Current Events March 2, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MARCH 2, 1944:


Allied Headquarters, Naples, March 2 (AP)—
American Flying Fortresses and Liberators, swinging into the renewed battle on the Anzio beachhead, smashed heavily at Nazi troop concentrations today, raining thousands of fragmentation bombs on enemy forces.

 London, March 2 (/P)—

British submarines ranging "Far Eastern waters" torpedoed and probably sank a Japanese aircraft carrier of 7,000 tons, and scored torpedo hits on a Japanese cruiser, the Admiralty

announced today

Washington, March 2 (AP)— 

The Allied military policy respecting Rome Is to spare those portions of the city which the Germans themselves retrain from using for military purposes, Secretary of War Stimson said today. But he emphasized that "American lives must be safeguarded, whatever the cost In material things."

 Asserts Japs Use Strange Battle Cry

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American Troops

Gain 1,000 Yards

Still Making Progress in Beachhead

Area Below Rome After Repulsing

Three Division Attack by Germans

on Center of Defense Lines—Enemy

Offers Strong Resistance Near

Road Junction Between Carroceto

and Cisterna After Losing Ground

Previously Gained.

500 PRISONERS TAKEN

Allied Headquarters, Naples, March 2 (AP)—

American Flying Fortresses and Liberators, swinging into

the renewed battle on the Anzio beachhead, smashed

heavily at Nazi troop concentrations today, raining

thousands of fragmentation bombs on enemy forces.

(By Richard G. Massock)

Allied Headquarters, Naples, March 2 (AP)—

American troops fighting fiercely against a three-division

German attack on the center of the Anzio beachhead defense

line have thrown the enemy back 1,000 yards and are still making progress, it was announced today.

British Sub Sinks

Japanese Carrier

London, March 2 (/P)—

British submarines ranging "Far Eastern waters" torpedoed and probably sank a Japanese aircraft carrier of 7,000 tons, and scored torpedo hits on a Japanese cruiser, the Admiralty

announced today.

A Royal Navy submarine first sighted the carrier, escorted by five submarine chasers, in the northern approaches to Malacca strait, and fired a salvo of torpedoes. No hits were observed, and the sub chasers drove the submarine off temporarily.

The British ship returned to the attack, scoring a hit and stopping the flat-top. "A further torpedo which struck the enemy amidships caused a violent explosion. The ship heeled over and is believed to have sunk," the communique said.

Finland Is Cool

To Peace Terms

Swedish Newspaper Reports View Is

Taken at Helsinki That Conditions

Offered by Russia Are Impossible

of Acceptance.

PEOPLE DISAPPOINTED

Allied Policy Toward Rome

Announced by Sec. Stimson

Washington, March 2 (AP)— 

The Allied military policy respecting Rome Is to spare those portions of the city which the Germans themselves retrain from using for military purposes, Secretary of War Stimson said today. But he emphasized that "American lives must be safeguarded, whatever the cost In material things."

"As In the question of the destruction of the Abbey of Monte Cassino," Stimson told a press conference, "the policy of the war department is definite and clear: Every possible precaution Is to be taken against the destruction of cultural, historical and religious property.

"Should it become obvious, however, that the enemy is making use of such monuments for military purposes, and that the lives of American soldiers are thereby endangered, there can be no .alternative. American lives must be safeguarded, whatever the cost in material things."

So far as is now known, the secretary said, there are no large concentrations of German troops in the city itself, but Rome's rail lines and yards make it an important communications center through which most of the enemy forces pass on their way to the Anzio beachhead and the main front in southern Italy.

"For these reasons," said Stimson, "bombing attacks have 'been concentrated on the rail lines leading in and out of Rome and on the railway yards of Rome itself as well as on the suburban airfields, while every attempt has been made to spare religious and cultural shrines and to respect the neutral status of

Vatican City."

 

Asserts Japs Use

Strange Battle Cry

Cape Gloucester, New Britain

(Delayed) (AP)—

This will be news to The Babe, but Staff Sergeant Jeremiah A. O'Leary, a Marine corps combat correspondent, reports that Japs, evidently eager to display their impoverished English vocabulary, charged Marine lines here shouting their battle cry, "To Hell With Babe Ruth!" The charge was scored as an error, Thirty Japs were struck out for good..