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Red Army at Reich – 2-3
Nazis Stress Fear of Red Army Tide – 3-4
War News Summarized – 4
British Spurt On 2 ½ Miles; U.S. Men Cut Salient End – 5-6
Americans Charge over River in Blitz (Currivan) – 6-7
350 French Women Storm Sugar Mill (Archambault) – 7
Brig. Gen. F.W. Castle is Killed in Heroic Air Combat in Europe – 7
American and German Treatment of Prisoners Contrasted (page 1 photo) – 8
Hard Year Pledged (Daniell) – 9
December Losses 74,788 in West to Foe’s 110,000; Total 663,859 – 10
Two Road Centers Captured on Luzon (Parrott) – 11-12
Seized Airstrip on Luzon in Use (Jones) – 12
Japanese Premier Faces Intensified Crisis; Extremists Demand a More Vigorous War – 12
In the Pacific: Good and Bad Landings – Plasma is Administered in a Hurry (photos) * – 13
British Look Here for Monetary Act – 14
The Puzzle of Luzon Resistance (by Hanson W. Baldwin) – 14
The Texts of the Day’s Communiques on the Fighting in the Various War Theatres – 15-17
Killers of Moyne to Die for Crime (by C.L. Sulzberger) – 17

* The “Good Landing” photo was a panoramic view of the Luzon beachhead. It was too wide to scan.

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http://www.etherit.co.uk/month/0/19.htm

January 19th, 1945 (FRIDAY)

FRANCE: Versailles: Montgomery is furious as Eisenhower rejects his strategy for a push to the Rhine in favour of General Bradley’s.

GERMANY: U-2371 laid down.

U-4706 launched.

U.S.S.R.: Polar Fleet: DD “Deyatelnii” (ex-I 45 “Churchill”) - by U-boat, in Rinda bay area, at Kolsk Gulf. (Sergey Anisimov)(69)

Moscow: The fears of the Polish government in London came true today when President Bierut, the leader of the Soviet-sponsored Lublin Committee, issued a decree announcing the round-up of “irresponsible members” of the Home Army and followers of the London government. The decree urged all armed forces in the liberated areas to outlaw the “Home Army murderers who are provoking civil strife”. Of General Bor-Komorowski, the leader of the Warsaw uprising, it says: “His provocative rising and later surrender of arms considerably aided the Germans.” There seems little doubt now that the Lublin Committee intends to carry out a purge of all those who do not follow the communist line.

SOUTH AFRICA: ASW trawler HMS Northern Isles beached and lost near Durban

CHINA: Japanese troops take Chingyuan, on the Canton to Hankow railway.

BURMA: L/Naik Sher Shah (b.1917), 16th Punjab Regt., broke up two attacks by crawling among the Japanese and firing at close range. Wounded, he went in a third time, but was killed. (Victoria Cross)

MALAYA: Submarine HMS Penang damaged by Japanese aircraft near Penang. Sunk by Japanese surface forces later that day. No survivors.

U.S.A.: The federal government relinquishes control of the United States’ railways after settling a wage dispute.