Guns at Greek door as truce breaks during Athens talks
In Athens on December 27 British and Greek delegates faced tense talks after artillery fired, the truce declared null. Guns were left at the door as the assembly opened while EAM delegates arrived unarmed for the all party conference. Churchill praised the journey as a bid to end civil strife and protect Greek rights.
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Elas
Hill
Tes
Hether
Greece
Iain
Churchill
Pos
EAM
Napolitical Front
Isng
Urchill
Roosevelt
Stalin
H Press
Prem Today
Prime
Britain
Athens
Weather Front Advances East As Snow Hits Midwest
A winter storm shifts eastward hindering the northward path. Freezing rain and snow blanket northern Texas through Arkansas Missouri Kentucky and Tennessee. Central Midwest endures snow and rising temperatures. Coldest readings hit 16 below at Tylertown Pa and severe cold grips Cleveland New York Boston and areas nearby.
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United Press
Midwest
Texas
Missouri
Kentucky
Cleveland
New York
Boston
Night and day air war over Japan press reports
US Navy reports and Axis counts detail daylight B 29 raids on Tokyo and nearby plants from Saipan bases. Bombing reaches Mushashino works as Hansell notes progress and ongoing production disruption at Nagoya plants with limited losses to aircrews.
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Fred Scherff
Washington
U.P
Tokyo
Mushashino
Japan
Saipan
Transocean
First 30 Days Of B-29 Raids Gain Results
Saipan December 27 Brig. Gen. Haywood Hansell Jr reports American Superfortresses dropped 3,000,000 pounds of bombs in 30 days on Japan. Targets include Hatsudaki Nagoya plant shipyards and Tokyo vicinity. Two B-29s lost. many crews rescued. production disrupted at Nagoya plants.
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War Department
Tokyo
Mushashino Works
Japan
Heywood Hansell, Jr
21St Bomber Command
Saipan
Mushashino
Comet Agency
Hansell
Nagoya
Hatsudaki Aircraft
Kokuki
Twenty-First Bomber Command
Haywood Hansell, Jr
Hatsudaki
David Lloyd George Says He Will Retire From Commons
London December 27 David Lloyd George the veteran statesman and leader of Britain during the last war announced he would retire from Parliament when his term ends on the advice of his physician. At 81 he has sat in the commons for 54 years and remains a leading liberal figure though quiet in this war.
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London
David Lloyd George
Britain
House of Commons
Lloyd George
Commons
Damage To Tokyo By Superfortresses Raid Admitted
Tokyo radio reports admitted damage in the capital's industrial district from daylight raids by American Superfortresses. The broadcast, captured by FCC, said interceptors and prompt air raid defenses limited losses.
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Tokyo
Japan
Associated Press
Tokyo Radio Today
Orienta Domes
FCC
Allied Air and Soviet Forces Hit Axis in Europe
U S bomber formations claim four days of heavy attacks destroy or damage hundreds of German armored vehicles and transport as Rundstedt gambles on weather. In Budapest, Soviet units press into Buda, encircling the city and forcing German withdrawals as siege operations intensify.
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Walter Cronkite
Ninth Air Force
U. S. Air Force
Karl von Rundstedt
Belgium
Junk An Shaef
SHAEF
von Rundstedt
Rundstedt
Planes Arrive From Japan To Guard Manila
Allied dispatch reports Japanese reinforcements rushing toward Manila as American air raids continue. In clashes near Clark Field on Christmas day: 39 to 43 Japanese planes shot down. Japanese losses 72 to 81 in 48 hours, while American losses reached six fighters.
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U.P
Manila
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
Clarkfield
Dag
Mabalacat
Clark Field
Luzon
Batangas
Mindoro
Leyte
Street Fights Envelop Budapest Split by Russian Troops
London dispatch reports Russian forces cut the German Hungarian lines around Budapest by crossing the Danube nine miles north of the city and seizing Szentendrei island. One half of the garrison retreated into Danube bend terrain while the other was trapped within Budapest.
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Moscow
U.P
Buda
Budapest
Danube
Izvestia
Red Army
Reich
Stalingrad
Wehrmacht
Red Air Force
London
Szentendrei
West Bank
Arizona Convict Receives Commutation From Osborn
Johnny Hicks, an Arizona penitentiary convict with prior escapes, had his 10 to 15 year Phoenix robbery sentence commutation approved by Governor Osborn on November 21. He was arrested in Phoenix today after patrolmen found him pushing a car from a driveway.
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Phoenix
Johnny Hicks
Arizona Penitentiary
Osborn
Hicks
Board of Pardons and Paroles
Power Of Allies To Deal Blow To Nazis Uncertain
War analysis notes uncertainty in Allied damage from the German offensive and expects a major counterattack under Eisenhower. The piece predicts a titanic battle across about 2,500 square miles as Von Rundstedt’s gamble tests Allied resilience and may determine Hitler’s fate.
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Dewitt MacKenzie
Associated Press
Eisenhower
Marshal von Rundstedt
Bomb raid on Paris wounds 200 US troops
Paris reports a German aerial strike on a servicemen’s club housing about 200 wounded American soldiers. The blast killed and wounded several others as French and American litter bearers evacuated the dead and injured to hospitals. Surviving troops, dazed and bareheaded, stood for roll call as Paris lights burned at night.
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Paris
Harvey Althiser
Newburgh
N. Y
Transportation Corps
Hallowe'en
Americans push toward Meuse and Bastogne relief
American forces blunted the German spearhead near the Meuse recapturing Celles and its tip. NATO air power destroyed seven of nine main rail bridges on supply lines to the Bastogne salient while Allied paratroops and ground units widened relief efforts and pressed toward Bastogne amid cold, clear weather.
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J. Edward Murray Paris
U.2
Meuse
Celles
U. S
Ninth Air Force
21St Army Group
Low Countries
Bastogne
Brussels
Stavelot
Marche
Liege
Namur
John McDermott
United Press
American First Army
First Army
The
Dinant
Karl von Rundstedt
Shaef
von Rundstedt
McDermott
Armed GIs Scout Area For Prisoners
Soldiers from nearby Army installations searched Pima county and the area between Tucson and the Mexican border for the 19 German prisoners still at large after a breakout from Papago Park POW camp on Sunday.
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Pima County
Tucson
Papago Park
Germans Still At Large After Prison Camp Escape
Phoenix December 27 1945 19 German escapees from Papa Go Park POW camp remain at large after six of 25 captured following a tunnel escape. Navy Captain Jurgen Wattenberg is the leading fugitive. Army Maj. Eugene Tays expects most recaptures within a day or two as desert fatigue forces surrender. Col. Holden notes 12 of the fugitives are considered top rated.
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Phoenix
Papago Park
Army
Navy
Jurgen Wattenberg
Graf Spee
Eugene Tays
Tays
William A. Holden
Supplies Dropped By Sky Trains To Bastogne Doughboys
Hundreds of tons of ammunition and other supplies were parachuted to American troops cut off by the German drive in the Bastogne area of Belgium. Twin engine C-47 sky trains from Britain and France delivered cargo as relief columns remained about 40 miles away. A C-47 piloted by Lt. Col. Joel L. Crouch of Riverside California piloted the dawn mission.
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London
Bastogne
Belgium
Britain
France
Joel L. Crouch
Riverside
Calif
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