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from the world's political and battle fronts. Now here's Douglas Edwards. Dispatches from the continent today are telling of a new drive on the American First Army Front. Colombia's Bill Downs reports that the Americans began an attack towards the Siegfried Line at four this morning in a heavy snowstorm.

He says progress has been good. American and British heavy bombers, more than 1200 strong, struck two great blows today at Germany's war industries. The Germans are saying that Russian troops are battering at the Oder River Line in Solicia along a 130-mile front.

Marshall Stalin announces the capture of the great Polish coal center of Cata Vica. The battle continues at Schneider Muhl inside Brandenburg Province. In a Pacific, the American Sixth Army is less than 10 miles from San Fernando, capital of Pampanga Province, our troops are some 40 miles from Manila.

Admiral Nemet sent a communicator day from a point several thousand miles west of Pearl Harbor, his new headquarters. The communique gave new details of how the third fleet shot up jap ships and planes off for Mosa and the Ryukyu Islands last week. 60,000 tons of ships sunk, 65,000 tons damaged, 300 jet planes destroyed or damaged. And now, news direct from France. Admiral takes you to Supreme

Headquarters in Paris, Richard C. Hottalott reporting. It's been snoring along the entire front today. Scattered snow showers, the weatherman calls it, but the heavy, low, grey sky and the whirling flakes of kept our tactical planes on the ground. And on the flats of Holland, on the plain east of often in the Ardennes, in Luxembourg, Elsarsen, the vogue, the