03 World News Today

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Now here's Douglas Edwards. An associated press dispatch from Supreme Allied headquarters reports today that American troops have reached Namor 35 miles inside the Belgian border. Other American forces are said to have captured Metz and Nazi and Eastern France on the approaches to Germany.

To the south, the Germans say they've evacuated Leons, France's third largest city. Hundreds of American flying forts went deep into Germany today and bombed the Ludwig's Havern area. In southeastern Europe, the Russians and Romanians reported attacking heavily in the passes of the Carpathians. On the Italian front, the 8th Army is widened the breach in the Gothic

line and the 5th Army is driving on beyond Pisa. And now, Admiral takes you to London, Ned Kalmer reporting. For Britain, this 5th anniversary of the Declaration of War has been a day of national prayer.

And to a country that's been through what this one has, national prayer is no mere official from everybody on the British home front today went out a prayer of real gratitude that the war at last seems coming to an early end and as the center of an empire that has suffered nine hundred and twenty six thousand casualties in this war nearly a quarter of a million killed

London is watching its greatest dream come true but Brussels from tour nigh news that the allies are beyond nasi on their way to the border of Germany itself. News that the Germans have pulled out of Ljór and may be pulling out of the Gothic line and have abandoned all hope of standing on the Maginoline and perhaps the Siegfried line as well. Some of the British