CUMBERLAND,
MARYLAND, SUNDAY, MAY 14, 1944
63 Nazi Planes
Are Shot Down;
In Sky Battles
Duels Cost
Invading.' -Ameri
cans Twelve
Bombers
and Ten Fighters
During
Attacks
Aircraft Plantsdreds of RAF Mustangs
And Rails Bombed
By AUSTIN BEAI5MEAR
London, Sunday, May 14 (AP) _
Two thousand U. S. bombers .and American-Allied
fighters hammered three major targets in northern, Germany yesterday and
shot-down; 6 3 Nazi Planes in sky duels which cost the invading Americans- 12 bombers
and 10 fighters.
Up to 750 flying Fortresses and Liberators,
escorted inland by nearly 1,000 U. S. Lightnings, Mustangs and Thunderbolts, and
covered in the withdrawal by hundreds of
RAF Mustangs, attacked a Focke-Wulf plant at Tutow, rail yards
and locomotive repair shops at
Osnabruck, a synthetic oil refinery in the Stettin area and other targets.
Surrender Terms
for Germany Are
Near Completion
Call for
Complete Destruction
of Prussian-
Built Army,
Reliable
Informant
Discloses
Must Lay Down
Arms At Once
Russians Insist on Point,
Fearing Troops Might
Melt Back Into
Reich
~BY 'WES GALLAGHER
London, May 13 th—
American- British-Russian plans
for acceptance of Germany's surrender are nearly
completed, and call for infanite
destruction of the Prussia-built army, a reliable informant disclosed tonight.
This war's terms for Germany are said
to differ from the last war's in that they are "surrender" terms rather
than "armistice" proposals.
Fighting
Grim
At Every Point
On Italy Fronts
Allies Capture
Several
Strategic
Positions i n
All-Out Drive to
Destroy
Hitlerites
Gains Up To Six
Miles Are Scored
British Eighth
Army Fights
Bitter Battles
With German
Parachute Troops
in Cassino
Sector
By NOLAND NORGAARD
Allied Headquarters. Naples, May 13
(AP) —
Allied troops, on the offensive
in Italy smashed deeper tonight into the- heavily-fortified Gustav Line,
Increasing the gains of two miles or more that they had recorded during the day
but encountering grim resistance from the Germans
in strong mountain positions.
Exact location of the gains could
not be disclosed pending: tomorrow's daily communique, but already the Allies
hold at least five villages and seven strategic hills and were going ahead
after the close of the second day of their big push aimed
at destroying the Germans in
Italy. Americans, French, British and Poles all were engaged In heavy fighting.
Russians Tense
Over Prospects
Of Allied Blow
Moscow, May 13 (AP)—
Tension over the opening of the western
front was noticeable in Moscow today.
Editorials and 'articles in
Moscow's newspapers create a zero hour atmosphere sharpening the rapidly
mounting interest of the people in date of the Allied invasion and the resumption
of the Red Army Offensive.
The most popular pastime of of
the moment is laying bets on when the United States and Britain will land
troops on Hitler's occupied Europe.
The Allied offensive in Italy, however,
was reported in 53 lines of type on the back page of one Moscow newspaper thismorning.
Chinese Hopes
Of Retaining
Loyang Fading
Japanese Drive
To Within
Two Miles of
Honan
Province
Citadel: Tanks
Spearhead
Advance
By SPENCER MOOSA
Chungking, May 13 AP-
Japanese troops using up to 200
tanks, have driven to within two miles of Loyang, the Chinese command
acknowledged tonight, and Chinese hopes of holding the ancient Honan province
citadel faded rapidly.
Enemy troops made their deepest penetration
to the west, and also had reached a point only three miles northwest of the
city, high command said.
About 60 U.S.
Seamen
Perish Off
Scotland
Liberty Ship
Dashed To
Pieces On Rocks
When
Storm Drives It
On
Shore
Dover Straits
Weather Turns
Bad Suddenly
New York. May 13. (AP)—
The London radio tonight
broadcast the "Straits weather report ".saying: "Sudden change. Boisterous
wind, approaching gale force at times. Overcast
sky."
The broadcast
was recorded in New York.
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