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British Seize Wetlet
In Push On MandaIay:
Pound Japs From Air

MYITKYINA, Jan. 14.-UP)-
British troops surging southwark
on the road to Mandalay have
captured Wetlet, sc miles north.
west of the former Burmese cap
Iital, and have driven approx
mately a full division of japanese
troops into the Mandalay area
where they have been subjected
to the heaviest air raid of the
Burma campaign, it was disclos-
ed today.
Another British column driving
down the Mandalay-Yeu branch
railway has captured Alon, six
miles north of Monywa, while a
third force thrusting down the
ChindWin river toward Monywa
has taken Kani, % miles north
west.
Retreating before the multi
pronged British thrust, the Japan
csc damned troops and supplies
into Mandalay as they fell back
southwark. These concentrations,
barred from moving across the IT.
rawaddy river by Allied destruc-
ton of bridges, were blasted
shortly after noon Saturday in one
of the greatest Allied air attacks
of the Burmese campaign.
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BPS Bombard Formosa;
Navy Is Silent On Fleet

U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUARTERS PEARL
HARBOR, Jan. 14.-(UP)-American Superfortresses
struck powerful double blow at Formosa and the Japa
homeland today while radio blackou still obscured
details of the great sweep of Third Fleet carrier planes
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Enemy Rolled
Back 40 Miles
By Americans
Swarms OF Planes Batter
Fleeing Panzer
Divisions

PARIS, Monday, Jan. 15.--
CAPITALIZED forces, collaps-
ing the Ardennes bulge to
one-third it's original size,
trapped thousands of Ger
mans Sunday in three pock-
cts and rolled back Marshal
Won Rundstedt's surviving
Panzers 40 miles from the
high-tide of their winter drive
battered by swarms of planes.
More than score of towns
fell as American and British troops
forged ahead up to four and one
half miles. The U. S. First Army
cut the enemy escape artery east
OF Houffalize and moved within
three and one-half miles of juno,
ton with the Third Army at what
had been the waist of the Salient,
now the apex of the shrinking Ger
man front.
British troops driving in from
the western end of the bulge and
Third Army forces attacking Oh
an eight-nile front from the south
teamed to spring two of the traps,
joining forces at points roughly
five and eight miles west of Houf-
falize. The functions were made in
the area of Nisramont and Mousny,
both occupied by the British.
The Third and largest was form
ed around Houffalize itself, Ger
man headquarters in the first
phase of the Ardennes campaign,
when tanks of the U. S. First
Arnsy's Third Armored Division
smashed three miles southwark
and cut the St. With escape road
east of the town.
Favored by the best airman's
weather of the 12-day-old Allied
Allied counter-offensive, Allied
pilots made 1000 flights against
the Germans during the day, rip
ping enemy troops, tanks and
transport moving northeastward
in packed columns from the lop-
ped-off bulge, and ranging deep
into Germany to blast strategic and
commune atoms targets.
The westernmost pocket, CENTER
ed on the village of Gems, was ex-
pected to yield only handful OF
prisoners but the one just to the
east had caught sizeabIe German
forces. including Is tanks, which
had been counter-attacking the
Third Army around Bertogne, six
miles southwest of Houffalize.
1t. Gen. George S. Patton's Third
Army, attacking on German soil
for the first time since the Ar
dennes campaign began, captured
the village of Tettingen, IA miles
southeast of Luxembourg city and
three miles inside the Reich from
tier, and held it against two coun-
ter-attacks.
This was the first disclosure that
Patton had held his Moselle valley
salient into Germany during the
regrouping of his forces to meet
the Ardennes threat. Coincident-
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Press Acclaims
New Drive As Greatest
Blow Struck By Allies

ds M.oscoW, Jan. IA. Up To
vi as j.. RUSSIAN press hailed the So.
ct t' WINTER WINTER offensive as the great
and an, o 'l yet struck by the Allies
on On ~ urged &c Red Army men to push
'" W. W complete victory"
ws "" we, must crush Germany and
over WI p DO It, Our colors will float
1e new Berlin..' declared the army
tpospaper Red Star.
Bng tavda asserted the battle of
new ngD'p dS1,,. alone, not counting the
fiercaeoI greater magnitude and
has 'e Ha4 than everything that
, er, yet taken place on the Yves.
Oo lloatljne dispatches declared the
In " sI new offensive in Poland
M ANY, sa s's.a fireoower had surpassed
to +y s! a1l attack in Red Army his
Rnss; ana tod cf white-camouflage d
cS rssian tanks crawling like me
t torn ghosts into the breach
'0rn in Nazi lines viz 'ieA''
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FOE RElNFORCES
UNITS IN ITALY
Allied Forces Pounded By
Hail OF Enemy
Artillery

ROME, Jan. 14.-RHGerman
forces blocking the Allied drive
in northern Italy have been strong
ly reinforced and today are using
the heaviest artillery encountered
since Allied troops cracked the
Hitler line last May.
The Germans are still supplied
with all types of ammunition and
have been bolstered by fresh
division rushed from Norway and
several Italian divisions trained
in Germany, Allied surveys show.
With the Apennines covered by
deep snowdrifts, patrolling by both
sides has been held to minimum
during the last two days, an AL
lied communicate said. Southeast
of Bologna, one combat party
pushed 70 Furma, 8 miles below
Imola, but ran into heavy enemy
artillery fire. Northeast of Furma
a patrol probed the slopes Of Ven
uel Gesso but was forced to cur
tail activities because of the
weather. An enemy patrol was
encountered mile north of Monte
Grande, southeast of Bologna and
forced to withdraw.
On the Adriatic sector, the Ger
mans have established bridge
head on the east bank of the Sneio
river in the Fusignano area, north
east of captured Faenza, the COM
nunique said.
1t is apparent that Field Mar
shall Albert Kesselring plans to
try to hold the defense line run
ming from the north bank of the
Reno river and the west bank of
the Senio river on the Adriatic
side, then southwark along the
Senio into the Arennines. The line
then runs west through the noun
tains south of Bologna. From the
Bologna area west to the SerchiG
river are impossible mountains
the Germans ale holding from
Gallicano westward to the sea.
The most vicious defenses have
been established in the mountains
south of Bologna, which must be
denied the Allies if the Germans
want to keep smut the doorway
TO flatlands of the Lonbardy
plains and to retain the vitality
needed supply and manufacturing
base. The Germans have a large
ammunition factory at Bologna
which enables them to send a
steady flow of ammunition to front
lines.
One German prisoner of war said
lConfinund nm Do ua Tmn. Col QN
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Sixth Holds
Wide Beach
At Lingayen
Japs Unable To Concen.
trate Large Force For
Attack

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, LUZON,
Monday, Jan. 15.-UP) ~,
S. Sixth Army forces have
crossed the Agno river, first
natural barrier on the road to
Manila, it was announced to-
day, and front dispatches in
dicated that motorized pa
trolls had pushed three miles
beyond to within 80 miles of
the Philippines capital.
At the same time other troops
of 1t. Gen. Walter Krueger's army
broadened their grip on Lingayen
gulf to As miles, advancing IA
miles on the west along coastal
highway leading down to Bataan
and gaining ten miles on the east
to within 16 miles of the mountain
resort of Baguio, reported site of
a big japanese headquarters.
Gen Dougles MacArthur's daily
war bulletin, announcing gains
through Saturday, fifth day of the
Luzon invasion, said that 1t. Gen.
rTomoy1fi -Yaznashita's Japanese
forces still had not been able to
concentrate major forces to re-
sist the lightning American adj
vances paced by warplanes which
constantly hammered Japanese
reinforcements moving from tne
south.
The crossing of the Agno, where
the Japanese had been expected
10 make a stand, was made in the
Bayambang area, at a point %
miles mind from the Lingayen
beaches, the communique an
rounced. That would place the
crossing of the curving river
roughly in the area Of Wawa, three
miles south of Bayambang.
A front dispatch from United
Press War Correspondent H. D..
Quigg with U. S. forces in the
field said Sunday, however, that
motorized patrols, meeting re-
sistance no more formidable than
a few japanese stragglers, had
punched more than Is miles in
land.
The most distant part of the
Agno from the Lingayen coast in
| its east-to-west stretch across the
central plains is % miles, thus
indicating that the Americans
were three miles beyond the south
bank
With the Americans now strik-
ing across rolling country, it was
believed that the japanese might
attempt stand around the big
highway junction of Tarlac, 81
miles northwest Of Manila where
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Ihoqsands OfHaa1s Trapped In Ardennes
Yanks Cross Agno, 81 Miles From Manila
Reds Shatter Germans Warsaw-Krakow Lin,
1&9 Enemy Warplanes
Shot Down By Allies
US. Eighth Air Force Racks Up New Record
With 149 Kills In Days Operations;
NaZi Oil Plants Bombed

time in "a hours These yards are
the enemy's main supply center
for the Alsace-Lorraine front.
The great waves of BITS and
B-24s lashed at the Hemmingstedt
oil plant near Heide on the Danish
peninsula, synthetic oil refinery
at Magdeburg 100 miles west Of
Berlin, and benzol plant and the
big Hermann Goering steel mills
at Hallendorf, south of Brunswick
They also attacked oil depots at
Derben, northeast of Magdebur5 3,
and at Ehmen, northeast of Bruins.
wick.
Still other American heavies at.
tackled the three remaining big
Rhine river bridges at Cologne, in
Guiding the famous Hohenzo" IN
road-rail span which suffered two
direct bomb hits in raid last
week.
The 357th Psi group-probably
numbering about so planes-set its
record of SO German planes in a
vicious dogfignt which lasted near
ly an hour some 20 miles northwest
of Berlin. The 357th was led by its
new commanding officer, 1t. Col.
Irwin Dregne OF Viroqua, Wis. Its
record surpassed by Is the total OF
38 enemy planes which were down
ed November % by a Mustang
group commanded by Col Joe
Mason of Columbus, Ohio.
Gunners IN the Fortresses and
Liberators also took heavy toll
of the enemy as the Luftwaffe
was ordered into the sky in
strength for the first time this
year. The announcement that bonn.
Der gunners were in on the kills
along with the fighters indicated
that some German planes had man
aged to break into the heavies de.
spite the vigilance of the escorting
Mustangs and Thunderbolts.
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BY HAL BOYLE

FIVE POINTS, Belgium, Jan. IA.
-(P)-German shells are falling
now in ''the field of the dead" and
live Doughboys crouching in win
try foxholes are cursing the en-
envy Panzer troops who murdered
the American soldiers lying froz-
en- in the snow only few yards
away.
1t was at Five Points juno
ture OF five roads three miles
southeast of Malmedy-that recon-
naissance elements of the First
SIS Adolf Hitler Division on Dec
ember II committed the greatest
massacre on the Western Front.
More than so Of $50 men they
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ISlaClOn TO break tildC CIldIIl-
ber's exclusive control over
foreign pacts.
Backers of the plan-to make
future treaties subject to ratifica-
ton by a majority of both Houses
were encouraged in their hope
of speedy action by the fact that
the House judiciary committee,
already favorable to the idea,
came through the reorganization
of Congress without a change in
membership.
The same committee-composed
of the same men-voted IA to 4
last session in favor of amending
the Constitution to eliminate tae
provision that treaties must be
ratified by two-third vote of the
Senate without any expression
from the House.
A host of resolutions providing
tor the change already have been
introduced in the new House, but
eventually the plan probably will
emerge as committee resolution
bs cked by the judiciary commit
tee.
Rep. Priest (D-Tenn.) one of the
advocates of the change, said its
sponsors want to get the amend
ment proposition through the
House this month They nave
their eye on the As State legisla
lures now in session. Thirty-siz
of them must ratify the amend
ment to make it effective.
"They will start adjourning late
in March," he said, land if they're
gone the opportunity for this
change will be gone for another
two years.
Priest said Senate opposition
might block the change this early
in the session but added:
THE best idea is to check it VI
to them with a powerful HOUSE
vote. Too, We will have an op
portunitly of getting an expires
sion from the new senators, mel
who have just come from the PEG
pie, so to speak
Opponents of the plan feel it
adoption might serve as a prece
dent later to- try to knock out tn
two-thirds vote now required t
override a Presidential veto. l
resolution to eliminate the vet
two-thirds rule was introduced i
the House last week and went t
4 the same committee-Judiciary-
which has to pass on the treat
amendment.
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WANTS
STETTINIUS AT
BIG THREE MEET

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.A(UP)-
Sen. Owen Brewster, Or. Me- to-
day urged President Roosevelt to
take Secretary of State Edward X.
Stettinius, Jr., to the impending
Big Three meeting and to leave be-
hind unofficial and unauthorized
representative who whisper IN the
President ear"
He said that he meant harry
Hopkins.
Addressing the Women Patrl-
otto Conference, he called on the
Nation to place as much conf
dence in the new State Department
team as it does in its military
leaders. The department should
command the same respect as the
British Foreign Office, he SAID.
Discussing European political
questions, he said that the United
States will have to defer to Britain
and Russia on boundary decisions
because we are not in position
to dictate there.
But in China and the ORIENT
the United States must have prl
mary consideration, he added
"becase we are the ones to leac
china on and up and in the de
velonment of strong China lies
the hope of peace in the Pacific
, and perhaps the world.
eff the United States does no
take the lead in the development
of China, Russia will do SO" nj
said. :.
He was disturbed by those IL
this country who are attempting tt
undermine confidence in General
issino Chang Kai-shek and seek
mo "Communistic solution"
Ralph Heinzen, Paris bureau
manager of the United Press whel
Tho war broke out and who wa
informed for is months in a German
nrison camp, warned that ''onl
brute force can prevent German,
from starting another war a gen
Grafton hence. He suggested tina
those who draft peace terms tax
that into consideration.
He urged that Gordon sanltalr
he flung around Germany to pre-
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LONDON, Jan. .14.-P)-British
based warplanes destroyed at least
1879 German planes today, with las
of them knocked down by Mus.
tangs and Thunderbolts marking
a new fighter record for he US.
Eighth Air Force.
German fighter plane packs
ranging up to 200 planes swarmed
to the defense of series Of vital
oil refineries and storage depots
within 100 miles of Berlin, but
were cut down by $50 American
fighters covering the train of more
than 900 Flying Fortresses and
Liberators.
At least 14c German fighters
fell victim to machinegun slugs Of
the fighter Pilots eagerly await
ing just this chance.
Bomber gunaers scored 81 kills,
and three more enemy planes were
destroyed while trying to take off.
Mustangs screening Raj Halifax
es later bombing railyards at Saar-
brucken feeding the Strasbourg
front downed six more enemy il
terceptors.
One Mustang group rode into
as many as 200 Messerschmitts
and Focke Willis, and set a group
record one-day kill of SO planes.
The American heavy bombers
concentrated on enemy fuel facili-
ties for the first time this year.
Meanwhile Raj Spitfires and
bombers without loss scored direct
hits on w rocket storage, main
tenance and firing installations in
Holland, and hit technicians' living
quarters.
Formations of Royal Air Force
Halifaxes followed in the Wake
of the American sweep, swinging
to the south to attack the Saar-
brucken railyards for the thi-
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BRITAIN ROCKED
BY ROBOT BOMBS
Newborn Babe And Moth
er Escape When House
Collapses

LONDON, Jan. 14.-P)-Scores
of Britons were killed in their
homes and in the streets, and
many others were injured or trap
ped under debris as furry OF
German V-bombs crashed into
southern England recently.
Nazi radio propagandists said
''greater London was under fire
by day and night The official
British conmunique stuck to the
routine, however: there was en-
envy air activity during the last
"a hours; damage and casualties
were caused"
Between the two announcements
lay incidents of high drama and
poignancy-of broken lives IN
smashed houses, stores, churches
and clubs.
One V-bomb struck house IN
southern England recently only an
hour after the birth of baby
there. The building was demolsh-
ed and wreckage crashed down
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House Plans Speedy Action
To Share In Treaty-Making

WASHINGTON, Jan. 14.-(AP)-Advocates of house
participation in making tonight set themselves
deadne deliver the Senate threshold leg
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FORECAST

Clearing with lowest temperature about
4, degrees. Monday night partly cloudy.
Yesterdays temperatures:
High SLOW, As.
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Tanks Learn To Hate
After NQzi Massacre

lined up in the fields and moved
down with machineguns and pistols
were dug out of the covering
snow yesterday and this morning
Then the Army's Inspector Gen
eral and burial squads were driven
from the scene by masses of artil-
lery shells tearing vivid black
patches in the expanse so white
it hurts the eye with its bright
ness.
Now long columns of infantry
are slogging forward in an attack
under the brilliant winter sun, and
steam rises from the thawing bod
les of the group Of American
Continued on Page Two; Col A.
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along the French lndo-Chlna
coast more than 1000 miles
to the southwest.
Superfortresses based on China
hit Formosa, the chief reinforce
ment and supply base for japanese
forces in the Philippines, while
Marianas based Superfortresses
struck the main Japanese home
island of Honshu. Japan said that
Nagoya, chief aircraft produc-
ton center, was the Honshu tar
get.
The attacks OF the Superfort-
resses and Adm. William H. Hal
sey's Third Fleet planes had hi
the japanese at opposite ends Of
tn South China sea.
The carrier planes had attacked
among other targets, troop trans
ports which probably were loading
men for the Philippines or were
actually en- route.
Gen. ouglas Macarthur
Luzon forces are on the east side
of the China sea, and thus be.
tween them the Superfortresses
and the carrier planes had struck
at the two chief enemy reinforce
1nent routes, one from the north,
the other from the south.
Gen. Henry H. Arnold, as com
manding general of the Goth tSup-
erfortress) Air Force, announced
the Superfortress attacks. Planes
Of Maj. Gen. Curtis E. LIE Mays
10th China-based bomber COM
mand attacked Formosa, while the
B-29's of the 21st Bomber Com
mand, from the Marianas, under
Brig. Gen. H. Haywood S. Hansell,
Jr.. attacked Honshu.
Tokyo broadcasts recorded by
the United Press in London and by
the Federal Communications Com
mission in San Francisco reported
the Formosa and Honshu raids.
Tokyo said that so Superfort-
resses made up the fleet which at
tackled Formosa. The central and
southern areas of the island, one
of Japan's greatest army bases,
were the targets, Tokyo reported.
Damage was admitted.
A Japanese Domei agency broad
cast quoted the Formosa army
headquarters as saying that the at
tack opened at TO- 40 a. m. (9:40
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Nida Crossed
Budapest.
Fight RACES
Loss Of Last Natural Bar
riier To Reich Menaces
Silesia

LONDON, Jan. 14.-(AP)
Russian troops shattered the
enemy's Warsaw-Krakow de-
tense line in Poland today,
forced the Nida river on a 81
mile front, and drove to with
in 81 miles of Krakow, gate
way to German Silesia, on
i the third day of the Red Ar
my's greatest winter often
sive.
Gaining up to IS miles, the Rus
slams captured points within ca
miles of industrial Silesia. second
in importance only to the Ruhr IS
Nazi arsenal. The communique
announced the seizure of 200 more
localities for a three-day total of
SIS.
The WarsaW-Krakow railway and
highway were cut in the Miasowa-
BZegi area, Il miles southeast of
Warsaw. One Soviet column also
| drove to within nine miles south of
| Kielce.
The Nida. last big water bar
rer before Germany's Oder river,
was crossed on a road front be-
tween captured Brzegi and Nowy
Korczyn at the Midas confluence
with the Vis+ula AZ miles northeast
lot Krakow. ancient Polish capital
land present scat of the German
government general of Poland.
In the southern part of Hungar-
lan-annexed Slovakia, other Soviet
troops captured the important rail
junction town Of Losonc Iucenec) i.
60 miles northeast of Budapest.
and also Pelsoc (Plesivec), 81
mlles northeast of Losonc. Forty
other localities were taken in this
sector as the Russians strove to
foI! up the eastern German salient
in Slovakia.
Inside wrecked Budapest. the
russians tore another 200 blocks
rom the enemy's weakening grasp
n me center of the city, seized
,ne heleti, OF east rail station, in
resi- took The suburban station of
.Samer, and the town gas works.
another $500 German and Hun
sarlans were tlken prisoner. max
10y "a a lI-day total of more than
,z'ooo' Moscow said. Captured
% included five tanks, 81 guns.
p railway engines, 2,1so freight
cars , and 30 oil tanks.
MOSCOW dispatches said the COM
ple'e liquidation of the German
sioht.' was Ill
n ars!o ,s..t the ruined city, the Ger
t ,ia; were fighting with the fana-
.Ln S.' =, oi The doomed clinging to
co sOa. 10 per cent of the Hungarian
p ro,,sl IN me heart Of the city
Oh ,a, ' SAID tie Budapest strug-
+e r was OF GREATER magnitude and
ret '. Ivy tnan everything that has
p;o sbNen place on the front.
hli, ,Sr's RACED for every house AMI
Inns ,s0''S : In cellars and on ref.
b UM, Sometimes. soldiers were
i ings to dealt from atop build.
m ss' ana Pravda said the Ger.
ners s Know no they can expect ne
troor' from the Russian SHOCK
Gene une front dispatch told how the
the mans +o, fought and died benin,
'0if'stoAes and inside the mar
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