Current Events February 5, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY FEBRUARY 5, 1944:

Algiers, Feb. 4. (U.P)—

The Germans  have launched their long expected attempt to drive into the sea their Allied invaders below Rome but, they have been thrown back four times with heavy losses, it was officially announced today. The

Nazi "big push" had started—and, stopped.

PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 4.

(U.P) _ Adm.. Chester W. Nlmltz took control of American-occupied territory In the Marshall Islands today us military governor and formally suspended the powers of the Emperor of Japan in all Islets under United Slates control.

LONDON, Feb. 4. (U.P)—

A thundering air armada of probably 1100 A m e r i c a n heavy bombers and fighters struck the German industrial and communications city of Frankfurt h second blow within a week today, leaving the great Nazi war c e n t e r a billowing mass of flame and smoke. Other targets in western G e r m a n y also were blasted.

                     RENO. NEVADA, SATURDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5. 1944
Four Nazi Attacks
Smashed By Allies

HEAVY LOSSES
BY ENEMY I ;
ROME REGION!
Fierce Fight Surges,
Through Streets of
Of Cassino ,
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS.
Algiers, Feb. 4. (U.P)—
The Germans  have launched their long expected attempt to drive into the sea their Allied invaders below Rome but, they have been thrown back four times with heavy losses, it was officially announced today. The
Nazi "big push" had started—and, stopped.
                                                       Yanks Thrown Back'
On the main Fifth Army front 15 miles to the southeast, Amerlcan troops stormed into Cassino's  shell-pitted'streets time and again only to be thrown back by strong German forces desperately defending the key town. The battle raged throughout yesterday and today with furious attacks and counterattacks punctuated by a thundeing artillery duel.

NORTHERN END
OF KWAJALEIN
CLEANED OUT
Yank Troop Vessels
Safe Inside
Lagoon
BULLETIN
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET
HEADQUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Feb. 4. (UP)—
The United States Seventh Infantry Division started moving up the eastern edge of Kwajalein atoll today in the American conquest of the Marshalls while the Fourth Marines, at the northern end of the sprawling atoll, continued their relentless mopping up of the demoralized remnants of the Japanese they had overwhelmed.
17. S. FLEET HEADQUARTERS,
PEARL HARBOR, Feb. 4.
(U.P) _ Adm.. Chester W. Nlmltz took control of American-occupied territory In the Marshall Islands today us military governor and formally suspended the powers of the Emperor of Japan in all Islets under United Slates control.
A decree which was nn Implicit announcement t h a t the United States meant to stay In the Marshalls, first real Japanese territory invaded for keeps since the start of the war, was Issued as the Fourth Marines nml the Seventh Infantry continued to clean out the Japanese, half crazed by the terible naval-aerial bombardment to which the linehad been subjected, at the northern and southern ends of the great Kwajalcln
atoll.

80 Jap Planes
Destroyed
Bougainville Drive Carries Our
Yanks to East Coast
ADVANCED ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
New Guinea. Saturday, Feb. 5. (UP) — American bombers destroyed 80 Japanese planes in a smashing 200-ton raid on Wewak, New Guinea, Thursday, while a swift flanking movement on Bougainville Island in the Solomons has carried United States ground forces across the island to the eastern coast, it was announced today.

FRANKFURT HIT
BY BOMBERS
We Lose 22 Planes
In Assault
LONDON, Feb. 4. (U.P)—
A thundering air armada of probably 1100 A m e r i c a n heavy bombers and fighters struck the German industrial and communications city of Frankfurt h second blow within a week today, leaving the great Nazi war c e n t e r a billowing mass of flame and smoke. Other targets in western G e r m a n y also were blasted.
Twenty-one American bombers and one fighter were missing after the assault. Most of them fell victim to a solid sky carpet of enemy anti-aircraft fire, enemy fighter opposition being weak and almost ineffective. Twelve enemy planes were shot down, four by bomber gunners and eight by fighters.
                                                              New Blazes
The giant force of Flying Fortresses and Liberators and their escorting fighters, estimated to equal in number the size of the airforce which p o u n d e d Wilhelmshaven Thursday, left new fires blazing among Frankfurt's hundreds of war plants, many of them left in ruins last Saturday by the greatest force of American planes ever to attack a single German target.
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