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News reports 01 · 1944 · 24 min · 4,414 words

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World News Today brought to you by the Admiral Corporation, makers of Admiral Radio America's Smart Set. By short way 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, here's Doug Edwards. American daylight bombers were busy again today. Our Liberators with Fighter Escort have continued the air-offensive with another socket German coastal installations in France. Russian slush or hampering the Russian armies from Estonia to the Black Sea, but the Germans report a big new Red Army push toward Romania.

The dispatch from Turkey says the Germans have begun another general offensive against the Yugoslav partisans, and in the Pacific, American troops on Los Negros and the Admiralty have killed 3,000 Japanese in one of the fiercest battles of the war.

Now news of the fighting in Italy and an interview with a flyer from Detroit. Admiral Radio takes you to Naples, John Dalyley reporting. bogged down in mud which forced all movement under the roads where any major activity would have been easy prey for artillery, the land fronts in Italy required today, and once again

bad weather severely hampered air operations. The trolls in artillery were active in the casino area. The Germans maintained steady pressure at several points on the periphery of our MDO beachhead, but no new major enemy attack appears to be shaping up.

The Germans haven't yet recovered from the beating they took from Allied artillery in their midweek offensive. More from the terrific Allied aerial blitz-life says, though, in which every type of aircraft participated to deliver the greatest ground-air support assault of the Mediterranean campaign.

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