A WAR IN REVIEW
THE WAR IN REVIEW AGREAT WAVE of Allied might hurled itself eastward toward the Rhine this week as Gen. Dwight Eisenhower flashed the green light for the long-awaited Winter offensive. Six...
...There was no immediate confirmation from Moscow...
...Allied forces continued to encounter bitter German opposition in Italy...
...Fighting on the far-flung fronts of the Pacific was as bitter as ever this week, but there were no decisive results to .report...
...Bitter Resistance Met ' Allied Communiques revealed that German opposition was strongest in the battle area east of Aachen, where strong fortifications guard the approaches to the plain of Cologne and the Rhine valley...
...Newspaper dispatches from Chungking and Washington indicated that Chiang's selection of Gen...
...Reports from the front indicated that while Allied armies were forging slowly ahead, their gains were email at first and were being achieved only after terrific assault by the combined power of artillery and aircraft had blasted out an opening for the waves of Allied infantry...
...Continued Chinese military reverses brought a major shakeup this week in the regime of Chiang Kai-shek...
...Japanese casualties on Leyte island, where the great battle for the Philippines is being fought, were said this week to have passed 45,000, as compared with American casualties of 5,691...
...There was no specific news of Red Army operations further North except for a Berlin report at mid-week that the Soviets had opened a powerful Winter offensive on the Baltic front...
...But everyone thought the war in Europe would be over this year," he added, "and it may run into early next Summer...
...On the continent of Asia, Japan continued to roll up strategic gains...
...Kung, however, one of the most widely criticized of Chiang's associates, still retains, his post as vice premier and still heads four Government banks...
...Chen Cheng will be extremely popular in Allied circles...
...Chen Cheng in a cabinet juggling which brought changes in seven other major posts, including the replacement of Dr...
...H. H. Kung, finance minister who is now in the United States, by O. K. Yui...
...Wedemeyer, newly appointed commander of American forces in China, asserted that Japan is pouring a formidable army into South China with the intention of fighting out the war on the Asiatic mainland rather than on her home soil...
...Pushing their way ahead over large tracts of the flooded Adriatic Plain south of Ravenna, the Eighth Army counted its gains in feet and yards...
...Ho Ying-Chin, minister of war since, 1930, was replaced by Gen...
...Despite this great disparity in losses, however, the Nipponese were resisting with a fury that showed little sign of slackening...
...While the four American armies took over the vast central area of the Western Front, the British Second Army launched a push in eastern'Holland toward the Maas River and the German border, and at the southern anchor of the Allied drive, the French First Army smashed through the Burgandy gate to Germany by detouring the 17 forts which guard the Belfort Gap...
...Stihvell, predicted, nevertheless, that the Japanese would be defeated within about a year from the time the war in Europe ends...
...The important Japanese victories at Kwewilin and Liuchow last week were quickly followed by a new Nipponese thrust into western China...
...Six armies—four American, one British, and one French—were locked in deadly combat with the fiercely resisting Germans on a 400-mile front from the flooded lowlands of Holland to the snowy heights of the Vosges...
...Chinese Cabinet Reshuffled Maj...
...The outcome of this offensive, it was clear, would go far toward determining whether Germany can be knocked out of the war before another Spring comes to battered, bruised, and bloody Europe...
...George S. Pat-ton's U. S. Third Army was also bearing the brunt of extremely bitter fighting as it pounded its way into Germany and began a house-to-house struggle for the great fortress city of Metz...
...Reports of Chungking disclosed that the Japanese were pushing on toward Kweichow Province in a drive believed designed to snap the Burma Road at Kweiyang and nullify the land route the Allies.are fighting to reopen in China...
...other military developments in Europe...
...Wedemeyer, who replaced Gen...
...He is known as an able, forceful commander eager to adopt modern methods, the Associated Press said in an undated dispatch...
...The great offensive on the Western Front overshadowed all...
...Action on the Eastern Front was confined largely to continuing Russian attempts, against mounting resistance, to crack through Nazi lines to Budapest...
Vol. 8 • November 1944 • No. 48
