Current Events January 21, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JANUARY 21, 1944:
 MOSCOW, Jan. 21 (U.P)

Red armies fanned out through the tremendous gaps in the outflanked 110-mile Nazi defense l i n e between Leningrad and Lake Ilmen today, massacring tens of thousands of panicky Germans in the greatest battle of extermination since Stalingrad

  CHUNGKING, Jan. 21 (UP)—
Liberators of the 1-tth United States Army Air Force sank a 1,700-ton passenger-freighter and a 1,500-ton tanker in a sea sweep off "the southwest coast of~China: yesterday, Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's communique announced tonight.

 New Guinea, Jan. 21 (U.P.) 

-Japan was reported rushing strong aerial reinforcements to her threatened Southwest Pacific strongholds
todaay as an Allied communique announced the sinking of 10,000 tons of enemy shipping and the destruction or damaging of 49 aircraft in new raids on Wewak and Rabual.

 LONDON, Jam 21 (UP)--A British • submarine, •; penetrating to within a few hundred miles of Singapore, sank a 5,100-ton Japanese cruiser .in the northern approaches to Malacca .straits, the admiralty announced today, in 'a communique that in effect proclaimed this -country a full partner in the.Pacific sea war;

 Algiers. Jan. 21 (U.P)—British ground forces advanced northward along the Appian Way from captured Minturno today and official
reports indicated the Germans we're preparing for a general withdrawal on the Allied 5th Army front.

 
 Greatest Battle
Of Annihilation
Since Stalingrad
By HENRY SHAPARO
United Press Stuff Correspondent
MOSCOW, Jan. 21 (U.P)
Red armies fanned out through the tremendous gaps in the outflanked 110-mile Nazi defense l i n e between Leningrad and Lake Ilmen today, massacring tens of thousands of panicky Germans in the greatest battle of extermination since Stalingrad.
The strongest German defenses in Europe appeared to be crumbling away as the Russians advanced with irrestible momentum south of Leningrad and west of Novgorod in. twin drives to kill or capture 300,000 Nazi troops on the northwestern front.
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 CHUNGKING, Jan. 21 (UP)—
Liberators of the 1-tth United States Army Air Force sank a 1,700-ton passenger-freighter and a 1,500-ton tanker in a sea sweep off "the sofltmvest coast of~Chtna: yesterday, Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell's communique announced tonight.
Both vessels were set afire before they sank ns their crews abandoned them, the communique said. All aircraft returned.
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U. S. General Warns
Nips Are Bringing
In Reinforcements"
By BON CASWELL
United Press Staff Correspondent
Advanced Allied Headquarters,
New Guinea, Jan. 21 (U.P.) 
-Japan was reported rushing strong aerial reinforcements to her threatened Southwest Pacific strongholds
todaay as an Allied communique announced the sinking of 10,000 tons of enemy shipping and the destruction or damaging of 49 aircraft in new raids on Wewak and Rabual.
A warning that Japan constantly was reinforcing her air strength over New Britain and New Ireland was issued by Marine Gen. Ralph J. .Mitchell,' aircraft commander in the Solomons, after the new Allied successes were disclosed in the daily communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters.
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By PHILL-'AULT
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Jan. 21 (U.P)—
A great' fleet of Allied 'planes .paced'by. American heavy bombers.smashedat the French invasion .coast today after the Royal Air : Force' sent a record number of ..night raiders at Berlin and pounded' the heart of Nazidom- with .-2,000 .to- 2,500 tons of bombs' at a- rate.of more than 100 tons a.minute. United States. and British war-  planes "boosted - .their" pre-invasioin offensive to unprecedented peaks of intensity, slugging Germany ; and occupied territory, in drum fire order by.night and by day
                                                          . Attack French Coast 
While Berlin still blazed with flames visible 150 miles through ' the clouds last night, swarms^of raiders ranging through all categories from U S four-motored bombers to fighters returned to 'the' assault, of the Pas- de'Calais. area' of - the" French coast—the'so-'~ called "invasion coast.
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BRITISH SUB
SINKS JAP
CRUISER
Proclaims Britain
Full Partner In
Pacific Sea War
By EDWARD V. BEATTIE
United Press Staff Correspondent
LONDON, Jam 21 (UP)--
A British • submarine, •; penetrating to within a few hundred miles of Singapore, sank a 5,100-ton Japanese cruiser .in the northern approaches to Malacca .straits, the admiralty announced today, in 'a communique that in effect proclaimed this -country a full partner in the.Pacific sea war;
: The' cruiser, :of- the' 24-year-old Kuma 'class, '.was' .blasted ;to the bottom of .the Bay of Bengal with two -torpedo /hits from :a' subriiarrine operating.under the .command of the: "Chief • of .the Eastern Fleet, the admiralty ' said.
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BRITISH GAIN
ALONG APIAN WAY
By C. R.
United Press War Correspondent
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Algiers. Jan. 21 (U.P)—
British ground forces advanced northward along the Appian Way from captured Minturno today and official
reports indicated the Germans we're preparing for a general withdrawal on the Allied 5th Army front.
A terse headquarters communique confirmed earlier German reports that the Rome-bound British troops on the western wing of the 5th Army line, had taken Minturno, coastal anchor of the Nazi front, after a bitterly-contested 48-hour advance north of the Garigliano river.
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