Current Events March 10, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MARCH 10, 1944:

Nazis Announce Flight

From Strong Base In

Western Ukraine;

Reds Breach Enemy

Lines G u a r d i n g

Black Sea Ports.

NEW DELHI, March 10—(/P)—

So fast is Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell forcing the fighting pace in north Burma that a crisis which will make or break this year's Burma campaign is now rapidly approaching. Critics who once scoffed at the possibility of a major Burma action this year have begun to show surprise and real interest in the fact that, with limited resources, "Vinegar Joe" has forced his way approximately 100 miles into north Burma.

 By The- Associated Press

"British and American Commandoes" under Capt. Randolph Churchill have landed on Lissa island off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, the Berlin radio said today.

(By The Associated Press

Japanese resistance in Los Negros Island in the Bismarck sea has reached such a low ebb that American warships and supply vessels steamed boldly into the island's big anchorage without opposition, Southwest Pacific Allied headquarters reported today.

ENTIRE SOUTH

UKRAINE BLAZES

WITH FIGHTING

Nazis Announce Flight

From Strong Base In

Western Ukraine;

Reds Breach Enemy

Lines G u a r d i n g

Black Sea Ports.

-BY TOM YAHBOROUGH

LONDON, March 10 (AP)

British & U. S.

Forces Strike

Off Yugoslavia

  Allied Commandos

Under Churchill Son

Said Leading Attack

By The- Associated Press

"British and American Commandoes" under Capt. Randolph Churchill have landed on Lissa island off the Dalmatian coast of Yugoslavia, the Berlin radio said today.

The broadcast said Churchill, son of the British prime minister, had taken command of Allied

troops on the island, but it remained to be seen whether his forces would include 2,000 followers

of Marshal Tito (Josip Broz) there.

Young Churchill recently conferred with Marshal Tito, presumably after he parachuted into Yugoslavia.

The Berlin broadcast identified him as "a British general with the name of Churchill," but there was no doubt here that Berlin was talking about the Prime minister's son. There was no immediate confirmation, however, of the landing report. Churchill, 32, was the first member of parliament to become a paratrooper.

The Allies have been giving aid to Tito's Partisans,' but there has been no official announcement of the presence of British Commando or American Ranger troops in Yugoslavia. Lissa. an island about 10 miles long and five miles wide, is in the Adriatic 30 miles off the important port of Split. It is 120 miles east of Italy's mainland.

Stillwell’s Fast

Pace In Burma

Amazes Critics

By PRESTON GROVER

NEW DELHI, March 10—(/P)—

So fast is Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell forcing the fighting pace in north Burma that a crisis which will make or break this year's Burma campaign is now rapidly approaching. Critics who once scoffed at the possibility of a major Burma action this year have begun to show surprise and real interest in the fact that, with limited resources, "Vinegar Joe" has forced his way approximately 100 miles into north Burma.

The leathery-faced general is rapidly confronting the Japanese with a major decision—they must

draw forces from other Burma fronts to halt Stilwell's Chinese and American columns, or permit

him to accomplish his objective relatively unhindered. His aim is to clear the Japanese from north Burma so he can build a new link to the Burma road which can carry supplies to fighting forces in China.

Americans Take

Jap Anchorage

(By The Associated Press

Japanese resistance in Los Negros Island in the Bismarck sea has reached such a low ebb that American warships and supply vessels steamed boldly into the island's big anchorage without opposition, Southwest Pacific Allied headquarters reported today.

Dismounted First Cavalry division troops which invaded Los Negros

Feb. 29 and quickly captured 5,000- foot Momote airfield have driven Japan's first-rank marines onto the extreme north portion of the island.

On New Britain, American Marines have expanded their invasion beachhead established Monday on Willaumez peninsula and are last reported within two miles of the Japanese base at Talasea, where there is an emergency landing strip.

Rabaul, New Britain, 170 airline miles from the Talasea fighting, was attacked four times Tuesday and a headquarters spokesman said photographs show there's not one undamaged

ship remaining in the harbor.

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