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' KJ? re-rk of cany andles of t#ored too, s our Amo less ik to :h. con-r any l pail the sev-the areas , ar-imes, it al-that st to Andoe trainea enougn so no u nave— (Continued on page 8)YanksItaly AidRussians—StimsonWASHINGTON, July 28-Allied successes in Italy have forced the Germans to divert six fresh divisions to that front from other theaters where they are hard pressed for combat manpower, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson said today. Recently returned from a touryrgeof the European theater, Secretary Stimson said that the diversion! lions center lmkin * dm IV 'v.Uiimportant railway junction 80 mil s east of Tilsit in East Prussia aim 140 miles east of Koenigsberg, cun— tal of East Prussia.!As Moscow’s guns fired 24.000 victory salutes, the Soviet premier \w-nounccd the Red armies hod I a I: -n IJ vin.sk and Rezekne in Laiv,,-,. Shavh in Lithuania, and Binlv.stnK, hwow and Stanislov in PolandBrest-Litov.sk, almost completelycut off by Marshal Konstantin Ro-kossovsky’s swift drive on Warsaw, was the first city captured bv thlt;* Germans in June, 1041. wlu?n‘ they crossed the demarcation line iii their holy war” against Russia. It also was the scene of the signing of the harsh treaty imposed on the Russians by Field Mardiai Von Luuendorf m the last war.Fall of Shavh. large e*immonie*i-of German troops to Italy started; Fast Prussia nlace.i sovmt ;,n„(s after the Allied drive to Rome. He■ less than 90 miles from Mm Hihmindicated that Allied achievements! Sea and monMvl tin* i in.* *r 1 oin Italy witli the resultant necessity! an♦ iuidingde~thewooditionimposed upon Germany to send, .new units there had been particu- Dvin.;! larly beneficial to Russia.One unit fighting American forces in Italy was formed in Ba-estumdel }oBalhe re pula!.and RXa-M•••I, ■ »k-I !Vsine r !;) ‘ • 11o’Ii f 1 • ofway for a dir.vt in v w ;x.;, \„'xthe Baitie an i it appejr*! Mo.d Ue onrGerman* - . ... —c W'rma.u northern *;■ :n rim-varia and equipped with special :n i” k;,lt;l by tl unu ai In I o ni inn winter clothing for Russia. It hod bad boen outflanked. of theto be dispatched suddenly in June i1 — tF J 1 i *. thejourtlkin-x 30Lvingsexto Italy to reinforce the decimated! divisions there. Another German \ dvision was forming, in Poland and i intended for the Russian front, but I just before the opening of the Soviet offensive it was sent to Italy.” Mr. Stimson said that while the Germans apparently had elected to make a decisive fight at the base of the Cherbourg Peninsula in Normandy, where the stiffest sort of combat was in prospect, Russian armies in the eastern theater were carving up the Nazi armies, enveloping German strongpoints, threatening German forces in the Baltic and pressing the Nazis back so fast in Poland the enemy was having extreme difficulty in reforming his broken ranks.(Cont iii ui*lt;i on par/ • S’ MarinesTinian Air!f myovedo beandrson.lute,yourbakeiut.”:rontucerme-and:der.dop-Mail Order MarriagesOkay With WashingtonandJtarshaslied,:ith-andHevedWASHINGTON, July 28—Marriages by mail are okay with the Army and the wife may collect the allowances of her soldier-husband if the state in which the marriage contract was made recognizes mail-marriages as valid. This was a ruling today by tiie Comptroller General in the case of a Pennsylvania couple who on December 3, 1943, became man and wife by means of a document mailed bock and forth for signature.The document stated: ”Whereasit is impossible for them at thistime to procure a marriage licenseand be married by civil or religiousceremony they mutually covenant,promise and agree they ore nowand henceforth shall be husband and wife.”PEARL HARBOR, July 28—United States Marines now control the northern third of Tinian, including the dominating height of Mt. Lasso, according to today’s communique from Pacific Fleet headquarters.The announcement revealed that the southward drive across the island, supported by Saipan based aircraft, has captured one of the finest airfields in the Marianas chain.A new attempt by the trapped Japanese to break out of the Orote Peninsula, south of Guam, cost them another 400 dead and at least 12 tanks, the communique declared.Secretary of War Henry L.Stimson. in Washington, announced today that 85,000 Japanese troops have been killed in the central and southwest Pacific since American forces started their current grand offensive. The figure Secretary Stimson said, does not include the thousands who muse have perished in sunken and damaged enemy warshipsA communique from southeast Asia Command headquarters confirmed a recent attack on the Japanese port of Sabang, at the northern tip of Sumatra. Battleships, destroyers and cruisers of the Eastern Fleet, covered by carrier aircraft, blasted the enemy base for 35 minutes. Official reports declared the harbor installations were almost completely destroyed.
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