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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