal and that the
motto for his forces has become
"On to Tokyo."
"The fall of Manila marks
the end of one great phase of the Pacific struggle and sets the stage
for another," he said. "We are well on the way, but Japan itself is
our final goal. . . '. We are ready in this veteran and proven command when
called upon."
(There were reports in Washington that the appointment
of a supreme Allied commander for the operations against Japan was listed-for
discussion at the
Big Three meeting, and the United
Press quoted informed military quarters as
saying that MacArthur was likely
to be the choice.)
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