Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 12, 1945, Winnipeg, Manitoba FINAL EDITION Winnipeg Free Press VOL. PAGES Sun 9.23; sun 17.50. Moon 8.00; moon 16.28. JANUARY 12, 1945 ALLIES SLASHING AT GERMAN FORCES Yanks Widen Luzon Front General Mac Arthur's Jan. 12. 6th. Army out across the central Luzon plains on a 20-mile expanded their invasion beachhead to at least 200 square miles and sent patrols probing across the Aguo river only 90 miles from Manila Indo-China Sea Battle Pearl Jan. 12. great battle ly is raging today off French between Admiral Halsey's U.S. 3rd fleet and anese warships escorting seeking to smash Gen. invasion army on Luzon in the Admiral Nimitz told war last night carrier aircraft of the Pacific fleet were Armored columns striking down three of the main highways to Manila were six to eight miles in- land by Wednesday midnight and it was that all three now were within easy gun range not actually Agno river along which the Japanese may attempt their first A front despatch said one column had seized an important road junction south of liberated suggesting that 13 miles may have fallen in the The frontal advance Manila still was meeting toward only re- negligible opposition and observers said the Americans ably could cross the Agno in strength now sistance were consolidate their flanks against enemy blows from the east and without major re- it not necessary to First Sizeable Opposition Veteran jungle troops on the off Indo-China I eastern flank of the beachhead between Saigon and Camranh I the first All the circumstances of location Japanese force encountered and responsibly of Admiral during the invasion powerful fleet suggest that 10 enemy escorted by was intercepted en route to 1.000 miles from Camranh 200 miles northeast of the closest Asiatic Japanese fleet base from which the enemy could attempt reinforcement of Pacific fleet carrier en- gaged a Formosa week ago in attacking and reconnoitering 500 miles of the China dashed across Japan's great sea tions to her conquered empire to strike the The carrier fleet raided in the last of a series of. INDO-CHINA Continued on Page 7, Column 2 miles inland from San The Japanese were known to have strong forces in the San Fernando corridor north of San Fabian and a fair proportion of the thousands reinforcements ing into the American beachhead were being diverted to that area Warships lying off the Lingayen coast pounded away steadily at Japanese fortifications in the corridor and the hills behind Ground artillery including heavy also was hurling shells into the A despatch from 6th Army quarters said the troops above San LUZON Continued on Page 7, Column 2 Canadians Stepping Up Attacks On Reno River Jan. 12. units of the British 8th facing desperately resisting units along the Reno increased tempo of battle in that sector at the southern end of the narrow spit of land separating the Comacchio lagoon from the Adriatic it was announced Allied 5th Army raiding parties stabbed deep into enemy territory as patrol activity was stepped up with the advent of better weather Accuses Nazis Of Boris Murder Jan. 11. Prince former regent of testified at the current son trials in Sofia that he was con- his the late Boris had been poisoned by the the Bulgarian domestic radio said in a broadcast recorded a defendant before the people's was quoted as ing that after his last visit to Adolf Hitler's was given a impregnated with a to wear on his return flight to Sofia and that this caused his Boris died Aug. 28, 1943, allegedly after his visit to Hitler Following death a regency was headed by who took over the rule of the country pending the majority of the Simeon Death of the king was first an- formally by the Nazis over the Berlin radio which said he had died as the result of a heart attack and lung The German DNB agency at that also took note oJ of It circulated a despatch to the European press saying that Bodgan a regent on Cyril's new had sized that investigations had shown unequivocally that there could be no question of any kind of Cyril is the first member of the late king's family to credit the humor as fact and to accuse Hitler and his immediate entourage of killing the along the entire Italian Allied headquarters said very strong forces of fighters and ranged over ern continuing their assault on enemy communications and as well as front line Despite bad weather headquarters said a force of British and American light naval craft en- gaged an enemy convoy southeast of scoring torpedo hits on two lighters and probable hits on a These two pictures show scenes during the distribution of food to Greeks in the Athens At the British soldiers open cartons as they assist in the distribution of soup while a British military policeman ushers two youngsters to the head of the line in as tion -x Truce Is Signed To End Greek Civil War Monday Jan. civil war will at least at 1 a.m. Monday under a truce by Honald British commander in and four representatives of the rebellious left-wing it was announced The truce was agreed upon last night and will prevail during negotiations between the and the new Greek government under Re- gent Archbishop Damaskinos and Premier Gen. Main points at issue between the and the government believed to be the disarmament of both the Greek National Guard and forces and the early trial of Greeks accused of Warning by Leaflet Shells with the Under With the Canadian Corps on the thp Jan. 12. Canadian gunners yesterday fired leaflet shells into the town of on the east bank of the Senio 14 miles north and slightly east of conveying the suspicion of Canadian forces that a large white building in the prominently displaying the red was being used by the ri Germans as an observation The leaflets warned that the building would be fired upon later in the day and advised that if it was a it purported to patients should be before the deadline set for the shelling a tion of citizens flying white ners crossed the Senio to the Canadian side and held a brief parley with Canadian The exact outcome of the palaver is not yet known but the shelling had not begun up until last TEMPERATURE READINGS Low during the night 6 7.30 Jan. 12 4 10.30 Jan. 12 2 1.30 Jan. 12 4- 4 This day last year FROM ARMY Voice Against Disunity Storm Hits 28 4 Fliers Still Missing Jan. 12. to head for safety as soon as officials reported today that all 2B aircraft from the servers school at No. 1 Air Ob- nearby Malton which were caught aloft last night in a up without warning have located but that four crew bers are still The last missing plane was possible but many were a con- distance One Wheels One wheels at the now Oshawa Two sudden snowstorm which blew came down jn Uxbridge one near one near Aurora and another at Lanark in the Ottawa Officials said that crews of all these six had reported but they were not sure just which made forced landings in the Bracebridge area but two members of its three-man crew are still So are two which crashed after the crews members of. other planes which either their crews taking to or making forced landings in various places in tral or eastern All four missing men parachuted from their craft and it is expected they will be found The planes were out on routine night navigation Three found their way down through a hole in the storm to Trenton purl and 18 others made their home b lit where they were to a by radio The away at intervals 8 p.m. and an todav the was clear with slight took to their Announcements were made over Toronto station to farmers in the storm asking them to turn on lights in an effort to guide the The boards at Malton airport and at the school jammed with calls to nearby emergency airports anc other Meanwhile station wagons left the for Uxbridge and Cord to pick up men who storm is reported to have struck between about 90 miles east of Four Killed Crash Jan. 12. An flurries when they j army bomber crashed and Fifty-two planes were scheduled j burned near W. to make flights during the night airport killing four crew 1. forces will withdraw from certain occupied towns and villages before deadlines ranging from 12.01 a.m. 17 to 12.01 a.m. Jan. 24. 2. The will release all service personnel prisoners all including the Greek government police and National but not Greek civilians detained by parent body of the 3. British forces will release an equal number of 4. All British civilians captured will be released irrespective of the identity of their the place where they were captured or their present 5. Any failure on the part of forces to observe the terms of the agreement or any attack in any part of Greece on any British dominion or Indian troops and service or any Greek Continued on Page 7, Column Jan. 12. of command change perturb the fighting ous enough to be af Are E In Circus B Jan. Coroner Frank E. Heal seven officials and e Brothers and Bailey circus cr sponsible for the fire the big Ji 168 persons and injuri Issued after a the official fine seven guilty of or reckless ei mission of is a duty to which criminally Healy named the who were arre after the fire and c They ar dent James A. C ager George W. E Canvasman Leonard S Chief Electrician Rolling Stock dent David W. Blanc also named William Samuel boss se he were suppos been on thc lookout were absent from Britain Condemns Holding Hostages Jan. 12. The British government approves the Greek but condemns the holding of hostages as a barbarous it was announced terms signed by the British and representatives for a truce are endorsed by His Majesty's a statement from No. 10 Downing street and holding hostages a barbarous custom condemned by international His Majesty's government must make that no truce can be enduring or ripen into peace unless or until the hostages taken by the been effectually safeguarded and DISC San Jan. Tokyo radio said las anese war plant worl placed under militar as a means of makir fend their places of last under an air raid cast was recorded by communications comm HELEN KIRKPATRICK political rumors Such indication is today in a editorial in the army newspaper Stars and Its Major Arthur is no armchair He fought as combat He speaks to soldiers as a Today his box editorial carries a picture of a German infantryman employees of with a in hand -j and Barnum About him he criminally re- America people of the United Nations This is a German bad or he is a fighting fool His future is He is fight ing as he has fought Britain the United man and millions like him are thi His gun is When the trigger is pulled it in this Death in this Death for any of for as much as a minute his eye off the Whatever soldiers we to beat Confidence tha every man behind us is dedicatee to one death and defea for this Our Leaders Chosen do this job our leaders Chosen by as by the in have chosen our supreme He lead KIRKPATRICK Continued on Page 7. Column 3 wanton charged with Boss Edward R. He Caley and sed to have for fires but 12. t night kers may be ig them de- work to the Enemy Staggering In Ardennes Area Jan. 12. and American joined today in a operation which virtually eliminated the last remnants of Nazi the and penetrated almost to the heart of the once Ardennes The British wing of Marshal Montgomery's armies rammed east to establish Irm contact with Patton's U.S. 3rd at the southwestern corner of the melting Nazi southeast of St. now firmly in our The Nazis were fighting bornly at key points to protect the still orderly withdrawal of their now almost entirely east of ihe Whether Field Marshal von Rundstedt proposed to pull back the battered elements of 20 divisions to the positions they held before the was not yet On the northern flank American 1st Army tanks and infantry fought through a mile southeast of and by late afternoon the town was in their while Patton's forces slugged their way Advance elements of both forces were within four miles of key transport British troops reported they had entirely cleared out the area west of the Vith The Germans have now been driven out of roughly one-half the area they occupied at the time of their deepest penetration of the American A despatch said that the terrain southeast of Houffalize might vide the Germans with a position for a new defensive The area has a high ridge along which the Germans could dig in. Allied aerial support and hampered Berlin Reports Russians Starting Polish Offensive Jan. 12. reports today that the long brewing Russian winter offensive in Poland had started on a broad front west of the some 120 miles below with an initial impact which drove several wedges n 'the German Nazi broadcasts reporting the new Soviet drive from the long dormant Sandomierz Baranow bridgehead cross the Vistula said extremely litter fighting was raging and German reverses in he first phase of the Russian troops and armor massed n the bridgehead won by the Red rmy last summer mounted the Peter's Stand Creates Crisis By EDWARD D. MORGAN British and American artillery Jan. 12. CDN Peter's out- of Prime Minister Churchill's advice in refusing to form a regency for slavia creates a peculiar new crisis in the long string of severe headaches which the The driving washed out Allie are facing in the aprial b For the moment the situation here is in somewhat of an ng a wide assortment of figures Allied diplomats and slav government officials to his majesty's The position of practically is extraordinarily as one British observer put it. The last night rejected the drawn up by Marshal Tito and Premier Ivan Subasic and which las received the blessing of Britain and the United in about that order of for the establishment of a three-man His arguments were on elaborate constitutional but it was plain to see that he was motivated by main desired to return home as The last hope of bringing battered legions to battle n the Ardennes where they could be enveloped and rested with American 3rd driving down into 'the Docket from the north and U.S. 3rd Army troops moving up from already the Berlin commentators were writing off the asserting that Rundstedt's main diversion of Allied strength from other had been Allied headquarters announced that German prisoners had been taken since the beginning of offensive and that Allied ground forces destroyed 225 tanks and captured 14 in addition to uncounted thousands of In the Alsace corner of eastern the Germans threw additional reinforcements into their Rhine river bridgeheads on both sides of Strasbourg won some local The Allies still appeared to have the situation under although the French lost 14 miles south of and American 7th Army forces were driven out of 11 miles southwest of the Alsatian NO FUEL Cold Wave Makes Parisians Shiver Jan. 19. of Parisians shivered in heatless homes and office during the second worst cold wave in 20 Snowfall was the heaviest since 1941. There has been no civilian coal in Paris since last Some hospitals and a few hotels and offices used by Allied officials and agencies were but temperatures in these are below 65 degrees A little wood was available on the black market at six cents a Gas was being turned on only at meal times for and many apartment house managers cut off the water last night to avoid ing American Private Guilty Of Murder Jan. 12. George E. 27, was guilty by court martial today of ing Sir Eric Teichman and to be Smith had confessed shooting the British diplomat in the woods of his estate last Dec. 4. The decision of the court which was presided over by Col. O. of 111., was handed down shortly after the defence had closed its case by having Smith strip to show the pictures of a baby's a naked girl and a horseshoe tattoed on his body as evidence that he was mentally de- king feared that plan makes a Communistic regime in Yugoslavia a foregone There is little doubt that if he accepted the plan would be ing to his since his statement last night was made without the knowledge of either the British government or his own there appears in- creasing grounds for the belief that members of his own family are influencing his It is suspected that his Princess who is the widow of the late King ander of has been one of of the household who have Deen prevailing on him most try to his His former Princess is now expecting a They were ried March 20 of last Holiday In Vancouver Spreads Dardanelles Permit Jan. 12. British quarters said day that Turkey had granted mission to the Allies to ship ACTING AIR MINISTER Jan. 12. Colin revenue today was sworn in as acting ter of defence replacing Naval Minister Angus L. who has been doubling up in the portfolio since the some weeks of Air Minister plies to Russia via the G. V but when the storm struck without warning around 11 p.m. the did not leave as Radio signals were sent to the 28 in the members and injuring four two Major W. G. Manor u i Landing and troop transports at dawn January 9 in Lingayen the hour to begin the of the US army air transport island of This taken by photographer Frank for the war picture invasion of the main Philippine is the first received of the command after a drumfire barrage hundreds of the Germans Reconnaissance Jabs For several days the Germans ad reported patrol reconnaissance abs from the Russian bridgehead to the push toward German artillery had been helling Soviet troop concentrations and columns moving up to the the News agency A few days ago British United Correspondent Henry Shapiro from Warsaw that ble Russian and Polish forces were massed in the Praga area of the capital in readiness lor a f Subsequent reports told of ians and Poles gathering hundreds if thousands strong along the east jank of the Vistula and in the south of the capital in for a sweep across the frozen plains which with the coming of spring will turn into The first reports of the drive did not make clear its but the Russians apparently were lashing out all around the perimeter of the Close followers of Marshal Josef Stalin's battle strategy observed that he customarily initiates major offensives with blows in a com- limited and then in drumfire order widens the front with successive onslaughts until a major offensive has Attack May Expand Some sources believed this re- ported attack at the lower end of the Polish front would expand to encompass the northern part of the eastern largely inactive since Russians struck into East Prussia and bogged down in the intricate maze of defences ng the German first waves of the Soviet onslaught were crushed by a man artificial and said in the new columns which reached he main German fighting line NEW OFFENSIVE Continued Page 7, Column 4 Jan. 12. teen thousand Vancouver children were enjoying an enforced day on the fourth day of a strike of street railwaymen and bus drivers in and in nearby New and there was still no sign of an end to the transportation Almost half of the 60 public schools in the city were with 24 schools shut down and five others unable to continue tain Little more than half of the students at the Uni- versity of British Columbia were able to report for but university buildings were still open and classes were being held for those who showed Street on strike since last withdrew pickets from one British Columbia Electric garage last when members of the still working servicing non- company stages and tested the The picket line was set at the building because of city buses housed on the second Union officials explained that only unpicketed buses were being serviced on the lower floor by union Full shifts of pickets continued their 24-hour parade around city street car despite last night's heavy which kepi all but the hardiest pedestrians off the still Most of the pickets had to walk from their homes to their allotted The said in a news page story that a move from an expected quarter was imminent and might end the strike before 63 drivers of couver Island Coach Lines in went back to work day after the company agreed to make a joint submission with their union to the regional war labor board urging that the drivers be TRAM STRIKE Continued on Page 7, Column 4 Mercury Having Ups And Downs Winnipeg's mercury reached 17.4 its highest point for 23 Thursday then fell rapidly to hit before It did not stay long below zero and by 7.30 had risen to four The which experienced a low of and Winnipeg were the only two recorded prairie points to report sub-zero temperatures during the Manitoba's weather will continue moderately cold during the next 36 with cloudy skies and more light the weatherman The city received tenths of an inch of over which Jack Frost kled some of his glitter powder during the Suggests Minorities Will Have Hard Time By J. A COOK Free War Correspondent Jan. 12. Special Manchester Guardian suggests editorially it would be even if to redraw the frontiers in Europe in such a way as to leave no national minorities within the boundaries of other Experience tends to show that unless these minorities are by r international guarantees they will suffer from various dis- abilities if from actual Before the war the rights of minorities had been accepted in principle by all progressive Hitler's use of German minorities to further his aggressive plans has caused a Now we find Dr. a ber of the Czech government before the was for its humane and liberal putting forward very ferent ideas in a pamphlet on the future of Czechoslovak Of Germans who formerly lived in Czechoslovakia Dr. Ripka suggests that about will be expelled into and about or will be permitted to remain in vakia as Czech Those who do will be granted no minority They will have to so far as is their German language and culture and become Czechs in mind as well as in Such a policy is easily under- in view of what the Czechs suffered at the hands of Henlein and his followers in 1938. Yet one must question whether the decision is wise in It will add another Germans to the mass migration which is going to burden Europe in war and it will set a dent for the treatment of ties which may have dangerous im-
