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Evening star., 1943-06-27
Russian Front

Ground fighting on the Russian front
has been largely limited to sparring
during the week. although there were
of some Importance northeast of Khar-
kov and at Velikie Luki which lies about
40 miles from the Latvian border.
Several dispatches during the week
speak of Russian gains west of Belgorod
which it had been assumed was still in
Nazi hands Speculation now is that
Belgorod has fallen into Russian hands
but that announcement of this fact has
been withheld.
The Berlin radio has admitted that
Russian forces have preached outer Ger
man defenses in the Velikie Luki area
but there is no report as to the extent
of the break through
There was considerable air action dur
ing the week but nowhere was there
any sign of any major movement. The
summer offensive has not developed but
such indications of forthcoming often
sive as have been noted tend to point
toward the offensive being in Russian
rather than German hands
Reports received at Moscow describe
one important success by Yugoslavian
patriots who were credited with an at
tack on the German airport at Zagreb,
destroying 80 planes, burning the air.
port facilities and taking half hundred
prisoners
1t. Gen. Kurt Dietmar, whistling in
the dark, said that the Soviet colossus
had been gradually weakened by the
two years of steady successes of the
German armies and that now Russia has
lost the advantage Of overwhelming
numerical superiority He did admit
that the Germans had underestimated
the embittered toughness of the Red
Army
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Pacific Front

Action in the Pacific was limited to
aerial warfare and one unsuccessful Jap
anese ground action on New Guinea
which cost the Japs heavily and gained
them nothing as they we're repulsed
leaving many dead behind.
This japanese attempted to raid Port
Darwin with some 48 planes but the at
tack was beaten off without any serious
damage, with the loss of Jap planes
and at least Is badly damaged. The
Allies lost two planes, thus maintaining
a satisfactory ratio, especially in view OF
the far greater ability OF the United
States to replace losses and expand ex-
isting numbers OF planes.
The Jap attack which occurred on
Sunday was countered by a raid by
American-fown Liherators which
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Americas 80th Week Of War
198th Week of World War II
BY Hosoard P. Bailey

The Axis ready Minister
OF Propaganda Joseph Goebbs
OF to the apphensive populations
was drowned out by the the
thunder thousands havoc among
the vital industries Valley island possessions and
mainland o
on without etup Allied bomlers
nights at German industrial
tories and disrupted anywhere between
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12
FortreSseS Sink
ItoHon Cruiser

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, North
Africa, April r. tUP)-Allied fliers
sank one 10,000-ton Italian cruiser,
badly damaged another and shot
down 81 enemy planes in weekend
blows against Axis sea and air
power in the Mediterranean
In addition, British Middle East
ern Liberator bombers raided Ma
Piles, Italy's second port, on Satur-
day.
SiXty-one of the enemy aircraft
Shot down were transports attempt
ing to fly urgently-needed gasoline
and oil TO German Marshal Erwin
Rommels forces in northeastern
Tunisia.
LOSS FELT
The loss came at a time when
some observers believed Rommel
soon might want all the trans
port craft he can lay his hands on
TO eVacuate key personnel to Italy
before the complete collapse of his
Tunistan forces. Altogether the
Allies shot down 79 transport planes
in the six days ended Sunday
The italian cruiser Trieste was
sunk at the La Maddalena naval
base in northern Sardinia Saturday
during a raid by one of the largest
forces of Flying Fortresses yet used
in single operation anywhere in
the world, an indication that up
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12

in the Pichon sector which was
cleared in the advance on the Holy
City.
TANKS BATTLE
Allied tanks engaged Axis tanks
to the northwest OF kairouan and
Knocked out 10 Of the enemy ma :
chimes but there was apparently
little or no fighting for the city
Itself.
radio Dakar, heard by Column
bia Broadcasting System, said TO-
day that the Germans were already
starting to transport contingents
of the Afrika Korps to Italy and
Greece by air, and had concen-
trated 40 or so submarines to pro-
tect troops to be evacuated by ship.
Other advices, however, emphasiz-
ed that there had been nothing To
indicate a wholesale Axis attempt
at exacuat ton from Tunisia SO far,
although some exhaused contin-
gents had been taken out)
In the southwest, Allied troops
cleared the enemy from Faid Pass.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12

wards Of 100 of the big four-engin-
ed bombers must have participated.
They flew without fighter escort.
BADLY DAMAGED
The 10000-ton Gorizia, hit in the
same raid, was still afloat but bad
ly damaged when reconnaissance
planes flew over La Maddalena yes
terday. Several tugs were alongside
and large amount of oil was flow
ing away from the cruiser.
Bombing from an altitude of 90
600 feet, the Fortresses also hit at
least one submarine and started
large fires in the dock area despite
heavy antiaircraft fire from shore
defenSeS and the cruisers them
selves. The cruisers offered tar
gets 1000 feet long, but only 10 feet
wide at the broadest point.
FALL TO LIGHTNINGS
Sundays toll of enemy aircraft
totalled 27, including q transports.
All fell to n-engined American
Lockheed Lightning fighters over
the Sicilian Straits
One formation of lightningS at
tackled a group of 20 Junkers SO
three-engined transports off the
coast of Sicily and destroyed all of
them. Some of the Axis pilots were
SO panic-stricken that they crash
ed without even being hit.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12
Editorials and Comment

judgments and languid half-thought; and
there must be neither foolish tampering
with production incentives nor needless
curtailment of worker freedom.
Everyone is giving up some degree of
liberty We all must realize that. We
must also expect inequalities in the in
roads that will be made upon our normal
rights. 1t cannot be expected that there
won't be plenty of inequities because
there will be lots of them. But we had
best steel ourselves not to insist on all
we believe we deserve. because we won't
get it. 1t will be far better to accept
such minor sacrifices than for initiation
to come and create double sacrifice for
everyone.
What far-reaching effects the all-out
economic control may have on the des-
tiny of the country and peoples cannot be
foreseen. We are not clairvoyants. We
must be willing to take our chances, pre-
pared to backtrack if, when, and as devel-
opments occur Especially must we be
prepared to see that this wartime benev-
olent control is not assumed as a per-
manent part of our economy. whether
wartime or peacetime.
Whatever may be the dangers which
beset the path of such extreme power as
is entailed in the program, America
should give it 100 per cent wholehearted
try and if ii fails, then seek other solu-
tions.
Until then. we must take our chances,
thank the President for his courageous
action, and hope for the best
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12
Allies Destroy
e ~Jop Planes

A Spokesman's report that yes
terday'S raiders met equal num-
bers' of Allied fighters indicated
the Allies had increased their
strength III MacArthurs command
area TO match the enemy's REIN
forced air power.
GREATER STRENGTH
Reconnaissance reports showing
major Increases in enemy air
strength and recent hostile attacks
indicate the enemy has initiated an
all offensive which may attain
considerable scale of effort" the
communique said i
The attack on Orc Bay by dive
bombers and fighters was the third
since March 28, when the Allies de-
Stroyed 20 of 40 raiders. 1t came
only a few days after major ef-
fort by japanese planes against
Allied shipping in the south
Pacific, where they lost 80 of a
force of more than 80 planes.
IN EQUAL NUMBERS
The large force of Japanese
planes came in over Oro Bay at
noon and the major fighting oc-
Cured between 10000 and $4,000
feet - the first sub-stratosphere
battle in this area and, the spokes-
man added. ALSO one of the few
times our fighters have met Japa-
nese planes in equal numbers"
Allied planes definitely destroyed
five dive hombers and IL zeros.
among the six bombers and II
fighters Shot out of action. The
Allied losses were negligible. Enemy
planes dropped 25 to 80 bombs.
hitting a 2,000-ton ship there and
forcing it to beach and causing
light damage and casualties.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12

headquarters of Gen. Dwight D
Eisenhower, told of reduced bu1
still heavy aerial operations against
fleeing enemy columns, against the
port of Tunis where a large ship
was hit by Flying Fortresse bombs
and against Marsala and Trapani
in Sicily where many hits were
made on docks and ships, starting
fires. Three ships were hit at Ira
pani.
DIRECTLY HIT
In all, at least four ships were di-
rectly hit and barge was sunk by
the Fortresses.
Allied airplanes again made a
record of more than 1000 sorties by
fighters and bombers and brought
down total of Al enemy planes
compared to IA Allied aircraft lost
on Sunday.
On the ground, the communique
said, the Eighth Army was meet
ing little opposition as it made
giant strides of more than 90 miles
a day up the coastal road past
Sousse and toward Enfidaville, 25
miles to the north, where the rough
countryside offers Rommel a bet
ter defensive position
Fifty miles northwest of Enfida-
vile, the British First Army and
French native troops under Lieut..
K. A. N. Anderson, made additional
progress in the Medjez-el-B sec
tor.
FRENCH ADVANCE
South of Medjez-el-Bab, French
troops advanced to capture high
ground in the Ousseltia mountain
sector and British and American
armored forces and infantry crash
ed through the Fondouk Pass and
seized the Moslem Holy City of
Kairouan, which Rommel had used
as a major air base. This put them
on the plains, only 27 miles from
Scusse and another junction with
the Eighth Army.
Kairouan was entered by the Al
lied forces at II am. Sunday, aft
er the French had announced the
capture of more than 500 prisoners
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12
British Land Men
On Norway Coast

STOCKHOLM, April 12.-UP)-
British Warships were reported to-
day to have landed a number of
saboteurs, presumably free NorWe-
gians, in small boats on the coast
of Western Norway.
Seven of the saboterTs were seen
March 26 at Skaargrunden, north
west of Haran, according to press
reports from Norway, and the Ges-
tapo offered a 5000-Krona (about
$1,000 reward for information as
to their present whereabouts.
"a Copenhagen broadcast report
ed by the Federal Communications
commission, said an explosion oc-
CURED Sunday morning in the Ka-
lundborg gas works in occupied
Denmark, where parachutist sabo-
teurs have been active recently)
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12
Americans Raid
SoIomons, Kiska

WASHINGTON, April IL CUP)-
American airmen, continuing their
efforts to keep augmented Japa-
nese airpower in the Solomons
PINNED to the ground, made three
attacks on two major enemy air
bases in the area, the navy an
nounced today.
The navy also revealed that
Kiska, the enemy's Aleutian strong
hold, was raided twice by fighter
planes. Results were not OBJ
served.
The Japanese fighter plane base
on New Georgia island in the Solo
mons was attacked on Sunday,
island time.
The third SolomonS raid was
made on Kahili, bomber base on
the southern end of BougainVille
island.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12
REINFORCEMENT
OR EVACUATION2

(PhoeniX GaZette)
Reports from North Africa that Amer
ican planes had shot down 81 German
planes, 18 of which We're big Junkers
transports believed to have been carry
: ing gasoline and supplies to Field Mar
shall Erwin Rommels forces, tend to in
dcating the German high command is
trying to reinforce Rommel rather than
evacuate his forces as was believed a
few days ago This belief is further
strengthened by the fact the Allied planes
attacked sea convoy, sinking destroyer
and setting fire to other ships. These
doubtless were en- route to North Africa.
A few days ago it was reported the
Germans were massing a large fleet OF
Italian and French ships, and, perhaps,
some Greek ships, at various strategic
points across the Mediterranean from
Tunisia in preparation for evacuatlng the
Rommel forces.
1t was pointed out then only two
courses were open to the Germans. The
first was to reinforce Rommel, and the
second was to eVacuate his army. Both
plans are dangerous undertakings, par
ticularly since the Allied nations have
control of the air as we'll as the sea IN
the Mediterranean.
The Germans and Italians are now con-
fined to a strip between 40 and 100 miles
wide and 225 miles long in Tunisia. On
one side is the sea and on the other are
the ever-pressing Allied forces slowly
closing in for the kill. If the Nazi high
command cannot reinforce Rommel or
evacuate his forces, then Rommel must
either surrender or face annihilation
If it is the plan to evacuate, this effort
would differ greatly from the British
evacuation at Dunkirk. There the Brit
ish had control of the English channel
although they lacked control of the air,
The British, therefore, were able to get
most of the $4,000 men in France back
to Britain Even though the Germans
may attempt to evacuate the 100000
Germans and Italians, the ships used in
the evacuation will have to run a gaunt-
let of devastating air and sea fire both
coming and going.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12
S.eIective Service
Announces Draft


WASHINGTON, April 12.-tUPO
The revised draft clasSifications
announced today by Selective Serv-
ice are:
IA, available for military serv-
ice; LAO, conscientious objector
available for non-c combatant mill
tary service; &c. member of land
or naval forces of the United
States; 2-AA, man necessary in his
essential civilian activity: 2-B, man
necessary to the war production
program; &c, man deferred by rea-
son of his agricultural occupation
or endeaVor. ga, man with child
or children deferred by reason of
maintaining bona fide family rela-
tionShip; SC, man with dependents
who is regularly engaged in agri-
cultural occupation or endeaVor;
3-D, man deferred because induc-
ton would be extreme hardship and
priVation TO wife, child or parent
with whom he maintains a bona
fide family relationship; "A, man
10 years old, who is deferred by rea-
son of age; 4-B, official deferred
by law.
&C, neutral aliens requesting re-
lief from liability for training and
service, and aliens not acceptable to
the armed forces; I'D, minister of
religion or divinity student; AZ,
CONSCIENTIOUS objector available for
work of national importance; 4-F,
physically, mentally, or morally un-
fit; 4-H, man deferred because his
age group, SO through AS, is not
being accepted for military service.
Men in this group are now being
classified according to their sta
tus in the above categories in case
of eventual call. Man falling into
the IA class, for example, is clas-
Sified 1-A-H.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12
ALLIES Race On
I oward Bizerte

ALLIED H E A D @ u A R T E r S
North Africa, April 12.-fUP)-The
British Eighth Army seized Sousse
last Axis-held supply port on the
Tunisian east coast and pressed
northward in pursuit OF fleeing
Italo-German armies today while
Allied forces so miles to the west
occupied the Holy City OF kai-
rouan.
Speeding 46 miles in the last "a
hours, Gen. Sir Bernard l.. Mont
gomery's victorious Eighth Army
troops passed through Sousse at
$3.50 am. today after overwhelm-
ing light rear-guard opposition and
penetrating heavy mine fields.
VEHICLES DESTROYED
The Allied advances along the
coast as we'll as in the mountains
to the west were accompanied by
renewed air attacks that destroyed
many enemy vehicles and brought
down 81 enemy aircraft in another
clash with Axis fighters and JI-52
air transports over the Sicilian
straits.
NaZi Marshal Erwin Rommels
battered Afrika Korps, fleeing 100
miles northWard since Friday, now
was driven back with the forces
under Gen. Jurgen Won Arnin to
the strong semi-circular mountain
positions before Tunis and Bi-
zerte, where they apparently in
tend to fight a bitter, last-ditch
battle designed to delay the Allied
invasion of Europe as long as pos
sible.
TWO BASES LEFT
The capture of Sousse and Kai-
rouan reduced the last Axis bases
south of the mountains guarding
the outer approaches to Tunis and
Bizerte. The Eighth Army was less
than 25 miles short of EnfidaVille,
eastern anchor of the mountain
line.
The British First Army, to the
northwest, already was driving into
the mountain bastion from the
vest within 80 to 40 miles of both
Tunis and BiZerte.
Today's communique issued from
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12
S.ousse Once Base
For Hannibal
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA, April 12. CUP)-
Sousse, an important Tunisian har-
Dor town, once served as the base
of operations for Hannibal at the
end of the second Punic war.
Lying on the southern rim of the
Gulf of Hammemet, Sousse is di-
rectly north of SfaX.
Here, after the battle of Zama
Hannibal reformed his forces for
another meeting with the army of
Scipio AfricanuS. Later the parti-
sans of Caesar of Pompey fought
through the region, which remained
Caesars after the battle of Thap-
SuS
The city itself rises in terraces
with towers and cupolas overlook
ing the Mediterranean. The capital
district, known as Sahel, is fertile
country which boasts 100000 olive
trees, great groves of pomegranates,
oranges and other citrus fruits.
Typical of the country, the town
consists of modern European
quarter and a native section sur
rounded by walls and filled with
colorful markets.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12
Hitler, MussoIini
Doom Africa Arlny
To Death. Capture

LONDON, April II. : UP)-
Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini
at their conference last week map
ped the defense of Europe against
an Allied invasion-or invasions-
and decided to leave all but high
ly-specialized units in Tunisia for
a desperate delaying stand. reports
from the continent indicated TODAY.
Reference in the official Axis
communiQue on the Iitler-Musso-
linl meeting to the danger threat
ening the European and African
space both from the west and
from the east" made it clear that
defense keynoted the conference.
TOTAL MOBILIZATION
Complete and total mobilization
OF all prevailing economic and mil
ltary reserves of the Axis was dis
cuSsed," a Transocean agency dis
patch broadcast over the German
radio said.
The purported Axis decision to
eVacuate as many highly specialized
units = tank corps officers, engir
neers and signal experts-as possiA
BILE from TEnisia was believed to
represent compromise.
Reports reaching Madrid said
that Germany favored q large
scale Dunkirk evacuation, but italy
objected on grounds that it might
involve heavy losses to the Italian
fleet within a matter of perhaps
weeks before it would be needed to
combat an Allied invasion.
USE AIR TRANSPORT
Under the compromise arrange
ment it was understood, the burden
of evacuation of key units would
fall on transport planes, though
some ships might attempt night
dashes over the 150-mile route
from Bizerte to ports in Sicily.
German and Italian infantry and
artillery forces then would be left
to carry out last-man defense in
the hope that Allied invasion plans
could be knocked off schedule.
Hitler and Mussolini along with
their military, naval and political
chieftains, conferred last Wednes-
day through Saturday, presumably
at Brenner Pass though the COM
munique on the meeting did mot
say where.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12


day communique said
REPULSE ATTACKS
Below Kharkov. the Red army
repulsed renewed enemy attempts
to breach the Soviet lines south of
Balakleya. Soviet artillery destroyed
II enemy trucks and three pillboXeS,
the communique said.
The Germans hurled nearly 5000
infantrymen and Is tanks against
this same sector yesterday. The
initial assault dislodged the Rus
slams from their advance positions,
but a Soviet counters attack forced
a German retreat, killed 300 of the
enemy and destroyed several tanks
and two self-propelled guns.
On the Smolensk front. Russian
scouts occupied n fortified height
south of Bell after Wiping out the
garrison in hand -to-hand fighting.
In another sector. Russian scouts
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12

blew Up an enemy blockhouse and
returned to their own positions.
20 NAZIS DIE
Russian patrols attacking Ger
man trenches on the outer APP
proaches TO Smolensk were credited
with killing 20 German soldiers and
one officer with tommy guns and
hand grenades. A machine-gun, ri
files and other booty we're captured.
Russian artillery in the north
west Caucasus destroyed II pill
boxes and dugouts, % firing points,
y machine-guns, and three mortars
and silenced two artillery batteries.
Eight German planes were shot
down.
Caucasian guards and trench
crews raided German infantry posi-
tions and dispersed and partly wip-
ed out three enemy companies
normally 600 men.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEAD
QUARTERS, Australia. April II
tUP)-The Japanese have begun
their expected air offensive in the
southwest Pacific, Gen Douglas
MacArthurs communique said to-
cay IN reporting that Allied planes
shot out of action % of as enemy
aircrafL faiding ORC Bay.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12
HITLER MAY BRING TUNlS
RULER TO REICH SOON

LONDON, April 12.-UP)-The
Daily Sketch said today that Adolf
Hitler was trying to induce the Bey
of Tunis to evacuate to Europe and
has offered him palace near Vien-
ma for refuge.
Five transport planes are being
held in readiness to remove the
Bey and his staff, the paper said
but he is not expected to leave un-
til Tunis itself is threatened.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12
i08TH BIRTHDAY

NEW YORK, April 12.-UP)-
Mrs. Yetta Weisbrod celebrated her
108th birthday yesterday. She has
six children, 20 grandchildren and
33 great-grandchildren. Twenty
two of her descendants are in the
armed forces.
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12
Russians Press
On Neor khurkov

MOSCOW April II. (UP)-Russian troops breaking
ul in the fighting north of Kharkov, seized string OF
enemy trenches surprise night attack in the Belgorod
and killed 100 Germans the Sovets announced today
Two ant-tank guns, several machine eguns and several
Imperial Valley press., 1943-04-12

We can and we must reach out help
ing hand to those in need without per-
petuating the cause of poverty and dis
tress and without encouraging shiftless-
ness and dependency-Gov John w.
Bricker of Ohio.
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