Apr 18, 1944; Diplomatic censorship in Briton;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY APRIL 18, 1944:

LONDON, April 17.—(AP)—

In an unprecedented move to safeguard the secrets of the coming invasion, Britain tonight forebade neutral diplomats to leave this country and placed a drastic censorship on diplomatic communication to and from this country by all nations except Russia, the British Commonwealth and the United States.

Bitter' Counter Blows Bar

Soviet Drive to Danube

And Ploesti Oil Fields

With the Crimea lost and Sevastopol's beleaguered defenders making their last stand, the Germans yesterday launched one of their most intensive efforts to date to check the Red Army's advance toward the Danube and the oilfields of Ploesti.

 

Sofia, Belgrade Pounded;

Reich Damage Shown;

Libs Span Channel

Germany's battered aircraft industry got another hammer blow on Apr. 9 when bombs from B17s wrecked the assembly buildings, three workshops and other components of the Focke Wulf fighter factory at Warnemunde, on the Baltic, which Goering once thought safe from bombing attack.

 

Charleston, West Virginia, Tuesday Morning. April 18, 1944

England Limits

Envoys' Travel,

Code Messages

Unprecedented Precaution

Taken as 2d Front ,

Attack Nears

LONDON, April 17.—(AP)—

In an unprecedented move to safeguard the secrets of the coming invasion, Britain tonight forebade neutral diplomats to leave this country and placed a drastic censorship on diplomatic communication to and from this country by all nations except Russia, the British Commonwealth and the United States.

The government decreed- that telegrams of all other countries represented here, including Eire which recently refused a United States request to close its Axis le-

gations, must be written in plan language and submitted to censorship.

Diplomatic pouches of such nations as Sweden and Brazil likewise must be censored henceforth. Couriers or other representatives, naval, military or air attaches may not be sent from this country

Never before has Britain or any other nation taken such stringent measures as this one designed to insure that.no inkling .of the details of the coming invasion may reach the enemy.

                                                 Allies Consulted

                            New York, N.Y.—London, England                      Tuesday, April 18, 1944

Reds Meet

^Strongest'

Resistance

•Bitter' Counter Blows Bar

Soviet Drive to Danube

And Ploesti Oil Fields

With the Crimea lost and Sevastopol's beleaguered defenders making their last stand, the Germans yesterday launched one of their most intensive efforts to date to check the Red Army's advance toward the Danube and the oilfields of Ploesti. Unit after unit of fresh German troops were hurled into a series of strong counter-attacks in the approaches to Kishinev, capital of Moldavia, 45 miles west of Tiraspol, between the Dniester and Pruth rivers. The Russians reported their troops were fighting bloody battles and meeting extremely fierce resistance, growing stronger

with every yard gained by the Red Army.

One Moscow dispatch said the Soviet's nvo army groups under Marshal Ivan Koniev and Gen. Rodion Malinovsky were meeting "possibly the most stubborn

and bitter resistance in the entire ten months of the Red Army offensive."

118,400 Germans Killed

News of the new Koniev-Malinovsky drive to clear lower Bessarabia and outflank

the entire German front in northeastern Rumania came simultaneously with Moscow's disclosure that the enemy lost 118:400 dead and 27,000 prisoners between Mar. 6, when Koniev went over to the offensive and smashed beyond the

Dniester and the Pruth, to Apr. 15.

U.S. Planes

Hit 4th City

In 48 Hours

Sofia, Belgrade Pounded;

Reich Damage Shown;

Libs Span Channel

Germany's battered aircraft industry got another hammer blow on Apr. 9 when bombs from B17s wrecked the assembly buildings, three workshops and other components of the Focke Wulf fighter factory at Warnemunde, on the Baltic, which Goering once thought safe from bombing attack. Mediterranean air forces yesterday took up the major burden of the north-south aerial squeeze on Germany, attacking their third and fourth Balkan capitals in 48 hours, while Britain-based Liberators were making small-scale' trans-Channel attacks.

.Sofia, capital of Bulgaria, was bombed by Liberators from Italian and Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia, was hit by Fortresses as the Mediterranean forces kept up their direct- support blows aimed at hamstringing German transport to and from the Russian battlefronts. Budapest, capital of Hungary, was hit the day 'before, and

Bucharest. Rumanian seat of government,on Saturday

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