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Mediation. : Of Germans Hil Frankfurt In Leyle Trap ,~" Iowan ' Greatest Air Armada 8y Aine,rica U. $. Armies Take 77th, Seventh DiviliOns Last Enemy Forts • • In History Blasts Split Enemy Forces Welt of Roer River MaCArUlIlt announces• entire Nazi Rail Lines Delegation Urges Ormoc garrison of Japanese iUl­ To Capture Fort PARIS (AP)-The Germans nihUated. other enemy forces LONDON (AP) - The great­ .ritain to Cease face destruction in reconquer­ ENERAL M.A ARTHUR'S were driven from their French est bomber fleet ever assembled­ 'Dictatorship Attempr \ ing of Leyte. more than 1.600 American Fort­ HEADQ ARTER . Phi 11 p­ buffer cities of Haguenau and resses and Liberators - pounded pine, Tuesday (AP)-Annihi. WA 'HINGTON (AP) - A Sarreguemines yesterday and y .... drive Nazis from last the German rail network in the lation llf the entire defending" Greek·American d legation yes· their last defenses west of the strongholds west of Roer before Frankfurt area with 6.000. tons of garrison at Ormoc, Yank.cap­ terday asked the stated depal't. Roer river before Cologne were Cologne. explosives yesterday as part of a tured port on Loyte i.Iilud • .aDd ment to mediate in the batt! caving in as three United States massive air assault by more than destruction of thousandaof between British forces and armies redoubled blows at the U. S. Greeks ask American 3.200 United States warplanes. mediation in present turmoil. Japan trapped in a pocket to Greek relOistance groups. Reich from west and south. The huge fleet of Eighth alrforce the south were announooci by Indications mounted Ullit the The delegation al 0 prote:ted hea vies. forming a sky train 300 Gen. Dougla MacArthur today. enemy wa wit h d raw i n at 10 the British embassy, calling g miles long. was escorted by more numerous s'e () tor s along the MacArthur r ported that the upon London to "cease its Draft Boards Open than 800 fighters. From the op­ western front, before the First y t ran 77th divi ion which bloody attempt to shackle the eration 12 bombers and two fight­ army at the approache to land d last w k four mit Greek people once more with Cologne's plain, and before the New Service Program ers were missing last night. below rmoc had n joined by dictatorship. " Third and Seventh from Sar· Losses Low the Seventh division, closin, the . Stelos Pis t 0 1a k i s, former reguemines to the Rhine. southern jaw of a nutcracker viae. Receive Instructions This loss from a force of 16.800 and "enemy forces which were­ member of the Greek parlia· Oaln Tbree Mlle. United States fliers - more men ment, was spokesman lor the About Government trapped between the two have The First army drive on the than are in an entire combat di­ been destroyed." ct.oup. Now president of theGreek­ vision of infantry - was a record Roer river positions added up to 'Work or Fighr Order Sel.. 8app)_ American committee for nat­ three miles in two days as four low lor a raid of such magnitude. ional unity. he sllld he was ex­ MANY AN ALLIED soldIer .nlckered .. be )Iaaed thl. ala'n ou hltI wa,. Great quantitin of ectuiprnent more towns in a 15-rhile assault , WASHINGTON (AP) -Selec­ The German airforce kept clear to the n,Mln, front near Holland. The .... oup w •• \ar,e, the way. they pelled from his country in 1939. arc were 'captured, four or five tive service acted swiftly yester­ and supplies were seized. of the mighty United States ar­ hoped would be ahort. and the lICenery • • • well. tbey ho,ed It woald He said be is a member of the more were entered and others day to put Into effect the govern· ' Fierce filhtlns preceded final Uberal party there. mada and anti-aircraft fire was be beautifully landllCaped with German soldle.... were by-passed. ment's "produce or fight" direc· meager. But heavy. billowy clouds destruction of the Or.moc gal1'oon. Tl\ts stand is based on what of­ Fall ot Ormoc. Japan'. la.t bl, ficial soUrces here called an in­ At last reports tbe ' first was tive. caused the bombers to drop tbelr closing hjlrtl , upon ' Mariaweiler. It instructed local draft boards explosives by instruments and ob­ port of reinforcement for her formal agreement approved by troops to the north In the Ormoc:. President Roosevelt and Prime only. a mj)~ and . a' hall trom that present occupational defer­ scured the damage done at Frank­ Dllren, key .. to, ,the Roe,r ,river line. ment regulations should be ap­ furt, Hanau 10 mlles east, and Na~is Slow ~ussian Sforza Claims corridor. was a aharp blow to the Minister Curchill that Greece and enemy. Its capture Sunday was Y!IgOIlavia WQuid be entirely Bri­ and upon .Hove,n, wlthm 500 yat:ds plied "in the light of the imme­ Giessen 30 miles north. of the west. bl\nlc , of tl).e RoeI' to diate urgencies for men in the In a simultaneous attack from announced yesterday. II&h zona 'of operatlon as far as Advance on Budapest B ·t· hE rt~ : "The flghtln. In Otmoc l£Mlf the' north. . . . .armed Services and the civilian the south. more than 500 U. S. plll1s of the British and American before Its fall was of the mOlt prize. of the day fell to wa'r effort." bombers and 350 fighters struck . rlls xe Ion chiefs' of staff were concerned. ~iggest desperate character," MacArthur into Austria from bases in Italy. Hold Red Gains w ThlJ agre~ment did not affect Rus­ the Seventh army, whose cBgt!lTe . The instructions followed a call reported. lian opera tons. on which ChUrchill of H'agu~nal.\ left the Germans by War Mobilizer James F. Putting Hitler's domain under To Two Towns The seneral reported yesterda,. and P.remler Stalin have conferred wltbout a sin,1e large city to BYJ:nes for "i,ncreased drafting of two-directional assau It, s t I' 0 n g Of 'Pressu're' , IeJ)erritely . Northeast of Capital that "manT thousanda" of Ja~ anchor a ,new defense , line in older men not contributing to the jiormations of Liberators. Fort­ nese were in tlte narrowing poeket While Anjerican officials are IIortqem ~Isace. _war eftort." resses and fighters of the 15th 8ir­ between the 77th and Seventh di­ hOll\ng that the British will make Nail, Fall Back MeanWhile. Draft D Ire c tor force hammered the Moosbler­ LONDON (AP) - Moscow an­ visions comin, together Just below peace with Greek resistance for­ Front reports said the Germans Lewis B. Hershey said. regula­ baurn refinery 22 miles northwest nounced last nlgbt that the Red ROME (AP) - Co u n t Carlo Slorza. former minister without Ormoc. ~ 'quickly, this government·s ati­ appeared' to be falling back into tlons are being amended to chan. of Vienna. freight yards lind the army had captured only two townll A third Yank dlvl Ion. the 32nd. tIId~ is- that it ,has no military l'e­ portlollo who was admitted {rom the Magihot and Bte.lrilCi linft nel to m!11tary ervlce all regi~­ ~ou1.h