OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, JULY 23,
1944
High
German War Chiefs
Reported
Killed in Purge;
Revolts
Rumored in Reich
By JOSEPH W. GRIGG
LONDON, July 23.— (Sunday)—(U.P.)—
Adolf Hitler begged the German
army Saturday to fight on until victory is achieved "in spite of everything"
and began placing the armed forces on the war fronts, like those at home, under
the iron fist of Nazi party fanatics in what appeared a desperate attempt to
stamp out rebellion. Reports said that Field Marshals Karl Gerd von Runstedt
and Walther von Brauchitsch, as well as scores of lesser military lights had
been lit to death as conspirators in the revolt and Hitler appeared to have won
the first round of struggle within Germany unprecedented
since the internal collapse of
1918. But it was at a cost of declaring a war to the death on the powerful Junkers
officers group which, although it had elevated him
to power, had always been
potentially the greatest menace to hit regime.
Yanks
Occupy Key Positions
After
Foe Flees Leaving
270 Dead,
5 Tanks on Field
By EUGENE BURNS
PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS. PEARL
HARBOR,
July 22.—(/P)—
After repulsing two Japanese
counter-attacks. American forces on Guam have made satisfactory progress and
secured key positions around Port Apra. main objective on the island. Admiral
Chester W. Nimitz said in a communique
this afternoon. On the southern
front. Nimitz said American forces captured 875
foot Mt. Alifan, overlooking Agat
town. The town is little more than two miles south of the lower sweep of the harbor.
In the North, the Americans
seemed control of a five-mile road stretch between Piti town and Agana. This is
'part of the highway leading behind the harbor.
ALLIES
POISED
FOR
MAJOR
NORMAN
BLOW
(Editor's note: Robert Bunnelle. chief
of
the London Bureau of Ihe Associated
Press.
has made a tour of the Normandy
battlefront
to confer with Associated
Press
correspondents and photographers.)
By ROBERT
BUNNELLE
WITH ALLIED FORCES IN
NORMANDY. July 22.—(/P)—
On the coastal plains of Normandy
the Allies are winding up' their Sunday
punch, to knock Germany out of
the war. This is no military secret, for the evidence is here for anyone to
see. The strongest proof of the victory that is coming—-although- there still must
be hard and bloody fighting to achieve it—is the fact that Germany simply is
unable to do anything consequential to prevent this massing of vast hordes of men and
equipment for the decisive Allied blow at a decisive place and at a decisive
time.
SUPERIORITY
EVIDENT
A tour of the front lines lo
check Associated Press news and news photo staff dispositions for the great events
to come brought home vividly the superiority that Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
forces are achieving.
Two
U.S. Subs,
130 Men
Lost
Orinda Officer in
Command of Vessel
Noted for Exploits
By HAMILTON W.
FARON
WASHINGTON. July 22.—(AP) —
The submarine Trout, which snatched
a fabulous treasure in gold, silver and bonds from beneath the muzzles of Japanese. guns in The Philippines,
has been lost in action against the Nipponese.
This was announced today by the Navy,
which disclosed that the submarine
Tullibee also is overdue and presumed
lost on a war patrol.
Slipping past Japanese shore
batteries and into Manila Bay early in 1942. the Trout delivered badly needed
anti-aircraft ammunition to American forces then fighting
valiantly to hold the fortress
Corregidor.
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