Current Events March 14, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, MARCH 14, 1944:

Army troops captured three district centers and more than 70" populated places in a continued

drive today west of Kirovograd, the Russian communique announced

tonight

LONDON.- March 14 (AP) -

Prime Minister Churchill told Commons today that Britain, and the United States plan "to isolate

Southern Ireland from the outer world" — a .virtual quarantine by 'methods yet to be disclosed which, would' seal off that potential spy-post during the llth hour to the opening- of the western

front.

Japanese hopelessly trapped on Bougainville Island in the Solomons .have been repulsed bloodily in a four-day suicidal attack Augusta Bay, but are reported regrouping for another assault.

And a new smash against the Japanese in Northern Burma was announced by Southeast Asia Allied Headquarters today. British forces, breached enemy defenses on the upper Chindwin river, thus adding a new spearhead in the drive to clear Northern Burma and permit opening- of a land supply route to China.

 

 MOBERLY, MISSOURI, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 14, 1944

Ships Are

Hurrying

to Odessa

Germans Believed Making'

Ready to Evacuate Into

Frightened Rumania

GREAT RED DRIVE

MOVING FORWARD

Suggestion of Seaborne Retreat

Plans Explains Battle

at Tarnopol

Army troops captured three district centers and more than 70" populated places in a continued

drive today west of Kirovograd, the Russian communique announced

tonight.

BY JAMES M. LONG

LONDON, Mar. 14. (AP)—

Every available ship m Rumania's"Black Sea ports, has been, rushed northward, apparently to Odessa," an Istanbul dispatch said today.

This appeared to foreshadow complete collapse of the Germans' southern flank in Russia in a vast scale 1944 Dunkerque -which-would pull the battle line back .into obviously

frightened Rumania. '

The Istanbul dispatch, based on information from Sofia, suggested -the Germans were preparing' to -evacuate Odessa by sea.

To Isolate

Eire Front

the World

Churchill Tells Commons of

Plans, But Methods Are

Not Disclosed

MUST SEAL OFF

• ALL SPY-SPOTS

A Painful Task, But a Necessary

One, the Prime

Minister Says

By :Alex H. Singleton.

LONDON.- March 14 (AP) -

Prime Minister Churchill told Commons today that Britain, and the United States plan "to isolate

Southern Ireland from the outer world" — a .virtual quarantine by 'methods yet to be disclosed which, would' seal off that potential spy-post during the llth hour to the opening- of the western

front.

Churchill's- words clearly implied an extension of restrictions to .the :border between Northern

Ireland,and .Eire, and perhaps even a semi-blockade of Eire, where President-.DeValera- has. refused to close German and Japanese offices.

Restrictions on travel to Eire, Churchill-said, are "the first step in- a policy designed to isolate

Great Britain from Southern Ireland, .and also, to isolate Southern Ireland from the 'outer .world during the critical period now; approaching."

Japs Making

Suicide Drive

Are Repulsed

At Least 1,100- Killed by

Yanks Holding Empress

Bay Positions

NEW SUCCESSES

IN NORTH BURMA

Wewak and Wake Island

Are Bombed Again as Air

Blows Continue

By RICHARD C. BERGHOLZ,

Associated Press War Editor

Japanese hopelessly trapped on Bougainville Island in the Solomons .have been repulsed bloodily in a four-day suicidal attack Augusta Bay, but are reported regrouping for another assault.

And a new smash against the Japanese in Northern Burma was announced by Southeast Asia Allied Headquarters today. British forces, breached enemy defenses on the upper Chindwin river, thus adding a new spearhead in the drive to clear Northern Burma and permit opening- of a land supply route to China.

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