VOLUME I I NO. 33 7 SEPTEMBER 1944

FRANCE;

UNITS OF THE. BRITISH SECCND ARMY ARE FIRMLY ESTABLISHED ALONG THE ALBERT GANAL 30 MILES FROM THE GERMAN BORDER. REGONAISSANCE UNITS ARE LESS 'THAN 30 MILES Aft AY. THE BRITISH ARE MEETING STIFF RESISTANCE. I T I S REPORTED THHT THE GERMANS ARE GETTING READY TO PULL OUT OF HOLLAND. URGE NUMBERS OF GERMAN TROOPS HAVE BEEN SEEN LEAVING THE COUNTRY. THE AMERICAN FIRST ARMY HAS CROSSED THE MEUSE RIVER I N THREE DIFFERENT PLAGES AND ARE HEADING FOR THE GERMAN BORDER. UNITS OF THE YANK FIRST ARMY ARE NOW ADVANCING THROUGH THE FOREST OF THE ARDENNES. GENERAL PATTON'S TROOPS ARE REPORTED TO BE HOLDING PART OF NANCY. PATTON'S FORCES ARE BUI I DING UP THEIR BRIDGEHEAD OVER THE MOSELLE AND FIGHTING I S GOING ON THE FAR SIDE OF THE RIVER. AMERICAN LOSSES HAVE BEEN QUITE HEAVY I N THIS SECTOR. AIVERICAN LONG RANGE GUNS ARE SHELLING NAZI PANZER UNITS ON THE FAR SIDE 0* THE MOSELLE. UANADIAN AND BRITISH TROOPS ARE I N THE OUTSKIRTS OF BOULOGNE AND CALAIS AND CANADIAN PATROLS ARE WITHIN 7 MILES OF DUNKERQUE. THE TO»®tS OF GHENT, COUTRAl AND YPRES I N BELGIUM HAVE BEEN TAKEN AND ALSO THE TOWN OF ARMENTIERES NEAR THE BELGIAN BORDER. MOPPING UP i s TAKING PIACE IN ALL THESE AREAS, ALL THROUGHOUT NORTHERN FRANCE AND SLGIUM

THE ALLIES ARE MOVING VAST QUANTITIES OF SUPPLIES UP TO THE FRONT. CHERBOURG I S STILL THE NEAREST AlLIED PORT NEAR THE FRONT LINES AND ALL SUPPLIES ARE COMING THROUGH HERE.

THE AMERICAN FIRST ARMY I N ITS DRIVE ACROSS THE MEUSE AND EAST OF NAMUR, HAS TAKEN 25,0*-* PRISONERS IN THE PAST THREE DAYS, REPORTS THAT THE AFRICANS HAD

REACHED LIEGE I N BELGIUM AND AACHEN I N GERMANY, WERE UNFOUNDED. YESTERDAY, THE RAF' DROPPED 1500 TONS OF BO^BS ON THE GERMAN GARRISON AT LL HAVRE AFTER THE NAZIS HAD REFUSED ANOTHER ULTIMATUM TO SURRENDER. HJIERICAN MEDIUM AND LIGHT BOMBERS OPERATING FROM THEIR NEW BASES I N FRANCE MADE THREE ATTAUKS ON THE ENEtoY FORCES I N BREST.

I N SOUTHERN FRANCE, AMERICAN SEVENTH ARMY TROOPS DhlVING UP INTO EASTERN FRANCE, ARE ALMOST WITHIN SIGHT OF THE DOUBS VALLEY LEADING TO THE BELFORT GnP. HESANCON

is THE LARGEST CITY I N THIS VALLEY AND YESTERDAY Y«NKS WERE REPORTED TO BE AT

ARSOIS, ..BOUT 25 M I E S FROM BESANCON, YESTERDaY, FRENCH TROOPS VJERE REPORTED LESS tmi 49 MILES FROM DIJON. GENERAL DlETM.Jt, THE GERMAN MILITARY COMMENT* TOR, S.>ID THAT "EVERY STEP NORTHWARD BY THE SEVENTH ARMY W-/>S GROUND GAINED." THE GERMANS CHLL THE AMERIC.N WHEELING MOVEMENT ..ROUND THE SWISS BORDER, »* STRIKING MOVEMENT." RUSSIA;

FLYING RUSSIAN COLUMNS HAVE REACHED THE BORDER OF YUGOSLAVIA. THE REDS TRAVEL­LED THE LAST REMAINING 6(5 MILES ACROSS RUMANIA I N 24 HOURS AND CROSSED THE'DANUBE RIVER nT THE TO* OF ORSOVA NEAR THE FAMOUS "IRON GATE." THIS NEVJ MOVE BY THE REDS THREATENS THE WHOLE SYSTEM OF' GERMAN COMMUNICATION IN THE SOUTHERN BALKANS OVER 150,CH?0 N R TZI TROOPS ARE NOW BOTTLED UP IN GREECE AND NEARBY ISLANDS. JtfDST OF THE MAIN R,,ILROADS I N YUGOSLAVIA H.'.VE BEEN SMASHED I N THE PAST FIVE DAYS AFTER CONTIN­UOUS ATTACKS BY AMERICAN «ND BRITISH PL.NES. THE RUSSIANS HAVE BROKEN THROUGH STRONG GERMAN DEFENSES NORTHEAST OF ^iMh'-H BETWEEN mi&m AND EADT PRUSSIA ;ND ARE DRIVING FOR THE EhST PRUSSI/N1 BORDER. THE REDS HAVE T.-JCEN THE TOWN OF OSTROLEKA, LESS TH.NI 30 MILES FROM THE E S T PRUSSIAN BORDER. BULGARIA SAYS THAT SHE I S D I S ­

ARMING ,.LL GER&iiiNS WHO F AILED TO LE«VE THE COUNTRY -ITER BULGARIA ;,SKEJ> RUSSIA FOR PEACE. THE GEI MAN RMDIO TODAY SAID TH-.T BULGARIA HAD BROKEN OFF DIPLOMATIC RELAT­IONS- WITH GERMANY.

ENGLAND:

JUST BEFORE DUSK LAST NIGHT, RAF BOBBERS HEAVILY H I T THE GERM.N PORT OF EMUEN. LAST NIGHT, MOSQUITOS HIT HAMBURG. THE BRITISH RADIO H..S ANNOUNCED THAT 8^©0 FLYING BQ..SS WERE LAUNOHED »G..INST LONDON IN 80 DAYS* RAF' FIGHTERS SHOT DOftN 1*00, AMERIC«N ND BRITISH ,liTI WIRGRAFT GUNNERS SHOT "DOWN 1560 AND BAILQCN BARRHGES

ACCOUNTED FOR 479 "ORE. PARTIAL BLACKOUT WILL START IN ENGL.JS1D IN 1 0 DAYS. THERE WILL ALSO F3E h REDUCTION OF THE FIRE GURTRD iMQ C I V I L DEFENSE GUARD Mb HOME GUARD WILL NO LONGER BE COMPULSORY. THERE WAS NO NAZ,I.,.IR ACTIVITY OVER ENGLAND DURING

IGHT

THE GERMANS »RE BATTLING FUR.IOUSLY BEFORE RIMINI I N AN EFFORT TO ST«VE OFF THE F..LL OF THE CITY. THE EIGHTH ARMY H -,S BEEN PUSHING STEADILY V-READ DESPITE FRJNTIC N-.ZI RESISTrtNCE. THE Ai&felCAN FIFTH AfttoY IS R..PIDLY ClObING IN ON THE WESTERN END OF THE GOTHIC LINE. LAST NIGHT, RaF HE..VY BQMffiRS BLASTED THE cITY OF' BOLOGNE IN NORTHERN ITALY. COMBINED ATTACKS BY MARSIALL TITO'S FORCES AND ALLIED PLANES AND

THE ALLIED IVEDITERRANEAN FLEET HAVE SERIOUSLY DAMAGED GERMAN COMMUNIGAIIONS IN YU­GOSLAVIA IN THE PAST SEVERAL DAYS.

PACIFIC :

THE JAPANESE PREMIER IN A MEETING OF THE JAPANESE DIET BOUNCED THAT "ALLIED

ATTACKS ON J,,PUN WERE DECREASING DAILY «ND THERE I S DANGER OF ALLIED LANDINGS ON

THE COAST OF J»F*N ITSELF. STRONG aTT-oKS BY THE «LLIES IN THE FUTURE L.UST BE EXPECTED. J -PrtNESE LOSSES IN THE WAR mUST NOT BE UNDERESTlknTED." HE F URTHUR STnTED THAT JAPAN HAD NOT i^DE rtNY G.JNS SINCE THE FIRST S I X aCNTil OF THE WAR.

DESPITE BAD F LYING -WEATHER, ALLIED PLANES IN THE SOUTHl/jEST PACIFIC • HAVE BOaBED JAP AIRDROMES OVER .. iIDE AREA MB SUNK ^OTHER 3 JuP SUPPLY SHIPS.

UNITED STATES: THE U. S. WAR DEPARTMENT IS PL-NNING i PARTIAL DEii,.OBILIZ..1TION OF THE ,»ME,RlCnN

ARMY AFTER GERMANY'S DEFEAT. THE N.4VY SECRETARY, MR ISRREST..L, SAID THAT THE N«VY WOULD CONTINUE TO EXPAND.

MAJOR LEAGUE BALL SCORES:

AMERICAN • -

DETROIT: 3 . . . CHICAGO: 2 (ONLY GAME PLAYED I N EITHER LEAGUE)