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^CONTINENTAL EDITION 1'THE Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations Vol. 1 No. 9 Printed "Somewhere in France" Thursday, July 13, 1944 Soviets Open Tokyo Evacuates Notional League Routs American Yanks 1</2 Mi. 30,000 Children In 12th Al'-Star Contest, 7 to 1 NEW YORK, July 12. (AP) PITTSBURGH, July 12—The National League rose up and got sweet Great Battles —Approximately 30,000 school revenge for humiliating setbacks received against their American From St. Lo, children have been evacuated League rivals in the past by combining timely slugging and topflight from Tokyo to the rural dis- pitching to win the 12th annual All Star game, 7-1, before 36,000 last trict since July 8 as a precau- night at Forbes Field. tion against American bomber The victory was only the fourth for the National Leaguers in the On 3_Fronts raids, according to a Tokyo series inaugurated in 1933 but they handed the junior circuit ite most Near Periers one-sided defeat.. broadcast recorded by the Fed- The A. L. took an early lead in the second, scoring its only run before eral Communications Commis- theNationals climbed all over Tex Hughson, Red Sox, ace, in the fifth Poland, East Prussia, sion. to register four runs then added two more in the seventh and another Germans Retreating in the eighth off Detroit's Hai Baltic Goals Newhouser Ken Raffensberger, Philly left- On West Front MOSCOW, July 12 — Three hander making his All Star debut, 2 Chinese Forces was the winning pitcher. He Munich Hit Again; American troops yesterday great battles are opening in Rus- fought within sight of the batter- sia for eastern Poland, East Prus- came on the scene in the fourth ed spire of St. Lo, strategic heart sia and the Baltic states. Bridge Jap Line to reiieve Bucky Walters of the Attacks on London of Hitler's defenses in the eastern The ferocity with which the Reds who worked the first three sector of the 48-mile TJ. S. front Germans are resisting the great frames. Hughson was the loser. ia Normandy, while in the west- march forward by the forcse of Led by Phil Cavaretta, Dixie ern sector German forces continu- Marshal Rokossovsky and Gens. In North Burma Walker, Connie Ryan and Walker ByRobotsContinue ed their general withdrawal to- Ohemyakovsky and Bagramyan is Cooper, each of whom collected ward Lessay. two hits, the Nationals rapped LONDON, July 12—-More than indicative of the gravity with CHUNGKING, July 12—Tne (Continued on page 3) Yanks advancing southwest which the German High Com- AUied campaign to drive the Jap- 1,200 American heavy bombers from Carentan toward Periers, in mand views its position. anese out of northern Burma and today boosted the weight of the center of the front, reached The possibility that the Rus- complete a land supply route to bombs dropped on the area the villages of Maugerie and La China reached another milestone around Munich to 6,000 tons in Roserie, four miles from Periers. sian forces may have achieved a 5th Army Moves 24 hours as they blasted commun- On the British-Canadian front complete breakdown was contain- yesterday when the Chinese 22nd ications and other targets around southwest of Caen, a lull occur- ed in a German Overseas News and 38th divisions effected a the fourth largest city in the ted in the battle between the Od- Agency admission that hard juncture seven miles west of Reich. on and Ome rivers after some of fighting was going on east of Mogaung 2 Miles Nearer The escorted Fortresses and Lib- the heaviest fighting there since Olita, which lies south of Kaunas They clearee the enemy from erators, for the second successive D-Day. on the Memel River, 52 miles the area between Kamaing and day, flew to Munich through Fresh American forces poured from the East Prussian border. Mogaung and stretched Allied Port of Leghorn clouds and intense flak to bomb by- forward in new attacks toward St. At the same time, the German control of the Ledo Road leading instrument without encountering Lo from a 640-foot ridge over- military spokesman practically ad- into China to around 300 miles. ROME. July 12—Fifth Army a single Interceptor on their I,- looking the city from about three mitted a big German retreat was Meanwhile, the Chinese High units pushed forward two miles 000-mile round trip. Twenty-six miles east, and one column reach- impending. Command repeated charges that to within eight miles of the im- bombers were lost. ed a point one and one-half-miles (An Associated Press Moscow the Japs were using poison gas in portant port of Leghorn today by Ninth Air Force war planes, from the city limits. Fierce fight- the Hengyang area. The Chinese meanwhile flew in support of Al- ing raged on the highway from dispatch said that if the Soviet occupying the coastal town of lied armies in Normandy and Bayeux to St. Lo, east of the city, advance continued at its present also said Jap forces striking Castiglioncello, while on the Adri- pounded fuel dumps supplying as Yanks by-passed St. Andre de rate "there is a good chance the northward west of the Canton- atic coast Eighth Army big guns German panzer forces. Maraud- I'Epine and swept through La Aranie.i will be fighting on Ger- Hankow Railway had reached a began shelling Ancona's harbor ers struck at two fuel dumps and Caivaira for a gain of two miles. man soil. "It brought out that point 12 miles from Yingiak, 70 installations. Bitter opposition enemy troop positions south of "Suicide squads" of Germans the Red Aimy now was within miles north of Canton was reported along the whole Caen while Havocs went after covering the Nazis' general With- sticking distance of its last objec- Tokyo radio claimed '.he Jap Italian front as the Germans gasoline and oil supplies east of drawal on a ten-mile front south- tives before Poland, with Kaunas air force bombed U. S. airfields in played for time to strengthen the Domfront. ward from La Haye du Puits to- 45 miles away, Grodno, 56 miles, China, destroying 11 planes and Gothic Line ward Lessay were blasted by Bialystok, 51 miles, and Pinsk. 15 damaging at least 95 others. A Swiss niplomatic source said While RAF Lancasters were American dive bombers and ar- miles.) the Nazis had installed a new raiding rocket coast installations tillery at the hiltop town of Me- In East Prussia the Germans headquarters in Bavariz In pre- without loss for the third straight becq, about four miles northeast are desperately preparing to do partion for total retreat from day, it was announced that fly- of Lessay. battle on Germany's own terri- U. S. to Increase Italy. This was said to be de- American patrols were reported ing bombs made another attack to have reached the outskirts of tory. The Russian columns which signed "for the future batrle 'Zone on London, causing damage and Angeville-sur-Aye, three miles bypassed Vuna are striking toward Civilian Output of South Germany," with some casualties. It also was stated that north of Lessay. Kaunas and the East Prussian 300 strongpoints being construct- the Australia House, near Tra- SHAEF disclosed yesterday that border. In Vilna the last bitter ed from the Brenner pass into falgar Square, was hit during an WASHINGTON, July 12—The earlier robot-plane attack. Allied front-support planes had battle its going on between thv WPB announced last night that the heart of Bavaria. executed one of the most inten- trupped Germans and the victor Mitchell bombers today dropped Col. Walter B. Goodrich, TJ. 3. sive attacks yet on German ar- Chairman Donald M. Nelson's Army anti-aircraft expert, in a lous Russian units who are mop- program for resumption of civ- 200 tons of bombs on 1,700 railway mor when fighter-bombers and cars on the Adessandna yards, statement issued from SHAEF rocket-firing planes destroyed 28 ping up on a large scale in tlw ilian production in plants not said it was "more peaceful along narrow streets of the old city. needed for war work would go and photos showed more than German tanks and damaged 16 1,400 destroyed or damaged. the Normandy beaches right now Tuesday. This equals about one- into effect Saturday. A conces- than in London and southern fifth of the tank strength of an SUMS ON IN BRITAIN sion to military leaders, who op- England." American A.A. units, entire division. LONDON, July 12—Sect, of Wax posed the program on the grounds guarding the beaches, have shot that it would divert labor from Allies Resume down more than 100 enemy German, counter attacks against HeDry L. Stimson arrived yester- British and Canadian forces day in Britain on a tour of Allied arms production provides for planes, mostly at night, Col. staggered dates which defer op- Talks With Turks Goodrich said. southwest of Caen dted down. battlefronts in Europe after eration of part of the plan to Aug Hill 112 — "Crucifix Hill" — Was spending a week in Italy. 15. ANKARA, July 12 (AP)—Con- again held by the British last versations among Turkey, Russia LUFTWAFFE ACE KILLED night after it had changed hands and Britain are afoot wlwh may German radio reported last taree times. British troops re- lead to Turkish participation in night the death in action of Maj. pelled strong counter-attacks at Gne-Man BAR Barrage Rescues the war before the end of the (Acting Gen.) Wolfgang Redlich Eterviile and held high ground summer The talks have taker, group commander of a Luftwaffe there from which they could cover up where the failure of the Cairo fighter wing credited with 41 air the German line controlling the Whole Battalion Pinned in Field Conference left Turkey's position victories.