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JUI ----— WILMINGTON, N. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1944 FINAL EDITION
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Rivers, Harbors Bill Killed
As 78th Congress Closes;
State Nominations Pass#
NATIONAL DEBT
LIMIT BOOSTED
Wartime Lawmaking Ses
sion Had Stormy Battle
With FDR
WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.—
•p __ a half billion dollar
p0St-war Rivers and Harbors
yil Was killed tonight when
tl,e 78th Congress adjourned.
Stringent opposition against the
jrea'ure developed from a House
„5Sed rider exempting the $360,
POOO Central Valley project
(Caiif.i from a 42-year old recla
mation law.
Spearheading objection to the ri
der were Senators LaFollette (prog
,r!;|l an(j Hatch (D-NM) who con
tended it would affect the basic
land laws of the country and should
coi be handled in a hasty manner.
The two Westerners suggested,
instead, that the Central Valley is
me be studied by the Senate Ir
Jicjjjon and Reclamation Commit
tee.
Had the measure passed, it faced
s possible veto because of opposi
tion of Interior Secretary Ickes to
the rider which, he said, would
owe -he way fur land speculation
in California.
The gavel fell in the House at
t:59 p.m.. and the Senate ended its
prolonged wartime session at 8:22
p.m.
' The final days before adjourn
ment saw an eruption of opposi
tior, o six State Department nom
iutions made bv the President but
the Senate final’,-.- confirmed them.
Twice during the two years of al
most continuous sessions the Presi
dent was overridden on vetores of
major legislation. Over his objec
tions. the Congress wrote into the
law the Smith-Connally War Labor
Disputes Act and the 1944 Tax Act.
[he latter measure, a $2,300,000,000
bill which fell far short of Admin-,
istration hopes, so irritated the
President that he wrote Congress a
stinging rebuke that precipitated
the historic but temprorary break
ae'.ween the White House and its
Senate floor leader. Alben W. Bark
!»'• of Kentucky.
The President fared better on a
third major veto, of legislation out
lawing the Administration’s food
(.oniinuetl on Page Five; Col. 4)
mOLDS URGES
DEFINITION OF
U. S. WAR AIMS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—Oil- !
Senator Reynolds tD-NC) declared
in hi.' final Senate speech today :
that unless United States war aims;
are "clearly defined, I see no hope!
that the present degeneration into1
chaos can be arrested.”
The Military Affairs Committee:
Chairman, who did not seek r 'elec
tion, described himself as a “non
interventionist,’- and contended'
there was "no such thing as an
American isolationist.”
"There never was but one coun
hy in the world that was purely
isolationist, and that was our mor
tal enemy of today, Japan.
"it ve had ever been isolation-,
t;"i> e never would have eneoitr
trade with all the countries
of the world, as we did year in and
hoar out. and in a long series of
tool's actually expended more,
ttiO'Cy m endeavoring to create;
dtie than the trade produced fori
too manufacturers of this coun
try "
•'•e must bring the tragic truth j
tt toe present state of internatlou-,
affairs out into he light,” lie;
“"tinned, "if we are honest with,
pelves e must admit that thm
-r: 1 ru Oaks agreement, ca
rian being a long steo for-,
n • nth set the world back
••"wars.”
, Anieric, . !-,c said, has "to all ln
-- •' ai'd purposes turned her back
I" fte smaller nations of Europe
■'his most crucial hour of his
'-vhen the prestige of America
bring some semblance of
'yj:--. < e sen our colleagues con
i'".. their gains In power
“lilies,’'
Americans were told, lie said,
Jt they were “fighting for the
Continued on Page Seven; Col. 3)
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FDR Denies Exis
Of Atlantic C
WASHINGTON, Dec. 19.—(,?>)_
President Roosevelt, returning to
a Capital seething with debate on
foreign policy, today declared he
stills stands on the Atlantic Char
ter’s principles.
He told a news conference that
the Charter does not exist as a
formal document signed by him
self and Prime Minister Churchill
but that it was signed in sub
stance.
It was Mr. Roosevelt’s first op
portunity to use the world sound
ing board of a White House con
ference in more than three weeks
—he returned this morning from
a restful visit to Warm Springs,
Ga.—and he picked his way care
fully through a cross-fire of ques
tions dealing chiefly with foreign
affairs. As a result, direct, spe
cific answers were few and far
between.
Besides the Atlantic Charter,
Ihe conference revolved about
these key subjects:
Poland — A reporter said the
Washington Evening Star had a
headline yesterday saying the
United States opposes the parti
tion of Polan dand the Washing
ton Times-Herald had a headline
saying this country supports the
partition. “Which do you pre
fer?’’ the reporter asked. He much
preferred the Star to the other
paper, the President replied, add
ing that he did not say other news
paper because there was a dis
tinction between a decent paper
and another kind of paper.
(Editor Frank Waldrop of the
Times-Herald, asked later if he
wished to comment, told reporters
he did not.) ,
Greece—A reporter told him
British Labor Minister Ernest
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 5)
WRITER STRESSES
LOCAL AIR ROUTE
Paul Neilson Emphasizes
City's Plans For
Future
Wilmington cannot afford to stay
off the air map now being charted
for the postwar era by leading air
lines and Governmental agencies,
Paul Nielson, of Washington, D. C.,
representative of the Aeronautical
Chamber of Commerce of Ameri
ca, stated last night in an inter
view before a speech to Rotarians
of three cities in the Cape Fear
Country Club.
In his only North Carolina ap
pearance in a 40-state tour, the
32-year old veteran newsman, well
known to radio listeners as former
commentator on Henry Tord’s
“Watch the World Go By,” told a
dinner meeting of the Rotary club?
of Wilmington, labor City and
Whiteville that America’s key to
future peace and prosperity was
air power.
He emphasized the importance
of a virile aircraft industry sud
ported by lively air commerce as
of prime necessity to mil tarv air
readiness.
Introduced by Walter J. Cartier
at a dinner session under direction
of H. A. Marks and arranged by
Eugene Edwards, the former Asso
ciated Press man and Blue Net
work editor threw a mild bomb
shell into the audience by stating
that the Germans, hard pressed as
they are, have outdistanced us in
the newest field of air-assault, that
(Continued on Page Five; Col. 3)
NAZI INFLUENCE
INjPAIN CITED
British Envoy Says Coun
try Was ‘Morally
Occupied’
LONDON. Dec. 19.—Spam
was “morally occupied” by the
Germans in the early years of the
war, and Nazi influence directed
much of Spain’s national life, Lord
Templewood told the House of
Lords today. He resigned two days
ago after serving five years as am
bassador to Madrid.
Reviewing his experiences in the
once - hostile Spanish capital, the
former Sir Samuel Hoare said that
“although Spain was not militarily
occupied in those early years of
the war, Spain was morally occu
pied.”
He was assigned to Madrid in
1940 with instructions to kee Spain
as neutral as possible.
Speaking as a patient man who
endured much, Templewood said:
“During the greater part of this
time, the German armies were on
the frontier. German influence per
vaded many important sections of
the national life. The Germans for
instance had great influence with
the police and the press.”
The conservative, aristrocratic
diplomat, who has been under fire
frequently at home for alleged ap
peasement of Fascists, carefully
refrained from criticizing the re
gime of the Spanish dictator, Gen
eralissimo Franco.
(Continued on Page Two; Col. 4)
Many Camp Davis Gunners
Make It Hot For Germans
Special to the Star
WITH THE FIRST U. S. ARMY
IN GERMANY, Dec. 19.—Antiair
craft gunners of the First U. S.
Army, many of whom trained at
Camp Davis, are making the skies
over Germany deadly for planes
of the Luftwaffe.
Records show that since D-Day,
more than 500 German planes
have crashed under fire from First
Army antiaircraft artillery.
Effectiveness of antiaircraft de
fenses have made it possible for
American forces to concentrate
their air power on offensive
sweeps, eliminating to a large ex
tent defensive patrols against ene
my planes.
When the invasion was planned,
more antiaircraft was included
than in any other operation in his
tory. If there had not been de
lays, more would have landed on
D-Day than had existed in the en
tire Army a few years ago.
Antiaircraft gunners proved
their versatility in the bitter fight
ing on the beaches. Landing under
heavy enemy fire, the-’ fougnl t °ir
way to their positions, turning
their guns against pillboxes, gun
positions and troops.
One battalion shot down a Ger
man plane so soon after landing,
that the pilot, who parachuted to
safety, was sent back to England
in the same landing craft that had
brought the battalion to France.
During the fighting at • Cher
bourg, four men of an AA bat
talion killed three and captured i
132 German soldiers. These men.1
Cpl. Jack M. King, of Leechburg,
Pa • T-5 Thomas R. Havilland.
Lutherville, Md.; T-5 Edward F.
Bolles, Jr Pittsburgh; and Pfc.
Carl L. Godwin, Dunn, N. C.. sur
prised a German night patrol and
laid down such heavy fire with
their machine guns that the Ger
mans sent out word that they
wanted to surrender themselves
and the fort they occupied.
One officer and 15 men of anoth
er AA battalion accounted for
three German tanks and 21 men
near Paris. In the confused fight
ing at Mons, men from this same
battalion led by Captain Theodore
3. De France, of New York, am
bushed a German troop train,
knocked out the locomotive with
well-placed shots from a 37-mm
gun, and killed, wounded or cap
tured more than 100 Germans.
Men of the antiaircraft battali
ons like to talk about shooting up
ground targets, but the swastikas
painted on their guns bear evi
dence that they have done their
best work against enemy planes.
On August 28, one AA battalion
knocked down 16 of 30 enemy
planes while defending a bridge
across the Seine at Melun. Of the
14 that turned and fled, eight trail
ed streams of black smoke.
On October 5, when Germans
tried their biggest daylight raid of
the campaign, 41 or the 93 planes
fell within 20 minutes. Another 36
were blazing as they disappeared.
The AA battalion commanded by
Lt. Col. William A. Stricklen, Jr.,
Reform, Ala., leads in the number
of enemy planes shot down with
a confirmed total of 53. The bat
talion has claimed 70 victims, but
not all have received the neces
sary confirmation which included
discovery of the wreckage or eye
witness reports from several ob
servers.
First Army antiaircraft officers
attribute part of this success to
close cooperation with the Air
Force. Another part of their suc
cess is the rparkmanship of their
gunners. Once early in the cam
paign, Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley,
;hen commanding the First Army,
okingly chided his antiaircraft of
(Continued on Page Seven; Col. 7)
J,
Churchill
To Debate
n Greece
. LONDON, Dec. 19.—I#)—A show
own on British policy in Greece
("developed suddenly tonight when it
was agreed that a special emer
gency debate on the issue should
be held in the House of Commons
tomorrow.
Prime Minister Churchill, who
had refused requests to debate the
Greek question today, served no
tice on his critics that if they
wanted a showdown it would have
to come on a vote of censure,
with h i s coalition government
standing or falling on the out
come.
The minority Labor party ac
cepted the prime minister’s chal
lenge and agreed to the debate
on the vote of censure..
Churchill himself and possibly
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden
are expected to plead the Govern
ment’s case.
Leaders of the Laborite mem
bers of Parliament called a spe
cial meeting to draft the party’s
policy.
Just a few hours before the an
nouncement of the emergency de
bate Churchill hit back at his crit
ics in a stormy session of Com
mons, defending the policy of in
tervention, not only in Greece, but
also in Belgium, where, he said,
“we are acting upon American in
structions.”
The prime minister declined to
give any review of the military
situation to Parliament before
Christmas in view of security cen
sorship imposed by the military
command on the Western Front.
“A great battle is proceeding
now,” he said. “The question of
a temporary news blackout on the
Western Front is one for the su
preme commander to settle on the
spot, and, of course, I support
him.”
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FAMED BOMBSIGHT
MAKERS INDICTED
BY FEDERAL JURY
NEW YORK, Dec. 19—(®—Carl
L. Norden, Inc., maker* of the
famed Norden bombsights, vas
indicted oy a Federal Grand Jury:
today, accused of conspiracy to|
hamper output of the war devices,
which have been credited with
playing a major part in American;
air successes.
Named in two indictments were
Theodore H. Barth, president, and;
Ward E. Marvelle, vice president:
of the Norden firm; the efficiency
survey company of Corrigan, Os
burne and Wells; Navy Cmdr.
John D. Corrigan as head of the ,
concern, and Robert H. Wells, vice!,
president.
The indictments further charge !
a conspiracy designed to force war ,
plants to employ the survey com*! ■
pany, specialists in the installation 1
of production control systems. |
Carl L. Norden, Dutch-born in- \
ventor of the bombsight who re- ,
cently turned over to the U. S. ]
government all patents, models ,
and designs, was not involved, (
government officials said, adding j
that he no longer was associated t
with the firm. I
The Norden firm said later in a t
statement that the charges were ]
“as utterly fantastic as they are <
untrue.” ; i
“This corporation developed the ;
Norden bombsijht, turned the pat-;
ents over to the Navy, and has not ]
only m?t but exceeded every pro- j
duction schedule set up by the j
Navy,” the statement continued. 1
Wells, in another statement, de- !
(Continued on Page Seven. Col. b)
First Army Massing Forces
For Counterblows At Nazis;
Enemy Offensive Continues
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Superfort Sofa For Tired GI
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Long night hours of preparation for the first Superfort raids on Tokyo knocked the pins from under
Cpl. Garland T. Lee, Concord, N. C., groundcrewman on a B-29, who finds the tire and tube of one of the
giant bombers a comfortable spot for a cat-nap at bis base on Saipan. (AP photo from Army Air Forces)
Large Japanese Force
On Leyte Is Trapped
GENERAL MAC ARTHUR’S .HEADQUARTERS, Phil
ippines, Dec. 20.—(/P)—The largest Nipponese organized
force still in action on West Leyte has been caught in a trap,
converging Yanks are within six miles of snapping shut ah
even larger trap on the enemy; and no organized resistance
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ELAS STORM JAIL,
LIBERATE CAPTIVE
NAZI COLLABORATOR
ATHENS, Dec. 19.— UP) —ELAS
roops fortified the Averoff prison
onight after a strong mortar and
Srenade attack by the Leftwing
nilitia had forced the British gar
ison and Greek gendarmes and
wardens to evacuate the institu
ion.
A widespread hunt was launched
iy the British. Greek and undoubt
dly by the ELAS—militia of the
.eftwing EAM political party—for
ean Rallis, Qusiling premier of
Jreece during the German occu
lation, who escaped during the
ighting for the prison.
In addition to Rallis, it was es
imated 205 men and 30 women
irisoners fled, out of the 475 per
ons held at Averoff. Most of the
irisoners were awaiting trial on
iditical charges.
The ELAS attack trapped the
Iritish garrison and 115 Greek
;endarmes and 149 wardens in the
irison. A communique from the
leadquarters of Lt. Gen. R. M.
icobie, British commander in
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been encountered in twin battles
for the Central Philippines.
Headquarters announced today
that General Sosaki Suzuki’s head
quarters town of Valencia and its
airfield were caotured Monday on
west Leyte by 77th Division troops
which have moved eight miles
north above Ormoc.
Meanwhile, dismounted First
Cavalry Division troops driving
south from the direction of Cari
gara bay have seized Lonoy, six
miles north of Valencia, and in so
doing have cut to the rear of forces
pinned down by anotner south
bound element, the U. S. 32nd Di
vision.
The enemy troops caught be
tween the First Cavalry and the
32nd are believed to comprise the
largest organized Nipponese force
still in action on Leyte.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur said
today the 77th was “rolling up
remnants of the Yamashita Line.”
Over a week ago when the 77th
made the amphibio landing near
Ormoc which led to quick capture
of that port, the Yamashita line
extended roughly for rome 3U
miles from the Palr.nas river 15
miles south of Ormoc to a pcrnl
about an equal distance north of
Ormoc. Since then, the Yamashita
Line has been wiped out south of
Ormoc and cut into segments to
the north. The enemy’s 26th Divis
ion was shattered in the south; his
35th Division is suffering the sams
fate in the north.
The captured airfield near Va
lencia had been used as an emer
gency strip by the enemy. This
probably was the first time the
Yanks under MacArthur ever won
an airfield which w'ould be put to
immediate use by their own sup
porting planes.
Suzuki apparently moved his
headquarters from Valencia when
things became too hot.
BRITISH PUSHED
BACK AT FAENZA
Savage Nazi Counterat
tack Forces Eighth’s
Withdrawal
ROME, Dec. 19.—UP)—A savage
counterattack mounted by the Ger
mans in an effort to hold their
positions on the west bank of the
Lamone river northeast of Faenza
against a British flanking drive
has forced the Eighth Army troops
to fall back to the northern edge
of the town.
Allied headquarters disclosed
the action tonight.
The grim, tank-supported Nazi
defense appeared to indicate the
Germans were having trouble ex
tricating their forces from a nine
mile wide salient between Faenza
and the important road center Bag
nacavallo.
The enemy has concentrated
much artillery as well as tanks
and infantry in the bulge.
The main Eighth Army flanking
move struck northward from
Faenza, but the armored counter
thrust forced the British to draw
back to the railway tracks skirt
ing the northern sector of the town,
the capture of which the Allied
command announced Sunday.
The counterattack afforded the
Germans only momentary relief,
however, as another Allied flank
ing move was developing six miles
west of Faenza.
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14 more Jap dhips
Destroyed By Navy
Fliers Over Luzon
U. S. PACIFIC FLEET HEAD
QUARTERS, Pearl Harbor, Dec.
19.—CP)—Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
today reported the additional de
struction of 14 ships and small
craft in the carrier plane sweeps
over Luzon December 13, 14, and
15, raising to 41 the number of en
emy vessels sunk in the three-dav
attack. f
The communique revised down
ward from 66 to 61 the number of
vessels damaged.
60,000 White Men Forced
To Build Jap War Highway
LONDON, Dec. 19.— UP> —The
Japanese forced more than 60,000
white prisoners to labor under
worse-than-slavery conditions to
speed through the Tailand-Burma
railway and road and then left a
monument to 25,000 men who died
along the way, the British War Of
fice charged today.
Citing cases of extreme brutali
ty, of sick men carried to work on
stretchers, men forced to labor
naked in insect-ridden jungles, the
War Office declared there also
were cases of torture an dkilling.
It added:
“The Japanese themselves erect
ed a memorial at Tamakan to ap
proximately 25,000 men who had
died on the railway. Of these less
than 1,000 were Japanese, the re
mainder being represented as
“English, Australian and Dutch.”
War Secretary Sir James Grigg
opened the subject in Commons
with an oral statement that “the
strongest possible protest” had
been made against past conditions
existing in Burma and Siam (Thai
land).” The number of white pris
oners employed was “probably
much higher” than 60,000, he said,
although he added it was difficult
to speak with certainty.
“In addition,” Grigg asserted, j
“many thousands of Asiatics were!
used and the death rate amongst
them was almost certainly much
heavier than amongst the white
men.”
Conditions have improved, he
said, and are much better in the
rear camps. He declared, howev
er, that in building the railway
and road, the Japanese proceeded
“with all speed and regardless ol
conditions under which the pris
oners worked and of the cost of
human life.”
The War Office then took over
with a formal supplementary
statement. It said all the prison
ers had been forced to travel
from Singapore to Thailand in
metal cattle trucks — so jammed
together for five days and nights
that they could not lie down and
could sleep only by leaning against
piles of materials or one another.
The men then had to march up
t 50 miles through disease-infect
ed jungles. Their thirst was such,
the War Office said, that they
drank from muddy puddles, and
at the end of each march were
so exhausted they fell to the soggy
ground, covering their heads with
whatever they could as protection
against the mosquitos.
The prisoners slept 200 to each
(Continued on Page Five: Col. 3)
Ring Of Russian Fire
Thrown Around Kassa
LONDON, Thursday, Dec. 20.—
(JP)—Bursting through a network
of trenches and blockhouses with
in nine miles of the Czechoslovak
communications hub of Kassa, the
Red Army yesterday threw a siege
arc around that hinge position of
the German defenses and cut the
road-rail escape route to the South
west.
The drive on Knssa was the high
spot of a day of general advances
on a front of more than 80 miles
in southern Slovakia and northern
Hungary, the Moscow broadcast
communique disclosed, with gains
as much as eight miles from pre
viously-announced positions and
entries into Slovakia at many new
points.
Both the regular nightly com
munique and a post-midnight sup
plement stressed the stubborn na
ture of the enemy defenses both
in men and in engineering works
in the forested mountains.
In capturing the village of Sen
ya, alone nine miles south of Kas
sa, the Russians killed 400 Ger
mans and Hungarians and captur
ed more than 2.000 it was announc
ed.
They thrust within eight miles .
of the frontier south of Losonc in ,
a series of fighting maneuvers ;
that promiser quickly to give them i
a solid front of 140-odd miles from ]
Kassa on the east to captured i
iDoly-Sag on the west ]
GERMAN TANKS
CRUSH DEFENSE
Some Doughboys Die Un
der Treads Rather
Retreat
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STOCKHOLM. Dec. 19.—WL
The Aftonbladet said in an tut*
attributed story today that K
was rumored in Berlin a new
attempt was made recently
on the life of Adolf Hitler. The
rumors say the Plessheim cas
tle In Bavaria was swept by
fire while Hitler was staying
there, the newspaper stated.
SUPREME HEADQUAK
TERS ALLIED EXPEDI
TIONARY FORCE, Paris.
Dec. 19.—(JP) — The German
Christmas counter-offensive
on the Western Front assum
ed the proportions of an at
tempted major breakthrough
tonight as the first frontline
dispatches trickling through
a news blackout disclosed that
the U. S. First Army was
massing infantry and armor
in an effort to stabilize the
front.
Despite the Americans* desper
ate holding fight, the enemy’s
tank-led battering ram continued
probing into Belgium and Luxem
bourg on a front of approximate
ly 70 miles extending from above
Monschau in the north to the vi
cinity of Echternach in the south.
The Germans apparently were
hammering with the same fury
that in the first three days of the
assault rolled back the First Ar
my at least 20 miles at one point.
Associated Press Correspondent
Wes Gallagher said the Nazi ad
vance had been halted south of
Monschau today in bloody fight
ing during which "some gallant
doughboys stood fast in their fox
holes and let themselves actuaUy
be run over by Nazi tanks without
retreating.*'
But farther south file situation
still remained fluid and obscure,
Gallagher said.
While they were not permitted
to give specific information as to
where and how far the German
columns had penetrated, corres
pondents at the front told of sav
age fighting with heavy casualties
on both sides.
Kenneth Dixon of the Associated
Press reported that there was no
doubt the German onslaught was
aimed at a breakthrough of the
First Army’s lines. He said the
enemy in some places had dropped
paratroops and also had brought
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PUBLIC PROMISED 4
TRUE STATEMENT
ON NAZI ADVANCE
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS
ALLIED EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Paris, Dec. 19. — (iP) —
The full and truthful account of
the reverses on the American First
Army front will be given the pub
lic at the earliest moment con
sistent with military security, Su
preme Headquarters promised to
night.
The statement was in answer t®
protests of American and British
correspondents against the new*
blackout imposed on the German
counteroffensive in Belgium »nd
Luxembourg.
There \*as no indication, how
ever, as to how soon any part of
the story would be brought into
the open and no likelihood that the
restrictions would be removed
within the next 24 hours
Correspondents here were told
that the news ban was imposed
upon the specific direction of Lt.
Gen. Courtney H. Hodges, com
manding the First Army, with th®
concurrence of Supreme Headquar
ters.
The blackout, it was said, would
not be lifted until Hodges agreed
that Allied disclosures would not
be giving the Germans information
on the extent and location of th®
penetrations which they might not
otherwise know definitely due to
the fluid battle and extended
communications.
Correspondents expressed ft®
fiew that it should be possible at
east to give an account of the
:irst day's developments in the
counteroffensive, declaring it un
ikely to assume that the German
command was not now fully aware
ion was raised whether continu
>f its gains on Sunday. The ques
ince of the blackout now was due
entirely to security or stemmed in
>art from actual inability to com
nunicate between SHAEF and
r'irst Army headquarters.