Allies Smashing Escape Routes in Wild Nazi Flight
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is Man Spricht Deutsch lei On Parle Francah Dieser Weg ist gesperrt. THE ST&RS mmm Mettez-vous a l'abri. Deesser Vayk ist gespehrt. Met-ay VOO-Z ah la-BREE. This road is closed. Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces f^S^^G^K BS^^^S?'in the EuroPean Theater of Operations Take cover. Vol, 1—No. 103 lFr, New York — PARIS — London 1 Fr. Wednesday, Nov. 1, 1944 Rpds Open World's Biggest Squeeze Play Allies Smashing New Drive On Prussia Escape Routes in The Red Army has launched a massive new • offensive at Wild Nazi Flight East Prussia from the south, Germany admitted yesterday, and in the first hours pene- Final'18 Push Began trated the Nazi lines at two British Crack points- At the same time 26 Years Ago Today German radio admitted the Twenty-six years ago today Last Barrier Soviets were fighting only 45 the First and Second U.S. miles from Budapest follow- Armies launched the big offen- At Maas ing an apparent break-through on sive which ended the first World the Hungarian plain. War 12 days later. The big drive toward East Prus- The grand assault, which Trundling their equipment sia was said to have been started opened at dawn after a Hal- in baby carriages stolen from from bridgeheads across the Narew lowe'en barrage, drove into the Dutch housewives, remnants River above Warsaw with numer- Meuse-Argonne sector and dis- of the German 15th Army ous tank . and infantry divisions. lodged the Germans from fled in disorganized retreat The river runs through Poland trenches they had occupied for roughly parallel with the southeast- months. out of Western Holland last ern border of East Prussia. night as the British smashed Nazi Attacks Repulsed the last line of German re- A new Soviet offensive from this New Air Blows sistance south of the River direction apparently would be aimed Maas. Allied air and artillery not only for a break-through, but attacks destroyed transports be- also at establishing conditions for Boost Jap Toll A United Nations' pincers has closed around Germany. Virtually hind the fleeing Germans and a resumption of Marshal Chernya- bombed bridges ahead of them. khovsky's campaign from the east. every mile of German frontier is menaced now by Allied and Russian Pursuing British and Canadian His army already is some 20 miles armies squeezing the Reich. To 64 Ships forces, which kept losing contact inside the East Prussian border. New U.S. air blows in the Philip- with the fleeing enemy, reached the Strong German counter-attacks pines yesterday boosted the toll of Maas at Kapelle and last night against the southern anchor of Japanese ships to 64, while Allied were closing on the German escapa Chernyakhovsky's line were re- Seven Million Allies Clamp sources estimated the enemy's bridge at Geertrudenburg, prin- pulsed with heavy Nazi losses, Mos- casualties in last week's naval cipal route across the river. Front- cow reported, as the Russians con- battles at 25,000 to 35,000 men. line dispatches said this thrust solidated on the snow-covered fields 15,000-Mile Pincers on Reich Meanwhile Gen. MacArthur's isolated thousands of Germans for an expected drive on the Baltic headquarters announced that in caught in the Hertogenbosch area seaport: of Koenigsberg. The Ger- the first ten days <of ground opera- from the main forces attempting mans concentrated tank and infan- By Richard Lewis tions in the Philippines the Jap- to cross the river to the west. ■ Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. try attacks south of Goldap in an anese lost 24,000 in killed, wounded Pursue Antwerp Garrison attempt to turn the lower end of The JOe who's keeping the mud out of his Ml at Aachen and captured against U. S. casual- To the west, Canadians struck the 95-mile front, but Soviet artil- or gnawing on Ks in a snow-rimmed foxhole of the Vosges ties of 3,221, of whom 70S were into Walcheren Island in pursuit of lery broke up the assaults. might not have it figured that way, but he's part of the killed. the German garrison which fled biggest squeeze play in the history of war. "The tactical skill with which there after the 57-day blockade of INVASION FEARED our troops have been maneuvered," Antwerp was broken. LONDON, Oct. 31 (AP).—Adolf It exists for 15,000 miles on the borders of Germany where MacArthur said, "not only outwit- The significance of Antwerp to Hitler's Norwegian garrison, fear- 7,000,000 Americans, British, Cana- ted the enemy but resulted in a the Germans was revealed in an ing an Allied seaborne invasion dians, Russians, French, Poles, Ju- relatively low casualty rate that Associated Press report* which said linked with the Russian drive from Stilwell Recall goslavs, Rumanians and Greeks are is unsurpassed in the history of that Canadians had captured enemy •the north, is hastily throwing up squeezing hard. war." documents stating that the defense American troops, striking to cut extensive interior defense works, a Across from the Joes on the of the Scheldt approach to Antwerp Norwegian official said today. They Third Army front, about 1,100 miles the Island of Leyte in two, fought was the decisive factor in the fur- Laid to Chiang their way through the Leyte Valley include tank barriers, bunkers and away, Russian GIs are beating ther conduct of the war. NEW YORK, Oct. 31 (AP). — their way through the central Car- to within ten miles of the west According to Associated Press, an concrete strongpoints around towns coast. Enemy air activity decreased and along communication lines. Brooks Atkinson, Chungking cor- pathian mountains into Slovakia. order issued Oct. 7 by the 15th Ger- respondent of the New York Times Germany and what used to be sharply with U. S. fighters opera- man Army commander, Gen. Gus- just returned to the U.S., said to- Austria-Hungary are in between. ting from Leyte bases, and six tav Von Zanger, showed the Ger- day that_ the recall of Gen. Joseph For 500 miles in Western Europe, Japanese planes were shot down man High Command feared that Churchill Sees W. Stilwell was agreed to by Presi- the west bite of the United Nations' on Monday without loss. (Continued on Page 2) dent Roosevelt at the demand of pincers zigzags from Arnhem in BOMB SINKS 2 SUBS War I mil* 15 Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek. Central Holland to the Swiss fron- WITH U. S. THIRD FLEET, Oct. "Inside China it represents a po- tier. FOr 1,500 miles on Germany's 31 (UP).—A U. S. flier dropped a litical triumph of a moribund anti- eastern frontier, the Soviet line Dry Chief Hits LONDON, Oct. 31— Prime Min- single bomb between two closely- democratic regime more concerned extends from the Arctic Circle to anchored Japanese submarines ister Churchill said today that "on with maintaining its political su- the Aegean Sea. during the recent raid against the military grounds it seems difficult CO OH GI Plea premacy than in driving the Japan- Under the belly of the Reich, Ryukyu Islands and sank them to believe that the war (in Europe) ese out of China," Atkinson wrote the Allies are hacking their way both, it was revealed today. OMAHA, Oct. 31 (INS).—Harold can be ended before Christmas or into the Po Valley of northern Another flier shot down two even before Easter." "Three-Gun" Wilson, leader of the New Head Arrives Italy. British troops have nearly heavily-guarded Japanese trans- Nebraska prohibition movement, "It would not be prudent to as- CHUNGKING, Oct. 31 (UP).— isolated the Nazis in southeastern port planes off the coast of sure," he declared, "that a shorter asked Secretary of War Henry L. Maj. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer ar- Europe by- the invasion of Greece Formosa which apparently carried Stimson today to discipline a colo- period than 18 months after the rived today to assume command of and Marshal Tito's Jugoslav Par- a number of important Japanese destruction of Hitler will be re- nel for "giving away military in- U.S. troops in the China portion (Continued on Page 2) officials. formation." quired for the final destruction of of the dismembered China-Burma- the Japanese will or capacity to Wilson referred to a letter from India Theater. Col. Butler B. Miltonberger, com- fight." • "I don't,know what this is all GIs Will Kindly Remove mander of the 134th Infantry Re- Churchill was speaking in the about yet," he said. "This came giment and hero of the Battle of House of Commons for a bill to to .me oh Wednesday and here I St. Lo, accompanying a petition prolong the life of Britain's coali- am." ; . Helmets on Kissing Marlene signed by members of the regi- tion government for another year. ment. The petition asked "the "A great deal of work has yet Crowded London Hotel people of Nebraska to see to it to be done to improve ports and green shirt and slacks secured by a that the Nebraska we return to will build .up supplies and concentrate By Ed Stone Stars and Stripes Unit Correspondent. GI web belt, covered by a regulation be the same Nebraska we left." forward the ever-growing Allied Wrecked byFlyingBomb WITH THE 35TH INFANTRY trench coat. When the ground is Miltonberger's letter, Wilson army," the~ Prime Minister stated. LONDON, Oct. 31 (AP). — A DIVISION, Oct. 31.— Our LiT Mar- muddy she stuffs her pants into the charged, contained information re- cowboy boots she wore in "Destry garding the number of men killed crowded hotel was demolished by lene isn't being selfish with those Mobilizes Orderly Room a flying bomb early today and a Rides Again." and wounded in the regiment.