Russian infantry and tanks, smashing back the Germans along a 750- mile
front in what Berlin frankly called the decisive battle of the war, cut
their way relentlessly through Marshal Von Msnstein's armies in the
Dnieper Bend yesterday, increasing the threat to theenemy's
communications and making his position more desperate hourly
Ludwigshafen, heart of Germany's
war chemical and poison gas industry, was "completely flattened out" by
the massed American heavy bomber rajd in daylight Friday, according to
reports from neutral sources 'yesterday
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox said
yesterday that the Japanese fleet is not afraid to fight, but presumably
it is serving their purpose better to wait for chance when the odds
were in their favor., Knox declared that it is fair to say that U.S.
strength in the Pacific in increasing constantly and, therefore, at such
time as the Japs decide to engage the American fleet there only can be
one ultimate result.
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox said
yesterday that the Japanese fleet is not afraid to fight, but presumably
it is serving their purpose better to wait for chance when the odds
were in their favor.,
Knox declared that it is fair to say that U.S. strength in the Pacific in increasing constantly and, therefore, at such time as the Japs decide to engage the American fleet there only can be one ultimate result
Knox declared that it is fair to say that U.S. strength in the Pacific in increasing constantly and, therefore, at such time as the Japs decide to engage the American fleet there only can be one ultimate result
Soviet Drive Electrifies the World
Berlin Admits WarHinges on Result of Present Battles"The whole German front is collapsing like a house of cards." "Von Manstein is facing his greatest disaster."
"Hundreds of thousands of German troops face catastrophe on an unparalleled scale."
In flat, unqualified terms like these, language rarely before used in this war to describe the plight of the enemy, trained careful newsmen over the weekend pictured the rout of German divisions in the
Dnieper Bend. (See Map and article below)
Kirovograd, Seized,
Russians Smash On
For Vital Rail Lines
Threaten to Split German Armies in Two
In Ukraine; New Drive On West of
Gomel; Reds 5 Mi. From Sarny
Russian infantry and tanks, smashing back the Germans along a 750- mile front in what Berlin frankly called the decisive battle of the war, cut their way relentlessly through Marshal Von Msnstein's armies in the Dnieper Bend yesterday, increasing the threat to theenemy's communications and making his position more desperate hourly.
With a new Russian offensive revealed; by the Germansr Germans west of Rechitsa, on the Dnieper .25 miles west of Gomel, the Red Army was rolling the Nazis back on more than half a dozen iironts, from Nevel in the north to Zaporozhe in the heart of the Ukraine,
The Reds cracked through Von Mansion's line on a 70-mile front south of Krovograd, overwhelmed that great industrial and railway center and drove south across the Dnieper Bend toward the Blijck Sea in a great pincer movement which threatened to split the Germans' Uiiraine armies in two.
Five Miles From Sarny
To the west, Marshal Nicolai Vatutin's taniks were less than five miles from the great railway junction of Sarny, 35 miles beyond the 1939 Polish border. Sarny, astride the north-south railway connecting the Warsaw-Minsk line in the north with the Warsaw-Kiev line in the south,------
Reich Gas Center Is' Wiped Out
Neutrals Cite Effect
Of Big U.S. Blow
At Ludwigshafen
Ludwigshafen, heart of Germany's war chemical and poison gas industry, was "completely flattened out" by the massed American heavy bomber raid in daylight Friday, according to reports from neutral sources 'yesterday.
Eighth Air Force headquarters officially announced only that targets in southwestern Germany were bombed in Friday's operations, when 12 bombers and seven fighters were lost out o£ one of the largest formations ever .to strike the Reich. The attack was made through heavy clouds, presumably with the new secret bombing technique, and no'target will be announced officially until photographic reconnaissance has confirmed bomb hits.
Meanwhile, however, reports from half a dozen neutral sources agreed that Ludwigshafen was one of the prime objectives of the raid, and virtually all of them reported heavy damage. Heavy bombs and incendiaries cascaded through the cloud cover onto -the highly inflammable network of factories and plants" turning out military chemicals,
Stockholm newspapers said. Mannheim, Ludwigshafen's: twin city but more a center of engineering works arid transport, also was .reported hit.
Third Heavy Attack in Week
For the USAAF Friday"s, was the. third heavy bomber attack in a week. Nine days 'before the heavies also had been to southwestern Germany.. and no specific targets have yet been announced for that operation, although the.neittral sources, and even German radio, said Mannheim and Ludwigshafen were hit
Another 1,000
Japs Are Slain
In New Britain
Marines PushTOn 2 Miles
To Gain Vital Ground in
Fierce Pacific Battle
KnoxSaysJaps
Navy Not Afraid
Enemy Fleet Only Waiting
Chance When Odds Are
Against the U.S.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (AP)—
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox said yesterday that the Japanese fleet is not afraid to fight, but presumably it is serving their purpose better to wait for chance when the odds were in their favor., Knox declared that it is fair to say that U.S. strength in the Pacific in increasing constantly and, therefore, at such time as the Japs decide to engage the American fleet there only can be one ultimate result.
The Navy Secretary cited Adm. Halsey's statement on the Pacific coast, in which he declared that in his area ten Japs were killed for every American. Knox said that this excited his curiosity to the
extent that he had compiled figures which showed that at' Cape Gloucester, New Britain, the ratio of Jap casualties to Americans was almost 20 to one.
He said that at Cape Gloucester, American forces counted 2,100 dead Japs to 117 Americans killed.
ALLIED HQ, New Britain, Jan. 9—
Hacking their way through dense jungle, U.S. Marines annihilated another 1,000 Japanese in the Borgen Bay area over the weekend to gain two miles of vital ground in some of the most vicious fighting of the Pacific war.
Knox Says Japs
Navy Not Afraid
Enemy Fleet Only Waiting
Chance When Odds Are
Against the U.S.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 (AP)—
Secretary of Navy Frank Knox said yesterday that the Japanese fleet is not afraid to fight, but presumably it is serving their purpose better to wait for chance when the odds were in their favor.,
Knox declared that it is fair to say that U.S. strength in the Pacific in increasing constantly and, therefore, at such time as the Japs decide to engage the American fleet there only can be one ultimate result.
The Navy Secretary cited Adm. Halsey's statement on the Pacific coast, in which he declared that in his area ten Japs were killed for every American. Knox said that this excited his curiosity to the extent that he had compiled figures which showed that at' Cape Gloucester, New Britain, the ratio of Jap casualties to Americans was almost 20 to one.
He said that at Cape Gloucester, American forces counted 2,100 dead Japs to 117 Americans killed.
Carrier-Borne U.S. Bombers
Bag 21 of 27 U-Boats Sunk
BOSTON, Jan. 9 (AP)—
Carrier-borne U.S. Navy bombers destroyed 21 of 27 U-boats sunk in the Atlantic during a recent three-month period, Rear Adm. Dewitt C. Ramsey, chief of the Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, revealed here. He warned, however, that the Nazi submarine threat still existed, and declared
Adm. Ramsey asserted that in the South and Southwest Pacific the U.S. now possessed "what amounts to an almost overwhelming superiority in the air, and there is every evidence that Japan is running short of everything."
When the war ends, he said, the U.S. would be without question the greatest air and naval power in the world.
Invasion of Europe May See
Jet Planes in Action—Seversky
. NEW YORK, Jan. MAP^
Jet- propelled aircraft, with their terrific speed and proven efficiency at great altitudes, will be "a highly important tactical weapon" against the Axis, and may even be used in the invasion of Europe, Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, the noted aircraft expert, predicted today. "Before this war is over," he said, "jet-propelled aircraft may be very much used by "the Allies."
He pointed out, however, that for the present: the new principle,-, which he estimated might double: the speed of ordinary planes, would.not be.employed to any .-great extent for long, sustained flying because of high fuel-consumption;
Soviet Drive Electrifies the World
Berlin Admits War
Hinges on Result of Present Battles
"The whole German front is collapsing like a house of cards." "Von Manstein is facing his greatest disaster."
"Hundreds of thousands of German troops face catastrophe on an unparalleled scale."
In flat, unqualified terms like these, language rarely before used in this war to describe the plight of the enemy, trained careful newsmen over the weekend pictured the rout o? German divisions in th
Dnieper Bend.
Marshal Von Manstein's defenses were cracking and breaking along the whole length of a 400-mile front, from the 'Polish border to Krivoi Rog, deep in the Bend
Military men began talking of a defeat like Stalingrad—and the "man in the street" began talking of an earlier end to the war.
The prime question in every Allied am neutral capital was: What did it mean'
Did the Russians' penetration into Poland and their growing threat to the Balkan spell early defeat for Hitler? If the Red should succeed in overrunning Rumania what then?
Newspaper correspondents in touch
with the .diplomats of Whitehall-London's Capitol Hill—gave part of the answer over the weekend. "If all continues to go as it is going at present, its almost impossible to overestimate or exaggerate the possibilities opened up by the drive toward the Balkans," said the London Daily Express correspondent.
"The most startling developments may result," he said.
But German radio went even further It said nothing less than that the war would be won or lost by the battles now raging on the Eastern Front.
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