Current Events January 9, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JANUARY 9, 1944:

Driving inland from Borgen Bay, New Britain, in the face of Japanese machinegun fire, marine jungle fighters have slain 200 enemy troops and reached Hill No. 660, a good artillery observation post, headquarters reported today.
The new enemy losses were added to more than 2,000 previously inflicted during the invasion of the Cape Gloucester sector of western New Britain which opened last Dec. 26.

 American infantry and tanks, forging relentlessly forward through a maze of German fire from every conceivable fortification, punched into the Cassino plain today to follow up their fiercely-won victories at San Vittore* and Mt. Potchia.

 The Russian Second Ukrainian army captured the railroad bastion of Kirovograd in the Dnieper bend today as its four-day-old offensive routed 100,000 Germans and drove up to 31 miles through an 80-mile-wide breakthrough.

 BIG SPRING, TEXAS, SUNDAY, JANUARY 9,1944

 Marine Jungle
Fighters Take
Vantage Point
200 Japanese Fall
Under Leatherneck
Determined Drive
By ROBERT EUNSON
ADVANCED ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS, NEW
GUINEA, Sunday, Jan. 9(AP)—
Driving inland from Borgen Bay, New Britain, in the face of Japanese machinegun fire, marine jungle fighters have slain 200 enemy troops and reached Hill No. 660, a good artillery observation post, headquarters reported today.
The new enemy losses were added to more than 2,000 previously inflicted during the invasion of the Cape Gloucester sector of western New Britain which opened last Dec. 26.
Named for its elevation, hill No. 660 is a mile and three quarters south of Silimati point on Borgen Bay east of Cape Gloucester. Silimati was the main landing point of the invasion forces, part of which swept west to capture the Cape Gloucester airdrome while others stood off strong counterattacks by a regiment of Japanese at Borgen Bay.


Offensive Aims At
Town Of Cassino
Six Miles Away
By JOSEPH E. DYNAN
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, ALGIERS, Jan. 8 (AP)—
American infantry and tanks, forging relentlessly forward through a maze of German fire from every conceivable fortification, punched into the Cassino plain today to follow up their fiercely-won victories at San Vittore* and Mt. Potchia.
The fall of these two enemy strong points controlling the approaches to the town of Cassino, six miles down broadening valley, came at the end of days of bitter fighting and was announced officially in today's communique.
Associated Press Correspondent Don Whitehead, with the Fifth army at this sector of the Italian front, said the fighting for the humpbacked Mt. Porchia, 900 feet high and two miles southwest of San Vittore had been of great intensity with tanks joining in support of the infantry more closely than, at any time since the battle on the beaches of Salerno.
At times the dueling between tanks and the Germans' antitank and self-propelled runs had raged so heavily that the ground action had to be temporarily halted, he wrote.

            Allies Reported In Yugsolovia— an unconfirmed reported from
            Stockholm said that several Allied divisions (flags and pointers)
            had landed on the coast of Yugoslavia. It followed a report that
           American and British forces were concentrating at Barl, Italy, for
           a Balkan invasion. Inside Yugoslavia, Partisans (a) were reported
           to have withdrawn from Banja Luka, a German base, and to be
           attacking Bosanska Gradiska. On the front in Italy (black line)
           Allies continued to push toward Rome. (AP Wirephoto).



LONDON, Jan. 8 (UP)—
The Russian Second Ukrainian army captured the railroad bastion of Kirovograd in the Dnieper bend today as its four-day-old offensive routed 100,000 Germans and drove up to 31 miles through an 80-mile-wide breakthrough.
At the same time the First Ukrainian army, fighting forward on an arc almost 300 miles long, punched down with its left arm to capture Ilintsy, only 18 ' miles north of the Bug river and 150 miles northwest of Kirovograd, said a Moscow communique.
Both armies, capturing a total of 140 towns and hamlets in separate advances that clashed through crumbling German lines, were less than 50 miles from a junction along the west bank of
the Dnieper river.
Once joined they would close off a great area of the Dnieper bend — Germany's easternmost-----

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