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vening, March 25, 1944
RED CROSS WAR FUND
CAMPAIGN BOX SCORE
y morning the pastor a
1 the subject, Jesus Himself,
Iday night. While We Feed
is to the Beasts of Europe,
e Feed Our Girls to the
if America?
eon will be served to 0
at 12 noon and at 6 p. m.
uthern Church
astor. the Rev. H. L. Wied-
s, will speak at both seer
inday. at 11 a. m. and 84.
tion Lutheran church.
nony of Law
Gospel Topic
ony of the Law and ^
and How They Are Related
ation of the Lost will be
ject discussed by the Rev.
I. Harris at 11 a. m. at
Baptist Church.
Significance of Baptism T
turally presented at the
service by the pastor. Fol-
.he service, eight new mem-
ll be baptised.
ng Union will begin at 6:45
rith everyone invited to at--
Bounty quota
Gifts Friday
Contributions to date
WOL. LXIII, NO. 284.
n Ave. Baptist
Rev. A. v. Henderson will
pulpit at both services Sun-
-q NEW TESTAMENT
" TERMS OF
J SALVATION
Christ arose from the dead,
ounced to his apostles the
f salvation under his teser
■ will. They are contained in
as been called "The Great
sion.” in th e following
es: "Thus it is written, and
behoved Christ to suffer, and
rom the dead the third dar:
it repentance and remission
should be preached in his
mong all nations, beginning
salem" (Lk. 24:46, 47)."Go
efore, and teach all nations,
g them in the name of the
and of the Son, and of as
host: teaching them to ob-
Il things whatsoever I have
ided you: and, lo, I am with
ay. even unto the end of the
(Matt. 28:19, 20). "Go ye
the world, and preach the
to every creature. He that
h and is baptized shall be
but he that believeth not
damned" (Mk. 16:15, 16).
ibove scriptures show that in
n. Christ, preachers, and
ose to be saved, have a part
had to die. Teachers and
rs have to teach or preach
pel of Christ to the sinner,
e sinner has to obey that
Every sinner has to comply
te same requirements. The---
f salvation under the Mb
ent, as given above by Christ
are that the sinner (1) be-
(2) repent, and (3) be bap-
hat this is the way the apos.
derstood the Lord will ba
trated in future articles. .
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FRONT LINE REPORTER SAYS NATION RECEIVES ALL
MAJOR WAR NEWS EVENTUALLY, DESPITE POLITICS
lied Forces Make
• By WES GALLAGHER
LONDON, March 25 —(PP — Every
reporter who has been abroad any
length of time receives letters from
friends at home expressing doubt
that we are able to give full ac-
counts of what is going on because
•f censorship and other restric-
tions
After four years on various Euro-
pean war fronts ft appears to me
that everything of importance does
appear in American publications
sooner or later. I can recall only
“two or three incidents that have
not, none of them important
enough to have any decided effect
on the war.
By the nature of their busi-
# ness, reporters and censors are
in constant conflict, but their
quarrels over what constitutes
military security ace rare, and
outnumbered ten to one by two
other classes of censorship. One
of these involves stopping in-
formation which might "give
aid or comfort to the enemy"
and the other is political.
It was under the "aid and com-
tort" clause that information was
held up about the famous Patton
face-slapping incident and the
shooting down of 23 of our planes
during the Sicily invasion.
It was not the first time in this
war that Allied planes had been
shot down by their own forces, nor
is it likely to be the last
Bad handling by the military in
these cases resulted — when the
story did break — in their being
exploited out of all proportion to
their original value and in giving
much more “aid and comfort" to
the enemy than if they had been
released in ordinary channels when
they happened
In addition, they created the idea
that there are scores of such in-
cidents being hidden by censorship,
fostering distrust of war reports
in general.
Too often military chiefs and
politicians interpret this phase
of censorship as giving them
the right to stop anything that
gives them discomfort.
Political censorship, usually
not admittedly exercised as such,
has been encountered sporadi-
cally undec the guise of being
tied in with military security.
Such was the censorship impos-
ed during the. early weeks of the
North African campaign with re-
gard to the Darlan deal. Such cen-
sorship has invariably defeated it-
selft because the resulting lack of
information leads to demands by
the British and American publics
for more, resulting in a flood of
misinformation so much worse than
the truth that authorities are forc-
ed to remove the barriers in self-
defense.
In general, the public receives a
more accurate picture of the mili-
tary situation than of the politi-
cal one. Once an operation is start-
ed, correspondents are given com-
plete access to information and
can send most of it. This has been
General Eisenhower’s policy, al-
though from time to time In small
matters it has been somewhat
twisted by his subcrdinates.
ain in
urma
Zealanders Stale Summons WAKE ISLAND GIVEN 16TH
Pinned Down Young Actress RAID: PONAPE HIT AGAIN
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ALLIED HEADQUAR-
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By LEONARD MILLIMAN
NEW YORK. March 25—(— The
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escorted to the theater the night be-
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. LONDON, March 25 — P — Maj
@Voislav Lukatchevic. one of the com-
menders in the Yugoslav Army,
said In an interview today that
Gen Draja Mihailovic has 30,000
troops—armed—and ready in the
mountains of Serbia ready to strike
a signal from the Allies to clear
s path for invasion _
The statement coincided with the
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TERS, Naples, March 25 —| fore his heiress wife was bludgeon-
(AP) — New Zealand troops ed and strangled arrived today from
attempting to drive westward Miami to testify as a state’s witness
through Cassino were pinned in the Royal Canadian aircraft-
dawn in their southern sec-; man’s trial to rfirst degree murder.
Only 18Miles ONLY FIVE TOWNS LACK
From Backbone RED CROSS FUND QUOTAS
tion, of the rubbled town to-
day by highly-trained1 Ger-
man parachute troops ordered
to hold their positions at all
costs.
The New Zealanders and the
parachutists were fighting stub-
bornly and throwing tons of shells
at one another, but without effect-
■ Lonergan’s statement to detectives
in Toronto when he was taken into
custody identified the actress, Mrs.
Jean Murphy Jaburg, as the person
he escorted to a musical comedy and
to night clubs on Saturday, Oct. 33.
the night before Patricia Burton
Lonergan’s nude battered body was
found in her afshionable Beckman
Associated Press War Editor
Allied troops pressed down on the North Burma Japa-
nese base of Myitkyina from two directions while British
soldiers checked a three-fingered enemy—penetration of
India. :
Wake Island was raided for the 16th time since a Japa-
nese force overpowered a United States Marine garrison
there early in the war. Big American Army Liberators were
met by intense anti-aircraft fire as they bombed barracks
and oil storage tanks Thursday Ponape, in the Eastern
Caroline islands, was raided Wednesday and Thursday by
cannon-firing Mitchells from Marshall island airfields.
Nearby, the tiny Ant islands were attacked for the second
time this week The Nipponese were again bombed on four
Of Rail System
All but five of 14 towns reporting largely Instrumental in the drive’s nounced.
last night are over the top in the success throughout the rural corn-
current Red Cross War Fund drive, munities.
ing much change in the general
| situation, Allied headquarters an-
The Germans, however, managed
to move three more tanks into the
Marshall atolls they still hold.
Bad weather restricted all
operations in the Southwest
Pacific American destroyers
shelled tiny Pityilu island in
"He also has said he took her to the Admiralty group, flank-’
lunch on Sunday, hours after the ing United States positions at
state contends his heiress wife was Lorengau
slain.
airdrome and or
LONDON, Sunday. March In Abilene contributors spilled . are
26 - (AP) - The Red army $2,644.59 into the war fund treasury Last nroun tabulation:
plunged to within eight miles 20222 tan over ^"X^ Bradshaw
of Rumania s eastern border £6o 000 quota Caps
yesterday and erected a 50- | EdStewart, county campaign Elmdale
mile invasion bridgehead on chairman, however, continued to be. Buffalo Gap
the Dniester river just across lieve the quota would be met before Tuscola
from Czernowitz. Rumania’s the deadline. March 31. . Potosi
| northern capital in Bucovina j^ agauorf orumrtpEoM° X Trent
and key to the Balkans, Mos-Stewart said a complete tabulation
cow announced today. ; could not be made until all these
Hurling the Germans back statistics were available.
toward the Carpathian moun-’*, w
tains the Russians were only whe 3 haismarcafr for workers list
18 miles from strategic Czer-
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Bucharest-Lwow railway run-, thauberrices in Abilene added to Mine Hire 101
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loss of the line would split were Baker grocery, Bresenham gro- I c.r
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The Russians also toppled the Day grocery. B&B Food sores: KCOCTICS J AICCII
Honer: Lede NotAlrTAnd NE PClnee shinNsTON, w. Va. March 25-
on—An underground fire generat-
Charles Rutledge, community ing clouds of poisonous and explo-
drive chairman, last night praised sive gases barred the way tonight to
the MRTC group and Major David the bodies of 16 men who died In a
servi ’ shattering early morning mine blast
while they were vainly trying to
stop the blaze.
Fighting the flames which broke
out in the No 4 mine of the Kath-
erine Coal company, the 15 were
caught by a terrific explosion that
tore up a surface area of half an a number of places including Leg-
*Ji hope was abandoned for the hoTne Allied Liberators ran into At • Well As AT Iff CUIKTOTYATY TAT-
men and tonight crews began seal- least 16 dog fights in the north and anddropped from
0 .Germans also flow At least 85 Supplies still are dropped from
west Ukraine stronghold of Pros-
kurov, breaking into the city from
east and west, and fought their
way into the outskirts of the Black
set port of Nikolaev, Moscow said.
if they were unable to submit them
to officers at the WAC shack. Shu
Many Germans routed from Pro-
skurov later gave themselves up
while thousands scattered into the 5
woods to hide, the late bulletin
Evans, special
raid
Other Impressive successes scored!
by the Russians on a front ex-
tending from old Poland southeast
to the Black sea included a 20-
mile gain south of by-passed Tar-
napol in Poland, the severing of
the Byeltsi-Tasi railway in central 1
Bessarabia as Soviet troops stream- T
ed southward toward the Danu-
bebn and the overrunning of a
Nazi rail escape route in the Slob-
odzeya sector 110 miles northwest
of Odessa, the communique said
The Russians now control al-
most IM miles of the river. So-
viet units fanning out along
the Dniester between Mogilev
Podolski and Kaments Podo-
lak were attempting to bag the
Germans falling back from
Proskurov.
(Radio France at Algiers quoted
Five British Air
Officers Missing -
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lobby of the Continental hotel, and
a bitter fight between tanks and
artillery also raged around the hotel
Des Roses.
Artillery fire which shook the
mountainous battle area also
reached to positions in the rear
as the Allies sought to prevent
the Germans from strengthen-
ing their hold on the Verdun-
like Cassino sector. But the Ger-
tno report!
__3,625.00 (no quota)
—mans, commanded by Lt. Gen.—
Richard Heindrich to hold at all
costs, were believed to have the
advantage of ancient tunnels
honeycombing Abbey hill through
which they were reinforcing
their front line defenders.
The first day’s attack which fol-
lowed the heavy bombing of Cas-
sino March 15 left the Germans
holding approximately one-quarter
of the town—the quarter centered
about the Continental hotel and
the exit from the town on the road
leading around Monastery hill. The
relative positions of the two armies
have varied only by a few buildings
since then
At the Anzio bridgehead the Ger-
mans tried to penetrate Allied de-
fense positions with tanks and were
believed to have lost two near Car-
roceto and five others west of Cis-
terna The Germans kept up a rain
of shells on the
beachhead and
there also were clashes between pa-
trols.
Allied headquarters announced
heavy bombers struck at the rail
yards at Rimini and Ancona in the
north yesterday while mediums hit
J , _ Hauwei island. Supply dumps
^s Jury were left in flames at Rabaul.
will be resumed Monday, when the New Britain, in one of a se-
defense is expected to resume its ries of light raids that includ-
stubborn battle to keep Lonergan’s ed Kavieng, New Ireland;
unsigned confession from becoming Alexishafen, Ncw Guinea,
part of the trial record.
Hopes to Shatter
Burma 'Hump' Mark
By THOBURN WIANT
WITH STILWELLS AMERICAN-
CHINESE FORCES IN NORTH
and Buka and Kahili in the
Solomon islands.
A spokesman for Admiral Will-
lam F. Halsey commented that
"Virtual eradication of Japanese
air—power in this area Mozas the
enemy open for one continuous, re-
lentless air and sea offensive."
American Marauders, led By
youthful Brig Gen Frank Merrill
and the Chinese 38th division en-
BURMA. March 18— (Delayed) - )_____________
—Brig. William Old of Uvalde, circled retreating
Texas, whose twin-engined Douglas captured the 1
cargo planes are supplying Allied • ”
troops on all Burma fronts, said 1
today, we mo.de 3.500 trips to Bur.
ma last month with almost every-
thing imaginable in the way of sup-
plies. This month we hope to break
that record "
Old’s combined American-British
supply operation probably is the
largest of its kind in the world
Day and night his planes are loaded
to the limit to bring whatever is
needed in the drive against the Jap-
anese. Many pilots make three or
lour round trips dally
At first planes could not land in
Burma They dropped supplies with
WASHINGTON. March 25-
A British embassy attache an-
nounced today that two Royal Air
Force wing commanders and four
WAAF officers are missing, and be ing the mine to extinguish the un- the Germans also few at least 85
lined killed, after they daildaate derground blaze. Jesse Redyard sorties over the beachhead The
complete a Charleston SC ‘ state mine chief said that It would operations cost the Germans at
Fla ■ airplane flight Friday start be five or six weeks before crews least 19 planes while 11 Allied air-
A member of the embass HO could be sent Into the mine to re- craft failed to return., ,
said that Wing Commander H o . — ... ------of Phoenix, Ariz
Gaubert, together with another cover the bodies
wing commander and the four
WAAF officers took off from Char-
leston yesterday afternoon.
When they failed to complete the
flight London was officially noti-
fied he said, that they were “miss-
Ing and believed killed"
The other four occupants of the
The death toll had been placed at A A L C.sma.
15, but John Hogue mine supe May Make vromps
intendent. said a recheck had ex- Good Indefinitely
tablished that 16 had perished in 0000 o
the explosion.WASHINGTON. March 25— -
The Office of Price Administration
Doesn't Think FDR
Franz von Papen. German ambas- -— ------- ma u, . , -
sador toTurkey, as-having de-plane Wants Fourth Term
clared that the German army per-
haps" would abandon Bessarabia,
establish a Carpathian mountain f
defense line, and try to plug the
130-mile gap between the moun-
tains and the Black sea with Ger-
I man and satellite troops to de-
fend the Rumanian Ploesti oil re-
gions “at all costs.")
A Russian smash across the
| Dniester toward Czernowitz Cer- |
j nauth was expected shortly.
Seventy miles southeast of
Czernowitz,
Rumania’s third
GEN. MIHAILOVIC . ------
largest eity. other Soviet units
announcement by the Yugoslav
‘government in exile that Mihailo-
vic’s Chetniks recently had pressed
an offensive to "the very gates" of
Belgrade “These troope have only
limited ammunition and equip-
ment," said the major who la in
dondon to seek aid for Mihailovic.
That is why they ha vent been
fighting we figure it is better to
make one big offensive than waste ---------
our bullets in smaller actions We Danube. Marshal Ivan 8 Konev’s
are ready to clear any given area second Ukraine army also out-
flanked the besieged railway Junc-
tion of Byeltsi Balti) with the cap-
ture of Reutsel. eight miles to the
attacking westward in Bessa,
rabia on a 65-mile front ear-A
tured Zagaikany, only right
miles from the Prut river,
boundary of Romania proper.
They also were only 60 miles
east of Czernowitz with the an-
nounced capture Of Korystov-
tsy.
Wheeling southward toward the
for an Allied invasion landing on
@hort notice.”
Both Britain and the United
States have been giving their main southwest, putting the Red army
support in Yugoslavia to the men I only 88 mile« north of Tasi Jassy),
of Marshal Tito, Mihailovic’s rival big Rumanian rail hub just be-
on the ground they were doing most | yond the Prut.
not the fighting against the Ger-
"mans.
To the east Russian forces at-
tacking southward along the Lwow-
Odessa railway rut the Pervom- |
aisk-Byeltsi escape railway with
land
New. Top Price March »- the capture of = Slobodzeye
TWIN - „ |_—-—- and began >
UPl A new top price for a Hereford Ksendzovka and began fighting
hull wild at semi-annual sales spon- their way into the outskirts of the
rored by the Idaho Cattlemen’s as- | big city of Balta, a few miles east
sefation. was set here today when of the railway, 110 miles northwest
Mark Donald 14th, owned by Her- of Odessa, and 76 miles from the
bert Chandler Baker, Ore., was main German escape route, the
purchased bt M. V. Rees of Malad Odessa-Tiraspol line which extends
Idaho, for $1,250. into Rumania to imperilled last. 1
Japanese and
village at Shaduzup
ites
V
Second Lt. Henry Wieczorek para,
chuted to safety from the P-47 he
was flying Saturday afternoon and
landed, With only minor injuries, on
the farm of Mrs J D. Porter three
miles northwest of Merkel
___His plane crashed about one mile
in their drive toward Mcgaung to away in a field of the S G Russell
farm and burned Fire fighting
trucks from Camp Barkeley answer-
sever rail connections south of My-
itkyina. The Chinese-American
force was “making slow but steady 1
prograss."
Burmese and Ghurka levies,
advancing Inward Myitkyina
from the north, occupied Maih-
tongkha. Japanese abandoned
the village, leaving it in flames
Stiff fighting was reported north-
eaat, southeast and south of Im-
phal against three enemy columns
trying to push toward that Brit-
ish base in India The Japanese,
ed the call to the scene of the burn-
ing plane
Lieutenant Wieczorek was taken
to the Camp Barkeley station hos-
pital for treatment of injuries found
not to be serious.
As is customary, a board of of-
ficers has been named by Col Harry
Weddington, Abilene Air Base com.
mander to determine cause of the
trouble that forced the lieutenant to
bail out.
Expect Lava Flow
piles through the jungles, lost five Raauma Soon
tanks in the first clash with Brit- 10 Kesume soon
The Invaders NAPLES.
relying on elephants to carry sup-
or without parachutes from alti-
tudes ranging from tree top level
to 2,000 feet and then returned non-
stop to their bases in India. Fre- l*h armored units * ** NAPLES, March 25—P-Roofs
qurally their errands took them be- made slight progress in spots, an collapsing under the weight of dust
hind enemy lines, which meant that | Allied communique said, and e and ashes roughed up by Mt Vesu-
they were subjected to ground fire spokesman remarked the vius have killed 21 persons. Allied
as well as all the customary haz- muniques are no moreoert, A military government officials an-
arde the military situation itself nounced today, bringing the total
number of deaths in the current
eruption to 26
the air at some points, but man’
planes now land regularly at new
airfields built by Americans under
the direction of Maj. Perley Lewis,
The airfields are being used by
. hospital planes which evacuate the
American and Chinese wounded In
less than an hour from Burmese
bases to completely equipped hos-
British in Southwest Burma
made small gains in their push
toward the port of Akyab. These
forces and the Nipponese in In-
dia have their backs toward
each other and are headed in
The crater began hurling off
greater smoke and ashes this after- ,
noon, after a 12-hour lull, and Pro-
fessor Imbro director of the Royal
Italian observatory on Vesuvius,
pitals in India
Old disclosed that only five planes
had been lost through enemy action
and blue ration stamps valid for an since the Hukawng offensive started
indefinite peridd. it was learned to-
I ia considering a plan to make red
night
ATLANTA, March 25—0R. Au- At the present time the stamp ..______
. brer Williams, organizing director are validated for a fixed period. Un. : corps to
of the National Farmers union and der the contemplated setup, similar
frequent White House dinner guest to provisions for shoe ratinning, the
was quoted bv the Atlanta Journal stamps would be good until the GPA
in a copyrighted story tonight as announced their cancellation.
saying he did not believe Presi- such a step a spokesman explain-
dent Roosevelt would seek a fourth ed. would help merchants by vir- fly the hump’ route Into China by
term tually eliminating the last-minute which the Chinese now are receiv-
Williams former head of the Na- buying rush that develops under the ing more supplies monthly than
| tional Youth administration, said fixed period validating system, in during an average month over the
only a few nights ago he left the addition, housewives would be re- old Burma road
White House, after dining with the | lieved of keeping a check on the va
president, "with the distinct Im- rious expiration dates.
pression that he wouldn’t run
opposite directions. told AMG officials that he could
"only say that Mount Vesuvius is
Varying Chinese reaction to the still abnormal"
enemy strike into India was re- ------
flecked in an abrupt drop in the
black market value of the Rupee
and in an Army newspaper Asker-
tion The Japanese were attempting
..... use ■• ——■- - *----In divert "attention from their dif-
— Old, whose wife and two children entries-ewhere.------------t a naMExFoncouMERcE
are living at Abbot, Texas, has Mown The Nipponese have completed ITT
8,000 hours, Since joining the air their military railway from Thai- MAL 5.
F 1924 He came to the ria to Burma the South-wh—reg tomporators—kends _
China-Burma-India theater two east Asia communique indicated in ****** ,M" late ••-
years ago and for several months reporting the first low level strike EAST TEXAS Partly elendy, eseler
was chief of staff for the Tenth Atr a the Burma-Siam railway Rail northeast, mertien and mear mpper ceast
-------te 14 2— -endevr Vnerrssing—cloudiness Hh ris
Forcelines and stock in Indo-China were leg temperatures in north and central
He was the first Army officer to hit by China based planes mertians Sunday might and Monday,
---------- --- /1-a--L. hit OF Com - _ Oprasional light rains late Sunday might
, , and Monday.
Hannegan Find* 1 "* T”" Parly w *
Big FDR Support
The Weather
again although he didn’t say an . ,
directly He looked so tired and Meetings Planned
worn that I was shocked.” The
WASHINGTON, March 25 VP
The Office of Defense Transporta-
president has had a series of colds
recently.
Veteran* Meeting
Set in Washington
DETROIT. March 25 PR
BOSTON, March 25—P—Robert
F Hannegan chairman of the
Democratic national committee
said today there was a “definite de-
ire" for a fourth term for Presi-
Elder Buck Dies
J dent Roosevelt, not only among
Thomas president of the United Democrats but among many Re
Automobile Workers (CIO), an- piblicans with whom he has talked
retional meetings of nounced today that a conference of in his current swing around the
ODT and War Food Administra- war veterans who are members of counts ecuncialle pleased - he add-
tion officials to discuss the 1944 pro. the LAW-CIO would meet in Wash- I am espeClaiishiemed, persons
cram for moving farm produce to ington April 6-7 to write out in ed., to a thhr although they
area and Mir Mend reentry generally
riendy elsewhere Sunday and Monday
Light rain in Panhandle Sunday and in
Del Rie-Engle Pass area and east
Peros river Sunday might an d Men-
day. Fresh to errasionally strong winds.
TEMPERATURES
Sat PM Fri.
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| Howard D Buck 95 father of market and supplies to farms by specific detail the union’s program - Teetered Republicans and
I Frank Buck of bring em back motor truck for re-employment and rehabilita- area restsRemar hr In-
p alive’ fame died here this after. Meetings will include one in Dal- tion of veterans returning from hast peenforma ride-
noon lias April 10 and 11 | World War ft." tend to vote for the president
BACK HOME BY WAY OF
ITALY AND GERMANY 2
Pvt. James F.. Carpenter of
Jewett, sits on the side of his
bed after his arrival at Me-i
Clogkey General Hospital at
Temple. Private Carpenter’s
right arm was amputated by
a German surgeon after he
was wounded and captured in
Italy while fighting with the
36th Division last Sept. 13.
He was taken to a hospital
near Munich and sent home
on the Gripsholm.
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Suntet last night * 1
Sunrise this morning: 1 25.
Semset tenight 7:54.
AF Crosses Channel For New Bombings
leading to several French port
LONDON, Sunday, March 26-P)
—Royal Air Force heavy bombers
making a prompt follow-up to their
massive raid on Berlin Friday night
when more than 2,800 tons of ex-
to pass aver the English east
coast. Not all of them appear-
ed to be headed in the same di-
reel law.
The force over one area seemed
It was the heaviest loss ever
sustained over Berlin — pre-
sumably most of the bombers
fell In airway battle to or over
the city.
the Baltic sea port of Kiel and
other objectives The Germans said
| Leipzig a favorite diversionary
j target of previous Berlin raids-
plosives were rained on the bat-
tered German capital — roared smaller than the nearly 1,0003 ... hr II
across the English channel test bombers which, in Friday night s Sweden said Friday night assault
night to strike again at continen- operations, beat through the fiere- left the biggest fires ever seen in
tal targets est defense the Germans vet have Berlin
thrown about their capital and The RAF bomber command sent
Air passengers
arriving in 1
and Weimar also were hit and that
112 planes were downed
U 8 medium Marauders cover-
ed bv Thunderbolt fighters slash-
ed at the rail city of Hirson in
northern France yesterday, con-
tinuing the air offensive against
cities.
The Berlin blow climaxed one
of the most terrific (O-Mur bomb-
ing periods of the war leaving four
of Germany’s great war centers
burning
In addition to the capital they
are the naval base of Klel. the
It took the armada of big
British Thunderbirds aa hour
punched lightly at other
cities at a cost of 73 big planes.
Nazi gut more than 1,000 plane, in the rail targets Hirson, near the Bel-
.....— I gian border,” is a junction of lines,
| night parade with some hitting at
aircraft manufacturing and rail
city of Frankfurt and the ball*
bearing factory center of SEchwein-
furt.
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