Apr 22, 1944; Red Army Reserves on Polish Front:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY APRIL 22, 1944:

London, Saturday—AP—

The Soviet high command announced early today that Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First Ukraine Army killed 1,500 enemy troops and destroyed 68 tanks Friday in a violent battle spreading through the Carpathian foothills southeast of Stanislawow in old Poland, where the Germans apparently sought to disrupt a fresh

Russian offensive time-table.

Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Saturday _ AP _ 

Bombs from a Liberator sank a 1,000-Japanese cargo ship west of  the enemy base at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, Wednesday while medium bombers continued to.pound nearby sections of the coast,

Aboard An Allied Aircraft Carrier Off Sabang, Sumatra—(Delayed)—AP —  
Allied carrier-based planes— Hellcats, Dauntless Avengers, Corsairs and Barracudas—pinned down the Japanese 'Air Force and destroyed military installations at Sabang to their hearts' content in a furious 15-minute attack one morning.

KINGSPORT, TENN., SAT., APRIL 22, 1944

JAPS ADD TANKS TO

INVASION OF INDIA

Allies Knock

Nips Back

Near Imphal

Mountbatten's Men

Make Progress

In Counter-Drive

Fiery Fight

Rages In

Carpathians

Ukraine Army Kills

1,500 Germans In

Polish Attacks

By Tom Yarbrough

London, Saturday—AP—

The Soviet high command announced early today that Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's First Ukraine Army killed 1,500 enemy troops and destroyed 68 tanks Friday in a violent battle spreading through the Carpathian foothills southeast of Stanislawow in old Poland, where the Germans apparently sought to disrupt a fresh

Russian offensive time-table.  Moscow's m i d n i g h t  bulletin, which again did not mention besieged Sevastopol, where the enemy has been squeezed into a 50-squaremile tip of the Crimea, said the fighting near Stanislawow was precipitated

by renewed German attacks.

One Soviet unit alone repulsed seven consecutive Nazi assaults in fighting that often was hand-to-hand, the bulletin said.

Red Reserves Arrive

A Berlin broadcast, giving perhaps the clue to the current German counterattacks, reported that huge

Red Army reserves were flowing through the Ukraine into a 25-mile sector of the Polish front between the upper Dnestr and the Pripyat marshes as a prelude to fresh Russian assaults along the most direct invasion route to Berlin.

It was possible that these Russian reserves had been shifted from the Crimea where Sevastopol Is the only foothold left to the enemy.

Liberator Bombs

Sink Jap Ship

Near Hollandia

By Charles McMurtry

Allied Headquarters, Southwest Pacific Saturday _ AP _ 
Bombs from a Liberator sank a 1,000-Japanese cargo ship west of  the enemy base at Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, Wednesday while medium bombers continued to.pound nearby sections of the coast,

Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique said Saturday. The Fifth Army Air Force Mitchells swept low to drop 45 tons of explosives on buildings at Vanino, 30 miles west of Hollandia.

Boston attack planes and fighters working over the Hansa Bay-Madang area farther down the New Guinea coast hit supply and bivouac areas, started fires in warehouses and wrecked barges.

Allied Carrier-Based Planes Pin Down Jap Airmen,

Bomb Military Installations On Sabang At Will

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(Editor's Note: Eugene Burns, Associated

Press war correspondent, whose eye-witness account of the Allied naval  and air attack un the Japanese stronghold of Sabang, near Sumatra, appears below, has covered the war in the Paciflc from the outset. His assignments have ranged from the south seas to the Aleutians He was at Honolulu to telephone the first acount of the-bombing- of Pearl Harbor.

He spent many months aboard aircraft- carriers in the South Pacific before being assigned to Alaska to cover the reconquest cf Attu. his most recent assignment in the Pacific was in the latter part of February when he was aboard a carrier in the massive assault which opened the invasion of the Marshall Islands.

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By Eugene Burns

The raid 'was launched from' Allied carriers screened by battleships and lighter units under command of Admiral Sir James Somerville, commander of Britain's eastern fleet, who personally attended the "show."

.Almost 80 per cent of the planes were American-made.  

The Japanese attempted reprisal raids on our -force—perhaps . from airfields at Padang, or in the Andaman or Nicobar Islands',: or even from Singapore—but it; 'availed them nothing. By day the Japanese could hot penetrate the: Hellcat screen and the Allied '-barrage stopped them at night.