JURIIA ,e t a--t aa "a» ia e G'9theaetat a n:1.-.,..batead of the Japs being driven out of Burma, the7 •;f4-11i;" h&!f.,)ie~ ~ -t!.!,d~ !~!a~e_;t.:. ~ ~ ~. Wl British correspondent with the Fourteenth Am7 aaJIC. the invaders have now penetrated into Yanipur, a diatanc of six or eight miles; ,ecotding bo aae\her 1tor7, \h•~ . ••• •••••eiag •• l ■phal, the capital of Maalpa1•-- adYanoing froa three directions, .e:ml with three sizeable colaana of troops. Meanwhile, llountbatton, southeastern Co•■ander-in-Chief, has sent a force~f shock troop• into Bur ■ a to cut off the Japs; a force of British and Indian co ■aandos, who were landed in the middle of Buraa b7 air transport. These have already cut the Zia railroad o t of Mandalay, the chief aapply line of ■ost of the Japanese forces i■ northern Bar ■ a. And, the7 re threatening the invaders of Manipur fro ■ the rear. There aay be a chance that the7 •ill cut off tbxla,x• the invading Ja a:my. f':reah news fz cm +, he al&t !last" hear ffo~:~~tl~t~s=lffh~N~t~t~1~■Me that British submarines • f the ena~e•• flee~ h a ve b een at work off the coast ~•ae grea~ ialani of Sumatra 1 and off the Malayan Peninsul~, ever aince the .. first of the year. In that time, they have sunk a Japanese cruiser of the Iuaa class, and daaaged·another cruiser of the same class. They have destroyed a seven thousand ton aircraft carrier, eight supply ships, and several smaller naval craft. !he3 have also damaged two other supply ships. • lDD PACIFIC -----~------ ~.&-.di::U' Japs~J\anotber try yesterday at The reinforcing their i s olated bases on the coast of le• Guinea. Our observers caught sight of a convoy approaching the island. lord was quickly flashed to headquarters which sent out heavy, medium, and light bo ■bers from various land bases over a ninet7 - mile stretch of northern Bew Guinea. The7 droppe• two hundred tons of bombs, sank two Jap freighters, ~~111- aeven coastal veeaels and twent7-three bargesr .«- 6',J- A lewak alone. They did a lot of other damage besides. Among the Marines that occupied islands in the Saint Mathias Group is one very disgruntled unit of Marines. lhen the Leathernecks splashed their way ashore on Emirau Island, they were all primed for a fight. They wad~d out of the water without finding an enem7. They established their beachhaad, still without even so much as a bullet flying around their heads. For six hours they swarmed over the island lookin g f or Japs. All they me was a cro d of g rinning natives whose reply to all questio~ was •no Japan~ here• • !Ji~_f!Q.!!'.!Q_- 2 And ~'JI'" ~ Leatherneck~sore. All that ~ouble and not a Jap to kil l . However, they -,e..J ~ AK ,;J_..J # _;;/- lfA l&:;y ,,,,.. I, f' ::t:it.1- illUlVGi uqfine base. .;:\ t■ GJnly five hundred and fifty-five miles fro . Truk. And on it the Seabees can build not one but several airfields, for blaa Jap poeitiona within reach. In Ru ssia, R ed sol d iers tonight are in the street bC@PCA ~oscow says they took by etor ■ the ring 0 defenses rm the Nazis had built around the city. In the previous twenty-four ho~rs they had red towns on three sidea,and the fall of likolaev • s a foregone conclusion. The Berlin communique I ~ . aayrnotbing abou~-- ~ . aoat o f ~ 13 s c 1, Wut the Soviet • ' garrison -caa doomed. The London Russian he a vy guns and Geraan convo'l' Seven / n e•acuating part of !ta with roadcast a report that bombs had sunk an entire ' ahipa p ~ fro■ likolaev} rison, and evidently/~?;;::,.- Northwest of that great fortress on the Black SeJ, another dramatic Bhapter of history is being written. The Second Army of the Ukraine is pushing RUSSIA - 2 ......----..- across Bessarabia on a front sixty miles wide, • - - 0\. formidable operation. That force already is approaching heading towards the railway junction which controls all of northern Jessarabia. According to Moscow, the Russias are advancing in s uoh force and with mch a peed, that the Germans and ~ Ru■ anians opposing them have disorganized. Mcaalta1: " von Uannstein has to slow up the advancing Soviet troop• -tkl-.:. or lose all of his army still left east of the Dniester 1 /\ lltti' ~~ But t · hat isn't a111 ,to the Russian story today. The Germans counter-attacked on the Poli&b front, counter-attar ad in an effort to stop the Ru~sians who are aiming for Lwow, t::'1- key point in Poland . _,.. t fhe A Soviet First Ok1ainian Army beat back the counter- ~ attacks,Aadvanced at some points s much as thirtJ-eight ROSSI A - 3 -- ~ ailes, --3. recapturd more than two hundred town■ /'- and villages. Apparently the Russians have advanced in Polan even further than they claim. The Berlin radio today was talking about fighting at Iowel which is ninety-five miles north of Lwow and forty-two miles northwest of Luts~. According to Berlin the fighting at Iowel has been going on for three days. Late this afs evening it turned out that the Armies of the Soviet are actually bitting the Ger ■ ans on six different centers. The fFont of the Red Army attack ranges seven hundred miles, all the , wa7 from Poland to the Black Sea. One s t ory from o u of London today reports Adolf Hit l er as preparing for an intensive campaign in ~~~tW the Balkans. Mg i~ organizing his forces not so auch against the British and A ■ ericans as against the advanciD( Red a ~ . : l . , , . ~ e d fro■ new■ disclosed by Radio Vichy~broadcast a report that Marshal Antonescu of Ru■ ania and a couple of his •inistere had gone to Hitler's headquarters. Fro ■ other sources coae atoriee that the Fuehrer has also sent for the pro-Razi chiefs in Croatia and SloTakia. The prince regent and the Prime Minister of Bulgaria are also expected to join the conference. Out at these facts comes the inference that the Nazi Dicta tor plans to tell the B l akan leaders they aust ei t her give complete all-out cooperation to the p la n of the Ger ■an high command for defending the Balkans, or else suffer the fate of the Hun a riana. BALKANS - 2 ..... ------ There has been an amphibious attack by Allied forces on the Adriatic coast of Jugoslavia. It war {vidently carried out by American Rangers and British Comaandos, coope~ating with the Partisans of Marshal Tito.Broe-e,1<:-1-... The Rangers and Comme.ndea hit the ~ German garrison on one island and Sil:$ the Naz~U-boat base on another. t:n:::iU,;e:-Ad r:ie:t i:c~ Meanwhile, the Partisans were striking at German lines of communication all the way to the Bulgarian frontier. Strong formations of Italian fighters also attacked the Nazis not far from Sarajevo, c:ft& scene of the assassination of the Archduke of Serbia, UALi:f- The are now being enemy country. people--~~~~1ary, allies or the lazis, t r e a t e ~ i k e inhabitants of an ~eports from both Madrid and Vichy ehow clearly that the process of occupation of this Ally was exactly the sa ■ e as the invasions of lorway, the etherlands, Belgium and France. It began with Fifth Columnists preparing the way. As the lazi troops entered Hungary the Fifth Colu ■ nists acted as guide. The Germans tonight control all coa11unicatm in Hungary, telegraph, radio and railroads. " jlR 1f AR A large force of American warplanes bombarded Germany today for the second day in succession. Some seven hundred and fifty ~ Flying Forts and Liberators of the U.S. Eighth Air Force went out, escorted by an equally strong fighter escort. An officer describing the attack aaid the boabers fanned out over the Reich like a railway traffic pattern, picking out special targets. Lieutenant General Spaatz today achieved hie ~ ~ ~ ••~••••• :;l lur',-he German air "7r" into battle. They showed fight today over Brunswick, with a force of ~ interceptors w hich -armed about the Flying Fortresse~ ~~ .J ¼ i t . - . . . . . - 1 ~ - c : . d ~ the Americanfattack M- Berlin yesterday, Goering's airmen refused to give battle. The Gelllins have had to withstan*ae,Araids ~ rithia thirty-six hour s . Today's attac followed a /( raid by a tho us a n d R .A.F. p l a nes on Fr kf a n urt. Some of the All IAR - - 2 - lighter British aircraft went to Berlin during the night ~t~ '1:e fires that ft'fttt"l1tci~eweM11e•a started by the ~ A ■erica~ut~ during the day. The Eighth Air Force today lost twenty-aeYeD heaTJ bo ■bers rn six fighters. The British government tonight made public pictures ~fthe dama e done to Serlin, the first complete aerial 4 k.. photographs~• 1 ••t~ shown. From these it can be seen that the Allied bombers have either totally destroyed or seriously damaged no fewer than three hundred and twenty-six factories in Hitler's capital. Three hundred and twenty-six in the last three month ■ ! In addition, the raiders have hit the ■ ain offices of twenty-one departments of the German govern ■ent-i ~:.9;~f;:cauueJ.s~ confu■i~n A- ~ throughout the Reich. An American correspondent who used to be stationed in Berlin, writes that he can see froa those photographs that the city he covered for two and a half years no loner exists. The photographs are the most graphic and dramatic ever obtained of 8 German city. Unter d en L i n dent the show street of B er lin ' down w h ich the Kaisers used to ride w ith their glittering staffs, Unter den Linden is in ruins. The Hotel Bristol, and the Russian E mbassy,~other large buildings, are either completely destroyed or just empty shells with nothing but the walls to be seen. Then there are pictures of the once elegant diatrict which Berlin has called The Tiergarten. Chi Daatht 1"¥5iD Around that pa - rk were many expensive ■ tone houses, foreign embassies and legations. Fire baa swept through the Tiergarten district for block after block, leaving nothing but burned out honeycombs, and there is hardly any traffic in the streets. Elsew here t hroughout the for■er capital of the Prussian kings, fire has raged through entire section•, leaving street after street burned out. ITALY ----- Thia was the fiftieth day of the effort of the Allies to fight their way through Cassino on the road to Rome. Apparently, they are a few yards closer, and devils, those parachute sbocktroopere, against the Allied lines ti ■e and again. And :ew Zealanders threw thea back, each ti■e, with heavy casullties. Secretary ol la~ Sti ■aon points out that the stubborn defense the iazis are putting up at Cassino, should serve, for all the people of the United lationa, as a sober re ■ inder of what lies ahead when larger operations are undertaken. The Americ a n Military Commissioner of the Province of Naples ia worried. The eruption of Vesuvius, instead of moderating, ia becoming ,tt:.~ / ~ J ! ■ erican officer •J,•• • bears the I I\ more terrific. responaibility tor the lives of not only Aaerican soldiers, Wac ■ and nurses in that Province , but of the Ital~an inhabitants. In Nineteen Five and Six, Vesuviua was active ;....11~,,~6 for eleven months. The climax ca•e~when the great volcano literally blew its top off. Since then it has formed a new cone, a funnel shaped top. Meate•••~ ~ Colonel [incaid..)(h• B•a•iaci•J Gnezicsicn~f issued a ~ . warnin~ If Vesuvius blows off its top again, it will blow out a great mass of stone, lava and ashes, with results in many directiona 1which are actually } unpredictable. As it is, the cloud of smoke and ashes reaches up .,. three miles high and darkens the sky as far aa away as Bari, more than a hundred and thirty miles away. The eruption grew so much worse during the of thirty-four thousand inhabitant• on the leopolitan Coaat.7rhe dust from Vesuvius is falling so heavily that the winds are even carrying it across the ·~,t-z..-'.a,ee,~•l,- Pt1 ldriati;,l\•*•i\the towns and villages of southern Albania. Draft boaroo are g oin g to restrict the defermen of men under t w enty-six; th a t is, if a new plan goes through hich has been drawn up by the War Production Board and the high command of the armed forces. Young me a a ~ •••~e•a will be deferred only if they are l ti i&,,.,J-~ .. ;/7' 4.U{, i-t..u in eigh9'°industrs. '.!liiiil~• ... 11en who work on landing craft, synthetic rubber, and a hundred octane gasoline, high tenacity rayon, certain types of radar equipment, planes, but only certain types of the ■, submarines, tires, and a secret weapon which the government i ~ building. But the young men in even those industries will rrot be deferred unless they have extreme specialit skill or knowledge or a high educational qualification and cannot be replaced. The plan has not yet been finally approved, but it probably will be. An inter e sting trial be ga n today in England'• historic criminal court, the pictures q ue Old Bailey ~14e ~ ~ 4,cL~. I Th• British Crown is prosecuting a , man and three woaen under an Act passed in Seventeen Thirty-Six, an Act to Prohibit Witchcraft. The defendants are accused of raising the spirits of the dead for aoney. Prosecuting counsel declared that the four prisoners held seances in a rooa o er a drug store in Ports~~;te, called it the Master Temple Physic Center. The prosecutor explained that this is being done in order to prevent spook hun t ers fro ■ shaking down the credulous kinsfolk o soldiers lost in battle] , h a ~ ra c ~ ; i a b l e ' 11 to t hrive i n a ny country~g wer time#. /'- A visitor at one of those se a nces was a British naval officer. The medium had promised hia to produce th spook of a departed kinsman from he r ectoplasm. She warned him not to touch the ectoplaem,becauee if he did, Trial-2 ----- it would run back into her body and kill ber. However, the naval officer paid no attention to tbe warning. Be touched the spook and, instead of going into the medium it ran into the audience and disappe ■ At the last seance, a British policeman was a ■ ong those present. When in the pitch darkeness be saw a white substance behind a curtain, he sprang f ? rvard and grabbed it. At that ti ■e the naval officer turned on a flashlight and the spook turned out to be the med-ua, dressed froa . head to toe in a white sheet. And now a chap who is not a ghost--Roger Irupp in person. In Springfield, Mass., there is a mail carrier named Kr. Anthony, Jn, U1w.:5i:ame ,rs~- ~ } f who settles o+J-av 1)"4,U:,l!@ • • domestic proble■s ~t~~i& l4>etP.. /'- ~ /Mr. Anthony at Springfield today was informed of a problem. One of the houses on hia route is inhabited by lrs. Simon Posnick, who has a husband in the army, a sergeant overseas. She wrote to Sergeant Posnick that every time Letter Carrier Anthony brings her a letter from her husband, she feels like kissing him, the letter carrier. So Sergeant Posnick wrote to Ur. Anthony that he had learned from his wife that she has the services of the best mailman in Massachusetts. Sergeant Posnick used these words: •Uy wife says she could kiss you every . th bo?S,.. Am time you deposit a letter from me 1n e ,... 0 Sergeant Posnick continued: •If I write more, it might be embarrassing to you!' BUIMA - 2 British and Amer can edium bo bars a.so d liTered a heavy attack on the Jape fro ■ the air. A Tokyo broadcast ad ■ its that the Japanaa forioes haYe been in contaot with air-born Aaericaa troop• in Buraa. On the whole, we are getting Yer7 little inforaation fro Buraa. .LIIP-!JlASE To igbt it looks as tough the Congressmen were gettin r ady to take .t:iR1:, cont1 · ~l of Lend-Lease out of the hands of the President. The measure extending the program for another year was approved today by the ~ 4Sl. Foreign Affairs Committee ot the Bousej bu~kkcro ~aa:::::a,,e string to it. The Co ■mittee adopted an a■ endment, ~ adopted it unanimously; ~ amendment ould place in / /.. /\ the hands of Congress, and not the President, control of the final settlement after the war between Uncle Sa and the Nations who have benefited fro ■ Lend-Lease. fJTTOI The Patton incident in the news again. Tbat is, Secretar7 of War Sti■son tells us Patton•~ transfer from leadership of the Seventh Ar■7 to another co■aaad bas no relation whatsoever to the incident. ITidently, General Patton's new atssiqn la an i■portaat one, for the War Depart ■ ent declines to give any detail• T, ITALY_- 3 - ■ill meter g u ~ e s e """'A ~erating on that salient reaching from tbe A•phitheatre to a point bglow the old ducal castle.