March16, 1945; V-2 Rockets Kill Londoners:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MARCH 16, 1945:

HUNDREDS KILLED,

HURT IN LONDON BY

NAZI V-2 ROCKETS

London, March 16.—

Censorship permitted the first disclosure today that hundreds of "Londoners have been Killed or wounded by German V-2 stratosphere rockets. It has been permitted only to say that V-2 bombs fell in "southern England." But today it was permissible to disclose that the rockets have been landing in the London area and causing casualties.

How many rockets have fallen in the metropolitan area and the specific places they have hit remain a closely guarded secret. V-2 casualty figures here sense the first rockets crashed to earth from heights up to 70 miles were not revealed, but,censorship permitted the use of the word “hundreds" in describing them.

HUNTINGDON, PA.; FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1945

LINKING OF 2 U. S.

ARMIES WILL TRAP

NAZI FIELD UNITS

By BRUCE W. Munn

United Press Correspondent

Paris, March 16. —

 Flying columns of the American Third Army crossed the Moselle River south of Coblenz and swept through the Saar basin at a mile-an-hour clip today in a spectacular race to link up with the north-bound U. S. Seventh Army and envelop the last two German field armies west of the Rhine.

A breakthrough of even greater import was shaping up on the U. S.' First Army's Rhine bridgehead 40-odd miles to the northwest.

The Americans ,fought their way up the river bluffs to the edge of the plains

rolling north to the Ruhr Valley and were expected momentarily to break their armored power loose on the broad military highway, llnkig the Ruhr and Rhineland to Berlin and central Germany.

German commentators said the entire American half of the western front, was boiling- over. The Nazis said U.S. Ninth Army troop's opposite Dnisburg- had attempted a niajor crossing' of the Rhine, only to be hurled hack with Woody losses, and they hinted that the British and Canadian Armies massed along the river farther north were about to storm the great Barrier.

Russians Continue To

Pour Troops Over Oder

For Assault On Berlin

By ROBERT MESEL

United Press Correspondent

London, March 16. -—Nazi radios said today that Red forces had opened violent new offensives on both wings of the Berlin front, in Silesia and before Stettin, to set the stage for the grand assault on the menaced capital. .

Berlin broadcasts reported that Marshal Ivan S. Konev's First Ukrainian Army attacked on a broad arc south and southwest of Breslau and that Marshal Gregory

K. Zhukov's First White Russian Army stormed the Nazi bridgehead across the lower Oder from Stettin.

The German High Command said the heaviest fighting in Silesia was on either

side of Grottkau, rail junction 31 miles south of Breslau. In front of Stettin, it said, a battle "flared up anew in full ferocity" and Prussian breakthrough attempts scored early gains.

Directly before Berlin, Soviet forces were reported pouring across/the Oder into a growing bridgehead some 30 miles east of the capital for the final push forecast for some days by both Berlin and unofficial Moscow dispatches.'

The battle of the Baltic coast was drawing to a. close, with Russian armies clamping a new assault arc on the East Prussiancapital of Koenigsberg and storming the outposts of Danzig and Gydnia,

HUNDREDS KILLED,

HURT IN LONDON BY

NAZI V-2 ROCKETS

London, March 16.—

Censorship permitted the first disclosure today that hundreds of "Londoners

have been Killed or wounded by German V-2 stratosphere rockets.

It has been permitted only to say that V-2 bombs fell in "southern England." But today it was permissible to disclose that the rockets have been landing in the London area and causing casualties.

How many rockets have fallen in the metropolitan area and the specific places they have hit remain a closely guarded secret.

V-2 casualty figures here sense the first rockets crashed to earth from heights up to 70 miles were not revealed, but, censorship permitted the use of the word “hundreds" in describing them.

U.S. Troops Firmly Secure

28-Mile Beachhead On

Southern Tip Of Mindanao

By H. D. QUIGG

United Press Correspondent

Manila, Match 16.—

American troops firmly secured a 28-mile long beachhead around Zamboanga

on the southwestern tip of Mindanao today and were pushing  the Japanese more than five miles inland.

Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique also disclosed that other U. S. forces smashed a Japanese attempt to land approximately 100 men on Luzon's Batangas

Bay, while American bombers delivered another heavy attack on Formosa.

Sixteen more villages were seized by 41st Division as they fanned out east, west, and north from Zamboanga's administrative city. The drive pushed the beachhead 14 miles westward to the San Ramon River and a similar distance eastward to the

Manicahua River, opposite Sacol Island.

The thrust into the hills north of Zamboanga, which swept through Pasananca five miles above the city, was meeting increasingly stiff resistance.