World News Today

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Now, here's Douglas Edwards. Accent again today is on two widely separated war theaters in the Pacific, the Philippines and the Jap Archipelago of Ireland. General MacArthur's Perip troops and amphibious attack forces have invaded Kuregador in Manila Bay and its complete capture in the official language of the communique is now assured.

And from Guam, Admiral Nimitz announces that battleships and cruisers of the Great American Fifth Fleet have continued to throw shells at Iwo Jima 750 miles south of Tokyo. It's possible that the carrier plane attack is continuing on the Tokyo Yokohama area, although Admiral Nemitz had no word on those operations.

Inside Manila, Yank, Tank, and artillerymen have withheld their fire at the Old Wall City south of the Pothig River. They're awaiting a response to repeated American appeals to the Japs to surrender their hopeless position behind the walls, or at least release the thousands of civilians within the area.

In Europe, Allied troops are storming through the outer defenses of Gok at the gateway to the Roar, and the German radio says the British Second Army is now attacking beside the Canadians. Just a few minutes ago, Marshal Montgomery in a personal message to his troops under his command said, we now have come to the last and final round, and we want and will go for