Current Events March 31, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MARCH 31, 1944:

MOSCOW, March 31.—(AP)— 

Surging across the northern Prut river through captured Czernowitz, Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First Ukrainian army is moving up into the Carpathian Mountains toward Hungary and Rumania, dispatches from the front declared today.

LONDON, March 31--AP—

A great armada of ,RAF bombers, numbering- probably more than 1,090 smashed at the southern German transport center and Nazi congress city of Nuernberg: and other points in the Reich last night at cost of 96 planes — the heaviest toll ever taken of an Allied air fleet in a single operation.

Harbor, March 31.—(AP)—

Roaring defiance within 600 statute miles of the Philippines, masses of American warships opened the war's first attack Wednesday on the powerful Japanese naval base of Palau, and Nipponese naval units there, forwarned by planes of the armada's approach, deserted the area in flight

NEW DELHI, March 31—(AP)— *

British forces have surrendered Tiddim, their forward base in the Chin Hills of Burma, 100

miles below Imphal, Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck, British Commander in India, told the

Indian legislature today.

 

INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 31, 1944.

1st Army Moving

Into Carpathians,

NearChec-Slovakia

MOSCOW, March 31.—(AP)— 

Surging across the northern Prut river through captured Czernowitz, Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First Ukrainian army is moving up into the Carpathian Mountains toward Hungary and Rumania, dispatches from the front declared today.

Zhukov's vanguards rolled through Delatyn, 15 miles north of the Hungarian border where the Pass of the Tatars leads thru the Carpathians into former  Czecoslovakian territory given to Hungary when Hitler dismembered the Czecho-Slovak state. After routing the German defenders of Czernowitz, Zhukov's troops pushed on south through Storozhints, 15 miles north of the present Rumanian border, a Russian communique said.

Meanwhile, the Second Ukrainian army, commanded by Marshal Ivan S. Konev, remained poised on the east bank of the Prut where it forms the frontier of Rumania.

96 BIG

PLANES

LOST

LONDON, March 31--AP—

A great armada of ,RAF bombers, numbering- probably more than 1,090 smashed at the southern German transport center and Nazi congress city of Nuernberg: and other points in the Reich last night at cost of 96 planes — the heaviest toll ever taken of an Allied air fleet in a single operation.

Planes Blast

Truk, Get

60 Aircraft

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS, Pearl

Harbor, March 31.—(AP)—

Roaring defiance within 600 statute miles of the Philippines, masses of American warships opened the war's first attack Wednesday on the powerful Japanese naval base of Palau, and Nipponese naval units there, forwarned by planes of the armada's approach, deserted the area in flight.

"Our attacks continue," announced Adm. Chester W. Nimitz in phraseology recalling first disclosure of the overwhelming two-day carrier plane strike Feb. 16-17 on Truk, 1,175 miles east of Palau.

It seemed likely that this deepest penetration on the road back to the Philippines was made by aircraft carrier task forces at least equal in size to those which dealt such heavy plane and naval losses to Japan at Truk and, a few days later, ripped part of the air defenses of Saipan, Tinian and Guam in the Marianas.

TIDDIM

INDIA

IS LOST

NEW DELHI, March 31—(AP)— *

British forces have surrendered Tiddim, their forward base in the Chin Hills of Burma, 100

miles below Imphal, Gen. Sir Claude Auchinleck, British Commander in India, told the

Indian legislature today.

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Current Events March 30, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MARCH 30, 1944:

LONDON, Mar. 30. (U.P.)—

The Red army has stormed and captured Cernauti, gateway to the Balkans and capital of Bucovina province, in one of its greatest victories of the sensational offensive on the southern front, Moscow announced tonight.

NEW DELHI, Mar. 30. (U,P.)

—British forces have slowed down or halted the Japanese invasion of India at four key points on a 140-mile .front along the Indo-Burma frontier, a communique disclosed today, while Chinese units looped a death trap around 2,000 fiercely-resisting enemy troops in the Mogaung valley of northern Burma;

Naples, Mar, 30. (AP)

Fifth Army forces repelled two .small enemy attacks on the Anzio beachhead yesterday while .Allied –

p l a n e s ranged far and wide 'over Italy, hitting targets in the Rome, Turin, and Bolzano areas and sweeping across the Adriatic' to bomb Sofia.

 

TUCSON, ARIZONA, THURSDAY'EVENING, MARCH 30, 1944.

Cernauti Captured

By Soviet Army

Plunge Across Prut

LONDON, Mar. 30. (U.P.)—

The Red army has stormed and captured Cernauti, gateway to the Balkans and capital of Bucovina province, in one of its greatest victories of the sensational offensive on the southern front, Moscow announced tonight.

Premier Josef Stalin proclaimed the capture of Cernauti by Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's first army of the Ukraine a few hours after the German high command acknowledged its loss.

The fall of Cernauti, third largest city of prewar Rumania, opened the way for a Russian sweep across the Rumanian plains into the heart of Adolf Hitler's Balkan satellites and for a wheeling movement outflanking all the German defenses along the Prut river boundary of Rumania.

By ROBERT MUSEL

LONDON, Mar. 30. (U.P.)—

The German high command, acknowledged .today the loss of Cernauti, capital of Bucovina province and -key gateway to the Balkans, to Russian assault troops who stormed across the Prut and charged into the city in a two-day pincers.

A Berlin communique reported the "evacuation" of Cernauti, third city of prewar Rumania in the northeastern ^province yielded to Russia along with Bessarabia in 1940.

British Army

Halts Japs On

Indian Border

Defense Effective At

Four Key Points

On Frontier

By DARRELL BKRRIGAN

NEW DELHI, Mar. 30. (U,P.)

—British forces have slowed down or halted the Japanese invasion of India at four key points on a 140-mile .front along the Indo-Burma frontier, a communique disclosed today, while Chinese units looped a death trap around 2,000 fiercely-resisting enemy troops in the Mogaung valley of northern Burma.

Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten's communique indicated that the main British frontier forces had 'gone into action with planes and heavy artillery in a determined effort to hurl the invaders back across the border.

Allied Planes

Range Through

Italian Areas

Some 1,800 S o r t i e s Fly

Over Rome, Turin,

Bolzano Area

ALLIED. . HEADQUARTERS;

Naples, Mar, 30. (AP)

Fifth Army forces repelled two .small enemy attacks on the Anzio beachhead yesterday while .Allied –

p l a n e s ranged far and wide 'over Italy, hitting targets in the Rome, Turin, and Bolzano areas and sweeping across the Adriatic' to bomb Sofia. The communique made no' refence to the Cassino front,

The attack on Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, was carried out last night by formations of both heavy and

medium bombers, a communique said.

Destroy 22 Aircraft

In addition to, assaults: on rail lines in northern- Italy by large formations of escorted bombers, air operations yesterday included medium bomber sweeps against 'the Viterbo airdrome north of.Rome and harbor and rail installations in northwest. Ita

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Current Events March 29. 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MARCH 29, 1944:

 Naples, March 29. —

German troops have sealed their "defensive victory" in the Cassino area by regaining control of the upper slopes of Mount" Cassino, it was disclosed today, as the Allied air force announced that its bombers have cut all railroad communications between the Nazi armies in southern Italy and the northern supply centers.

New Delhi, March 29.—

British Imperial troops were reported falling back 15 miles inside the Indian frontier today under

heavy attack by Japanese invasion forces swarming down through the Somra Hills towards the Manipur State capital of Imphal.

London, March 29.—

American Flying Fortresses up to 250 strong struck deep into central Germany today, and Berlin said Nazi fighters engaged them in a violent running battle' for hundreds of miles over the Reich.

 

HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, 1944.

CONTROL OF UPPER

SLOPES OF MOUNT

CASSINO REGAINED

By REYNOLDS PACKARD

United Press Correspondent

A l l i e d  Headquarters,

Naples, March 29. —

German troops have sealed their "defensive victory" in the Cassino area by regaining control of the upper slopes of Mount" Cassino, it was disclosed today, as the Allied air force announced that its bombers have cut all railroad communications between the Nazi armies in southern Italy and the northern supply centers.

Air force headquarters asserted flatly that bridge-busting Marauders, Mitchells, Invaders and Bostons have smashed bottleneck points on every railroad line leading down from northern Italy to the embattled Germans on the Anzio beachhead, at Cassino and

on the Adriatic front.

Reconnaissance photographs showed that four key bridges and a tunnel on the coastal and. Central rail lines had been destroyed or damaged beyond immediate repair,

It was believed the Germans might require as long as six weeks to restore full service on the crippled lines, during which time their forces in the south would be isolated from their main supply sources.

As that statement was being issued, Army spokesmen revealed that two advanced units of Allied

troops who fought their way high up the slopes , of Mount Cassino more than a week ago had been withdrawn, apparently ending the 5th Army's costly attempt to drive the Nazis from their defenses astride the inland road to Rome. '

Half-starved Indian and New Zealand infantrymen who had held out on Hangman's Hill and the nearby Hill 202 for 10 days and nights, under constant fire from enemy units all around them,

stumbled back into the main Allied lines Monday night under cover of a heavy barrage that diverted the Germans' attention to the eastern end of Cassino.

BRITISH IMPERIAL

TROOPS FALL BACK

15 MILES IN INDIA

By DARRELL BERRIGAN

United Press War Correspondent

New Delhi, March 29.—

British Imperial troops were reported falling back 15 miles inside the Indian frontier today under

heavy attack by Japanese invasion forces swarming down through the Somra Hills towards the Manipur State capital of Imphal.

A headquarters communique .indicated, the, first major battle of the Indian campaign was in full swing along the western fringe of the wild Somra tract near Ukhrul.

The Japanese, ignoring heavy casualties piled up by the British frontier forces, were reported pressing their attack furiously and the communique acknowledged the defenders had "taken up

new positions."

Germany And France Hit

Hard Today By Powerful

Forces Of U.S. Bombers

By WALTER CRONKITE

United Press Correspondent

London, March 29.—

American Flying Fortresses up to 250 strong struck deep into central Germany today, and Berlin said Nazi fighters engaged them in a violent running battle' for hundreds of miles over the Reich.

The fortress fleet was one ' of the smallest formations of United States heavy bombers sent over

Germany in months. Its size prompted speculation that Lt. Gen. Carl A. Spaatz was flaunting

a lure to draw the German air force into .combat.

While the forts hit Germany in the first, daylight "attack since Friday, Liberators of the Eighth

Air Force in comparable or lesser strength bombed the Pas De Calais strip of the French invasion

coast.

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Current Events March 28, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MARCH 28, 1944:

NAPLES, Starch 27.—(INS) —

Anzio beachhead dispatches tonight said that five soldier patients were killed and 11 wounded

shortly before dawn Sunday when German artillery guns shelled an American tent hospital area. The tents were plainly marked with red crosses. 

GEN*. MncARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,

New Guinea, March 28. — (Tuesday) — (INS) —

United States destroyers have bombarded two Jap held villages on the southeastern portion of

Manus island in the admiralty group and have destroyed a third enemy outpost on Rambutyo island, southeast of Los Negros.

 German troops pocketed in a 60- mile-deep trap between the armies of Marshal Gregory Zhukov along the northern Dniester and Marshal Ivan Koniev 50 miles to the south on the Pruth yesterday lost the railway town of Kamenets Podolsk and with it the last rail line over which they could hope to escape across the Dniester. Capture of the town was announced last night by Marshal Stalin in an order of the day as Soviet motorized infantry and tanks strengthened their east-bank

ADVANCED ALLIED HQ, Italy, Mar. 27 (Reuter)—

Allied heavy guns have taken over from the infantry in the Cassino area. German mortar positions and the main Nazi strongpoints inside the town—Hotel dcs Roses and Hotel Continental— were shelled yesterday while Fifth Army strong 'points were consolidated for future use as springboards when the Liri Valley assault is renewed.

NEW DELHI, India, Mar. 27—

British airborne troops, dropped secretly in northern Burma 16 days ago by Col. Phil Cochran's U.S. Air Commandos, were reported 'yesterday to have severed the enemy supply railway running from Mandalay north to Myitkyina—Jap outpost menaced by Chinese and American ground troops only 30 miles away on Saturday, a dispatch from "inside Burma" said today

Want a Fourth Term

LEWISTON, Me., : Mar. 27—

Maine Democrats have instructed state delegates to the National Convention to vote

for the renomination  of President Roosevelt.

 

Long Beach, California, Tuesday, March 28, 1944

Marked Zone

Hit; 5 Killed

NAPLES, Starch 27.—(INS) —

Anzio beachhead dispatches tonight said that five soldier patients were killed and 11 wounded

shortly before dawn Sunday when German artillery guns shelled an American tent hospital area. The tents were plainly marked with red crosses.

1300 U. S. Planes Plaster Nine Key

Nazi Airports and Tours Railyards

New Nip Aerial

Challenge Beaten

By Yank Airmen

GEN*. MncARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,

New Guinea, March 28. — (Tuesday) — (INS) —

United States destroyers have bombarded two Jap held villages on the southeastern portion of

Manus island in the admiralty group and have destroyed a third enemy outpost on Rambutyo island, southeast of Los Negros.

 

New York, N.Y.—London. England Tuesday, March 28, 1944

Germans Reported

Moving Up From

Carpathians

German troops pocketed in a 60- mile-deep trap between the armies of Marshal Gregory Zhukov along the northern Dniester and Marshal Ivan Koniev 50 miles to the south on the Pruthyesterday lost the railway town of Kamenets Podolsk and with it the last rail line over which they could hope to escape across the Dniester. Capture of the town was announced last night by Marshal Stalin in an order of the day as Soviet motorized infantry and tanks strengthened their east-bank

bridgehead along the Pruth at the Rumanian border, thus coming within 25 miles of the former German general headquarters at Jassy, in Rumania across the Pruth.

Moscow dispatches suggested that advance units of Koniev's armies very likely had already crossed the Pruth into Rumania. Col. Ernst von Hammer, military correspondent of German News Agency, said the Russians were "thrusting forward toward Jassy, continuously receiving new reinforcements."

Bridgehead Now 100 Miles Even as the Red Army widened the Pruth bridgehead to 100 miles, reports reaching the Turkish capital at Ankara said at least nine German divisions—four of them armored—had passed through Hungary, and entered Rumania I to take up positions in the flat land between the Carpathians and the Pruth and to strengthen defenses at the mouth of the Danube.

Guns Blast

Foe in Cassino

Infantry Is Consolidating

For New Thrusts; Anzio

Beachhead Is Quiet

ADVANCED ALLIED HQ, Italy, Mar. 27 (Reuter)—

Allied heavy guns have taken over from the infantry in the Cassino area. German mortar positions and the main Nazi strongpoints inside the town—Hotel dcs Roses and Hotel Continental— were shelled yesterday while Fifth Army strong 'points were consolidated for future use as springboards when the Liri Valley assault is renewed.

Snow and rain fell again on both the main front and in the Anzio beachhead, where two enemy attempts at infiltration were repulsed.

Supply Rail way

Reported Cut by

Burma British

Airborne Troops' Mission

Called a Success; U.S.

Planes Hammer Foe

NEW DELHI, India, Mar. 27—

British airborne troops, dropped secretly in northern Burma 16 days ago by Col. Phil Cochran's U.S. Air Commandos, were reported 'yesterday to have severed the enemy supply railway running from Mandalay north to Myitkyina—Jap outpost menaced by Chinese and American ground troops only 30 miles away on Saturday, a dispatch from "inside Burma" said today.

This is the first indication of the whereabouts of the airborne force apart from a brief announcement shortly after the landing that they had been in action.

Observers at Allied headquarters said the troops probably were 55 to 60 miles southwest of Myitkyina along the railway near Mawlu, where fighting was reported last week.

Want a Fourth Term

LEWISTON, Me., : Mar. 27—

Maine Democrats have instructed state delegates to the National Convention to vote

for the renomination  of President Roosevelt.

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