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*RED ARMY
BESEIGES
BUDAPEST
MOSCOW, Dec. 27.—(AP)—
The Red Army shock troops
charged upon the flame seared
city of Budapest from the snowy
hill above the Danube it has been
► reported today.
The German garrison was
burned and military stores dyna
mited. They fought back grim
ly as the field artillery was scat
tered throughout thecapital. Half
a dozen spearheads are reported
as closing in on the western half
of the encircled city.
All German roads to escape are!
cut off. Just haw many Nazi
Nazi troops comprise the defend
ing garrison is unknown here,
but the Russian command said
,v that the numbers were large.
Soviet assault units with tanks
and tommy guns are believed to
have slashed some distance from
Budapest in the district on the
west bank of the Danube.
Thousands of the German dead
are reported to be lined along
the roads of the bottlefields be
tween Szekesfeservar and Buda
pest.
After the Russian advance
troops burned out the armored
vehicles many of them, the latest
Kind of Tiger and Panther
tanks, the fields were dotter
with endless columns of Nazi
prisoners who marched miser
able to cages.
CHRISTMAS EYE
DATE OF RAID
ON JAP CAPITAL
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS AT PEARL HAR
BOR, Dec. 27.—CAP)—Between
16 and 20 planes raided Saipan's
airstrips on Christmas Eve at
tempting to cripple he Super
Forress base which has been
used against Japan, it has been
reported.
Three of the Japanese planes
wer downed by the Yank fighttrr
planes.
Admiral Nimitz said in report
ing he attack that a fourh was
downed by anti-aircraft fire.
One American plane was des
rpyed on the ground and several
others damaged.
Six men were injured in the
night’s bombing.
This is the first raid reported
since December 6th.
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ATTACKS
STEMMED BY
DOUGHBOYS
PARIS, Dec. 27.—(AP)—The
U. S. troops in counter-attacks
slammed back the Germans, who
have reached Celles. which Is
only four miles from the Meuse
river, and 50 miles from Brus
esls. it has been reported today.
Suprerrte headqila(rters sakf
that by Christmas night the
American forces hurled them
selves in the path of the Ger
mans’ bid on the Meuse and the
strongly held town of Calles.
France report they had
blunted the second armored
spearhead that had rammed the
city of Ciney, 14 miles below
Namur. Later developments aft
er this check of two days ago
into Belgium, have remained un
disclosed.
On Saturday a communique
said that a few enemy tanks and
troop carriers had pushed for
ward in the direction of dies,
and were engaged by our forces
and driven back.
On Sunday the plunge carried
two forward columns of Nazis in
an offensive powered by two and
perhaps three armies, to Celles
and Ciney, six miles north and
westward.
They surrounded the Bastogne
Garrison, where several thousand
doughboys still held out in an
enic stand.
Gen. Eisenhower’s relieving
counter assaults from the south
was, by last repo|rts still four
and one-half miles from he city.
His attack has widened at
Rundstedt and he has reinforc
ed his line along the Hotton
Marche road and has been able
to maintain all positions.
The communique covering all
actions in the two-days* old
old campaign along the northern
rim of the bulge, said that the
Germans had captured Manhay,
Stavelot and Rundstedt and kept
the bloody Bastogne near the
middle of the bulge under in
cessant day and night attack.
Hurling in tanks, the defend
ers methodically knocked them
out as fast as they came up to
the closest point.
The relieving force from the
south is just north of Chaumont,
five miles below Bastogne.
Seven miles to the southwest
of Bastogne, the Americans
pressed near Cobreville.
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CHINESE CALISTHENICS — Under direction of U. S. instructors, soldiers of a Chinese
regiment being given up-to-date military drill go through setting-up exercises.
CLARK FIELD
TARGET OF
BOMERS
GEN. MacARTHUR’S HEAD
QUARTERS IN THE PHILIP
PINES, Dec. 27.—(AP)—Heavy
bombers escorted by fighters, hit
Clark Field at Manila on Christ
mas, Manila time, with 44 tons
of bombs, in a sustained aerial
offensive, to knock out the Jap
anese ar bases on Luzon island,
it was reported today.
The attack was announced in
Gen. MacArthur’s communique
which followed the Christmas
day announcement that the Leyte
Island campaign was compledd
with he capture of the west coast
por tof Palompon.
American fighters in the Man
ila raid downed 39 Japanese in
terceptors oVer Clark Field, mak
ing a total for the two days of
72 planes.
As the mopping up of the shat
tered enemy units at Leyte con
tinued, 899 more Japauese dead
have been counted and 14 more
prisoners taken. This brings the
total enemy casualties to 114,120.
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FIFTH ARMY
FORCED TO
WITHDRAW
ROME, Dec. 27.—(AP)—Strong
German counterattacks near
Italy’s west coast forced the
Fifh Army forces with advance
positions to withdraw from the
serchio river valley, it has been
reported.
Allied headquarters said that
the enemy thrust came from the
eas and west roads of the town
of allican, some 14 miles inland
of he Tyhrennian coast.
By the lastest reports the
Brazilian Expediionary Foirce is
n operaton in that secton.
The Fifth and Eight Armies’
front, on the opposite coast, was
generally quiet, although the
the Canadians are still fanning
out to he norheast of the newly
captured town of Rosetta and
are clearing he fortified build
ings.
ARRIVE HERE
FOR CHRISTMAS
The family of the new dep
uty U. S. marshal, Mr. McCorkle,
arrived in time to celebrate
Christmas with him. They plan
to make their home in Nome.
JAP SUBS ARE
AGAIN ACTIVE
SAYS TOKYO
LONDON, Dec. 27. —(AP) —
Jap submarines are again oper
ating along the Pacific coast”.
This statement was made in a
broadcast from Japan and re
corded by the FCC, it has been
reported.
Station DOMEI, said that they
were striking in force afer a
two-year period behind the
scenes.
Operations, the enemy report
said, included the sinking of
,four aircraft crarriers, two des
troyers, and four transpots.
There has been no allied con
firmation summarizing the sub
marine activity since Pearl Har
[bor.
The Japs clamed that 15 air
craft carriers, three battleships,
| five cruisers, three destroyers,
two submarines and 200 trans
ports, totalling 2,000,000 tons of
shipping has been definitely con
firmed as sunk.
California is named after an
imaginary island figuring in an
oldtime romance.