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CBS World News Today · January 16, 1944 · 20 min · 3,558 words

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Stay tuned for the news. World News Today. Brought to you by the Admiral Corporation, makers of Admiral Radio, America's Smart Set. By shortwave broadcast, direct from important overseas stations, as well as leading news centers of our own country, CBS correspondents are waiting to bring you a complete report from the world's political and battle fronts.

But first, he has Doug Edwards. Leading the news today is the announcement that General Eisenhower has arrived in Britain to take over command of all forces for the invasion, invasion, and in French Morocco Prime Minister Churchill completely recovered has conferred with French General De Gaulle. On the warfronts American troops in Italy have captured Mount

Troquillo, the main barrier blocking their way to the fortress of Casino. The Germans report a break in their lines with the new Russian offensive in the Leningrad area, and in the Pacific the Allied ground push against the Japanese on New Britain and on New Guinea continues at a slow pace. Now for the news of the fighting in Italy, Admiral Radio takes

She oversees to Algiers, Winston-Bredette reporting. The Americans in Italy have captured the last hill barrier between them and the Rapido River. Mon propio, 1500 feet high, two miles this side of casino. Fell to our troops at night part yesterday after a rough 12-hour fight.

We're in Algiers, it was announced today, that General of the Gold, the Winston Churchill, last Wednesday at Marocche in Morocco, where the Prime Minister is now almost wholly recovered from his recent illness. The meeting of the two leaders was their first since last June.

From all accounts, it was one of their most quartered. After lunch, they sat for two hours by the swimming pool in Mr. Churchill's garden. Shatids, most the prime minister's cigars, reminisce related incidents from the dramatic days of June, 1940.

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