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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1944
Page
2
An account describes Texans staging a brutal contest to kill Japanese during a Pacific island campaign. They divided the interior into zones, capped daily kills at ten, and kept bodies as trophies. A game sanctuary was later drawn, but supply lines faltered. By count, about 1450 dead Japs were secured with roughly 50 still resisting nearby.
Allied forces push toward Brittany ports as Vannes and Lorient remain key targets. German resistance tightens along Orne while Paris and Caen fronts shift. Prisoner totals rise to about 100000 with enemy casualties close to 200000. air power harasses retreating Seventh Army as Ninth Air Force reports thousands of tanks and vehicles destroyed or damaged in ten days.
Premier Stanislaw Mikolajczyk of the Polish government in exile prepared to begin discussions with the rival Polish Committee of National Liberation after a two and a half hour meeting with Stalin in Moscow. Foreign missions hailed the move as a hopeful sign while noting Mikolajczyk’s ongoing contact with British and American ambassadors. The War and the Working Class magazine rejected claims that Soviet rule would be imposed on Poland.
Five Navy nurses in khaki garb stepped from a transport plane at Owl Island, 800 miles from the Philippines. They are the first women assigned to the Schayten Islands and join other corps defending Bataan's nearby area.
George Holman, 47, was found guilty on 23 counts of murder in the first degree for setting the fire that destroyed the New Amsterdam hotel on March 29. Twenty-two people died, many of them workers, as the flames swept the building. The state sought the death penalty. Coast Guard Birthday in New York marks 164th anniversary with subdued observance.
Austin report shows 73 typhus fever cases across 3 Texas counties in the past week, the highest for a single week. The seven year weekly median is 34, lifting the year’s total to 792 disease cases to date, with 63 deaths last year and 58 deaths in Washington state.
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