:0 THE MICHIGAN DAILY SUNDAY, IDEC. 31, 1944 0 SUNDAY, DEC. 31, 1944 mwmw -. .ussian Forces Smash Into Eastern Budapest -. Meet Troops Invading City, From West Liq idate Nazis In Push To Vienna By The Assodiated Press LONDON, Dec. 30--Russian troops smashed into the eastern part of Budapest today for the first timef and Soviet dispatches said they had linked up on Danube islands in the heart of the city with other units invading the doomed Hungarian capital from the west. Release Soviet Forces Simultaneously Soviet forces north of the city completed the liquida- tion of German-Hungarian units. trapped in the Danube loop, Moscow announced, releasing powerful for- mations for the swelling offensive which has swept to within 92 miles of Vienna, Austrian capital. The ferocity of the German stand in Budapest's gutted streets and squares was indicated byaspecial Soviet announcement that Nazi troops had "murdered Russian troops who were carrying a white flag during an atteipt to negotiate a temporary truce in the city.". Germans held As Long As Possible Fighting over streets choked with German dead and smashed tanks anrd guns the Russians were bayon- etting their way through walls of German orrjered to hold out as long as Possible in an effort to delay pow- erful Russian thrusts through west- ern Hungary and southern Slovakia toward Bratislava and Vienna. In the southern quarter of the city the Russians overran Budapest's vital dock sectors on and near Csepel Island and the Germans now did not even have a single airfield with which to .supply their dying forces, Soviet front dispatches said. On the west side of Budapest, east of the Danube, the Russians were fighting through the fiat, most popu- lous section of one of Europe's most beautiful capitals, b;ut in the Buda- section on the west side of the river the going appeared to be more diffi- cilt. 0 54 , oA n oGNARavenna Sea Pi -C-n m TAL Massa P 'Pistoia Pe aro uc -~~P ' 8b Army .' FanD ReggENC AModena Sea LavORNo . es ENO'. ..4 GNR C'.'Tern, GERMANS COUNTERATTACK IN ITALY-Arrows indicate action on the Italian front (heavy lne). Germans continued counterattacks along the Serchin River ner the west coast. enveloping the town of Barga and forcing a Fifth ArIMy withdrawal. Eighth Army troops near the east coast continued their drive toward Bologna. , Manchurian 'PATRIOTIC GESTURE': Troops Used by Former Greek Minister Lands Japs Continue To Evacuate North Burma, CALCUTTA, Dec. 30.-UP)- The Japs at Leyte GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEAD- QUARTERS, Philippines, Dec. 31, Sunday-(P)-Gen. Douglas MacAr- thur disclosed today, while a new, Mindoro-bound convoy pressed on, under Japanese attack to reinforce his conquering forces, that the en- emy had drawn troops from Man- churia in an effort to stop him on Leyte Island. The American commander's com- munique said Gen. Tomoyuki Yama- shita had lost in the futile defense of Leyte four army divisions and the elements of two more, besides a naval brigade and other special forces. 1 Total Japanese losses, including1 601 more killed in recent mopping up operations, reached 116,770, the. communique said. MacArthur declared the campaign ended Christmas Day when his troops captured Palompon, the last enemy port of escape. 1ew legency ot altos i 1 1 FOREIGN STUDENTS CELBAE New Year GtsVaried Reception 4/ - ---- a- By The Associated Presst GRAND RAPIDS, Dec. 30-Ap- proval of the appointment of Arch- bishop Damaskinos as regent to rule var-torn Greece until elections areI held was voiced here tonight by Ev-' angelos Sekeris, former Minister ofI Education of the Balkan nation. "It was a patriotic gesture on the part of King George to appoint thej Archbishop in an effort to solidify the nation," Sekeris declared. Urges All-Faction Government Sekeris, who fled from Greece with other members' of the cabinet when the invading Axis hordes swept through the nation, urged, however, that a Greek government, composed of all factions involved, be quickly formed to bring about peace and end civil unrest. "Greeks I am sure would rather fight Germans than each other," he exclaimed in his heavy accent. Given to lapsing into rapid Greek, the tall, heavy set minister uses his hands to getnover a point when English fails him. Sekeris who now is bent on find- ing a way back to Greece, feels Eng- land is being maligned for her cur- rent action in Greece by people who may not know what the score is. Sees Nothing Wrong With British "I did not see in Churchill's action any desire by the English other thai to see Greece get a fair chance to choose its own government. "What England is doing is a good thing, only she should not have to do it alone-it is a problem for all Allies," he continued, adding it wouldn't be practical now for his country to have a plebiscite with one faction armed and the country in an "unnormal" state. Sekeris has been here almost three years, having left Greece when King Holiday Fatalities Reach 40 to Date P)-The nation's holiday fatali- ties reached 40 last night as the first 24-hour period of the three-day New Year's week-end neared a close. Last year's complete holiday peri- od cost 242 lives. George moved his government at the start of Germrany's invasion. He re- abandonment of important sectors signed his post with the government of northern Burma by the Japanese in exile during the summer of 1943. continued today with mounting evi- Communist Influence Not Strong "The great mass of Greeks are dence that the enemy does not plan leftists, but ELAS as such does not to make a major stand north of represent the mass-at least I don't Mandalay. think it does," he said, adding, "be- In the past 48 hours British troops fore the war communists have been have advanced nine miles east to- represented in the government but ward the town of. Yeu, some 70 miles their influence was not strong." northwest of Mandalay, and only "The Greeks must form a peoples' suicide Japanese rearguards are con- government-when that is done we testing the drive, dispatches to head- have an army-a very fine army quarters' of Allied Land Forces which I am sure would fight with Southeast Asia here said today. pleasure against the war lords of The enemy is beginning to destroy Germany and Japan." the railroad from Yeu south to Declaring this civil war wouldn't Monywa which is prime evidence of exist if allies were more in accord, an intention to continue the south- Sekeris said "a meeting of the big ward retreat. This railway is the three is imperative to decide policy backbone of the enemy's supply line toward liberated countries, It is the north and west of Mandalay. only way the Greek situation can be Front line reports emphasize that cleared up and similar struggles else- the Japanese withdrawal is an order- where forestalled." ly one, not a rout. TON IGHT at 11:45 P.M. NEW YEAR'S EVE SH I By BETTY ROTH The New Year, 1945, will be rung in universally at midnight with a gaiety born of the hope for a Happy New Year. In these United States at the stroke of twelve whistles will blow, church bells will resound and the nostalgic strains of "Auld Lang Syne" be heard through the nation. For many students on this campus, those'from other lands, the Ameri- can celebration of the New Year will be contrasted with the customs of their native lands. Students from the Far and Near East, for example, explain that there are two types of celebrations, the old and traditional and the new un4er the influence of Wes- ternization. In Nigeria, where only 11 per cent of the population is Christian, For The e Ya mu We are well stocked with CALENDARS, DESK PADS, STATIONERY, and SUPPLIES. the New Year is celebrated at har-1 vest time later in the year by thez Moslems. Their New Year cQrre-t sponds to the American Thanks- giving. On the New Year all boys who have reached the age of 16 are initiated into the ceremonial. Costumed and wearing 'jujubes' (masks) and speak- ing through bamboo reeds which give their speech an other-worldly tone, they represent dead souls re- awakened for the New Year. Garbed in this supernatural rai- ment they chase the young :people. of the town, carrying long-handled whips to punish those whose run- CIDSteel Pa'y Raise Approved Vinson Assured Steel I Prices Will Not Rise WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.- (A')-; Stabilization Director Vinson tonight approved the WLB - recommended wage increases for CIO steel workers. His decision was based, an an- nouncement by the Office of Eco- nomic Stabilization said, on assur- ances from the Office of Price Ad- ministration that steel price boosts will not result from the pay adjust- ment. Vinson's decision was transmitted to Chairman William H. Davis of the War Labor Board in a letter which said: Receives OPA Report "I have received a report from the Office of Price Administration with reference to the price consequences of the steel wage increases author- ized ly your directive order of Nqv. 25, covering the basic iron and steel industry. ''The OPA states that for some time increases in the prices of cer- tain steel products have, in its opin- ion, been required by law but that, with the acquiescence of the steel industry, it has delayed the consider- ation of these increases until the wage case was settled, so that, it would be unnecessary to consider steel prices more than once. OPA Conclusions "The OPA summarizes its conclu- sions as follows: Certain product price increases in the iron and steel industry are now necessitated by, the minimum re- quiremnents of la~w. 'These increases will be made irre- spective of the wage decision. It is the judgment of the price adminis- trator that after these price adjust- ments are made the proposed wage increases will not require any fur- ther net rise in the general level of iron and steel prices.' "Accordingly, the wage increases required by your directive order may become effective'." BUY WAR BONDS ning skill is inadequate. The begin- ning of the Western New Year is celebrated by Christian Nigerianst with church services. Capt. Selim Dagpunar, asked how the people of Turkey ring in thet New Year, replied, "Like you."t There was one important differ- ence, however,- he ; ointed out. Turks, being Moslems, drink no intoxicating liquors. The New Year is nevertheless a gay holiday. No; one sleeps on the New Year. Even invalids rise from their beds; for they believe that if they are bed- fast on the New Year's Day they will remain so for the rest -of the year. The same superstition makes gaiety a requirement. In Armenia, as in Turkey, the chil- dren receive gifts and the young people attend the New Year Ball. Armenians wear their native cos- tume, ankle - length richly-colored purple and wine velure robes, yoked with gold coins. Others go to the ball masquerading as Faust's "Meph- istopheles," the Joker and the like. The lights are extinguished and turned on again at midnight to indi- cate the coming of the new year. The Chinese New Year which comes a month later is a noisy celebration, with exploding fire- crackers welcoming the New Year. Children kowtow to their parents and the older members of the fam- ily. Greetings .are not exchanged but hung on the door of the home, the Chinese characters written on bright red paper. No animal or protein is to be eaten on the'New Year. T. C. Ku, a student, who arrived here less than a year ago from China, said that the more educated and Westernized Chinese pay little atten- tion to the traditional New Year. The Latins, at least in Guatemala, according to Alfredo Pinillos, do not differ essentially from their North American neighbors in their celebra- tion. They too ring in the New Year with church bells, exploding cannon fire and firecrackers. Our own tra- ditional eggnog is, however, replaced by the fiery tamales and excellent Guatemalan coffee. 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