The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-02-23
Red Army 70
Years Old
Today


The Red army. &c years old today.
raced westward on the heels OF
German hordes retreating from fal.
len Krivol Rog and pressed its
drive on the Pskoy Railroad juno
ton in northern Russia.
Kriyoi Rog, center of the richest
iron ore district in eastern Europe.
fen TO Soviet forces at the same
time that the northern Russian ar.
mics were oyerrunnlng upwards OF
800 towns and villages in their ad-
vance toward the gateway 10 Baltic
states.
Premier Marshal Joseph Stain
hailed the capture OF Krlyoi Rog,
then followed up his congratuls.
lions TO the conquering troops with
a special-orderof-the.day commem-
Grating the Red army anniversary.
He said that the Russian fighters
now have cleared the enemy from
three-fourths OF all territory which
the Nails seized from the Soviet
Union since inception of the Russo.
German war in June. 1871.
During the last three months
alone. Stain said, the Red army
has cleared the Nazis out OF 10 900
towns and villages. they were driv-
en- from krlvoi Rog In violent
street fighting which gave the Rus
slams the rich mining town last
powerful enemy bastlon in the
Dnieper Bend-and paved the way
for still greater advances toward
Kherson and Nikolayev.
Greater Blows
These tremendous gains, effected
by the Red Army alone, foreshadow
even greater blows to be dealt the
Nails by the combined weight OF
all the United Nations. Stain, prom
ising that Hitler was rapidly on the
way toward catastrophe" declared
that the Germans efforts to nego-
tlate a separate peace or TO create
dlscord among the Allies were
The Fifth Army on the Anzio beach.
head below Rome repulsed the new
enemy counter-driyes. which wers
OF a local nature, after iitlers
hordes failed In their second all
! out offensive 10 hurl the troops OF
Lieut.. Gen. Mark W. Clark back in.
TO the Tyrrhenian Sea.
Provides Protection
A record Allied aerial umbrella
provided protection for the Fifth
Army The Mediterranean air force,
an official communique said, new
1000 sorties yesterday In support
OF the ground forces on the beach.
head. This exceeded by 100 individ-
ual operations tho previous record
OF 1900 flights set al Salerno aud
duplicated twice recently over the
Anzio sector.
From Britain. meantime, the Al.
lies were believed continuing their
stepped-up aerial campaign against
the Reich and occupied Europe.
Axis radio stations said raids wers>
carried out during the night as fol.
low-ups to yesterdays two'way Am-
erican assault.
The enmey transmitters failed 10
mention targets. but tho Bruins.
wick radio abruptly left the air
with the announcement that Allied
aircraft were heading Onward that
key German aircraft industrial cen-
ter. Yesterday. American four-mo-
tored bombers from Italy plastered
the Messerschmitt-l0 assembly
plant at Regensburg while other
Yank "heavies" smashed the junk.
ers-Ss factory at Bernburg for the
second time in three days.
Retaliatory Raid
While the air war continued
across the Channel, marked By
strong retaliatory raid upon the
London area by Nazi bombers. Ger.
man and British coastal guns
duelled for two hours early today.
The Allied big guns started the ex-
change by Smelling enemy shipping
in the Dover Straits.
SO much for the war in Europe. In
the Pacific. though American engin-
GERS were busy converting the cap,
tured Engebi airstrip in Eniwetok
Atoll into an offensive base for fu.
ture operations against Truk and
! other enemy strongholds In the Car.
dimes. At the same time. United
States naval forces shelled and
bombed Parry Island. last pocket
OF Jap resistance in the all-but.eap-
tured atoll. fall OF the isle vas ex.
pected to be announced shortly.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's air.
men. continuing their daily" as
saults upon Rabaul, apparently
knocked out all Jap air defenses
there. In their latest attack, the
ra ,ders met no opposition.
While the Red army bhffeted the
Germans on the eastern front, An
glo-American forces on the other
major European backgrounds
! stood firm before two Nazi thrusts.