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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