The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-04-24
Roosevelt, Churchill in
Agreement With Plans Of
General Marshall
BRITISH RAID HITS
HITLER PLANE CENTER
Japan BrOadcasts Word
There Were Survivors
From U. S. Houston
BY JOE ALEX MORRIS
UNITED Press Foreign Editor

NSAAVGeA ASS0 = SACA3AA AA~aASFAy
Great Britain's aerial Of
many today to the Baltic
port of Rostok, vital airplane
supply center for Adolf Hit
ler'S spring offensive, and it
was reported that President
Roosevelt and Prime Minis
ter Churchill have agreed on
strategy for opening a second
European front.
The President was said In Lon
don to have sent message 70
Churchill saying he fully approved
Of the decisions reached by British
strategists and q. s. Chief Of Staff
General George @. Marshall - de-
cisions believed to call for . new
'front.' against Hitler in western
Europe.
There were Indications that the
heavy British aerial offensive and
lightning Commando raids on the
Nazl-held European coast and the
forerunners Of even more @aggres-
sive" operations agreed upon ~
Marshall and the British leaders -
their London talks last week.
Prelude to Action
The RATS spring offensive, nee
esSary prelude TO any second front
action, last night and early today
pounded Germany's Baltic port O
Rostok with big bombs and started
large fires after round-trip avtack
Of nearly 1000 miles.
The Germans made no mention q
an attack on RoStok, home OF the
large Heinkel airplane works axl6
an important port Of embarkatAoD
for men and supplies for the ease.
ern front, but asserted that British
planes had attempted" to raid Ber-
lin for the first time since Ncvena-
Der 2.
One enemy plane penetrated the
aouter defenses" Of Berlin, the
Nazis said, but this was vague clue
because Berlin's so-cailed outer
defenses are known to extend IS faI
as Hanover, $50 miles west Of tne
German capital.
The Luftwaffe, attempting 70 ex-
act revenge for the destructive
night-and-day British offensive,
bombed several places Of southwest
England and southwest Wales, kill
ing at least 16 persons and causing
damage.
Attack Of British Bombers
A strong force Of heavy bombing
planes made round trip flight o:
$50 miles during the night to at
| tack CSermany's important Balu
port of Rostock, and the fierce fires
they kindled indicated that great
damage had been done, the air min
istry said today.
-Four planes were missing from
the flight, which represented the
second straight night the Royal Az
Force had hammered Germany
after resuming its spring offensive.
It was q blow both at one o.
Gerlnany's biggest airplane factories
and at one Of the chief ports from
which men and munitions are beillH
sent along the Baltic to Russia -
the Nad spring offensive.
Big ureS were StnAeC0 ~ &es@1es@
In the last British raid on Septem-
Der II, 1871, before bad weather pre-
vented for the winter the O50-mne
round trip from British bases
Only recently, however, British
planes had heavily attacked Lue-
beck, another important Baltic port
60 miles to the west Of Luebeckei
Bay.
German Planes Active
German planes killed 10 persons
In two southwest England towns
during the night and others Y
scattered rural areas, and caused
some property damage. Anti-air-
craft guns went into action =
CONTINUED on Page ~