Current Events January 3, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JANUARY 3, 1944:

General Douglas Mac-Arthur landed veteran American Army troops, including elements of the Thirty-Second Division, on the beach at Saidor on the north coast of New Guinea, without opposition Sunday to strike the third lightning blow in 18 cays against the Japanese in the Southwest Pacific are

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Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's First Ukraine Army swept to within 10 miles of Old Poland Sunday, killing 4,000 Germans and freeing 350 villages, Moscow announced at midnight.
The Russians were expected to cross the prewar frontier sometime Monday on the basis of the 17-mile : gain rolled up Sunday
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RAF Lancasters

battled high winds through

cloudy moonless skies early Sun

day to hurl more than 1,000 long

tons of bombs on Berlin in their

ninth major assault on the doomed

German capital and at the same

time carried out a diversionary at

tack on the wrecked port city of

Hamburg.

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German Invasion Alarms Continue As Increasing Number

Of American Troops Throng Streets Of British Capital

London — AP —
An ever-mounting number of American troops thronged the streets of this island capital Sunday as German analysts poured out a steady stream of invasion alarms predicting that Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower will strike from the west sooner than had been expected.

                                     KINGSPORT, TENN., MON., JAN. 3, 1944

MacArthur's 

Men Storm 

Saidor Beach

Veteran American
Army Troops Meet
Little Resistance
Advanced Allied Headquar

ters, New Guinea,

Monday—

AP — 

General Douglas Mac-Arthur landed veteran American  Army troops, including  elements of the Thirty-Second  Division, on the beach at Saidor  on the north coast of New Guinea,  without opposition Sunday to strike  the third lightning blow in 18 cays  against the Japanese in the Southwest

Pacific area.

The troops, commanded by 3rig.- Gen. Clarence Martin ar.d Col. 

Slade N. Sradlay, pushed inland, 

immediately to capture the airfield and reported shortly after landing that they had encountered slight resistance.

Caught By Surprise

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Soviet Army

Now 10 Miles

From Border

Disaster Threatens

German Troops

In Dnieper Bend

London, Monday—AP--

Gen. Nikolai F. Vatutin's First Ukraine Army swept to within 10 miles of Old Poland Sunday, killing 4,000 Germans and freeing 350 villages, Moscow announced at midnight.
The Russians were expected to cross the prewar frontier sometime Monday on the basis of the 17-mile : gain rolled up Sunday.
Hacking the retreating remnants of 22 wrecked German divisions over ground which the enemy had torn from Russia in the first month of his 1941 invasion, Russian units swinging southwestward toward Rumania also threatened Germany's big Dnieper bend army with equal disaster.
Recover 7,000 Square Miles
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1,000 Tons

Bombs Blast

Doomed City

Hundredth Attack

Of War Starts

Roaring New Fires j

London, Monday—-AP—

RAF Lancastcrs

battled high winds through 

cloudy moonless skies early Sun

day to hurl more than 1,000 long

tons of bombs on Berlin in their

ninth major assault on the doomed

German capital and at the same 

time carried out a diversionary at

tack on the wrecked port city of 

Hamburg.

A Stockholm dispatch said Berlin,

 still was burning early Monday, a

 thick pall of smoke choking German army pioneer troops who struggled to dig out the dead and.

Launch 1944 Attack
With the 1944 aerial onslaugt thus well launched, the RAF apparently was keeping the offensive;
rolling against the French coast all! day Sunday and far into the night.
Anti-aircraft fire over Boulogne; coukl be seen through the darkness! from the English coast. !
The Berlin attack was timed late; to prevent moonlight from helping: Nazi night fighters, and one pilot; said he did not see a single enemy; fighter. Some, however, reported a few night fighters used rocket shells.
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German Invasion Alarms Continue As Increasing Number

Of American Troops Throng Streets Of British Capital

London — AP —
An ever-mounting number of American troops thronged the streets of this island capital Sunday as German analysts poured out a steady stream of invasion alarms predicting that Gen Dwight D. Eisenhower will strike from the west sooner than had been expected.
The Americans were fighting men of all arms, some wearing the ankle boots of parachute troops and airborne divisions; others the uniforms of airmen, infantrymen, artillerymen or engineers.
Through press and radio, Nazi Minister Paul Joseph Gobbels' henchmen told Germany that Gen. Eisenhower's supreme stroke would come in a matter of weeks at most, that -other Allied blows could be
anticipated elsewhere in Europe, and sought to solace the home front by hammering home the
theme that "Germany- is ready."
At Algiers, Gen. Eisenhower, taking leave of his- North African armies before leaving for his post as commander of Allied invasion forces from Britain, told his' battle-hardened troops in a farewell message.
"Until we meet again in the heart of the enemy's continental stronghold. I send Godspeed and good luck to each of you along with the assurance of my lasting gratitude and admiration."
Again and again Goebbels' theme was that Nazi leaders "with customary thoroughness and strength of organization, have taken the necessary measures for defense and organization, have taken the neces
sary measures for defense and counter stroke.
One Berlin broadcast said that among recent couhtermeasures was the transfer of a special army of
seasoned German troops from the Eastern front to the Western defenses.
"Competent circles believe," went on the broadcast, "that—compelled by political reasons — invasion armies which stand in readiness in southern England may hit out earlier than would seem proper for military considerations."
These "political reasons," Berlin said, were the Allies' desire to placate Moscow which "is not satisfied with the 25 to 30 divisions engaged on the Italian front."
Against a background of smoke jand flame spiralling from their capital city, further demolished in Saturday night's deadly RAF assault Germany faced one of the grimmest years in her history.
"No one can expect • peace in 1944,"-was the solemn'New Year's message the war-weary German
people received from their Nazi leadership.
"It is fight, fight and again fight for the Germans—and nothing else—" was the New Year's theme expounded by Nazi spokesmen to Stockholm correspondents in Berlin.
"Almost all the .people have the feeling that they stand before a great decision, but no one can expect peace in 1944," gravely warned Adolf Hitler's own newspaper, The Voelkischer Beobachter. "Everyone has the feeling that the year will be one of decisive-moves which will bring the end nearer. Germans have no illusions after their experiences in 1943."
Other Berlin propaganda broadcasts fell back on long-promised "secret "weapons"-in their efforts to.
steel Germany for the blows to come.
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