The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-04-19
Railway Targets in France
Hit by Royal Air Force as
Russians Continue Advance
Enemy Attack
Pushed Back
at Anzio

tBy International News Service
A powerful American daylight
aerial offensive against the Reich
apparently was under way again
today. following up telling two-way
blows dealt key Nazi communities
tion lines in the occupied coun-
tries.
German. controlled transmitters
In the Nazi homeland warned their
listeners frequently this morning
OF the approach Of formidable "cne-
my formations OF War-planes I.a,.
est report from the Axis radios said
the raiders were approaching CEN
trail Germany"
The enemy announcements came
shortly after the British bomber
command revealed that Raj craft
attacked railway targets within oc.
cupied France. while the initial
Allied communlque failed TO idenu.
fy the specific targets. the Nazi-
dominated Paris radio said the
suburbs of the French capital bore
the brunt OF the night assault.
Well-informed quarters In Lon
don expressed the opinion that a
substantial" force carried out the
night operations. continuing also
the practice OF sowing mines in
enemy waters
From the headquarters OF Gen.
Sir Henry Maitland Wilson came
word that Mediterranean. based Al
lied wnrplanes forced the enemy %
close to traf1c his largest Balkan
waterway.
Sow Mines
RAF Liberators and yelling.
tons. during several nights OF oper.
atoms coordlnated with strikes
against other Balkan aud Italian
communications, sowed mines in
the strategic and commercially-im
portant Danube. AS result. Buda-
pest and Bucharest announced the
stream was being closed 10 traffic
and admitted that a river ship ana
several other vessels were sunk
American aghter.homb ers pound
ed railroad bridges and other
installations from the Italian bat
tlefronts to the Florence area in
support Of Fifth and Eighth Army
ground troops on both the Anzio
bcachhead and the trans-penlnsu.
lar combat areas
on the beachhead. Fifth Army
infantry smashed back four Nazi
attacks along the western flank
g the line TWO diyersionary enc
m raids against one big Allied
position preceded the assaults made
ne CarrocetO 4 whitening fro
by the infantrymen combined with
a mortar barrage. smashed decis-
lively all the enemy thrusts.
Make Progress
In the Cr'mea, meantime. power
ful Soviet tank and cavalry legions
smashed their way toward Strategic
Sevastopol after clearing the enemy
from the historic and stored "Nal-
ley OF Death" where the British
Light Brigade staged gallant but
costly charge 80 years before.
Having captured the port Of lialak-
lava. the Red Army columns drove
toward the Naval base from posi-
tons scarcely seven miles dist
ant
From emplacements a scaDt milo
away across the Bay OF Seyastopol,
concentrg tons Of Red Army guns
opened up siege barrage against
the queen city OF the Black Sea
peninsula. while other tank-paced
Soviet columns were approximate
J. eight miles to the east.
Sevastopol was covered by a
haze OF IRE. set by the artillery
bombardment teamed with a sim!-
lar battering by naval guns and
bombing planes. Soviet aircraft
were intent on thWarting Nail At
tempts 10 stage a Crimean Dun
] rque" and took a high toll OF
potential evacuation craft in Black
Sea ports and on the high sea.
Counter Attacks Fail
Nearly 500 miles 70 the north
west. Red ARMY artillery and tank
busters smashed as many as 10
successive German counter-attachs
when the enemy launched a drive
I, crack the Russian bulge east
Of Stanislawow in old Poland.
Heavy losses in men and equip
ment" we're inflicted on the Nazis.
Recurrence Of large-scale act'vi-
ty on tn northern end OF the long
eastern front was predicted by the
German radio which said the So
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