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OFFENSIVE
BEGINS IN
BALTIC AREA
MOSCOW, Sept. 20.—(AP)—
The massive Baltiq drive is in its i
first phase as supreme Russian '
offensives rolled the Germans 1
steadily back over the Latvian |
front, imminently menacing Riga,
front line dispatches said today.
Advanced tank and infantry
units pushed deep into the city’s
defenses, the communique an
nounced, as the Red Army was I
digging in on three sides, bringing
artillery to bear upon Its fortifi- j
cations. j
In four days the Russian armies j
captured nearly 3,000 communi
ties and their smashing attack |
promises to clear all the Germans
i put of the Baltic states in short
order, and pave the way to the
remaining steps in the autumn
offensive, which is expected to be
bigger than anything to date.
Developments may be expected 1
on the entire front, from the Gulf i
of Finland to Yugoslavia.
To the southward in Romania, i
combined Romanian-Russian fore- i
es captured Timisoara, 20 miles
from the Yugoslav border, and 73
miles northeast of Belgrade.
No official word of action on
other fronts was reported, but
Red Army artillery is hammer
ing Warsaw, as the German ra
dio announces the Russians have
bridged the Vistula river north of
the city.
•TRANSPORT
SAID MISSING
EDMONTON, Alta., Sept. 20 —
(AP>—Officials of the Alaska Di- j
vision of the United States Army
Transport Command, said that a
tranport plane was reported
missing on a flight between An
chorage and Fairbanks.
The plane was identified as be
longing to the ATC, and was
trapped by weather.
It) was last reported heard near
Lake Cheek, 40 miles southeast of
Mt. McKinley.
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AT GUARD MEETING
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Alaska Territorial Guard Tues
day evening, a majority of the
members turned out for drill and
f instructions. The main portion of
the evening waa taken up with
instruction by means of military
tactical moving pictures, showing
methods of tank procedures and
aircraft recognition.
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FINLAND NOW
IN THROES OF
REPARATION
LONDON. Sept. 20— 'API
Stripped of her richest industrial
territory, and burdened by heavy
cash reparations' as the price of
peace, Finland is dedicated, by
Acting Prime Minister Ernst von
Born, to building up a new na
tional existence with “the oppor
tunities left us,” according to
word received here from the Fin
nish capital.
The most immediate concern is
perhaps the bloody task of re
moving the German troops re
maining in the country.
One of the conditions imposed
by the 23-point armistice agree
ment, which was published today,
is the withdrawal of Finnish
troops behind the new state fron
tier, and the advance up to it by
the Russians, which will begin at
9:00 a. m. tomorrow morning.
The London Times today de
clared that the Finns had obtain
ed conditions much less onerous,
than those offered in March of
this year.
The Times went on to say,
“Through Moscow’s successive
arrangements with Romania, Bul
garia and Finland, gave exposi
tion to any dark plot designed to
bring the whole of eastern Eu
rope under Russian sway, as lack
ing foundation.”
The armistice ceded Karelia to
Russia, and includes the city of
Viipuri, in the most industrial
developed region of Finrand.
The agreement also provides
for the outright ceding of the
Russian Petsamo area in the far
north, with its port and rich nick
el mines, and the leasing for 50
years, the port of Kala, on the
peninsula, and its naval base on
the Finnish gulf, and the use of
its military region.
In addition, Finland must pay
reparations totalling $300,000,000,
to be completed in six years.
PIONEER WATER CO.
BUILDING NEW HOUSE
The Pioneer Water Company is
building a new house next to its
garage, in order to have heat in
both the house and garage with
one heating unit, for this coming
Vunter.
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YANKS BREAK
THROUGH
GOTHIC LINE
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ROME, Sept'. 20.—(AP)—Amer
ican troops of the Fifth Army to
day broke through the Germans’
Gothic Line, on a six-mile front,
north of Florence, after a week
of intensive fighting, front line
dispatches said.
The fighting is now in the area
around the important road cen
ter of Firenzuola, headquarters
announced.
Storming deep along the moun
tain slopes, American troops took
Castel Geurrino and LaCroce and
penetrated well into the heart of
the Gothic Line.
The U. S. Army paper, the
“Stars and Stripes”, said, “Gains
through the rugged mountains
cost us an uncomfortable number
of losses.”
On the east coast, the British
Eighth Army battered within ri
fle range of Rimini, the gateway
ot the Po valley.
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Alencon is the southernmost
town of Normandy.
LOWER RHINE
VALLEY SCENE
OF ACTIVITY
LONDON. Sept. 20.—fAP>—
Massive forces of British airborne
troops straddled the lower Rhine
river in Holland, yesterday, five
miles from the German border,
and are getting into position for
a new invasion of the Reich,
around the end of the Siegfried
Line.
The British 2nd Army threw a
50-mile long cut-off line across
Holland, and in 48 hours it merg
ed solidly with the parachute and
glider-borne troops dropped near
Niimegen.
At other points along the wall,
British troops are apparently bat
tling to join sill other sky troops
10 miles farther north, on the up
per branch of the river near Arn
hem.
The Siegfried Line is being out
flanked, and a path opened
through which allied forces are
wheeling across the flatlands in
northern Germany and western
Holland.
The Nazis in southwestern Hol
land are threatened with annihi
lation.
Americans, in their thrust for
ward on the Metz-Nancy line and
toward the Belfort Gap farther
; south, are advancing steadily into
| German territory.
With the big supply port of
j Brest, on the Brittany Peninsula,
| in United States hands, Canadians
battled into the Channel port of
Boulogne,
An unconfirmed Algiers report
said the German garrison had al
ready surrendered at Boulogne.
With the British push under
way, General Montgomery, in
overall command of the ground
forces on the northern front, de
clared, “There is no duobt that
the war against Hitler will end
this year.”
The drive enveloped Eindhoven
and stabbed on 45 miles to the
: north, joining men of the first al
lied air-borne army, near Niime
gen.
RUSSIANS FIGHT
I IN POLAND AREA
LONDON, Sept. 20.—fAP>—
Russian troops fought their way
south of Sanok in southern Po
i
land, near the Czechoslovakia
border, seizing 30 populated
places, including Ustrzyki, and
Bone, 18 miles southeast of Sa
nok, a Soviet communique said
today. ' ‘