Current Events January 16, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JANUARY 16, 1944:

Soviet mobile units in southern White Russia dashed westward Saturday toward the old Poliih border, 55 miles away, while red army forces in the Ukraine killed 2000 Germans counterattacking against the red array threat to Rumania, Moscow disclosed Sunday.

 R.A. F. blockbuster fleets,, aided. by Mosquito'fleets on Berlin' and Mage-burg, shatterefi industrial Brunswick, in ceritral Germany .Friday night with 700 long tons of bombs in 123 minutes, setting a record bomb concentration of 87 tons per minute. In American weights equals more than  a ton and 1/2 per second. -

 
 Dash Toward Old Polish Border;
Berlin Says Reds Open Major
Leningrad, North Sector Drives
By Associated Press LONDON, Sunday, Jan. 16—
Soviet mobile units in southern White Russia dashed westward Saturday toward the old Poliih border, 55 miles away, while red army forces in the Ukraine killed 2000 Germans counterattacking against the red array threat to Rumania, Moscow disclosed Sunday.
 Berlin reports, meanwhile, told, of a major Russian drive near Leningrad and in two other northern
sectors, reawakening that long inactive front. General Constantine 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 recorded by the soviet monitor.
                                                                   Head for Plnsk
The Russians, last reported »t Skrigalov, 20 miles west of Kalinkovichi, were headed  for Pinsk. 115 miles to the west The midnight bulletin did not identify several localities declared won in the new advance, but said
that in the fighting 1500 German* were killed and 16 tanks and gun» destroyed. One entire column of. Germans was completely routedby soviet cavalrymen. Twenty-- eight guns, three military store 40 railroad cars,, 200 cars and other war. materiel were captured. Russian airmen patrolling the frozen marsh area destroyed ;«ri armored train with direct bomb hits 'the bulletin said Far to the south where General
Nikolai Vatutln's left wing- hias been beating back, ceajeleai Carman thrusts since January .12, the Germans.continued their -attacks in a dogged effort the bar the Russianss  from gaining the Odesa-
Lwow :railway~the main Germancommunications line inlto the Dnieper bend.
East of Vinnitsa
The fighting was located as cart of Vinnitsa, and for the first time as "north of Uman" by the Russians, who said the Germans were using large forces of infantry and tanks. Uman is 85 miles southeast of Vinnitsa.

 
 LONDON. Jan. 15—(AP)   
R.A. F. blockbuster fleets,, aided. by Mosquito'fleets on Berlin' and Mage-burg, shatterefi industrial Brunswick, in ceritral Germany .Friday night with 700 long tons of bombs in 123 minutes, setting a record bomb concentration of 87 tons per minute. In American weights equals more than  a ton and 1/2 per second. -
The big bombers battled through skies ' aglow * with nazi fighters' flares-land rocket shells to hammer the city—one of five .-prime target's of- the massive American' raids