The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-08-10
RUSS TANKS
 ROLL INTO
 MAN(HURIA
Soviet Dispatches Report Red Pacific Fleet
 in Action
tRr The !,.sociated Pressl

BULLETIN-The Red Army has smashed mere than 100 miles into Manchuria from the northwest, the Soviet communique disclosed today.
 New holes were smashed into long prepared Japanese border de- lenses on the north and east in an offensive that recalled the greatest drives of Marshal Zhukov through the Germans in Poland.
 The greatest gain was down the Chinese Eastern Railway from Lupin chouli) where the Japanese base and railway station of Hulin tHailar) was captured, and the Russian Infantry and Cav airy, paced by heavy Stalin tanks, moved Is miles beyond.
 South of Hailar the Russians drove into the foothills of the great Khingan range from the area of Lake BOr, where they are reaching the chief natural defenses of the Manchurian Plains on the west.
 Here the Russians were slightly over 100 miles into Manchuria.
 The Red Army's Stalin tanks, in- fantry and massed cavalry rolled through numerous gates in Man churia's defenses with sensational advances today, Moscow dispatches reported, and Tokyo announced the broadening of the Soviet attacks to Korea and Sakhalin Island.
 Soviet Correspondents said units of the Soviet Pacific Fleet had gone into action.
 Moving toward the heart of Man churia along three main routes of invasion, the former Chinese Eastern Railway from Lupin CManchoulD in the northwest, the Mongolian Cara van Trail from Lake Bor in the west, and the Sungari River Valley from Khaborovsk in the northeast, the Russians had opened up numerous gates" in the enemy's carefully pre- pared defences and apparently were bent on a nonstop offensive, Mos COW dispatches said. These advices declared gains of up to B miles yesterday were being enlarged sen sationally today.
 The first Soviet blow was so well prepared along the pattern of the Red Army's European offensive that the Japanese were unable to hold a single defensive line along the from tier, one Soviet dispatch reported.
 The western and northwestern vanguards were driving hard for the city of Hulun (HailaD, Japanese forward base on the Chinese East ern railway, 90 miles distant. Ahead was the difficult Takhingan Shan range, which cups the Manchurian plain to the east and runs south toward Peiping in China.
 In the northeastern sector, where the Russians struck from the mari time provinces to protect their inn portant naval and air base of Vladivostok, the Russians also were making steady progress from Khab- arovsk and captured Flu Yuan to- ward Harbin, rail heart of Manchuria 400 miles distant.
 Meanwhile, in China, Tokyo said the highest Japanese military and civilian authorities had warned their soldiers to maintain strict order in case the Chinese became "agitated' over the Russian entry into the war.
 A Chinese Army spokesman in Chungking declared the Japanese were preparing to move five divisions back to Manchuria from North China. He estimated Japanese strength in Manchuria at 60O,OOO men, plus 320,0o0 unreliable puppet troops.
 American airforces in China, meanwhile, were being deployed for close coordination with the Russians in the north.
 The same coordination between Allied planes and Russian ground forces which sped victory against the Nazis in Europe apparently was about to be employed in the vast ASiatic theatre Inf war