Current Events January 15, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JANUARY 15, 1944:

Russian troops pursuing a badly-disorganized G e rm a; n  Army over a large sector west of the Horyn river beyond. Sarny have driven within 70 miles of the of the big communication base of Kovel (in old Poland), front dispatches declared today.

 The German high command announced today that Russian forces had launched a new offensive "north of Lake Ilmen." Lake Ilmen is about 170 miles south of Leningrad on the longr dormant northern front.

The announcement was no confirmed by the Russians.

 RAF heavy bombers blasted Brunswick, airplane manufacturing city in central Germany, with 2,000 long tons of bombs last night Jn 23 minutes, setting a new record for bomb concentration of 87 tons per minute.

The heavy follow-up to last Tuesday's daylight onslaught by American  heavyweights was delivered as Mosquito bombers returned again to assault Berlin and other planes hit the industrial city of Magdeburg to the southwest and targets in northern France

Allied H.Q. Jan. 15 (AP)—French troops of the Fifth Army, striking through the Rugged Apennine

mountain sector, have advanced as far as two miles at some points against fierce opposition, while U.S.

troops beat off a German counterattack at Cervaro and then pushed forward.

                                   Danville, Va, Saturday Afternoon, January 15, 1944

 Nazis Bewildered
By Stunning Blows
Inflicted By Reds
(By HENRY C. CASSIDY)'
. MOSCOW, Jan. 15.—(AP) —
Russian troops pursuing a badly-disorganized G e rm a; n  Army over a large sector west of the Horyn river beyond. Sarny have driven within 70 miles of the  of the big communication base of Kovel (in old Poland),
front dispatches declared today.
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REDS STRIKE IN NORTH
LONDON, Jan. 15—(AP))—
The German high command announced today that Russian forces had launched a new offensive "north of Lake Ilmen." Lake Ilmen is about 170 miles south of Leningrad on the longr dormant northern front.
The announcement was no confirmed by the Russians.
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To the north, a White Russian Army offensive battering into the Pripet Marshes toward Pinsk 115 miles away has smashed 'the backbone of Nazi defenses, Red Star asserted, and Gen. Konstantin Rokossovsky's troops -are pouring through the broken enemy line.
The Army newspaper said the German high command vainly had ordered a line held between the Sluch and Horyn Rivers, but Gen. Nikolai Vatutin's Ukrainian forces battered through and the Ger-----

New Record Set As
RAF Throws Whole
Weight Into Raids
LONDON, Jan. 15.—(AP) —
RAF heavy bombers blasted Brunswick, airplane manufacturing city in central Germany, with 2,000 long tons of bombs last night Jn 23 minutes, setting a new record for bomb concentration of 87 tons per minute.
The heavy follow-up to last Tuesday's daylight onslaught by American  heavyweights was delivered as Mosquito bombers returned again to assault Berlin and other planes hit the industrial city of Magdeburg to the southwest and targets in northern France.
Thirty-eight planes were lost in the operations. The concentration on Brunswick exceeded the previous record of 83 1-3 tons per'minutc attained in the 2,500-ton raid on Hanover }
Sept. 22. Great fires were' left raging in Brunswick.
The overnight blow at Na?.i defense fighters swung the Allied aerial offensive into a round-the-clock attack again, following by only a few hours a day-long assault on military targets in northern France by strong formations of American Liberators and Flying Fortresses, medium ^Marauders, and Allied medium and light
bombers, fighter-bombers and jswarms of fighter.

 SEIZE TOWN
IN ADVANCE
ON CASSINO
Also Take 3 Heights;
Yanks Dig Deeper
Into Nazi Defense








                           New York, N.Y.—Belfast, Northern Ireland. Saturday, Jan. 15, 1944

 Seize Two Nazi Bastions;
    Soviets Slowed In
      Rumania Drive
Smashing open the gateway to Pnisk and Brest-Litovsk—a route the Red Army calls "the short cut to
Berlin"—strong forces o£ -Russian tanks and artillery yesterday stormed tbeir way in to the Nazi bastions o£-Mozyr and Kalinkovichi, north of the Pripet marshes, and baited another possible gigantic trap for the
Germans.
Fall of the two towns—Mozyr, a peace time community of 11,000, on the banks of the Pripet river, and Kalinkovichi. a rail junction nine miles to the north—cleared the way for a Russian push westward along
the railroad and highway to Pinsk, already threatened by the First Ukrainian Army driving northeastfrom Sarny.  Loss of the two places left the Germans no alternative, but retreat before the thrust from Sarny cut them off,.
                                                 Bitter Fighting In South
The Russians newest victory hailed in Moscow last night by a special Order of the Day and 20 salvos from
224 guns came amid bloody fighting east of Vinnitsa, to the south, and fresh Red Army advances beyond Sarny. in Poland, and in front' of Shepetovka, the rail junction 60 miles west of Berdichev.
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 RAF And Allied Craft Join
Streams Of American
Heavies, Mediums
Large formations ot USAAF, RAF, and Allied bombers—including heavy,medium, and light bombers and
fighter bombers—smashed at military objectives in Northern France yesterday.
The official announcement late last night did not specify the target's. but throughout the afternoon huge formations of all types of planes were seen shuttling between England "and" the coast of France—variously
described as the " invasion coast.' and the site of the so-called rocket gun installations so widely publicized
by Nazi propagandists jn recent weeks
•Forts, Libs On Raid
Both Forts and Libs were among the heavy bombers participating. The B17s and B24s were escorted and
supported by P47s, P38s and Pols, the official communique said RAF, Dominion and Allied fighters escorted the rest of the units, which included American Marauders and Dominion and Allied medium light
and fighter-bombers
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 French Troops
Gain In Italy
Win 2 Miles In Mountains
As Yanks Beat Off
Counter-Attack
Allied H.Q. Jan. 15 (AP)—French troops of the Fifth Army, striking through the Rugged Apennine
mountain sector, have advanced as far as two miles at some points against fierce opposition, while U.S.
troops beat off a German counterattack at Cervaro and then pushed forward.
The Americans, who reported a heavy German counter-attack about midnight on Jan. 12-13, consolidated
their gains and threatened Nazi control of the northern,' slopes of Mount Trocchio. south of the road to
Cassino. the next objective in the march on Rome. Extremely fierce resistance in the final German defensive belt around Cassino faced the advancing Americans
                                              Eighth Makes Gains
In the air, heavy and medium bombers of the 12th Air Force teamed up and shattered German fighter planes operating in strength in the Rome area and pounded airnelds and parked aircraft at Ciuidoma and Centocelle, near Rome.
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 Japs Threaten
Yank Positions
In New Britain
Texas Force Launching
Attacks To Keep Their
Hold On Bridgehead
ALLIED H.Q.,
Southwest Pacific, Jan. 15—
After several futile but powerful Jap. attempts to recapture Arawe Peninsula on southwestern New Britain. Texans of the Sixth Army yesterday launched counter blows to break "up reinforced enemy. troops which are reported less than 100 yards from the main U.S. positions"
It appearc'' "ast night that the Japs may be preparing a serious push to regain the U.S. bridgehead which
Allied headquarters said yesterday was being "firmly held by troops entrenched along three miles of Cape
Merkus." The headquarter statement was issued as a denial to a Jap. claim on Tuesday that Arawe had been retaken.
In the Cape Gloucester area, stiffening Jap. resistance also was reported adding to the belief here in headquarters, that the Japs are sneaking supplies and men into the area via jungle road along the north coast
which cuts through a valley in the centre of the island to terminate near the wrecked airstrip at Arawe.
                                                                 Jap. Losses Mounting
The U.S. counter-raid yesterday came after hours of severe artillery bombardment. Results of the attacks
were not announced, but a brief communique said Jap. losses were mounting every day, and that enemy lossesin the ten days fighting were more than 2,600 killed.
Elsewhere in the Southwest Pacific, Australian troops opened artillery barrages on Sio, New Guinea, where
Jap. troops were believed to be withdrawing from new positions near Saidor. Widespread air operations, meanwhile, continued on enemy bases :n the Solomons, New Britain and New Ireland.

 Doctor Tells Roosevelt
'Ease Up, Take It Easy'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15 (AP)
—White House officials said .that President Roosevelt's physician, Rear Adm. Ross Mclntyre, had asked him to "ease up and take things easy" for a while.
President Roosevelt consequently cancelled not only yesterday's press conference, but his regular Friday cabinet meeting and kept all engagements in his quarters at the White House.
President Roosevelt, largely because of war-time travels and occasional illnesses has apparently decided not to adhere strictly to his twice weekly press conference.
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