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 PARKER
PATTER - 2 JANUARY 1922, Vol. 1, No. 4
AIR ARM BLASTS FRENCH COAST!
Targets ranged from the Bay of Biscay to Paris during a day in
which huge fleets of Allied warplanes blasted a pre-invasion path of
destruction across the occupied country. the big four-ermined
bombers attacked ball-bearing and aircraft engine plants near Paris.
Airfields ad depots were also bombed. The blow came as a new
year's eve climax of 12 months of record breaking aerial assaults
against Europe. The American heavy bombes escorted by swarms of
U.S. fighters left great plumes of flame and smoke circling five to ten
thousand feet in the sky over the Paris plants and winged four hundred
and ten miles from London to blast Cognac Airfield. Possible new
record shock testing Allied aerial armadas which some observers believed
one thousand planes or more delivered thirty-six hour long nonstop
pounding of northern France. Some observers believed that the
great swarms of Allied aircraft pounding the French coast constitutes
the first element of a long softening up process operation for invasion
of but they cautioned against any interpretation that the invasion was
imminent.***
RED DRIVE CONTINUES : RECAPTURES RAIL CENTER
The Russian army yesterday captured Zhitomic
[sic, s/b Zhytomyr] and advanced a spearhead to within thirty-three
miles of the pre-war Polish border. In White Russia the soviets
closed another link in the siege area around Vitchak by cutting the last
highway out of the city. Smashing through wavering German defenses
West and Southwest of Kiev on a front broadened to two hundred miles
Russia's First Ukrainian army scored gains as as high as nineteen miles
to complete a year in which the Russians drove more than seven hundred
miles Westward of Stalingrad. Capture of the town of Koltaki
twenty miles Northeast of Koreston put Russian forces only thirty-three
miles from the pre-war Polish frontier. Inside the Dnieper bend
where thousands of Germans were threatened by the Reds steady drive
Southwest toward the two remaining enemy-held railroad escape lines
Melinavasky's Third Ukrainian Army advanced twelve miles Northward
taking the town of Alesakdavko.
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