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on Cabalsan, on the southern tip
of the island, and said that the
earlier landings occured at the
entrance of Layte Gulf on Suluan
Island.
Eye-witness accounts from the
scene, reported that the American
navy airforce had on hand
mammoth strength, and that the
Japanese navy was nowhere in
sight. The Nipponese air force
had knocked out all airfields in
the Philippines and had offered
scarcely a token of resistance, one
correspondent reported.
Up to now, no ships have been
lost and preparation for the inva
sion included the destruction of
more than 1300 planes, the sink
ing of 86 ships, damaging of 127
more ships, and widespread des
truction to the airfields and re
inforcement bases, since October
9th.
Dean Scheduler, AP war cor
respondent, reported from the
scene, and said the invasion con
voy stretched as far as the eyes
could see.
Tokyo accounts said that Iu
luan Island was also Invaded, but
this was not mentioned by Gen.
MacArthur.
Leyte operations opened on
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Thursday at noon, and a Tac
roban at 7:00 o’clock Thursday
evening, it was reported.
Significant facts of the inva
sion show that the Japanese-held
bases, such as orneo, will be sev
ered from Japan forever, and the
communications upon which the
Japanese war industries depend,
will be cut off.
Half a million men will be iso
lated without help or support,
the report adds. This includes the
Japanese garrisons in the island
i bases in the East Indies.
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YANKS ASHORE
AT FOUR MAIN
P I. SEAPORTS
By ARTHUR FELDMAN
NEW YORK, Oct. 20.—(Pool
Broadcast, American Networks,
from the Philippines)—The
Americans are now ashore on the
four main seaporte of the Leytes’
east coast. They have told speci
fically, however, only of three
landings, the farthest being sep
arated by only 18 miles.
The northernmost landing is
near the city of Tacroban, the
principal city, and capital of
Elyte, with a population of 30,000.
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(Editor's Note:—The following
report is the first eye-witness
story of the invasion of the Phil
ippines, and was written by one
of the last American war cor
respondents to leave Bataan, and
among the first to return to the
Philippines.)
By DEAN SCHEDLER
WITH GEN. MacARTHUR’S
FORCES AT LEYET, Oct. 20.—
(AP)—Under cover of devastating
fire, allied warships and Amer
ican troops, knived ashore on
Leyte Island, by striking simul
taneously three miles south of
the main city of Tacroban, and
also with force along the coast
lines between San Jose and Du
lag. The combat team also staged
landings at Panaon, on the south
ern tip of Leyte.
The beachfronts are three and
one-half miles in width and ap
proximately 11 miles apart. This
quick, hard drive established the
Americans only 275 statute miles
from Davao, and 340 air miles
southeast of Manila.
The American combat team
landed three days ago on Di
nagat Island and then the inva
sion armada of hundreds of ships
went busily about its business of
landing the troops and equipment
on the smoke-filled shore, under
he protection of surface craft and
air power.
So far they have been unmo
lested.
CANADIANS IN
OFFENSIVE IN
ANTWERP AREA
LONDON, Oct. 20.—(AP)—The
Canadian infantry and armored
divisions, struck in a new offen
sive through the mud and marsh
land, to the north of Antwerp, to
bolster the allied powerhouse sa
lient being built in Holland
against Hitler’s north defenses,
it was reported today.
Simultaneously, the French in
fantry along the rides of Vosges,
at the southern end of he allied
line, outfljanked the village of
Ventron, at the entrance to the
Bussang Pass opening, onto the
Rhine floor, seven miles from
Mulhouse.
The American Seventh Army
also captured Bruyers, which is
13 miles east of Epfal, in a stab
at two more passes on the Rhine
flatlands.
The British Second Army is
fighting to clear the Germans
from the west of Meuse, along
the Reich border fronting the Hol
land salient, with slow progress
in the face of hard and stiff Ger
man resistance.
British troops occupied Thebs
which is 32 miles northwest of
Athens as the German troops
speeded up in their withdral to
ward Yugoslavia.
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ROOSEVELT
READS MESSAGE
ON INVASION
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—(AP)
—President Roosevelt today read
to his news conference a message
received last night from General
MacArthur, addressed to General
Marshall, which said that troops
1 in the Philippine invasion, suf
fered extremely light losses, and
that the enemy was caught un
awares because they expected the
attack to be staged farther south.
The message said that they
left the Jap forces alone on Min
| danoa, the large island south of
Leyte, as that sector is no longer
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practically isolated.
Roosevelt said the message
confirming the attack reached
Washington shortly before 1:00 a.
m., and may have been delayed
by the Jap attempts to jam the
air, as it was expected earlier.
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