The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-27
Red Arrow Diuision Will
Come Home; Soviet Trap
Closing on rs Divisions
North German
Defense Line
Collapsiing

scheduled TO start for America
some time In March brings Joy to
many Ypsllsnti residents a. II IL
expected that among the number
will be at least a part Of those who
went from this city as members OF
that division. These soldiers are
coming home under the eighteen
month overseas order.
II 10 estimated that possibly tho
entire division may be back In the
United states by next Christmas.
(By International News Seryice)
twenty-five German army diyl-
sions were threatened with entrap-
ment today by a gigantic pincer
drive OF powerful Soviet forces in
the Leningrad.Nos gorod area OF
the northern front.
Dispatches from the flaming bat
tleline said Russian and German
forces we're locked In furious hight.
ing for control OF Chudoyo. on the
Leningrad Moscow railroad 70
miles southeast OF the former Car.
list capital.
Collapse OF the entire German
defense line IN the north appeared
TO be an early possibility as one
Soviet column pushed westward
toward the city OF Narya. on the
Esthonian frontier. and other So
Wet forces pushing southwark
from liberated Kransnogvsrdeisk
swung southwark behind Tosno
in a drive to cut or the Germans
escape route.
Moscow announced that 10 Nazi
divisions were routed in the liberia
ton OF Krasnogyardeisk. The So
Wet occupation forces found the
Germans had blown up or set IRE
to the most important buildings
and disrupted puDiic services be-
fore abandoning the city.
The Budapest radio quoted q
Nazl high command spokesman as
describing Russian barrages on
the northern front as something
staggering" and forseeing further
German retreats.
In Italy. Allied avmles Increased
their pressure against the appar-
emily weakening German defenses
in the Mlnturno-Ca Casino area ana
cut still deeper inland from their
securely held beachhcads jusG
south OF Rome.
Resistance stiHens
German resistance against tho
American and British landing
forces in the Rome area stiffenCd
as Nan Field Marshal Gen. Alberr
Kesselring shifted some OF his
forces from the southern battle
area in an attempt TO prevent en-
trapment OF his troops In the Apen'
nine sector.
But the increased Nail oppose
ton in the Tyrrhenlan seacoa
beachhead area came chiefly from
enemy warplanes and hastily or
ganized ground forces. Radio Al
giers quoted an Allied military
spokesman as saying Nank land
ing forces south OF Rome havs
pushed well beyond the Mussolint
canal barrier and are pushing in
land. supported by tanks.
American troops In the Casino
area exerted the greatest pressure
being brought by Anglo-Americsn
and French troops against the enc
my's Gustav line. Yank forces
which recrossed the Rapido River
continued to advance through Nazt
minelelds against heavy mortar
and machine gun FIRE.
Another Blow
Gen, Douglas MacArthur's head.
quarters IN New Guine.. ANNOUNCE
ed stu another heavy aerial blow
at Japanese shipping and aerial
strength at the big enemy base
OF Rabaul on New Britain lslano.
American Navy Avenger torpe-
do-bofnbers from the Solomons
swooped low over Rabaul and sent
six Jap ships TO the bottom or
Simpson Harbor and Keravia Bay
while Allied fighters shot down at
least - OF so japanese fighters
which rose TO meet the raiders.
The Japanese air losses brought
TO about 325 the total OF Nipponess
planes blasted from the sky in
Gao usAp -Dava