119-009-0 16 THE NEW YORK TIMS, SUNDAY, APRIL 15, 1945. The Texts of: Oe Day's Communiques__ on Fighting in Various Zones ligh ra end bargee proceeding to" Pojerstieten, Komnelinev . Seers - destroyed thirty-four trucks, thin- visions, supported by strong tank United Nations ward Trieste. 600 Give Blood in Honor pen, Sehorsobehnen. Baerwalde, ty carts with men and material, and air forces. There are several The flotilla was attacked with Doretheenhof and Gross Heyde- four engines, sixteen rail trucks eeches, for which there is PARIS, April 14--CommuxiquE 371 craft krug and the railway stations of and two anti-aircraft guns . They =righting. The enemy has lost Allied Ex- torpedoes and five enemy of Supreme Headquarters, were bit, blown up and sunk. Of the Late President Neultuhren and Seerappen. also caused several fires and ex- so far thirty-nine tanks. peditionary Force: The enemy opened up heavy fire In fighting during April 14 in this plosions . In the northern sector of the Allied forces made a second cross- on our craft as they retired with- Moved by the impulse to ex- area troops of this front took pris- A later communiqud, as broadcast western front major fightfng de- offi- veloped only on the lane, between ing of the Issel River and are out causing damage and casualties. press their grief at President oner more than 7,000 German from Belgrade and reported by the fighting in Arnhem. We expanded In same area on the night of cers and men. Federal Communications Oommia- the Eras and the Weser and on the this way he our bridgehead south of Deventer April 11-12 British motor torpedo Roosevelt's death "in a On Czechoslovak ferriter9 east aion : lower Aller while strong pressure s-- prevailed and captured Teuge. BetweenB the boats met three enemy convoys of would have liked," 600 person and southwest of the town of Hodo- After three days' bitter fighting . Issel and the Ems River we Cap- 11ghters also bound for Trieste. 200 more than on recent Satur- bin troops of the Second Ukrainian On the Elbe the enemy, after our troops broke through stronply fierce fighting, in tured Dalfseu and Assen. They attacked with torpedoes but days--appeared yesterday at the Front, continuing their offensive, fortified enemy positions on the sueweded gain- In the area north of O8nabrueek occupied the inhabited localities of d ownitthe eastern bank were unable to obtain any result. Red Cross Blood Donor Center Srem [Syrmial Front, forced the %7 the we reached Friesoythe and Clop- A spirited engagement then took Mazur, Kuzelov. Malavrbka, Knes- ssartiver minor forces 57 Willoughby Street, Brook- Rivers Drava and Danube on a sec- southeast of Magdeburg. Counter- penburg and occupied Vechta . place with the enemy craft. This at dub, Strasnice, Luzice, Mikulcice, tor between Borovo and Podravslq In the Rethen area we expanded was followed by a heavy explosion. lyn, to give their blood in his Noravaka Nova Ves, Hruaky, No- attacks are in progress against-the . Podgajci and the River Sava a an Americans who crossed. our bridgehead over the Aller It is probable that one ship was memory . vyziskov and Star. Breclav in a sector between Breko and River. severely damaged or sunk . North and northeast of Vienna A fierce struggle continues on we The staff of twenty-five work. by Omaje overcame the enemy's resist- Northeast of Hanover made During the past week Allied war- troops of the front occupied as- ance . Advancing east more than the Ruhr and on the Rhine as well another crossing of the Aller at ships continued to give gunfire sup- era, who many times of late have sault on Austrian territory the in. as in Berglachesland, and with In- our forces ad- localities of Hohenau, fifty kilometers, they carried by as- Celle from which port to the armies in the neighbor- been confronted by empty chairs habited sault and liberated the towns of creasing Intensity. Grenadiers, vanced ten miles and captured hood of the France-Italian frontier. and nearly deserted waiting Grossinzerdorf, Obersulz, Nexing, Vinkovci, Osijek . Vukovar, Val- paratroops and tanks repelled nu- Eachede and Eldingen. Other units The British Bad Pyrawarth, Kronberg, Rienden- merous attacks destroyer Meteor ob- rooms, were forced to work al povo and Zupanja. by superior forces pushing from the south have tained direct hits on an enemy bat- thal, Ulrichakirchen, Pfoesing, Put- in narrowed fighting areas. There vicinity of Celle. full speed to accommodate the zing and In addition, they liberated the reached the tery and destroyed It while the Enzersfeld. places of Tovarnik, Ilinci, Lipovac, were high losses on both sides. Brunswick has been cleared and United States destroyer Mackenzie, donors . So heavy was the crowd West of Vienna troops of the They maintained the cohesion of our infantry gained fifteen miles to Third Ukrainian Front, continuing Jamena, Gunia, Vrbanja, Bosnjaci, bombarding mortar emplacements that volunteers scheduled to go Otok, Jankovci, Sotin, Borovo, the front. There was fierce fight- reach Meine, to the north. Infantry and enemy positions, also obtained their offensive, forced the Traisen ing for several breaches In the units pushed east of Brunswick off duty early in the day worked Fiver captured the town of Dalj, Tenja, Petrijevct, hasicka, direct hits . .-and Breznica, Koska, Cepln, Stare, Novi- evening hours. and reached the vicinity of Ca.1- The French destroyer Temp4te straight on through the after- Herzogenburg and also more than In central Germany attacking vokde Other elements reached . sixty inhabited localities, Including Mikanovci, Serna and Gradiste. In . engaged an enemy gun position noon this fighting the German Forty- American troops penetrated farther Hasselburg . with good results. while in the the large Inhabited localities of to the north and Mrs. William W. Lasker Jr ., Michelhausen, first and Eleventh Divisions, 963d southeast. Re- Our armor advanced more than night the United States destroyer Zwentendorf, Pon- Brigade connatasaace formations probed fifty airline miles to the Elbe River Mackenzie volunteer head of the blood donof see. Trasdorf, Sitzenberg, Herzens- and 142d Artillery Regi- again bombarded road ment, paria of the 297th Division. against the Scale at Halle and at a point southeast of Stendal. In- junctions and gun positions, ob- service in Kings County, said it dorf, P)acheladort, Inzeradorf, against the area on fantry units reached the Elbe near Kreuz Ossarn, Kapelln, Jeutendort the Third and Twelfth [Ante] both sides of taining direct hits . was the most purposeful group Pavelitch Divisions and a fairly Zelts. German fighting groups in Barby. We now control ten miles In rect supposupport of Army Opera- she had ever Murstetten, Boebeimkirchen ani~ the northern of the west bank the river in the seen at the center, Christhofen and the railway sta- great number of independent Ger- Harz denied gains to of tions, the French cruisers Gloire "They wanted man-Ustashi formations were the enemy, who attacked particu- vicinity of Magdeburg. We crossed and Duguay-Trouin bombarded to express their tions of Michelhausen, Trasdorf and de- larly sorrow," Gemelln-Bares. feated . Our troops continue their from the west and south en- the Elbe and are meeting enemy roads, bridges and railways with she declared, "land they trance into the mountains small-arms and artillery fire. The most satisfactory wanted In fighting on April 13 troops of successful advance along the val- . results. to do it in a concrete leys of the Sava and Drava toward After heavy and crossing was made in assault boats. The same day the British de- way, a the front took prisoner more than costly fighting. of Hart Forest way that would have a 2,200 enemy officers and men and the west . American troops have crossed the On the edges the atroyer Musketeer engaged an en- meaning The enemy's ` our armor has cleared Osterode, emy observation post and the captured=red the following booty: 107 losses are still be- southeastern foothills of the Thu- and self-propelled gone, nine- ing counted. In two days' fight- ringian Forest and engaged in Hersberg and Sangershausen French destroyer Trombe a bridge ing the pushed five miles northeast of and gun position. teen armored carriers, 1$6 field enemy lost 2.044 prisoners, fighting for the crossings of the Stangetahausen . the dock area at guns, forty-four mortars, 294 ma- 117 heavy mortars, 160 heavy ma- Saale between Jena and Saalfeld, In both case. the target area was Ro[how was of chine Infantry following the armor well covered. tacked . chine guns . 615 motor vehicles, guns, 284 submachine guns, whose garrison repelled repeated has reached the vicinity of A 3,2Wton cargo vessel anehorel sixty-nine locomotives, 2,367 mil- ninety-five trucks, twelve motor attacks. South of it minor detach- A supplementary commu»iqud of off way cars and thirty-seven stores cars and large quantities of other ments are advancing against the Schwenza and Wolfaberg in the the Allied Mediterranean Command, Shapakang on the South Chim forest sad is fighting against fa- coast east of Lu[chow Peninsuk of military equipment. weapons and war material . Five Franken Forest. as recorded by the Federal Commu- In other sectors of the front there tanks and eleven guns were de- Fierce fighting developed natical resistance . nicationa Commission : was sunk by B-24's on April 13 . stroyed in the Our armor, advancing twenty-five Japanese communication line was no substantial change. . main triangle at Bamberg, where from Weimmenfe s. reached a West of Masse Lombards. troops and operations in On April 13 on all fronts asvanty Our air force destroyed today the enemy, after several attempts, miles of the Eighth Army have reached French Inda German tanks thirty-two trucks and fifty vehi- po[nt seven miles from Leipzig. China were disrupted in attacks M and self-propelled succeeded in crossing the river and the River Si1laro and at some guns were disabled or destroyed: cles carrying men and material, in Infantry is mopping up in Weisaen- points have missions of P-38's, P-51'8 ant penetrating into Bamberg from fels . Armored units entered Pegau, forced crossings B-25's . Brides at Csobang, Forty enemy aircraft were brought thirteen carriages and one AA gun. the east. Americans attacking against strong resistance. On the DOW down in air combat and by In the fighting for the liberation eleven miles south of Leipzig. the China order, were hit bt anti- from the west were checked at Weiesenfels, has remainder of the Eigth Army front aircraft artillery. of the island of Rab [Bar] 197 Geolzhofen, in the of Zelts, southeast of progress continues be . fighters on April 13 . Barracla enemy men and foothills been entered. to made areas at Haquang and Lackey On April 12 and 13 the air arm officers were killed Steingerwald. has and our Fifth Army patrols have been of the Red Banner Baltic Fleet and 335 taken prisoner. Twenty- Erfurt been cleared active . both near the China border, were continued eight guns,,,r,elght Pressure sga. at the German forces are fighting in Jena . Our attacked. B-25's hit to inflict blows on ene- searchlights, front behind Neu. a fort a my warships and supply ships in eleven morb;. ;s and large quanti- ..dt on the Alsah armor reached a point eleven miles BAcninh, northeast of Hanoi. and Heilbronn hew -increased. A east of Jena. South of Jena we are MANILA, Sunday, April 15 (AP)-A the port of Pillau and in the open ties of oil- ;r,-.weapons and war ma. communiqud : From all missions one of our air sea northwest of Pillau. terial we ., seized . further advance wi4tprevented by along the Seale River on a fort craft failed to return . As a result of bomb and torpedo In thf valley of the River Voana continuous attacks of German de- mile front. We have entered Ru- PHUZPM"s pursuit tachments in the rear and the dolfatadt and reached a point three Luzon In attacks, the following were sunk and annihilation of the : southern Luzon our GUAM, Sunday, April 15 (AP)-Pt- one destroyer, nine patrol vessels, enemy continues. In the area of flanks of the attacking enemy. miles southeast of Saalfeld. We troops landed on Rapu Rapu and cifio Fleet communiqud 332: two trawlers, Troops of an army cods deployed entered Gratenthal. Northeast of Batan Islands, one tanker of 10,000 Zavidq" 'ci sixty-five men and offi" in Albay Gulf, (1) Elements of the Marine Thirt tons displacement and eighteen cars a?re taken prisoner and fairly here knocked out 123 tanks be- CoburgSo.. we cleared Steinach and quickly eliminating the enemy gar- enemy supply ships large and tween April 1 and 13. eberg. East of Coburg our ar- riaon. Amphibious Corps on Okinawa Ii- of a total ton- quantities of weapons has cleared Kronach and other land on April 14 advanced north nage of 92.000. war material seized . Our groups In the northern Black Forest also mor In the First Corps sector our ward to the blew up x transport train on the and in the Rhine Valley south of elements are four miles south of troops are closing in on Baguio . vicinity of Momobari The Saturday midnight auppiemen- town. town, on the went coast, and Are tary communiqud, as broadcast from railway line Zagreb - Sisak and Rastatt the enemy continued his the In the air numerous bomber and kawa wrecked the line in seventy-eight attacks. In heavy mountain and Our infantry and armor closed fighter missions were flown in local town, on the east coast Moscow to the Soviet press and re- Resistance was negligible . The me- ported by the Federal Communica- places . local fighting infiltration. were about Bamberg after advances of support of ground troops and in at- On the Zagreb Banova-Juruga halted alter the enemy had more than fifteen mDes . tacks rear . rinos on Motobu peninsula are nov tions Commission : gained F[ght[ng on installations Five is possession line three transport trains were several kilometers of ground. The is [n progress in the vietn[t of hundred and forty tons of bombs of most of that aria On the Samland Peninsula, north- north of l ein- and are attacking small concentm blown up and the railway line was brave garrison of Rastatt has -suc- Hallstadt, two miles were dropped, followed by low-level west and west of Koenigiberg, our wrecked in eighty-eight places. At cumbed to superior energy forces berg. strafing . tions of enemy troops which col. troops fought their way forward. our south of tinue to resist . the entrance to the railway station after a heroic fight. To the west troops Visayas : On Cebu the enemy's In an attempt to hold the western of Virovitica another freight train In the southern part of the west- the Main River have cleared most hill positions are rapidly being Out- (2) In the southern sector durd part of the peninsula and the port area between Schweinfurt the early morning hours of April was blown up. A Dormer airplane ern Alps front German Alpine of the flanked and enveloped, while con- of Pillau, the enemy erected was set on fire on the Zagreb air troops smashed repeated attacks in and Bamberg. In the clearing of stant air strikes 'by our bombers the enemy mounted a small tour strongly fortified positions, making number of prison- ter-attack which dronre of Borongaj. regiment strength by de Gaullist Schweinfurt the and fighters are mapping his meager was immediate good use of abandoned terrain In Slovenia fighting continues in Alpine troops. ers there was increased to approxi- reserves of men and material. beaten off by troops of the Ninet, among the canals and marshes. 2,500. sixth Army the Suha-Krajina area, where the In the eastern sector of the Ital- mately Mindanao : Heavy bombers struck Division. Enemy pos- These natural obstacles were rein- enemy is suffering considerable Northeast of Heilbronn our bridge- enemy installations Davao, tlons were brought under fIre i1 forced and supplemented by engi- ian front the defensive battle con- at start- lease.. Fairly stiff fighting is be- tinued with unchanging intensity. head across the Richer River was ing large fires. field artillery, ships' guns and ca:, neering constructions, continuous ing waged is the area of Prezidoa- expanded and we captured many rier and wire In the course of bitter fighting Ger- FoxssasA land-based aircraft. lines of trenches, entangle- bar. more towns. North and south 0f (3) A few enemy aircraft a ments, cleats, wide minefields add . we were-unable to pre- Heilbronn enemy resistancs weak- Patrol planes bombed and strafed peared vent Np aches west and north- the west tenet. in the area off Okinawa du~ barbed wire. west of Lugo and ened. The east bank of the Neckar Ing the day and nine were shot -Orfeo[oeoya rations of o>a to*~Pe a landing by en- River was cleared to Horckheim, CHINA COST down by our combat began by artillery and air pasphra- emy forces in the western part of air patrols, communeqird, as broad- Lake Comacchio. three miles south of Heilbronn. Our air blockade wrecked six (4) Aircraft from careers of the ties o1 the enemye and bin Yesterday'a Enemy attacks Some 2,000 prisoners were taken small freighters and swept United rear. Afterward 8ovfet infantry- east domestically from Bucharest and south and southwest of Imola re- rail fa- States Pacific Fleet bombed by the Federal Communiea- mained unsuccessful in the capture of Restatt and Be- dlities in Indo-China . airfields on Ishigaki and Miyake men went in to attack. Having reported but for local den Baden. Islands in the Hitlerite resistance, our tsOns Commission : breaches . On the Ligurian coast BOlNsO the SaXtahima group on broken the enemy again Allied forces in the west captured April 14, destroying seven aircraft units, advancing along the Baltic In the Lower Tatra Mountains attacked with 80,177 prisoners on April 12. Air patrola scored near-misses on there has been local activity . East strong forces and, to cooperation a 10 .000-ton tanker and an escort- on the ground anddamaging Nic'nty. Sea coast, occupied the strong In the northwest edge of the five more. - point of Rantau . The troops ad- of the Morava River our troops with bands that attacked from the Rohr pocket our infantry is meet- ing vessel off the southeast coast. their advance and pro- rear, achieved a deep infiltration . Other planes hit a small freighter (5) Without opposition, Carabn vanced In a wooded terrain along continued ing stiff resistance north of the aircraft of the British Pacific Fleet the northern coast of the Frisches gressed several kilometers . Several Daylight air activity was restrict- Ruhr River. Farther east we at Brunei Bay, bombed ship yards localities were liberated. Including to bomb at Sandakan and damaged struck airfields and installations at Haff and, overcoming heavy Ger- ed attacks oil northern reached the southeastern outskirts gun po- Matsuyama and man fire as well as numerous Radesov and Tvarozna Lhota. German territory by minor Amerce the eastern side sitions at Tarakan. Shinchiku on For- AA, of Dortmund . On mosa on April 13 . A number of mined barricades )n the woods. icon formations . Heavy damage infantry reached Heuenrade and Cncsess aircraft were damaged on the broke Into the streets of the large was caused to the residential dra- Luedenscheid . Farther southwest Heavy units attacking enemy ground and hangars, inhabited locality of Gross-H,yde- Chinese tricts of Neumuenster. By night we captured Wipperfuerth. On the barracks, north shipping off Macasar and in the buildings, a railway bridge, a train krug and, after stubborn fighUng, Yestarday's communiqu.4, as- broad- several German towns were western edge tanks gained five Gulf of 13one sea or seriously and occupied it . English from Chungkmg and attacked by British formations . miles east of Cologne. Enemy other targets were heavily bit. cast in damaged two mediu*-sized freight- Several small groups of enemy During the day's fighting our reported by the Federal CommuMca " Sixteen Angle - American planes armor and troops on the pocket ers and twenty schooners Other troops were brought down, according to by fighter-bombers. . planes attempted to attack surface wiped out more than 8,000 lions commission : were attacked planes bombed Pare Pare township units German officers and men. Thirty- reports available. Rail yards at Neurnuenster, nort