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THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, MONDAY APRIL 3, 1944 ARMY ENTERS AUSTRIAN ARMS JAPANESE THRUSTS TOWARDS MORE FUEL CUTS FACTOldES EXPECTATION IN HELSINKI New Soviet Terms RUMANIA --Vis. Attack from Italy Road CutVNorth of the Town Molbtov's Announcement MR. PAASIKIYI BACK RAJF. BOMB MACCHI Gas and Electricity i EFract OF OUTPUT FALL AND STRIKES An immediate' national cut in sup AIRMEN FORM BOXES" FOR DEFENCE OF-THE AIRFIELDS NO THftfelf TO COUNTRY'S INDEPENDENCE Pursuit of Enemy Until He Capitulates Tec Soviet government announced at midnight last night, th the Red Army has crossed the River Pruth and en? Rman at a number of points, with orders to pursue the enemy until he capitulates. announcement -was made by Mr.

Molotov, Soviet Foreign in the followinjr statement to the press xtic xT.eu -tvrmy, as a result of-a successful offensive, has reached the River Pruth. 'which is the State frontier between the U.S.SJK.. and Rumania. the full re-establishment of the Soviet State frontier as fixed in 1940. in accordance with the agreement between Soviet Russia and Rumania has been begun.

This agreement had been treacherously violated by the' Rumanian Government, in alliance with Hitlerite Germany. At the present time the Red Army is carrying out the clearance of Soviet soil of all the enemy still there and the time when the entire Soviet frontier with Rumania will be completely restored is not far off. The Soviet Government hereby Japanese" columns in India, now within miles ImphaL the British base on. the Manipur road, hare meeting stiff lopriosition from the 14th Army. They have infiltrated to two places oil the road-Tone' about 28 -T -rT "r- i a some 30 miles, nearer 'ImphaL- They are now at the point where the jungle ends and the plain begins.

It is believed that the- defenders of Imphal are waiting to engage them as soon as they enter the plain. The Japanese concentration in the Naga Hills, east of the Manipur road, is increasing. ROAD BLOCKS From oar Special Correspondent Delhi, April 2. There is no continuous defence line along the Imphal-Kohima' road, so that the' arrival of some Japanese there causes no surprise. We shall probably see larger parties across it before the battle is over, although how long they will be able to main tain themselves there is another story.

In any case road blocks worry the 14th Army a great deal less to-day than they did in the days when there was no transport aircraft: The Japanese intention is doubtless to get a foothold on the road and march south upon Imphal, co-ordinating their attack with movements from the south along -the Tiddim road and from the south-east along the Tamu. road. How ever, the situation both on the Tiddim and the Tamu roads appears, as far as can De seen xrom tne communiques, well under our control, and we have the satisfaction of knowing from the Japanese radio that our resistance so far, if it has not broken up the offensive, has at least upset the Japanese time- Anticipating that the Japanese may succeed in infiltrating in small or large groups into the Imphal plain. 6400 airmen including clerks, fitters, and wire less operators are manning posts for tne oeience or tne airneias. By day tne MILES -FmHTicits Ifr- I leareraay 8 advances by the Ked Army reported in the Soviet communique iasT evening covered all sections of the front except the Fruth from the Carpathians to Odessa.

fc vr Vs V5. uftfessa TWENTY MILES FROM ODESSA Red Army Overcomes Coastal Barrier TWO WAR CORRESPONDENTS KILLED WITH GENERAL WINGATE FROM MOSCOW- From our Special fXtrrespondent Stockholm, April 2. Once more Helsinki is tense with expectation. The Cabinet and most members of Parliament stayed over the week-end in the capital as Parlia ment is called for an extraordinary session to-morrow. On Friday night the Finnish Govern ment received a dispatch from its chief Moscow delegate, Mr.

Paasikivi, confirming and giving details of important Russian clarifications of the original armistice proposals. Mr. Paasikivi hint. self returned to Helsinki yesterday and is to appear personally before' Parlia ment to-morrow, when the Russian terms will be presented. According to.

information from the best sources here the Russians have agreed to let Finland keep Hango and, according to one report, also Viipuri, which would be of the greatest economic importance as leaving the Sauna canal in Jttnnisn nan as. On the other hand, the Russians are reported to have given indications of heavy claims for reparations. Details are not available, but as it is stated that this point may be the greatest remaining obstacle it is thought not unlikely tnat tne Kussians nave specinea a demand for Finnish labour as a contri bution to reconstruction. Paasikivi was accompanied to Moscow by one of Mannerheinvs intimates, the former diplomatist and Foreign Minister Carl EnckelL the last Finnish official representative in Tsarist Petro- grad and a former Tsarist officer. It is now clear that their mission is only exploratory, the decision on whether to send an authorised armistice delegation to Moscow on the strength of the information the.v obtained being left to Parliament.

The Government is believed not- yet to have defined its attitude to the proposals, spending the week-end in a continued study of their implications. 'The Times' 'Manchester Guardian' Service ISSUE UNCERTAIN 2 Stockholm, April 2. The Swedish Af tonbladet com mented to-day It seems that reports that the conditions will be milder on vital points are not quite correct. Informed people here do not believe that it is likely' that the Russians would waive their claims to the Viborg and Saima Canal areas. The issue of the present discussions is not certain." Reuter.

SOVIET ADVANCE Speed Increasing From onr Special Correspondent Moscow, April 2. oenerai jwaiinovsny troops are closing in on Odessa with a momen tum which is forestalling every one ox tne enemy attempts to maKe a stand. Ail positions east of the narrow. brackish Giligul Lake have now been secured, and this morning Russian troops were streaming along the excellent coastal road traversing the neck between the lake the Black Sea, being about twenty miles east of Odessa. Meanwhile north of the lake other units have reached points about 35 miles north of Odessa.

It is on this wide arc curling around the Black Sea port's northern approaches that the prospects are most, promising, ior on tne east side Odessa is protected by two finger-shaped lakes each some twenty miles Ions. The Russians are now ranidlv reaching points from which they will be able to-make -a dash for Radyelnaya Junction, fcrty miles north-west of Odessa, Where the spur-line to Tiraspol branches oft the main trunk route. In their latest official announcement the Russians refer to the battle for Odessa as a nursuit of the enemv. and the fighting is characterised by the strenuous efforts the Red Army is making to step up the speed of its advance and prevent the German and Rumanian forces consolidating. NOT A COLLAPSE Combat teams made tp of cavalry.

medium tanks, self-propelled guns, and lorry-borne infantry are streaming across country, defying snowstorms and appalling ground conditions, but it would be misleading to refer to a Ger man collapse. Resistance is very stiff indeed wherever nature offers an oppor tunity for digging in and stemming the Russian advance. Counter-attacks are frequent and sustained. And though there are occasions when officers have had to take the sternest measures to prevent a rot set ting in in then men's moral, in general the enemy is fighting resolutely. The Russians, however, are forcing their own time-table, and spectacular devel opments may be expected.

Malinovsky has a valuable tactical advantage in being able to strike'' across the main German line of retreat from the north. Successful attacks made on the Voznesensk-Odessa railway have caused substantial quantities of arms and- ammunition to fall into his Two well-laden trains were seized yes terday and tne German guns were quickly turned on the retreating enemy. It is part of the Soviet artilleryman's training to learn now to operate the enemy's weapons, and this is having a useful result the present campaign. OTHER SECTORS German and Rumanian forces onerat ing north of Tiraspol are still putting up stubborn resistance to Marshal Koniev's troops, who have not yet broken out from the close wooded country in this sector, thoueh farther east they are operating more freely in the Gilligul valley. On the western side of the Dniester Koniev's methodical and careful advance on unismau tmsrunevi continues in.

spite of a determined resistance. The Rumanians' are operating: in soute strength here, and one battalion surrendered -With Its officers yesterday. Between the Pruth and the Dniester the reran of. the Proskurov group, now driven from all their positions north of the Dniester, are fighting stubbornly at several localities' near Ho tin. The garrison: in the; latter town, however, had been driven from three-quarters of-the streets by dusk, yesterday.

-Between encircled -Tarnopol and Stanislavov Marshal Zhukov yesterday, launched new- drive and captured an important' road' knot, -This advance represents, a flank -on- the Stanislavov oilfields and strengthens the front which is being methodically built AIRCRAFT PLANT Two further long-range attacks by heavy bombers of the Mediterranean force were announced from Allied headquarters '-in--'-Italy yesterday. RA.F. Wellingtons and' Iiberatbfs.oh Saturday bombed for the first time the Macchi aircraft factory. at "Varese, north-west of Milan! and yesterday United States heavies struck "at industrial targets at Steyr in -Upper Austria, so miles west or It was the third daylight attack on Steyr from Italy, the previous raids having' taken place on February 23 and 24. RAJ.

Wellingtons made a night raid on tne town on-tnernignt of eo-ruary 24. The Americans' main objectives yes terday were an important ball-bearing works and the Daimler Fuch' aircraft components factory. The strong forma tions of l-lvine fortresses and Linera- tors, with their escorts, of Thunderbolts, and Lightnings, encountered intense opposition from enemy fighters and the AA. defences, reports Eeuter's corre spondent. (The German News Agency last night claimed that 51 united States 'planes, including 41 four-en gined bombers, were shot down over the Alps.) Other Fortresses yesterday i bombed railway, yards at' Brod, in Yugoslavia, on the main rail line between Belgrade and Zagreb, and Liberators I attacked Mostar, 50 miles north-east of Split, and rail yards at Bihac, 50 miles north of Zara.

THOUSANDS OF INCENDIARIES In Saturday's operations in i addition to the bombing of Varese, other targets were attacked "at Piombino. opposite Elba. Crews engaged against the Macohl works, where enemy fighter 'planes are manufactured, reported that sticks of explosives and thousands of incendiaries fell on the factory, starting one big fire among the buildings and another just west of the plant. The factory appeared to be defended by only one light AA gun, which fired four or five rounds while the incendiaries were falling, but became silent as soon as high-explosive started to fall. Reconnaissance photographs show that at least 25 direct hits were scored on main tracks in Thursday's heavy raid on the rail yards af Sofia.

It marked the close of a month of and effective action by the 'Mediterranean Air Force, during which heavy, medium, light, and fighter bombers dropped 18,000 tons of bombs. During the month Allied fighters shot down 2S1 enemy aircraft in the air and destroyed or damaged more than 50 on airfields. The heavy bombers concentrated on aerodromes at Ktagenfurt. Graz, and Toulon' aerodromes and rail yards throughout the Po Valley while mediums flew the bulk of their sorties against rail targets north of Rome a campaign which is now reaching a new peak of intensity, i l.S. LIBERATORS Day Attacks in South-West Germany A communique from United States Headquarters yesterday stated that twelve bombers and four fighters were missing from the operations over South west Germany early on Saturday.

Six enemy aircraft were destroyed in the air and others were destroyed on the ground by Mustangs and Thunderbolts, wmcn aivea low over airneias. A farce of abdut 250 of the Eighth Air Force, with fltrhter escort. attacked industrial targets in South-west uermany, and i minder bolts raided objectives in the-Bremen and Hanover areas, "shooting up" sixteen locomo tives and damaein? tues and barees. Owing to the difficulties of navigation oad weather some bombs, it was stated, fell on Swiss territory. Some the 'formations saw their bombs- burst in the target areas, where large tires were started, others used special navigation devices and bombed through' cloud.

Crews reported that the ijuirwane mane only a naix-nearteo attempt to intervene. 1 On Saturday night. Mosquitoes of Bomber Command attacked. without loss, objectives in Hanover, Krefeld, and Aacnen. ana mines were laid in enemy waters.

On Friday night Mosauitoes raiaea targets in western uermany, also wiiaoui loss. Reporting on Saturday's raids the German communique said: At noon An American bomber form tlm. eeard ru Hchtcts, Snr Into Sontta-vert Germany. Goad wu racsuT ururoKn, una la enemy aropnea boarM and euoAloel Amocc tua Prt or th a. Kvini mnnii rimng anuui uidmb norooi xcu on svw temsorr.

Twentr-on. Araencan pjaac. smut iic-tniinm msDcx. vcxn wot oovn. SWISS PROTEST A communique broadcast! by Swiss radio on Saturday said that about thirty American 'planes' flew over the canton of iSchaffhausen.

the most northerly in Switzerland, and the canton of Turgau and that bombs were dropped on the town of Schaflhausen. Several fires were started in the area of the railway station and in the town," added the communique. Yesterday (says Reuter it was snorted that thirtv-five people were killed and' 200 to 300 ren dered Homeless. Schaflhausen stands in an enclave almost surrounded bv German -ten-itm-v. The Swiss Minister in Washington has been asked to lodge an "energetic protest' with the United States Government Mr.

Tjpland Harrison, -United States Minister in Berne, has expressed resm vj toe orwiss uraveroment. ARMS FOR RUSSIA Another Million Tons- WASHIXGTOH. 2. Mr. Leo T.

Crowley, Foreign Economic Administrator." in a report -to-night on lend-lease aid to the Soviet Union, disclosed that more than a million ton nf munitions and- other war stroblie wma. snionea to ine soviet union from the unuea states tne rust two months uiu nnncr. SIX GUNNERS KILLED IN ROAD CRASH jcive Boymi Anmexy gunners were killed, died in Arbroath, Infirmary, and three others were injured when 'their truck' involved a collision wnn a nouDie-oecK ous near Carnoustie, Angus, on Saturday night The: dead 'men. are Arthur 'Reginald Moorcroft, Arthur: Joseph rR. leaner, James cvans, William Artnur ijcotney, and -cyrxl H.

Glancey, all believed to be lghshmen. The only occupant ot bus. Petty Officer Gilbert fRJli" was detained at -Inftrmarv- -onth sugar injuries, xne bus driver was st injtowri, ixmdee, ground crews; service, refuel, and rearm the aircraft, and watch the' pilots take upon their sorties against the JaDanese sunnlv dumns and lines of communication. By night the pilots sleep armed beside their and the ground crews retire into the defensive boxes, well armed, to, look out for and warn on any Japanese incursiou. One thousand leet above them upon the' rinse of hOltoDS men of the Regiment man the exterior of defences.

1 AIRFIELDS MUST BE HELD The 'country over which the battle of Imphal is being fought offers few stretches of ground suitable for forward airfields, so mat it is a question of, hold ing fast to the Tmphal plain or retreat ing to distant fields, from which prompt and adequate support of our. ground troops could not be maintained to the same extent. Tne sroun commanders order to the 8.000. airmen upon the Imphal fields is accordingly to hold fast. He says: If a box is attacked it must I repeat must hold, out, reporting attacx.to group or corps, which will send tanks to mem urj the enemv.

We must keen our landing strips safe to use and our aircraft to fly. Then we can defeat the enemy for certain. It is too early to speculate about whether Wingate's long-range penetra tion, which is dependent upon air com munications, has justin ed its eii. une force not only serves as a link with General Stilwell in North Burma but is a menace to the rear of the Jananese divisions, which are attacking towards Imphal. OUR AIR STRENGTH A footnote to General Auchinleck's reference to Allied air-power is con tained in the news that during five days last week dive-bombers flew some 800 offensive sorties against enemy positions on the Imphal front without the loss of a single machine and witnout even encountering a single Japanese aircraft.

On two days running Hurricane bombers caught' JaDanese troops in the open country and inflicted casualties. but many bombing and machine-gun attacks were made where owing to the thickness of the jungle the results could not be observed. The Japanese bad assembled forces both of bombers and fighters to support their offensive, but 63 of these were destroyed by an American air com mando in sweeps over Central Burma airfields at the beginning of the month. Since then the Japanese have made spasmodic attempts to put up fighter sweeps and bomb Allied airfields. These culminated in the air battles of last week which cost the Japanese another thirty 'planes destroyed.

During the Arakan battle the Indian division which was encircled was supplied by air for three weeks at a cost of only one Dakota aircraft lost. These indications or the Allied air strength encourage the inference that encircune: manoeuvres ana inrusis across lines of communications, which served the Japanese so well in the past, need cause the Allied forces a great deal less worry in the present battles. Ihe Times' aVMancherter nardian' Service up his report on the new Allied airfield behind the Japanese lines when he was killed. His first work as a war correspondent was done In Abyssinia, where he covered the Italian invasion. He had his share of escapes from Italian 'bombs and bullets, but nothing interfered with his news-gathering After Abyssinia he.

worked for some time as assistant news editor, then went to Palestine at the time of Arab-Jewish troubles. He was caught in a snipers' ambush while motoring from Haifa. Among Emeny's stories from India were his reports during the Bengal famine. He took many risks to find his stories. Emeny is survived by a widow and two children.

Stanley Herbert Wills, who leaves a widow, was-appointed a war correspondent last July. He was first at Allied H.Q. in' Algiers and went to India in September. KING OF ITALY New Proposal by Count Sforza Naples, Aprjl 2. Count Sforza declared to-day that he would be highly satisfied if King Victor Emmanuel went into retire- iment without a formal abdication and delegated his powers to a lieutenant governor.

Defining his attitude to the Italian Communist policy of dropping the abdication demand as a condition of assuming Governmental functions. Sforza said: The 'King's retirement without formal abdication would create" a new moral tmoanhere with greatjposilMlItics for an Italian political and ndStary revival white allowing ibe tlou of monarchv vermis rrpuoiic to oe lerc tor aecmon aner ut exmdifoil of tba fiamui Even if the lieutenant governor were bis ion the fact that 'Prince Humbert took his position instead ot ascending, toe throne would signify that we were in the presence of compromise and that the final decision win be taken onlv when the Its liana have contributed their ahare in the flsht asafrmt the Germans. -During tins compromise the duty of all of us wBl be to fight "the Germans alongside the All lex. In view of uus essential aim am ready with an my menas-to bacic up a new uovemment is which all. parties had representatives.

Bat such a Government would evidently-be of totally different composition to the present oaaoguo uovernmem; Sforza's Statement indicates that he is only wfflmg to respond to the Com-, nirirusts mvitation for a combined new poHcy under, certain clear-CoralMions, And it Is far from certain it the. Communists mean- to concede these con- diUons. Rtfuten RAILWAYMEN H.G-s Strike Delays Goods Trains As a protest; against- Home -Guard dirties, especially- at week-ends, after, long spells of wcf on. railway ,300 Iif.EJ&VTngihe drivers? and firemen took part in a one caster yesterday." Passenger services Were: about iTiorniaLrmt' a -ouxumgr be to at 9 is plies of elertricity and gas ior indus- trial purposes has been ordered by the Ministry- of Fuel and Power. Elee-; tricity will he, cut by 10 per cent and.

gas by 25 per cent. Domestic supplies are' not being It was announced on Saturday that tramcar and trolley-bus services are to cut by 20 per cent in the NortK-west region to conserve coal supplies. The war situation and the fall in coal production have -necessitated these special steps. The recent strikes in the coal industry have aggravated the fuel situation. Industrial undertakings are being asked to" co-operate with the Ministry in still greater efforts to reduce fuel consumption to the essential minimuml An official of the Ministry said yesterday, The loss of coal produc tion has necessitated these special steps secure a substantial economy in the industrial use of electric power and gas, the same time maintain ine essential production with the minimum interference.

The situation in regard to all forms of fuel and power is- and will remain Instructions were issued last December which imposed as from December 13 10 per cent- reduction in the programme of coal deliveries to all industrial undertakings. N.rW: TRAM SERVICES In consequence, of the vcoal shortage tram and trolley bus services in the North-west region are being reduced by 20 per cent from to-day. The cuts will be made outside rush periods and will not affect peak-hour traffic In the Manchester area they will be made between 30 a on. and 4 30 and after 6 30 in the evening. Ordinary bus services are unaffected.

In Salford the cuts will be in the services to Irlams-o'-th'-Height, Weaste. Pendleton, and the Brougbton "and the Docks circular route. POAL STRIKE PEACE EFFORTS 20,000 May Return To-day, Over the week-end a great effort was made to end the Yorkshire miners' home" coal strike, which by Saturday had stopped work at 73 collieries, made men idle, and caused loss in output in two weeks of over 700.000 tons of coal. There was some improvement yesterday in the position, and it estimated that nearly 20,000 of the strikers have voted in fayour of a xesumution of work today. Yesterday Yorkshire miner M.P.s, including Mr.

T. Smith, Joint Parlia mentary Secretary to the Ministry of Fuel, and Mr. T. Williams, Joint Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Agriculture, together with Mr. J.

A. Ball (president) and other officials of the Yorkshire Mineworkers' Association, urged the men to return to wors alter the council of the association at Bamsley on Saturday instructed them for a second time to do so. To-day the council will meet again at Bamsley to discuss the new proposals of the Government regarding the miners' wage position generally. That Should have been their business on Saturday, but they had bad to deal instead, with the more urgent business resulting from the unfavourable developments in the home coal dispute since they had met at the beginning of the week. The first reports of the decisions reached by miners' branch meetings hi the Bamsley area yesterday suggested that this dispute, which arises from the deduction of from the 5 -minimum wage of men getting home coal, may have De given prior consideration again to-day.

MINERS' DECISIONS The men at Woolley and Wharncliffe Woodmoor, Nos. 1, 2, and 3 pits', Grkne-thorpe, Rockingham, Bamsley Main, Houghton Main, Dearne Valley, and two of the Mew Monckton collieries voted for a return to work to-day, but at the other New Monckton colliery the miners decided to stay out, and there seemed likelihood of a resumntion this morning at Elsecar Main. The men at tne Doaworux ana KedorooKe pits of Old Silkrtnnn Couierieic slsn derided against a return. Sbawcross colliery. Dewshury.

wnich employs about 700 men, is expected to resume, work to-day. Other pits in the area employing 700 men are still idle, but meetings are to be held to-day. Most of the 16,000 men at ten Rother-ham pits affected by the strike voted -yesterday against a resumption to-day, though one or two pits will, resume. There has been little improvement in the Mexboroagh district, where only' Manvers Main men have decided to return to-day. Mr.

Ti Williams, MP. addressed a meeting of Cadeby miners at which voting for and against reaump- tion was about even. It is possible that some Of the men may resume to-day. Denaby. Kilnhurst, Barnburgh, and -Wath Mam miners all decided not to return.

Voting at most meetings in the Don- caster district, where 25,000 men are involved, was In favour of continuing the but it is expected that about 8,000 men will resume to-day. WAGES PLAN OPPOSITION A serious arid unexpected development has arisen concerning the proposed four-year peace "pact" for the industry on which the miners' lodges are voting this week. The executives of two bifl: district-South Wales and Curntoetiand are recommending their menaberstozejecttbescbenuefKL Lancashire and Oieshire Miners' Federation Is, -jpeeiar' national conference to go into the QUestfaxL (Parfecr dctaila oa nkxt page ST. HELENS MURDER CHARGE John' Davidson; a young man dressed in- khaki, was remanded until next Saturday on a charge ot murdermg Mii bladv MaudAonleton r27 whorwafI deadf with a scarf tied tigbtlrWfmiwI her neck in the front garden bt abousA 200 yardsfrom her home ia," BislW. Helens; Davidson' made-' no' iiMrgp m-Lxjuri.

declares that the advancing units of the Red Army, pursuing the German armies their allied Rumanian troops, have crossed, the River Pruth in several sectors and have entered Rumanian territory. The- Supreme Command of the Red 'Army has given orders to the advancing Soviet troops to pursue the enemy until. his "final rout and capitulation. At -the same time the Soviet Government declares that it does not pursue the aim of acquiring Rumanian territory or of altering the existing social order. The entry of Soviet troops into the boundaries of Rumania is dictated exclusively by military necessities ana tne continuing resirfcanne of enemv trnonq.

MILES i i Railways Sovict-Berman frontier 1990 ootn Xarnonol and Kovel. over a hundred miles farther north. lasi night's boviet commumaue saia: During April 2 forces of the First Ukrainian Front, continuing their offen sive, captured Kosow and Kuty 40 and 35 miles respectively due west of Cernauti, Stanislavov region, and one district centre or tne cernauti region. South of Kamenets Podolsk our trams waged offensive battles and acctmied XMovoseutsa 19 miles east of Cernauti, ana several oiner mnaDited localities. including Dumen 45 miles south of Kamenets Fodolski.

In the Kishinev direction our troons. uvercuriunz enemv resistance and counter-auacKS, continued to wage onensive battles and occupied a district centre of the Moldavian soviet RemnKlif as well as 20 other inhabited Totalities In the TirasDol direction our trnnm continued their offensive and7 captured ouujdev, a oisinct centre ox tne uaessa region, and over thirty other inhabited localities. One of these, Alexandrovka. is zi roues east or Odessa. I In the Odessa direction our troona have fought their way Into more than nity mnaoitea localities.

On the other sectors of the front there was at some points fighting of local importance. During April 1 on all fronts nineteen German tacks were lestrover! or and forty enemy aircraft were snot aown in air comoat or by A.A. are, THE raUTH CROSSINGS It is probable, writes a military cor respondent, that the 'Red Army's advance over the Pruth has been made by units of Marshal Koniev's army in the direction of Jassy. On Tuesday, little more than 48 hours after the river frontier had been reached, the Germans declared that the Russians were already attacking towards Jassy. an industrial town ten miles inside Rumanian" A day or so later Berlin reports said that Soviet tanks had penetrated into the town on two occasions, but were driven out Moscow reports nave made no reference to this ftsrhtine.

The "upper reaches of the Pruth were forced on Wednesday in the victorious drive ior cernauti (Czernowitt, nut tins crossine took ulace in Bukovina. which with Bessarabia, was cedecMiy Rumania to Russia in imo. Sinkiang. Many refused 'to go and sought refuge in the Mongolian People's Republic, where they were' received as refugees. troops stationed in the northeastern part of Sinkiang Province, following in pursuit of the refugees, invaded Mongolian territory and, fired from" 'planes- on.

the refugees and at places in It is stated that in the event of further oimilnr violations of the Reonblic's frontiers "troops the Soviet Government, by virtue of the treaty of mutual assistance concluded between Soviet Russia and the Mongolian Pinler' Rennbliicon March-: 12. 1926. wul be obliged to renderthis Republic an taecessary assistance and sunoort to "saEBgaard 'the security its territory. Of the three Soviet columns advancing on the 'great Black Sea port of Odessa the one moving along the coastal road from the east is nearest, having only 21 miles to cover. This' force has now passed the estuary of the River Giligul, which, 25 miles from Odessa, forms a long and narrow lake divided from the Black Sea by a neck of land a few miles wide.

The town of Alexan-drovka, west of the lake, was captured yesterday. Pokwskoe The armies of Marshal Koniev and General Malinovsky, which are joining in the advance on Odessa, now form a broad front against the city. i On Marshal Koniev's right Marshal Zhukav is still hammerirtu out the German salient below Kamanets Podolsk and- broadtminz his front facing, the Carpathians. Places on the Bukovina-Polish border west of Cernauti (Czernowitz) were captured Marshal Zhukov has also resumed his ---drive against Lwow from the south-east The Germans admit that the Had Army- has penetrated into Two war correspondents, Stuart Emeny. of the Newe-Chronicle," and Stanley Wills, of the "Daily Herald." were killed when the 'Diane in which Major General Wingate lost his life crashed on a mountain side in Burma on March 24.

Twenty-nine British and American war correspondents have now been killed during the war; eight were British. Thirty-four have been wounded, twelve being British. Mine others are missing (four British) and 45 are prisoners of war or interned, including eight British. janeny. woo was years oz age.

went out to India in 1942. He went with General wmeate on nart of the 200 miles' trek by the jungle raiders through Japanese territory, and was following POLES AND RUSSIA Underground Army: Note to Britain and U.S. From onr Diplomatic Correspondent London', Sundat. Rumours that Instructions to the Polish underground movement to co-operate with the advancing Soviet armies have been cancelled are con tradicted in Polish Government quarters. An official denial' by the Polish Prime Minister is expected soon.

The instructions previously given have neither been cancelled nor suspended; they are still in force. The only altera tion made is that wider powers of discretion have been given to local com manders of the Polish underground army. For the time being, at any rate, it is for the local commanders to decide when the moment has arrived to come into the. open and to seek to establish contacts with the Russian armies and authorities. The- reasons for this tactical change are explained, in a Polish Note to the British and United States Governments.

In asking for Anglo-American interven tion, the Polish Government points out that on some occasions' on which the Polish underground movement has come into the open the results have been extremely In fact the local commanders "and their H.CX3S were soon' separated from their units while the rank and file transferred to the Polish Army set up" in Russia. The Polish authorities take' the view that they cannot accept- such a procedure. since it would lead to the systematic disintegration of the trader-ground forces. The main obi eft of the Polish reouest for' British and United States interven tion is to find out if -the recent practice is in accordance with a settled Russian DOucy or wnetner someRussian autnori-ties have acted independently and on their own STRAITS WEATHER-LAST NICBT. niBd, lights southeasterly breeze; Isea cafau Iim fdwidIaiterVdii liwonlit I mtervali.

visirlrry variable, lO'-pjnJ I teraperatur barometer rising. MONGOLIAN BORDER AFFRAY Moscow, 2. Tass, the official Soviet news reports from Ulan-Bator, the capital of Outer Mongolia, that at the end of last -year the local --authorities ml Sinlnang Province (Chinese started Id deport large number CI peasants ironi Northern Jo Sodfijem 9 --SJ ia 4 VyTIBET proper Jg goodstrains went siomgtvV.