U.S. Gains on 35-ML Line Churchill Where Americans Hack at Bul^E 3D Army Cracks Nearly Hit by Sniper Bastogne Siege;
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"We will remember you with . .It is equally important pride and with humility. that you complete the victory We shall keep on remembering THE TRIPES you." over Nazi ideas." —President Roosevelt. OaHy ffewspapcr of IM. Armed Forces the European Theater of Operations —Gen. Bradley. Vol. 1—No. 155 lFr. New York — PARIS — London lFr. Friday, Dec. 29, 1944 U.S. Gains on 35-ML Line Churchill Where Americans Hack at Bul^e 3d Army Cracks Nearly Hit By Sniper Bastogne Siege; ATHENS, Dec. 28.—Prime Min- ister Churchill and Foreign Min- Nazi Flank Reels ister Anthony Eden, after narrowly escaping assassination by a snip- Field Marshal von Rundstedt's south flank appeared ing machine-gunner, left for Lon- to be wobbling last night as official reports showed Amer- don today with a Greek peace formula in their pockets. It cal- ican forces which had driven 10 miles in five days to led for a regency to supplant King relieve Bastogne advancing along a 35-mile front. The George II. siege was raised by a U.S. Third Army armored force. A burst from a hidden machine- As a pea-soup fog descended on the frozen hills ofj gun had zipped past Churchill yesterday as the Prime Minister Eastern Belgium and Luxembourg, the Germans admitted and his party stepped out of the for the first time that their llth-hour blitz is on the British Embassy for an armored defensive between Bastogne and Echternach. car tour of Athens. A Greek girl German radio said last night that American troops had' was killed just 30 yards away recaptured Echternach on the Luxembourg-German border. from him. The party, which 1 included Eden, Field Marshal Sir scars and Stripes Map by Baird Latest official battle reports, still 36 hours behind front Harold Alexander and Maj. Gen. American forces drive ten miles to relieve the Bastogne garrison, developments, showed: Ronald M. Scobie, calmly proceed- besieged for seven days, while German radio reports U.S. recapture ed with the tour. of Echtcrnach, on the Luxembourg-German border. J Americans held their mile-wide corridor to Bastogne Archbishop Likely Regent against the first strong Nazi counter-attack.. A conference of the warring 4 2. German armor patrolling toward the Meuse was Greek political factions, brought Jerries Really Laid It On\ mauled by Allied forces. together by Churchill, reached a Powerful Nazi attacks between Stavelot and March* unanimous decision favoring a 3. regency and it was officially an- Survivors Say of Nazi Push toward Antwerp supply lines were smeared. nounced that Churchill and Eden U.S. forces recaptured Grandmenil and Manhay in would recommend its appointment 4. to the Greek king in London, who By Charles Kiley the west tip of the enemy bulge, according to U.P. heretofore has be?n ooposed to Stars and Stripes Staff Writer The German .Transocean Newsagency Correspondent, The dynamite behind the German counter-offensive one. Guenther Weber, reported last night that the Germans had The regent probabiy would be is gone, according to SHAEF. The advance is slowed down, gone over to. "an elastic defense" on the south flank which Archbishop Damaskinos of the and in some sectors Americans are moving up again with the forms the belly of the bulge. Greek Orthodox Church, an balance of strength they lacked when their lines were forced ardent anti-Fascist who is believed It was the first indication from to be acceptable both to the left- to bend and yield under superior an enemy source that the Christ- enemy power. Soviets Enter wing EAM (resistance front) and Merchants Urged mas blitz had hit a snag. the Rightists. Premier George But Jim Williams and Abe Rich, Channelized by Allied pressure Papandreou offered to resign. Not to Cheat GIs a couple of doughfeet from an out- Buda Streets on its north and south flanks, the The regency then would be faced fit that caught one of the first bulge was being squeezed as its with the task of reconciling the blows of the attack near the MOSCOW, Dec. 28 (AP).—Red western tentacles groped to withm Representatives of the French Luxembourg-Belgian border on the warring political factions. This exporting industries adopted a Army units, under clouds of smoke three miles of the northern bulga Papandreou has failed to do, but morning of Dec. 17, are around from burning buildings, pushed of France north of Charleville. unanimous resolution yesterday to testify that the Jerries really conditions under which the re- urging French merchants to jharge into the streets of Buda on the yanks Cross Sure River gency would operate would be laid it on. Allied soldiers and French custo- western bank of the Danube River Sizable enemy forces in the vici- more favorable than those con- Williams, a communications pla- today but in Pest they found grim mers the same prices. The action nity of Ciney and Celles were fronting the present government. toon chief and staff sergeant from resistance from suicide forces. was taken at a meeting to study Harrisburg, Pa., and Rich, rifle reported. The whole western peri- Big 3 to Review Situation trans-Atlantic business relations (The Berlin communique admit- meter of the bulge was fluid, with company Pfc from Ozone Park, ted that even as the Soviets fought Before his departure, Churchill after the war. "N.Y., came out of the line yester- both U.S. and German tanks mill- told a press conference that he, At the same time the Pans news- to reduce Budapest itself they ing around without making any day with one -f the first reports hurled strong new forces into a President Roosevelt and Marshal paper Combat, commenting on a of the counter-offensive by those strong attacks. Stalin would review the Greek tendency it saw among some mounting offensive beyond the by- In central Luxembourg, Amer- who stood in Its path. passed city, driving westward to- situation at an early meeting and Frenchmen to berate the Americans They told of regimental and bat- icans f crossed the Sure River in that if the Greeks fail to solve for not bringing enough food and ward Austria.) three places. talion commanders, colonels, ma- In Buda several streets already their differences "an international fuel for the civilians, reminded its (Continued on Page 8) Northwest of Echternach, enemy trust might be necessary" to rule readers that the Americans were were in Russian hands. There was troops were withdrawing back inta " the country. giving something more precious— (Continued on Page 8) (Continued on Page 8) To the sound of sniper fire out- their lives. Nazis Retake Barga side the embassy and the thud of Saying that most GIs seen in British artillery shelling ELAS Paris were on their way to bloody In Italy Offensive New Capes for GI Snow-Fighters positions, Churchill declared battles, the newspaper commented: determinedly that British armed "There you have their Christmas 15TH*ARMY GROUP HQ., Dec. intervention would not stop until gift—instead of chocolate." 28 (Reuter).—German troops who the differences were settled "either attacked in force in the mountain- by free negotiation or by the Berchtesgaden Vacated ous west coast sector of the Italian increasing use of military force." MOSCOW, Dec. 28 (UP;.—Adolf front northeast of Leghorn have The British will not withdraw, he Hitler is believed here to have recaptured the small town of Barga, added, without 'guarantees, in abandoned his Berchtesgaden estate two and a half miles east of Gal- which we can believe, that a fair because of the advance of the licano on the Serchio River, and are and decent government will be set Soviet Armies toward Austria, continuing to press back leading up which will not pay oft old bringing the fighting front within Allied elements. scores on either side." 200 miles of his mountain hideout. Springing suddenly from their snowbound mountain defenses, the Germans launched an offensive on Army Again Orders Seizure a seven-mile front down both sides of the Serchio River and around the key road junction town of Gal- Of Montgomery Ward Stores licano, some 40 miles northeast of LA V Leghorn, Fifth Army supply port. WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (ANS). Jamaica, N.Y.; Kansas City; San Only meager details were released The War Department, acting on Rafael, Calif, and Baltimore. on the German drive, but it was a Presidential edict, today ordered Yesterday in Chicago counters officially admitted that slight with- seizure of Montgomery Ward pro- were broken, fixtures were smashed drawals had been forced and some perties in seven cites after the and goods thrown into aisles when ground relinquished around Barga. nation's largest mail order house a crowd swept through the Dear- This part of the Apennines was had refused to comply with War born Ave. store after strike- last announced as entrusted to the Labor Board directives breakers had attempted to inter- U.S. 92nd Div. It was the second major crack- fere with picketing outside the down this year against the company. store. 32,000 field as Pro-Nazis Last spring Ward Chairman Sewell Ward's Chicago headquarters Frenchmen interned or impri- Avery was physically ejected from said that a court order designed soned on suspicion of pro-Nazi his Chicago office. to sustain the government action activities now total 32,000, Interior Army troops this morning were was expected to be filed in Federal Minister Tixier reported yester- X/4 Marvin C. Eans, of Owensboro, Ky., demonstrates .^e snow moving to take over Ward pro- district courts in areas of the cities day. Of these, 5,000 cases have cape now being: issued First Army, troops on the Western Front.