Apr 28, 1944; British Isles isolated:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY APRIL 28, 1944:

 LONDON (UP)—

Approximately 50,000,000 persons in the British Isles were isolated from the outside world at midnight Thursday night when all normal travel to points abroad ceased under one of the most drastic anti-spy decrees ever promulgated.

LONDON (INS)—

A powerful force of British bombers carried the greatest aerial offensive in history through it’s  llth straight night with a shattering attack against the industrial center of Friedrichshafen in southwestern Germany.

LONDON (UP) —

G e r m a n broadcasts said Thursday that Soviet troops have opened a powerful attack on the Romanian rail function of lasi (Jassy), achieving local penetrations, while Moscow in turn reported that strong Nazi counter-attacks have been turned back for the ninth straight day near Stanislawow in old Poland.

Naples (UP)—

Newly-formed German paratroop units have been thrown into action on the Anzio beachhead to halt the swelling power of Allied thrusts, it was disclosed Thursday in an Allied announcement revealing Adolf Hitler's desperate need for defensive troops.

 

 Twin Falls, Idaho, Friday Morning, April 28, 1944

Heavy American Raiders Land First

One-Two Punch; Record Assault

Hits Friedrichshafen, Other Cities

LONDON (INS)—

A powerful force of British bombers carried the greatest aerial offensive in history through it’s  llth straight night with a shattering attack against the industrial center of Friedrichshafen in southwestern Germany.

The Thursday night assault on Friedrichshafen, on the northern shore of Lake Constance, followed in the wake of two smashing daylight attacks by some 2,750 American planes against the northern French invasion coast. These constituted the first "doubleheader" attacks of the air by heavy American bombers flying from bases in Britain.

Well over 10,000 tons of bombs have been unloaded in Nazi-held western Europe in the past 24 hours—a record for any similar stretch of time.

Soviets Drive on

Romania Junction

Germans Report

Moscow Says Enemy

Push Again Hurled

Back in Old Poland

LONDON (UP) —

G e r m a n broadcasts said Thursday that Soviet troops have opened a powerful attack on the Romanian rail function of lasi (Jassy), achieving local penetrations, while Moscow in turn reported that strong Nazi counter-attacks have been turned back for the ninth straight day near Stanislawow in old Poland.

Nazi reports also admitted the Soviets had made some progress in the lower Dnestr sector toward Chisinau but Moscow's broadcast communique did not mention either area of the southern front, adhering to its policy of withholding news of fresh drives until they have taken a decisive turn.

PARATROOPS FILL DEPLETED

GERMAN RANKS AT ANZIO

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

Naples (UP)—

Newly-formed German paratroop units have been thrown into action on the Anzio beachhead to halt the swelling power of Allied thrusts, it was disclosed Thursday in an Allied announcement revealing Adolf Hitler's desperate need for defensive troops.

German "green devil" paratroopers previously had been used in the battle for Cassino on the main Fifth Army front, and Canadians on the Eighth Army's Adriatic front also met paratroopers in Ortona.

Prisoners captured on the beach head revealed that they were members of the recently-formed Fourth parachute division and that they had been in action at Anzio since early April. Other prisoners were identified as members of the 362nc infantry division, also moved into the front line this month, and the third panzer Grenadier division which has been fighting in Italy since the fall of Naples.

Drastic Decree

Isolates British

LONDON (IP)—

Approximately 50,000,000 persons in the British Isles were isolated from the outside world at midnight Thursday night when all normal travel to points abroad ceased under one of the most drastic anti-spy decrees ever promulgated.

From now until the time when Allied Invasion forces have established their positions in western Europe, no one may leave this country except on specially approved war business so urgent that it cannot be postponed.

The new order means that only a trickle of high priority men will . go abroad and all means of communication by wire, wireless or mail were under

one of the most drastic censorships ever imposed.

French radios in Algiers and Brazzaville persistently broadcast to France, urging workers to strike between 11 a. m. and noon May 1—the European Labor May Day—and generally to make the .day one of preparation for the invasion.

Naval activity in the channel is increasing, and watchers on the English coast hear gun flashes and machine gun fire frequently. Occasionally there is a heavy explosion on the French coast.

There is continued talk here of the possibility of German attacks either in western Europe or on the Russian front, or both—such as a big counterattack against the Red army or a suicide attack by a few divisions on Britain.

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