New York London Edition Paris I Yard Birds Daily French Lesson THE sr„Rs Est-ce direct pour ['Opera? STRIPES Ess deerekt poor lopayra? Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces "- in the European Theater of Operations Is it a thru' train to the Opera? VOL, 5 No. 30—Id. 4itto. WEDNESDAY, Dec. 6, 1944 Berlin Raided by Heavies Civil War Time to Retire at the Double. Luftwaffe And Hunger Loses 80 in Tear Greece Air Battles Threats of civil war and starvation Eighth Air Force fighter pilots hung over Greece last night amicfeon- slugged it out with the Luftwaffe in flieting reports that Premier Georges (he skies over Berlin yesterday and Papandreou had offered to quit and shot down more than 80 enemy that King George of the Hellenes had fighters. refused the resignation. More than 800 Mustangs and Thunder- Athens and its port, Piraeus, remained bolts covered more than 55(t Fortresses largely paralyzed by the Communist- and Liberators of the Eighth in attacks called general strike which since Sunday on industrial targets in the Berlin area had suspended all power and transport and railway yards at Munster. and closed shops and newspapers. Berlin was last attacked by Eighth British troops were guarding the prin- heavies CM Oct. 6. The capital was once cipal buildings and occupying police the most heavily-defended atea in the stations, while disorders which had raged Reich. throughout the afternoon began to The 357th Fighter Group, a P5I outfit subside. led by Maj. Joseph E. Broadhead, of Associated Press reported that British U.S. :Imo' Signal Can p. Ptp,it Rupert, Ida.. bagged 20 Nazi craft. while crews manned Piraeus dock equipment. Arms partly raised, and shouting "Kamerad," this Jerry rushes across the field on the 479th Fighter Group, another P5I tugs antIldighters, unloading hundreds of the double to surrender to a couple of doughfeet waiting at an embankment some- unit led by Lt. Col. Kyle L. Riddle; of tons of relief supplies. Greek dock- where in Germany. More than 40.000 prisoners have been taken by the Allies in the Decatur. Tex., knocked down 16. workers halted work when the strike was first two weeks of the current offensive. Maj. William Hove, PSI squadron OSAAF Photo called. commander from Crookston, Minn., in Bombs falling on Germany is an old Last night's lull followed a day of fresh the 355th Fighter Group, reported shoot- story with Eighth AF crews by now. For shootings between the EAM (National hie down 5-§ Jerries, the record. here's a dramatic shot of the Resistance Front) and government police Second Bridgehead Pound Tegl Munitions Plant ' raid on the Friedburg marshalling yards forces. The EAM seized a number of police stations. One of the city's prisons Fortresses, comprising the bulk of the Dec. 4. The yards can be seen directly bombing force, pounded the Tegl muni- under the nose of the largest bomb. was stormed by the resistance men, and Objectives of this and similar Allied the inmates were reported freed. tions plant in the suburbs northwest of Over Saar Won by 3rd Berlin and other objectives in the capital raids, together with a map of the Nazi Greece in Desperate Straits railway system, are told on page 4. Advance elements of the Third Army's 95th Division, having cut through itself. Several formations bombed visually In London, Prime Minister Churchill the embattled eastern area of Saarlautern, were reported yesterday to be told the House of Commons: "Greece through breaks in clouds. is faced with the most desperate economic fighting in the outer defenses of the Siegfried Line after a 1§-mile gain RAF Lancasters in daylight yesterday FDR Says and financial problems, aside from civil beyond the Saar, while south of the city troops of this same outfit threw a blasted the railway yards at Hamm. war, which we are trying to stop. We second bridgehead across the water barrier to the Saar area. Losses From Monday's large-scale and our American Allies are doing our Dispatches said Germans were still operations by the Eighth were 12 bombers UNRRA Can utmost to give assistance, and our troops contesting Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's and three fighters. are acting to prevent bloodshed. forces in. Saarlautern, where the dough- Monday night RAF heavies dropped Sometimes it is necessary to use force to Nazis Ready boys met the Volkssturm on its more than 3,500 tons of bombs on the Check Famine prevent greater bloodshed. own ground for the first time. important railway and industrial centers "Our own position . is extremely Patton's threat to the Saar Basin, next of Karlsruhe. in the upper Rhineland, and WASHINGTON, Dec. 5—President clear. Whether the Greek people Corns Austria Stand in importance to the Ruhr as a war- Heilbronn, 40 miles east. RAF heavy Roosevelt. in a report to Congress on bombers sent over Germany starting in theniselves into a monarchy or republic Russian forces last night were reported industrial area in western Germany, in- U.S. participation in UNRRA operations, is for their decision. Whether they form creased steadily as both the. Fifth and the afternoon numbered 1,150. less thatt 50 miles from the Austrian said tonight that without an effective a government of the Right or Left is their 80th Divisions moved toward the Saar Ninth Air Force Marauders, Havocs, relief and rehabilitation program "there decision. border and moving swiftly toward the River above and below Saarbruecken, Invaders and 'fighter-bombers flew more would be every reason to expect famine "Until they are in a position to decide, rail arid road junction of Nagykaniesa, which continued to be pounded by artil- than 15,500 sorties in November, attack- and pestilence to sweep across large areas, we shall not hesitate to use the consider- leas than 30 miles from the highway con- lery at the rate of 36 shells hourly from ing over 100 of the fortified towns and villages which constitute the German de- taking millions of lives and endangering able British Army now in Greece and necting Zagreb and Vienna. Long Toms, 8-inchers and 40-mm. being reinforced to see that law and order howitzers. More than 6,000 shells fensive system east of Aachen. Eleven victory." The Germans admitted the evacuation With an effective program carried out are maintained." already have been poured into the border bombers and 119 tighter-bombers were of Siolok, on the eastern shore of Lake by the United Nations, "liberated Europe On the basis of incomplete reports city, according to report. lost. received thus far, this is the background Balaton. and were reported rushing in can ride through the crisis in the coming Gain 41 Miles months," Mr. Roosevelt declared. (Continued on page 4) :-einforcements, indicating preparations UNRRA representatives already are in, The Fifth, pushing into the Reich on for an all-out stand along the line hinging a nine-mile front, advanced 41 miles and or on their way to, liberated areas in on Lake Balaton. Gen. Ike Warns was about two miles from the Saar about Europe and are preparing to go to the The Nazis also appeared to be prepar- midway between Saabruecken and Saar- Pacific and Far East, the President told No, It Can't ing defenses along the border of Austria Congress. Supply operations by UNRRA lautern, to the north. Of a Tire Crisis which probably will be defended as Troops of the 80th, pushing up toward have not yet begun but are likely to "sacred soil of the Reich." S}IAEF, Paris, Dec. 5 (Reuter) start soon in some areas, he explained. Saarbruecken, were about two miles —There is a danger of the Ameri- Happen Here! All along the line, Nazi forces were southwest of the French town of Forbach, can armies, fighting along the German Flee From Their Homes retreating, with Tolbukhin's army chop- five miles south of the German city. DOVER, N.J., Dec. 5—The Army to- ping the German-Hungarian units to border, losing a tenth of all their vehicles Mr. Roosevelt estimated that more than day APPEALED to soldiers to quit the Another two-mile gain by 35th Division 2000,000 men, women and children in pieces, taking prisoners by the hundreds forces brought them to within five miles by the first week in February, because Army and take war plant jobs as of the threat of a tire shortage. Gen. Europe have been driven or have fled civilians! and seizing great quantities of material. of Sarreguemines, below Saarbruecken. At the other end of the Hungarian Eisenhower disclosed today. Drastic from their homes and have been sepa- Col. William E. Lamed, commanding SHAEF dispatches said it was estimated rated from their families front, collapse of the Nazi northeastern there that the Allied onslaught had conservation steps have had to be intro- officer at Picatinny arsenal here, asked duced. "The greatest migration in modern limited-service men whose homes are in forces was believed beginning as the drained an average of more than 4.000 times will he involved in the return of Russians surged forward on a front, ex- men daily in dead and wounded from the The seriousness of the situation was this vicinity to apply for transfers to the brought to light when Eisenhower these people," the President stated. Enlisted Reserve Corps so they could tending from Czechoslovakia to north- Germans. Although no casualty figures Severe shortages of food will exist this east of Budapest. were released, the dispatches said that the addressed a letter to the armies urging accept specialized jobs at the arsenal.