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2 THURSDAY, MARCH 22, 1945CHESTER CPA.} TIMESAMERICAN FLEET NEAR OKINAWA; AFTER JAP NAVYGuam. (UP)“The Fifth Fleet today was reported approaching the Okinawa Islands, 300 miles southwest of Japan, possibly for new blows at. Japan's waning sea and air power.(A Tokyo broadcast said 320 American Superfortresses. Liberator bombers and Lightning fighters raided Japanese-held Hainan Island Off the South China coast yesterday. The broadcast, recorded by the FCC, said the. Japanese garrison caused considerable damage” to the planes.)Pacific fleet headquarters hasscreened the fleet's activities with asecurity blackout since its planes criDpled 17 enemy warships and wrecked 600 aircraft in Japan’s inland sea Sunday and Monday.But radio Tokyo said the task force with its dozen or more carriers last night was fleeing at full speed” southward toward waters east of the Okinawa Islands, site ofan important naval bane and several airfields midway between Japan and Formosa.A Japanese communique broadcast by the Tokyo Radio claimed that Japanese planes had heavily damaged another American battleship in attacks on the fleet as it turned south from the Kyuslru-Honshu area yesterday.That brought the toll of American warships claimed by Tokyo since Sunday to eight sunk and three damaged. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz reported yesterday that only one American warship had been damaged seriously enough to retire from action Sunday or Monday. No ships were sunk, he said.Nimitz issued another communique early today, but it told only of further air attacks by Army Liberators and fighters on Chichi in the Bonin Islands, north of Iwo, Tuesday and Wednesday.Army and Navy bombers also hit Hayake Kawa on Paramushiru in the Kurile Islands north of Japan, the communique said. Canneries, radio Installations and other buildings were strafed.1 Continued From | Page One 1School, class of 193B, he was employed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Eddystone prior to entering service.Three other brothers are in the aimed forces, Capt. George W. Goodley, Jr., chaplain, serving with■fho Hrinv Air ‘PrSrrp in Afrir.a* 5tf.fifTToday’s SpotlightBy International News Scrvtr*The shell-shocked Nazi propaganda machine today cast nervous eves at the American armies on the Rhine directly' west of the Ruhr, once Germany’s greatest Industrial area and the cockpit of her war machine.The next Allied blow, the Nazi radio says, may well fall upon this much-bombed valley, the combined Detroit and Pittsburgh of the Third Reich. Extending along the 142-mile Ruhr river, the region embraces a score of cities and towns from Duisburg to Dortmund, a series of coal fields, hearths, blast furnaces, foundries and factories. Essen, home of the great Krupp works, already is under American shell fire.Before the last war, the Ruhr depended largely on iron ore from Alsace-Lorraine and when this territory went back to France the Germans attempted to organize the valley on a more independent basis. In the postwar reparations, economic and industrial tangle, French troops moved into the Ruhr to control its output. The Germans countered with strikes and passive resistance, developing a three-year struggle which cost much money and bloodshed and was a deciding factor in the collapse of the German mark.Later, Hitler's war-minded economists solved the valley’s problems by running its industries at high speed to build Europe's greatest war machine. And after the battle started, the RAF and the USAAF countered with another Ruhr blueprint— ceaseless bombing.Continued From *% Page Oneraging in the entire area south of the Danube, Ernest Von Hammer, German radio commentator, said inreporting the new Red Army pushtoward Austria.He said the offensive between Lake Balaton and the Danube northwest of Budapest gathered intensity by the hour. Tire storm center was In the area of Szekesfc-hervar. Between that keystone base and Felsogalla the Germans detached themselves and took up new positions In shortened lines,’' Von Hammer said.Violent .attacks from the south against Polgardi, 10 miles southwest of Szekesfehervar were reported beaten off. In the forest north of Mar, 17 miles northwest of Szekesfehervar,.. the Germans threw in.reserves and were credited with thwarting Soviet breakthrough efforts.Esztcrgom, on the south bank of the Danube 29 miles east of Kotna-
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