The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-04-10
Troops
Trapped in
Port

tB, International News Servics)
The evacuation q tho sp-awlinE
Black Ssa port OF odessa TO ad.
vancing Red Army troops was sc-
knowledged today by DNB, the Goa,
trO..ed Nazi propaganda agency.
First word that the Na1.s had
yielded the vital port was con-
tanned IN a wireless dispatch a. 12
noon. q a. m. EWT) There vas no
immediate hint as 10 the fate OF the
huge garrison within the city, whose
last escape route. tenuous rail.
ferry line. was under imminent
threat from Russian legions less
than seven miles away az last re.
ports
II had been estimated earlier
that there were some coo 900 en-.
envy troops in the odessa area.
The evacuation allegedly VAS car.
ried out last night.
Other Russian logions battling
some $50 miles 10 the northeast
hurled back tired Nail troops re-
treating upon the halfencircled
rail center Of lasi (JassyD. In Ru'
mania. The communication hub OF
Larga Iahorna, seven and a half
miles 10 the northeast, vas among
300 or more Rumanian towns fall.
Ing TO the Russians in their latest
drive.
Unofficial dispatches reaching
London joined with official Czech
statements IN indicating that the
Russian army nov stands on Czech.
oslovakian soil However. the high
command communique made no di-
rect reference 10 fighting In that
region, where the Soylcts last we're
reported standing al the boundary
line.
SKY War Continues
While tho Red land armies rolled
forward into the Balkans. the Allied
sky war against the Reich and it,
occupied lands continued In full
fury from the west. Roaring out
through the dense fog over the Eng
lish Channel, large formations OF
Allied bombers and fighters, be-
lieved to include American Fort-
reSses or Llberators, headed for ihs
continent shortly before 3 o'clock
this morning. Following them came
| still other squadrons and a Shoi.
| time later enemy radio stations be-
/ gan TO snap off the air.
During the night the Raj hit al
! occupied Europe. While. the Air
ministry gave no immediate details
Of the assaults. the Nazi-operated
Paris radio claiamed that the tor.
mer French capital was an OH.
tive, along with "a large town IN
northern France.
The Budapest radio also was a..
lent last night. claiming that Allied
planes we're over the city and SMALL
er Hungarian towns.
Allied air power continued mean.
while TO carry the war TO the jap
anese in tic Pacific gen Douglas
Macarthur announced that $3.50 tons
OF bombs were dropped IN new as.
sauts against four key enemy
bases IN the Neu Guinea-New Ire
land area.
Targets were Rabaur. New Brit.
ain, hit with Is tons OF bombs, HoI-
landia. 1J2 tons Newak, SO tons.
and Hansa Bay, So tons In their
flights over New Guinea, where
great masses OF Japanese var-
planes formerly were concentrated.
the American fiiers encountered
not a single enemy intereeptor ana
destruction wrought IN the tour
bases apparently WAS treme ndous.
Softeninu Truk
simultaneously. Admiral Chester
W. Nlmitz announced another a..
tack on the big Nipponese naval
base OF Truk In the Carolines and
declared poin,edly that operations
10 soften Mp that bastion continued.
This marked the first time that
Nimit7 had used this Technology
In an official statement.
The Tokyo radio also spoke Of an
attack by American liberators on
Hanoi in French lndo-China last
Saturday and warned the hone
front that American attacks are In
creasing in Violence with the Unit