13 World News Today

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Now here's Douglas Edwards. Supreme Allied headquarters reports that the Americans have begun a general advance on a 30-mile front in France today with terrific support from the air command. There was also another heavy bombing of the southern French coast, the kind that in the past has preceded landing operations.

On the eastern front, Berlin acknowledges that German troops are withdrawing at certain points from the Carpathians to the Baltic, and their indications for Russians are about to step up the speed of their offensive once again.

In Italy, the city of M. Pauli, west of Florence, has fallen to the Eighth Army without a fight. The Allies are rushing crewed and medical supplies to Florence, civilians, despite continual enemy sniping. In the Far East, Chung King says heavy fighting is going on in the Hunan province in the southern suburbs of the Rail City of Hongyong, where the Japs are trying to dislodge stubborn Chinese

defenders. An afternoon sent direct from overseas, Admiral Taekeut O'London, Richard C. Hottilett, reporting. The Germans are trying to pull their forces out of the Allied trap in Western France today. yesterday afternoon German infantry armor motor transport and horse-blown equipment have been crowding the few remaining roads that lead out through the fowlies gap something like a hundred thousand men and several hundred tanks

are trying to get out and all this time during every hour of daylight these choked roads have been bombed machine-gunned and hit by the rockets of all the medium and fighter bombers we could put into the air our response at the front of described the bombs cascading down from planes glistening in the sun, and the German