BY-PASS KAVIENG; U.S. Forces Meet Feeble Opposition in Moving on Emirau Isle

Finland announces rejection; USSR replies; Finnish reaction mixed; peace hope not abandoned

Finland Rejects Armistice; Russia Warns of Dire Fate; FINLAND REJECTS ARMISTICE TERMS

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WITH THE FIFTH ARMY AT CASSINO, March 21 -- The Allies' third major attack on Cassino appeared today to have bogged down temporarily after seven days of sharp and continuous fighting.  

ALLIES' BIG ATTACK IN CASSINO BOGGED; Momentum of Assault Cracks as Germans Reoccupy Wreckage of Hotel

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accepts inv to USSR; statement on USSR-US econ relations in forthcoming book, America Unlimited, quoted

Eric Johnston Accepts Stalin Bid To Visit and Study Soviet Russia; JOHNSTON AGREES TO VISIT RUSSIA

Russians gain in Lwow drive and on Vinnitsa, Zhmerinka, Novoukrainka and Dobrinets sectors; USSR engineer bns mending Bubno-Lwow road; Vinnitsa battle and Dniester River crossing details; maps

NAZI RAIL LINK CUT; Red Army Drives Wedge Into Retreat Route Near Rumania

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Patton Shifted to New Command As Patch Heads the Seventh Army; HEADS SEVENTH ARMY

rept denied; to collaborate with Gers in Carpathian area defense against Russians

BALKAN UNITS MOVE; 3 Divisions From Serbia Sent to Crush Forces Resisting in Hungary

President Kept In By Another Cold

Miller charges of FCC bungling in Alaskan navy task force incident reveals Rear Adm Redman as 2d navy officer subject to White House reprisal for testimony opposing Fly policies; FCC counsel asked for demotion lr copy; enters denial of incident on lack of proof; Fly statement

SAYS WHITE HOUSE SILENCED REDMAN ON FCC 'BUNGLING'; Rep. L.E. Miller Asserts Rear Admiral Drew Fire for His Data to House Group

Sec Hull statement defining US policy issued by US State Dept; he reaffirms Atlantic Charter approval; plans radio s in recognition of growing US interest in US stand

WORLD UNITY URGED BY HULL AS OUR AIM; He Says Our Foreign Policy Requires Cooperation of All Under Atlantic Charter

WILLKIE CONDEMNS ISOLATIONIST VIEWS; He Tells Wisconsin Voters That if Republicans Campaign on Them Roosevelt Will Win

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US army, navy and marine fliers raid 4 Jap positions; Domei repts attacks on Mill and Wotje

3 SERVICES' PLANES ATTACK MARSHALLS; Army, Navy and Marine Fliers Drop 30 Tons of Bombs

Yesterday's communique, as broadcast from Moscow to the Soviet Union and reported by the Federal Communications Commission:  

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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE PACIFIC, Wednesday, March 22 (AP) -- A communique:  

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Iranian Premier Resigns

LONDON, March 21 (UP) -- An Air Ministry communique:  

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Mountbatten hdqrs repts continued Jap drive on Indian border and Jap crossing of upper Chindwin River, Homalin area; Singapore radio claims Jap troops aided by puppet Indian forces cross into India; Tokyo radio cites gains in Chin Hills area and west of upper Chindwin River; Brit repel Jap attacks north of Tiddim; tank action reptd, Kabaw Valley; Allied troops take Sumprabum; reoccupy Pinsau Ga; repel Jap attack, Npyen Ga; Chinese take Pumei Ga and Talanga Tawng; Brit forces gain, Maungdaw-Buthidaung road area; Allied planes raid Jap positions and communications, Chin Hills, Chindwin Valley and Mogaung Valley; fire oil dump south of Buthidaung and Meiktila airfield; map

ENEMY PRESSES ON NEAR INDIA BORDER; Mountbatten Says the 'General Westward Movement' From Burma Continues

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Wednesday, March 22 (AP) -- Emirau Island, known also as Squally Island, is the smaller of the two principal islands in the St. Matthias Group. Mussau, fifteen miles northwest, is the other.  

March 22, 1944

Headlines from March 22, 1944

BY-PASS KAVIENG; U.S. Forces Meet Feeble Opposition in Moving on Emirau Isle

Finland Rejects Armistice; Russia Warns of Dire Fate; FINLAND REJECTS ARMISTICE TERMS

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ALLIES' BIG ATTACK IN CASSINO BOGGED; Momentum of Assault Cracks as Germans Reoccupy Wreckage of Hotel

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