27 World News Today

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Edwards. The Allies were giving the Germans a steady driving as the enemy retreats toward the Reich. General Patton's armored columns have made new advances between the Marne and Sainne rivers. In southern France, two laws now completely ours, and the Allied bag of German prisoners has passed the 23,000 mark. Paris is swinging back to normalcy, despite some enemy sniping in a bombing attack by the Luftwaffe. General

de Gaul narrowly escaped death or injury yesterday, when thousands of Parisians were thrown into panic by wild furries of gunfire during a parade. On Europe's eastern front, Soviet troops are moving deeper into Romania. The Hungarian underground radio is called for a vault in Hungary.

In Italy, the Germans were falling back toward the Gothic line, and Polish troops have driven a strong bridgehead across the Metauro River near the Adriatic. And in the Pacific, Allied naval air forces have carried out a heavy attack on Sumatra.

Admiral Mountbatten's headquarters announces that Allied carrier-borne planes carried out heavy attack on Japanese installations on the western coast of Sumatra last Thursday. They hit a cement plant, two vessels, wharves, warehouses, and a railway yard.

The Japs didn't try to intercept the Allied surface units, either during or after the attack. One plane was lost. The official German news agency, D&B, says the Japanese are evacuating Manila. A broadcast recorded in London by the Associated Press said the town of Manila is being evacuated and a number of restrictions on passenger traffic have been issued by president