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World News Today brought to you by the Admiral Corporation, makers of Admiral Radio, America's Smart Set. By shortwave 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 battlefronts.

But first, here's Doug Edwards. German elite troops have been thrown into the Battle of the Bridgehead below Rome today and allied forces have fallen back two miles to adjust their lines. American heavy bombers have smashed a German airfield in France for the second day in a row, and on the Russian front, Soviet units are reported nearly a hundred miles beyond the pre-war Polish frontier.

And often use of the fighting in the Pacific brought to you direct from Hawaii, Admiral Radio takes you after a few seconds pause to CBS Pearl Harbor, Webley Edwards, reporting. The Marshall Islands have not been captured.

With the capture of Quadrulon Island and nearby Itbaier on the southern corner, and Roy and Nommorton the northern corner, our forces now control the entire Quadrulon et al. We now have occupied 20 islands in this et al and fighting continually.

At least five other et als in the marshals, although pounded by our planes, are filled strong enemy points. They will either have to be captured by assault or left to the japs until they wither into I keep thinking of these, eh, 12, as in the shape of a baseball diamond, about 200 miles between

bases. Millie, closest to the Gilbert's, is at home plate. Malloylap and Wauci, at first base. Rogerland, seen in the present action at second base. Johnawitt is third base. The other, and it got to place their faith in the Gilbert's, which they aren't.