Japanese defenders of Sio Mission, last enemy base on northeast New
Guinea's Huon Peninsula, apparently are pulling out as best they can
before the determined onslaught by Australian jungle veterans, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's communique indicated today.
Soviet mobile units in southern White Russia dashed westward yesterday
toward the old Polish border, 55 miles away, while Red Army forces in
the Ukraine killed 2,000 Germans counterattacking against the Red
Soviet mobile units in southern White Russia dashed westward yesterday
toward the old Polish border, 55 miles away, while Red Army forces in
the Ukraine killed 2,000 Germans counterattacking against the
Red Army threat to Rumania, Moscow disclosed today
Advanced Allied Headquarters, New Guinea, Sunday—AP
Japanese defenders of Sio Mission, last enemy base on northeast New Guinea's Huon Peninsula, apparently are pulling out as best they can before the determined onslaught by Australian jungle veterans, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique indicated today.
Already, the Aussies may control the Mission, Latest reports, covering fighting through Friday, placed the Allied forces at the outskirts of .Sio and MocArthur's spokesman indicated the enemy is fighting a rear-guard, delaying action.
Japs In Trap
The Japanese, trapped between the Australians and the American invasion forces at Saldor to the northwest, are trying to escape by barges moving up the coast at tonight and best indications are that| no determined enemy stand will be. made until defenses-of Madang, 100 miles farther up the coast, are reached.
Paralleling the drive against Sio is the American Marines' struggle to take strategic Hill 660 on tho western tip of New Britain. The fall of this promontory, named for its altitude, is believed imminent. Marines, which landed with the invasion force at Capo Gloucester December '20, started the' assault of Hill 660 last Tuesday and -today's communique said that "fighting is intensified."
Northern
Sectors
Now Active
London, Sunday—AP—
Soviet mobile units in southern White Russia dashed westward yesterday toward the old Polish border, 55 miles away, while Red Army forces in the Ukraine killed 2,000 Germans counterattacking against the Red
Army threat to Rumania, Moscow disclosed today.
Berlin reports, meanwhile, told of a major Russian drive near Leningrad and in two other northern sectors, are-awakening t h a t long inactive front. Gen. Constantino Rokossovsky's forces, pushing west and northwest from captured Kalinkovichi and Mozyr, fought their way forward through the Pripet marshes, "inflicting enormous losses on the enemy without giving him a chance to reorganize his forces," said the
Moscow midnight broadcast communique.the left flank of the German fortifications in Italy guarding Cassino,
capturing Acquafondata and three high points near it, Allied headquarters
announced today.
The hamlet of Acquafondata lies seven miles northeast of Cassino.
French Now Get
Revenge In Italy
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