March 22, 1945;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MARCH 22, 1945:

War  At a Glance

WESTERN FRONT:

Americans reduced German hold west of Rhine to mere bridgehead; Ludwigshafen entered, Neunkirchen, Uustadt taken, Yanks fought inside Mainz; Rhine-Moselle-Saar offensive may have cost enemy more than 100,000 casualties; Remagen bridgehead broadened with tank support; Germans fled Ruhr as Allied arm mased for push.

RUSSIAN FRONT:

Lull settled over front east of Berlin; Red army wedged six miles from Danzig; East Prussian pocket lashed furiously as battle southwest of Koenigsberg was reported drawing to a close.

ITALIAN FRONT:

 Artillery hammered G e r m a n strongpoints; patrolling continued.

PACIFIC FRONT:

 Success of attacks on enemy homeland island protended speedup of non-stop blows against Japanese empire; organized resistance crushed in Panay; Shimbu line cast of Manila collapsed; Cavite province virtually cleared; Zamboanga

Karbor sector on Mindanao cleared, airfields in operation without enemy hindrance. Superforts bombed Rangoon areas.

Stiff Mainz Battle

Flares Into Its

Third Day

BY JAMES M. LONG

Paris, March 22—(AP) —,

The Third and Seventh armies crushed all but disorganized German pockets west of the Rhine today while Allied bombers smashed by the hundreds north of the 'Ruhr, where the enemy said the Allies had massed enormous, smoke-shrouded strength for an imminent new crossing of the river. Only remnants remained to be

cleaned up in the German chemical capital of Ludwigshafen, enveloped by the Third Army. A stiff fight for Mainz flared into its third day. The Germans in the

Palatinate and Saarland had lost probably well over 100,000 men—

38,335 in prisoners alone — and Iwo whole armies in one of the greatest debacles in Prussian military lore.

Seventh Speeds On

The U. S. Seventh Army sped 28 miles north, passing many positions captured by the  Third and forming numerous lineups with the Third Army.

Just north of the closing battle of the Palatinate, the First Army pushed to the Sieg river at points 12 miles from the Ruhr and 13 of its large industrial centers at Mullieim and Gladbach, east of Cologne.

Huge Army Camps

Are Blasted By

1,300 Planes

London, March 22 — (AP)

—The full fury of Allied airmight was turned directly on the German troops jammed into the Ruhr today as 1,300 American h e a v y bomber blasted nine of the largest army camps in western Germany and five more airfield near the front.

Incomplete reports indicate that more than 7,000 warplanes were taking a crack at German targets.

Fourteen waves of Fortresses and Liberators were protected by 700 Mustangs in the attacks camps and air bases in the Ruhr. The Mustangs also patrolled the sky for other widespread air operations ranking from the North Sea to Austria.

The tactical air commands were able to throw their  weight into the merciless bomb and rocket offensive which General Eisenhower has warned was coming.

Weather Is Good.

The weather again favored the airmen, and so many hundreds o aircraft were flashing in all directions over the Reich that the Nazi radio finally gave up trying to follow them in its warning service.

Strongest Of Jap

Points Already

Probed Into

U. S. Pacific Fleet Head

quarters, Guam, March 22—

(AP) —

Devastating success of the United States' aerial attacks on the Japanese horn islands portends nonstop blows against the empire and a speedup of the entire Pa

cific war.

Both the Army's Superfortresses and the powerful but always venerable carrier task force have probed the strongest points of Japan—with bombs, bullets and rockets—and each time emerge undisputed victors.

And as the Japanese sea-a strength was dissipated by repeated assaults, American power conversely became greater.

Incendiary Raids

Five incendiary raids again Tokyo, Kobe, Nagoya and Osaka made in close sequence, showed the potential of the Superforts' thre

to Japan. Instead of diminishing. Each mission was flown by 300 or more B-29s. In the near future long range P-51 Mustangs, battle tested in Europe as escort fighters

and as fighter-bombers, can provide cover for the huge bomber.

War  At a Glance

WESTERN FRONT:

Americans reduced German hold west of Rhine to mere bridgehead; Ludwigshafen entered, Neunkirchen, Uustadt taken, Yanks fought inside Mainz; Rhine-Moselle-Saar offensive may have cost enemy more than 100,000 casualties; Remagen bridgehead broadened with tank support; Germans fled Ruhr as Allied arm mased for push.

RUSSIAN FRONT:

Lull settled over front east of Berlin; Red army wedged six miles from Danzig; East Prussian pocket lashed furiously as battle southwest of Koenigsberg was reported drawing to a close.

ITALIAN FRONT:

 Artillery hammered G e r m a n strongpoints; patrolling continued.

PACIFIC FRONT:

 Success of attacks on enemy homeland island protended speedup of non-stop blows against Japanese empire; organized resistance crushed in Panay; Shimbu line cast of Manila collapsed; Cavite province virtually cleared; Zamboanga

Karbor sector on Mindanao cleared, airfields in operation without enemy hindrance. Superforts bombed Rangoon areas.