January 27, 1945; Allies Take Over The entire Western Front:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 27, 1945:

COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA: SATURDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1945.

Reds Roll Over Nazi Forces

as Allies Take Over Offensive

Along Entire Western Front

Soviets Bypass Poznan in Two-prong Drive

Carrying Them to the Brandenburg Border;

Allies Storming Into Siegfried Defenses

By James M. Long.

PARIS. (AP)—

United Slates 3^rd Army troops striking on a 20-mile front in Luxemburg and Belgium gained up to three miles Saturday and reached the Our river barrier to Germany.

The 3rd's roll up to the Our river frontier, wiping out last vestiges of the Ardennes bulge, came as the American fifth and British 2nd armies in the north consolidated their hold along the west bank of the Roer river inside Germany within 25 miles of Dusseldorf.

Allied troops held the initiative all along the winding western front and the Germans' offensive in Alsace had dwindled out.

American 90th division patrols reached the Our river at a point four and a half miles northeast of Clervnux in northern Luxemburg, a front dispatch said. They met no resistance. Troops of the 17lh air borne division punched forward three miles at a point seven miles below St. Vith.

They and three other divisions were inside or across the "skyline drive" highway running north of St. Vith on a 3,500-foot ridge overlooking the Our and the Germans' Siegfried line guarding, the reich. The 26th division drove around two and a half miles above Wiltz and the 80th and 5th divisions from half to one mile. The third army bagged 081 prisoners Friday.

B-29s Strike in

a Twin Assault

Tokyo and Indo-China

Hit by Superforts

Bv Leonard Millman

Associalcd Press War Editor.

Invasion of another island off the Burma coast kept the allied ground offensive moving against the Japanese Saturday as B-29s bombed war industries in Tokyo and Indo-China, and a thundering artillery duel around Clark field delayed the American drive toward Manila.

Troops of the 15th Indian corps swarmwd over the benches of Chedub island In the British amphibious push toward Rangoon and Singapore. In 30 days, five landings

have advanced the British 100 miles from Akyaba to Cheduba.

Raid From Two Bases.

Superforts swept out of two widely separated bases for their double strike Saturday. Some 70- B-29s from the Marianas Islands bombed industrial targets in Tokyo. Japanese broadcasts said they were over the capital for an hour in the early afternoon starting fires that weren't brought under control until dusk.

January 26, 1945; Soviets 125 Miles From Berlin:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 26, 1945:

CORSICANA, TEXAS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1945. —TEN PAGES

EAST PRUSSIA HAS

APPARENTLY BEEN

CUT FROM GERMANY

CAPTURE OF GLIWITZ, BIG

INDUSTRIAL CENTER, ANNOUNCED

BY STALIN

LONDON, Jan. 25.—(/P)—

Marshal Stalin announced tonight Russian forces had captured Oels, a communications center 14 miles northeast of Rreslau.

The Red army also captured Ostrow, thirteen miles southwest of Kallsz In Poland and ten miles from the northern border of Silesia.

LONDON, Jan 2S.—(AP)-

Red army forces have broken the Oder river line In Southeast Germany and are exploiting the breakthrough while In apparently have the north cut off the East

Prussia, Soviet field dispatches announced today.

Moscow broadcasts said the thunderous Soviet winter offensive hadrolled to a point little more than 125 miles from Berlin and that Red army units . were fighting "on the edge of Konlgsborg," capital of East Prussia.

Capture of Gleiwltz, big Industrial center just west of the Silesian manufacturing towns of Hindenburg and Beuthen, was announced by Marshal Stalin. Chrzanow,

important center In the Bombrowa coal basin, 17 miles west of captured Krakow in Poland,also was taken.

Largest Nazi City Taken.

Glelwltz, 80 miles southeast of  Broslau, is the largest German city captured by the Russians.  It’s 118,000 Population was mostly engaged in a large coal transhipping

business and seven large arms machinery plants.

RUSSIANS LITTLE T

MORE THAN 125 MILES

FROM NAZI CAPITAL

NEW NAZI OFFENSIVE

LAUNCHED ON WESTERN

FRONT ON THURSDAY

By WILLIAM L. RYAN

Associated Press War Editor

The Red army, Its vanguards little more than 125 miles from Berlin, has cracked the Oder river' line before Breslu and in the North apparently sheared off most of East Prussia, but on the Western front supreme Allied headquarters announced n new and desperate Nazi offensive, possibly aimed at winning back all of Alsace.

NORTHERN ALSACE IS

SCENE OF DESPERATE

ENEMY OFFENSIVE

FAR TO NORTH BRITISH

SECOND ARMY DRIVE

NEAR SIEGFRIED LINE

By EDWARD KENNEDY

PARIS, Jan. 25.—(/P)—

The Germans have opened a desperate new offensive against the Western

Front in Northern Alsace, it was announced late today at supreme headquarters, possibly in a supreme effort to win back the whole northeast France province.

Attacking on a 20-mile front from Haguenau northwest Into the Vosges mountains, the enemy crossed the Moder river at places 15 miles below the reich frontier.

Far to the north, the British Second army drove under guns of the Siegfried line to within a mile of the Roer river, where the fixed defenses begin. Seven towns within 30 miles of Dusseldorf fell to the Tommies.

The allied air force again pounded on thinning German traffic faltering out of the Ardennes salient in the center. German troop move ments toward the east still were

seen.

Nine, More Towns Taken.

The First and Third armies captured nine more towns In Ardennes sector, three of them Inside Germany.

First army troops pushed close to the reich frontier around Wallenrode and Ambleve, above St. Vith. The First division trapped  and captured 300 nazis.

January 24, 1945; Japanese Prison Camp Reveal Atrocoties:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JANUARY 24, 1945:

 Jap Prison Camp,

Graveyard of

40,000 Troops

By RUSSELL BRINES

CAMP O DONNELL PRISON CAMP Jan 23 (Delayed) UP—

Rotting, burned ruins of Camp O Donnell and the untended graves of thousands of heroes of Bataan is all that remains of one of the most notorious pestholes where the Japanese herded 80,000 prisoners of war.

A Filipino colonel who survived O'Donnell s horrors estimated 40,000 American and Filipino soldiers—half of the 80000 imprisoned—had died of disease, malnutrition and mistreatment in the early days after the infamous "death march of Bataan several hundred died daily.

The touch of those doomed, despairing men hangs heavily over this camp.

Tall grass grows over the graves of some 4000 Filipinos Scores of American bodies lie the American cemetery about 700 yards northeast of the main buildings

Deep in the thickets of grass, I found small crosses made of unpainted

laths Dog tags of the dead were fixed to the back of the crosses. That was all.

RENO, NEVADA,-WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 24, 1945

Russians Hold

50 Mile Front

On Oder River

Street Fighting

In Two Key

Silesian Cities

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

LONDON, Jan. 24. (AP)

Red army troops battled to force the Oder river barrier In Silesia today and Marshal Stalin announced the capture of the Polish hinge stronghold of Kalisz

to the northeast a tier a four day tank battle.

LONDON, Jan. 24. CT)—

Russian troops today captured Oppeln, capital of upper Silesia, Marshal Stalin announced in an order of the day.

A sixth Russian army has scored, a fresh breakthrough on the eastern front—this one in Czechoslovakia by the 2nd Ukraine army of Marshal Rodion Y. Malinovsky

Marshal Stalin announced today In an order of the day.

Rozsnyo, 33 miles southwest of captured Kassa (Kosice), was taken in the newly announced drive as Malinovsky's troops on a 25- mile front advanced 16 miles

through mountainous terrain. That push, from the center of the southern Czechoslovakian border, appeared aimed northwest toward the juncture of the Polish, German and Moravian frontiers.

Now identified in the great winter offensive are the 1st, 2nd and 3rd White Russian armies and the 1st, 2nd and 4th Ukrainian armies.

LONDON, Jan. 24.( UP) —

German broadcasts today declared Soviet troops had broken into the streets of the key Silesian cities of Oppein and-Gleiwits; and Moscow reported the Red army was ranged along nearly 50 miles of; the Oder river, Germany's great eastern barrier.

Heavy fighting raged on in east Prussia, where Rusians were within 18 miles of completely sealing; off the province. A Moscow dispatch said Marshal Korstantin

Rokossovsky's men were only 10 miles from the last railway from Germany to the Junkers homeland.

Russian guns were shelling cities on the western side of the Oder, and Marshal Ivan Konev's troops menaced Breslau, capital of lower (northern) Silesia---

 

American Patrols

Skirt Clark Field

Highly Prized 13 Airstrips

One of MacArthtir's Main Goals

By RICHARD BERGHOLZ

GENERAL MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTES, LUZON, Jan. 24. (/P)—

Yank patrols operated today near Clark Field whose 13 highly prized airstrips, are less than 10 miles beyond the front lines of the Manila-bound 14th army corps.

Maj. Gen. Oscar W. Griswold's columns took cover at times while enemy artillery positions were silenced on the approaches to Bamban town, already smoking from American air and field gun, attacks. Griswold is from Nevada.

Six miles beyond Bamban is the maze of runways, hangars shops and barracks which constitute one of Luzon's biggest military prizes.

Spencer Davis, Associated Press war correspondent with the 40^th division, said in a field dispatch that "waves of American infantrymen" were moving cautiously

across vegetable fields toward Bamban.

He said the Yanks crossed "the small stream south of Capas" and then "sped" south. Inasmuch as the stream is less than four miles from Bamban, this suggested columns may be at the town's outskirts.

 Jap Prison Camp,

Graveyard of

40,000 Troops

By RUSSELL BRINES

CAMP O DONNELL PRISON CAMP Jan 23 (Delayed) UP—

Rotting, burned ruins of Camp O Donnell and the untended graves of thousands of heroes of Bataan is all that remains of one of the most notorious pestholes where the Japanese herded 80,000 prisoners of war.

A Filipino colonel who survived O'Donnell s horrors estimated 40,000 American and Filipino soldiers—half of the 80000 imprisoned—had died of disease, malnutrition and mistreatment in the early days after the infamous "death march of Bataan several hundred died daily.

The touch of those doomed, despairing men hangs heavily over this camp.

Tall grass grows over the graves of some 4000 Filipinos Scores of American bodies lie the American cemetery about 700 yards northeast of the main buildings

Deep in the thickets of grass, I found small crosses made of unpainted

laths Dog tags of the dead were fixed to the back of the crosses. That was all.