Current Events April 6, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY APRIL 6, 1944:

LONDON, April 6—

Red infantry and mechanized troops, aided by crack cavalry, captured the Ukraine mil junction of Razdelnaya, Wednesday, cutting the main escape route of the estimated 200,000 Germans still grouped around Odessa as a fast-swinging soviet crescent slashed further down, towards the great Black sea port.

By Associated Press

New triumphs for American air forces in the Pacific were reported  Thursday as Japanese troops, driving deeper into India, increased their threat to the railway supplying United States soldiers in Burma.

 

Salt Lake City, Utah, Thursday Morning, April 6, 1944

Reds Bar Rail Escape

Of 200,000 Nazis

In Odessa-Sea Trap

Control of Port Area by Russian

Fleet Makes Water Flight

Unlikely for Doomed Enemy Hordes

**-»• Russia (Official)—-By Associated Press

LONDON, April 6—

Red infantry and mechanized troops, aided by crack cavalry, captured the Ukraine mil junction of Razdelnaya, Wednesday, cutting the main escape route of the estimated 200,000 Germans still grouped around Odessa as a fast-swinging soviet crescent slashed further down, towards the great Black sea port.

Marshal Stalin announced capture of Razdelnaya jn an order of the day, and Wednesday night's

soviet communique added more than 130 other populated places to the list of liberated towns, including Yanovka and Antono' Kobintselo, 33 and 24 miles northand northeast, respectively, of

Odessa sea port.

Marshal Stalin announced capture of Razdelnaya jn an order of the day, and Wednesday night's

soviet communique added more than 130 other populated places to the list of liberated towns, including Yanovka and AntonO' Kobintselo, 33 and 24 miles north and northeast, respectively, of Odessa.

From the east the Russians drove to within 18 airline miles of Odessa with capture of Starlye-

Belyary.

Japs Threaten

U. S. Supply

Line to Orient

Bombers Destroy

13 Jap Planes

In Wewak Attack

(AP) Allies (Official)

By Associated Press

New triumphs for American air forces in the Pacific were reported  Thursday as Japanese troops, driving deeper into India, increased their threat to the railway supplying United States soldiers in Burma. Fresh from smashing the Japanese air force at Hollandia in Dutch New Guinea, southwest Pacific bombers returned to the attack on Wewak, which only a month ago was a powerful air center on northeast New Guinea.

Thirteen parked planes were destroyed in a huge explosion. It was the first mention this month of Japanese planes at Wewak.

Not a single antiaircraft gun was fired at the raiders.

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