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PAGE TWO MANSFIELD NEWS-JOURNAL TUESDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1941 GERMANS CRUSH YANK SALIENT NEAR ST. VITH Foe Hammers Toward Meuse on Solid Front, Allied Planes Keep Punching. (Continued From Page 1) Rundstedt apparently now seeking a breakthrough toward Namur rather than Liege, 34 northeast, of Namuran 30 The miles from Namur by Sunday. Besides pounding into Rochefort 15 miles from the Meuse, German armor and infantry farther southeast had taken Libramont, miles from Sedan and 16 from French border. Prisoners said German time-table called for Paris by Jan.

17. Even as the German offensive bit deeper into Belgium, Americans the northeast at Duren, 20 miles from Cologne, had tered Windem four miles below Duren Sunday, and cleared Obernaubach a mile farther down. While the huge ground battle in Belgium costly to both sides raged on, the Eighth Air Force got in its fourth straight day attacks. Thousands of German vehicles and 500 enemy planes have been knocked out by Allied fliers since the start of the counteroffensive. For the first time, the main German pressure in Belgium peared to be turning from west, where there still were slight gains, to the northwest or north.

A field dispatch dated Monday said the tide seemed to be turning against the Germans in the Stavelot sector, along the northern of the German breakthrough. Americans counted 600 German dead and 34 tanks knocked out the armor-churned snowfield near Staumond, five miles west Stavelot, where the Germans been held to a standstill. U. forces pinched the Nazis out La Gleize, three miles west Stavelot, taking 200 prisoners wrecking or seizing 15 tanks. Farther east the Germans lost bloodily in a vicious Christmas assault on the doughboy line near Bullingen, but failed to gain.

The Germans dropped parachutists near Stavelot and Beauraing to disrupt Allied communications, but all were wiped out. Eisenhower's counterassault the 25-mile southern flank was striking heavily toward Bastogne, and against the Echternach shoulder of the Nazi bulge. Gains one to three miles were reported in 24 hours up to Christmas morning. Fierce fighting thundered around American- Chaumont west of the Arlon-Bastogne road, and doughboys were gouging out steady gains east of the road. They pressed north of Bigonville, cleared Arsdorf, and pushed close to Neuenhausen two miles farther northeast.

Americans gained near recaptured Heiderscheid, eight miles west of Diekirch. German attacks at were Kehmen repulsed three at Heiderscheid northeast. and Americans took Mostroff, four miles south of Vianden where Nazis originally broke across the Luxembourg border in their Bastogne drive. German patrols were active along the Maas (Meuse) river Holland. Patrols were active on the Seventh army front near Wissembourg and along the Rhine, and north of Colmar the Allies entered Bennwier.

(Berlin said Schiesseck fort of the Maginot line north of Bitche the Seventh's front had been recaptured by the Germans, with Bundenthal seven miles north of Wissembourg also retaken.) The Allies yesterday sent out more than 4,000 planes, some of which directed their blows at sealing off the battle bulge in the rear line rather than in frontline attacks. Officers at headquarters said the full effect of air blows begin to be felt heavily may, actual not, frontline for 48 hours more. The Allied planes yesterday wrecked at least 36 tanks, and destroyed or damaged 791 other armored vehicles and transports. Yesterday's air action cost 13 heavy bombers, seven medium and light bombers and 45 fighters, some of which may have landed friendly territory. Seventy-nine German planes were shot down.

The Ninth Tactical Air Force reported this toll of enemy vehicles since the start of the German counter-offensive: 31 planes destroyed, 435 armored vehicles, 2.986 transports, 685 railway cars, Help our wounded soldiers! U. S. ARMY HOSPITALS NEED 22,000 Wacs to serve as Medical Technicians Get full information about medical and technical jobs for Wees et your nearest U. S. ARMY RECRUITING STATION.

Sponsored By Cole Machine Tool Die Co. Mansfield, Ohio and 27 locomotives destroyed or damaged. Germans Admit Attack On Convoy LONDON (INS) The man DNB agency today admitted that a Nazi convoy had been attacked off the Norwegian coast near Bergen by boats armed with torpedoes guns. speed, DNB reported the attack as taking place early today and said that one of the enemy craft was set on fire. Urges Allies to Invade Norway LONDON (AP) Johan Nygaardsvold, prime minister of Norway, disclosed tonight his government had urged the Allies to launch an immediate invasion of Norway from the west.

In a broadcast to his homeland Nygaardsvold called upon every Norwegian to hamper the Germans in any way possible, by sinking Nazi transports or sabotaging communications. He warnGerman soldier who escapes to the south will help lengthen the war. "In time to come when the fighting will become still more intense, and may affect the whole people more directly, we must be prepared to accept all sacrifices which the situation will demand," he said. Bomb Germans For Fourth Straight Day LONDON (AP) In strong support of American troops battling the German offensive, U. S.

bombers and fighters for the fourth day attacked enemy communication and supply lines. Headquarters of the U. S. Stratargets two railroad Air. Force announced the yards in area and included, bridges and rail lines between Coblenz and Bonn.

The communique said 150 Liberators and Flying Fortresses accompanied by more than 300 Mustangs and Thunderbolts participated in the rail attacks. Supreme headquarters said 78 enemy planes were destroyed yesterday. losses were 13 heavy pomerican seven medium bombers and 43 fighters. Up to 500 Fortresses and Liberators of the U. S.

15th Air Force based in Italy made a heavy attack yesterday on a synthetic oil refinery at Brux, 50 miles north of Prague, while rocket-firing Thunderbolts blasted rail lines, fuel dumps and trains on the Brenner Pass route. Twelve bombers were lost in the Brux raid. Fighters of the 12th Air Force also attacked the Milan-Bresso airdrome and railyards in Austria. A dispatch from Switzerland said an Allied air attack yesterday afternoon was believed to have demolished the largest powder factory in northern Italy. Canadians Drive On Alfonsine ROME-INS)-Heavy snow and frigid winter weather continued to curtail military operations on the north Italian front where Canadian troops today saw the sole action when they pressed to within striking distance of Alfonsine, on the main Ravenna-Ferrara highway.

The Canadian units smashed into the town of Rossetta, northwest of Ravenna and within two miles of Alfonsine, according to the communique issued by Allied Mediterranean headquarters. While the Canadians were advancing in the Adriatic offensive. other Eightts army units moved to straighten thir line by mopping up German rear guard elements between Faenza and Bagnavavallo. Spokesmen at Allied headquarters disclosed that all enemy resistance east of the Naviglio canal. north of Faenza, virtually has ended.

The American Fifth army probed the enemy lines with stout patrols, but the Yanks, for the most part, were heavily ged down in deep snow and by freezing temperatures, following their heated fight for posses- SOVIETS TRAP 8 DIVISIONS Reach Western City Limits of Budapest in Sweeping 15-Mile Advance. es miles northwest (Continued, From Page 1) from the capital to Esztergom, on the southern bank of the Big Danube bend. Today's communique also disclosed a continuing Red army surge westward in southern Czechoslovakia along the Hron (Garam)) river in the vicinity of Leva (Levice) in a drive along the routes to Vienna and Bratislava. now less than 98 miles and 65 miles distant respectively. The war bulletin declared that in the last five days of fighting west and southwest of Budapest the Russians had slain 14,000 Ger.

man and Hungarian soldiers, captured 5,468 and destroyed or seized vast quantities terial, including 101 self propelled guns yesterday. The impression in Moscow was that the Germans intend to make a stand. Big Soviet guns were in position to open up fire on defenders inside the city if resistance keeps up much longer. In the drive west of the Danube the Russians, with the capture of many, got within 11 miles of Felso Galla, a principal railway and highway junction on the path to the Austrian frontier. Forty communities were overrun.

The German high command appeared to be attempting to set up a defense line based on the Bakany Forest, which runs from the northeast to southwest, parallel with the Austrian frontier. Here the Nazis were piling up reserves for a defense of Austria. COUPONS TO EXPIRE WASHINGTON -(P) Gasoline ration coupons B-4, C-4 and fourth-quarter will expire on Dec. 31, the OPA announced today. sion of Mount Rumici, 12 miles south of Bologna.

The weather failed to hamstring the airmen, who carried out a series of missions against the Nazi forces both on the battle line and in the Reich. Heavy bombers on the 15th A American Air force attacked the Germans' vital oil supply at Brux, nn the Nazi homeland, and blasted a number of railway yards in Aus tria, according to the communique. British Royal Air Force planes flew into Jugoslavia with supplies for Marshal Tito's Partisan forces. Medium bombers attacked the Treviso marshalling vard in northeast Italy while fighters and fighter-bombers concentrated on enemy communications in the Po valley, giving close support to the Allied ground forces. The Balkan Air force attacked German road transportation in Yugoslavia and coastal units lambasted rail communications in north-east Italy.

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Disguised 'Island' Is Jap Ship It was a neat little job of camouflage, but a navy Consolidated Liberator exposes the Jap trick with a perfectly placed bomb. The Japs had Churchill Greeted In Athens By Ton of Cached Dynamite (Continued From Page 1) Whereabouts of Churchill and Eden at the 1 time the dynamite was found were not disclosed. It also was not revealed where the peace conference scheduled for 4 p. m. (9 a.

CWT) among ELAS LONG ILLNESS ENDS IN DEATH Mrs. Ida Brubaker, 54, Succumbs at Home In Willard. WILLARD-Mrs. Ida Brubaker, 54, died at her home in Willard Sunday following a lingering illness. Surviving are her husband, Leslie; one daughter, Mrs.

Elizabeth Saum of Willard; three Leslie, stationed in California, Harry Plymouth, liam of Willard; four sisters, Mrs C. B. Frye and Mrs. Ed Slack. botte.

of Willard, Garrett, S. and R. Bru- Mrs. C. Brown of Chicago.

Rev. C. D. Wright, pastor of the United Brethren church, will be in charge of funeral services Thursday at 2 p. m.

at the Fink funeral home. Burial will be in the Greenlawn cemetery. SCHOOL'S FOUNDER DIES COLUMBUS -(P) Mrs. Frances Lucas Henderson, 71, who founded the Lincoln School for Girls at Providence, R. died at her home here yesterday after an illness of two years.

leaders, Greek government officials and British authorities would be held. Detailed plans for the conference were being cloaked in secrecy, However, it was understood that Churchill would make the opening statement. The statement was expected to be released after the session has concluded. Meanwhile, spasmodic fighting continued, in Athens and Piraeus. forces completed capture of the Piraeus docks and moved up the Piraeus- Athens road to within 700 yards of embattled Omonoias square.

In northwest Greece, right-wing EDES forces were trying to hold out along a line running northwest of Preveza, but already have yielded half the territory they before superior ELAS units attacked last week. Churchill issued an invitation to the ELAS central committee yesterday soon after his surprise arrival by plane in Athens with British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Marshal Sir Harold R. L. G. Alexander, supreme Allied Mediterranean commander.

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Mary Laycox Succumbs At Daughter's Home. MT. GILEAD Mrs. Mary Grace Laycox, 78, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.

L. Walters, in Columbus, Monday. A member of the Third Avenue Methodist church of Columbus, she is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Walters, and, Mrs. Andrew Brophy o.

Laichmont, N. four sisters, Mrs. Lucy Rowland, Mrs. Charles Boyer, Miss Nell. Shaw and Miss Bess Shaw, all of Mt.

Gilead; two brothers, Robert of Mt. Gilead and Ralph of Bucyrus; five grandchildren and six greatgrandchildren. Funeral services are to be held Wednesday at 2 p. m. at the Craven funeral home.

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