TUCSON, ARIZONA,
FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2, 1945.
First Efforts Of
Reds
To Force Crossing
Of
Oder Reported
Foiled
By ROBERT MUSEL
LONDON, Feb. 2. (U.P)—
The Germans, reported today that
powerful Russian forces massing along the Oder east .of Berlin were trying to
smash across that last big barrier before the capital, in the streets of which
the terrified civilians were throwing up barricades.
The German high command said
strong Red army units had reached the Oder on either side of Frankfurt, 38
miles due east of Berlin, and northwest of Kustrin, where the Oder elbow points
down within 30 miles of the city.
A Nazi military commentator
deported that the first effort by Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov's first White
Russian army to force the Oder was made at Kustrin, 42 miles
east-northeast of Berlin. . .
Citizens
Join In Prayer
"The courageous citizens of
Kustrin chased back a Soviet tank detachment which was trying to cross the
Oder, destroying six of the tanks and damaging others," the
commentator, Wilfred Von Offen, said
in a German home service pep talk.
Moscow dispatches said Zhukov's
armor and mobile infantry were flooding across a broad reach of the German
border east of Berlin, and now were closing in on Frankfurt, and Kustrin to
exploit the gains of armored spearheads blazing the Soviet trail to Germany's "Rhine
of the east."
Russian
Flanks Fan Out .
Both flanks of the Red army which
had raced from the Vistula to the Oder in three weeks were fanning- out in
strength as the forces at the center of Zhukove ‘s offensive front massed-on
the-Oder.
Yanks And French
Clear 30 Miles
Of Rhine Bank
PARIS,
Feb. 2. (/P)—
American
and French troops broke into the northern end of Colmar, provincial French
capital 40 miles south' of Strasbourg, at noon today after
clearing
:M) miles of the left bank ' of the Rhine and laying siege to the Neufbrisach
bridge from a mile away.
(The
Paris radio interrupted a broadcast early tonight to announce
that
French troops had captured Colmar.)
By -JAMES
M. LONG
PARIS, Feb. 2. (AP)—
American and French troops
cleared 30 miles of the left bank of the Rhine below Strasbourg today and laid
a heavy.'artillery barrage on the Neufbrisach railroad escape bridge from less than
a mile away.
In the center of the western front,
the American first and third armies probed deeper into the thinly manned
Siegfried line and advanced up to two miles in its
fringes on the western slopes of the
Eifel mountains opposite the late Ardennes bulge.
Half a dozen German hamlets were
taken; more lines of dragon teeth tank barriers were passed; scores of
pillboxes—many undefended—were captured.
Yankees Draw
Near Manila
On Two Sides
Third Landing Is
Made
Below
Philippine,
Capital City
LITTLE
OPPOSITION
Chief Fighting
Is Far
To North By Japs
In Mountains
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON
•• MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,
Luzon, Feb. 2. (U,P) ~
American tanks and infantrymen
converged on Manila from two sides today.
The capital and the entire
Japanese defense system In southern Luzon were outflanked with a surprise
landing 13 miles below the mouth of Manila bay.
Amphibious forces of the U. S. eighth
army, knifing into the
enemy's thinly-held west coast
defenses for the third time In 48 hours, , swarmed ashore early Wednesday at Nasugbu bay, 41 miles
south-west of Manila.
To
Shore Of Manila Bay
The landing was completed without
loss and at last reports the Americans were advancing Inland through weak
opposition at a pace that may already have carried
them to the shores of Manila bay,
within artillery range of Corregidor.
Troops
of the U. S. llth air-borne division who carried out the new invasion, captured
Nasugbu town liberating a colony of Internee European nationals, and struck out
for Tatagay ridge, 20 miles to the east, where highway three curves northward
to Manila.
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