The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-06-25
DROP TONS OF BOMBS

SUN 4NdH deIldl OelcnSeS ana
anti-arcraft fire. the big Raj
block buster raiC ers unloaded
hundreds OF tons of bombs on
such targets in Wuppertal as
the l. G.. Farbenindustries Chem
ical Works. the Jaeger Roller
Bearing plants and textile fac
tories
Meanwhile. a Berlin broadcast
quoted Nazi propaganda minis
ter Goebhels as asserting that
the axis was keeping vigil day
and night to meet an allied in
vasion of Europe.
GOebbels boosted. however.
that there was mo comparison
between fighting in North Africa
or for Pantelleria and fighting
for Europe
The German high command.
admitting the havoc inflicted by
allied warplanes. said the Raj
heaped destruction on Wupper-
tai and nearby Remschied, site
of important railway shops, and
added
Losses among the populations
of the towns attacked are hea-
Wy
Wuppertal is the name for the
twin industrial cities Of Elber-
field and Barmen on the Wup-
per river Wuppertal has AGO.
600 population.
Upwards of 800 tons Of ex-
plosives were dropped on Bar
men in an Raj raid on May %
which virtually destroyed that
sector.
Last night the attack was con-
centrated on Elberfeli, and an
Raj communique announced
that from preliminary reports
great damage appears to have
been done
33 BOMBERS MISSING
Thirty-three Raj bombers
were missing from the nights
operations, making a six day
total Of 1873 allied bombers lost
in the tempestuous campaign TO
pulverize Adolf Hitler's Ruhr
war foundries.
In the Mediterranean. Amer
lean four-engined bombers from
the middle east raided the his
toric Greek port of Salonika for
the first time, blasting the Sedes
and leaving three
hangers in flames.
Salonika. a major port on the
Aegean sea. has figured in Bal
kan speculation as potential
target for allied invasion forces.
1t has a peace-time population of
236 600.
Other war headlines:
Italy - Premier Mussolini or
ders sweeping purge. demands
religious fervor' to defend in
vaSion-threatened X n & d o m;
Bern hears 1000 anti-Fascists
arrested by Italian police.
Russia - Soviet troops break
into German defense lines west
Of Belgorod. on Kharkov front.
Southwest Pacific Gen.
MacArthurs bombers set huge
fires in attack on Japanese base
at Salamaua, New Guinea; Aus
tralian jungle fighters kill 90
japanese in week-long fighting
IL miles below Salamaua.
Burma - British troops in
flict heavy casualties on Jap
anese in three clashes on Chind-
win river front.
POUND SICILY
While American filters from
middle cast bases hammered the
Nazi-occupied Greek mainland,
allied bombers from North At
RIGA pounded Catania. Sicily. and
raided the Sandman towns of
Chillvania, Venafiorita, Colo
Aranci and Capoterra.
Twenty axis planes we're shot
out OF the skies over Sardinia,
and nine allied planes failed to
return.
An Italian communique ad-
mitted damage and casualties
"of some size in Sardinia, but
asserted that 33 allied planes
were shot down. Che Fascist
command also declared that
Italian torpedo planes sank
three steamers totaling $1,000
out of allied conveys off North
Africa and sale axis bombers at
tackled Bizerte.
Yesterdays attack on Saloni-
ka by L. s. bombers gained
significance from the fact that
Salonika was the base from
which allied forces e-pt
through the Balkans in 1918 in
a drive that began the end OF
the first World War.
Advices reaching Stockholm,
Sweden. reported that going
Greek -~ucrrillas were giving
the axis new cause for worry
the Balkans, preying on Ger
man and Italian merchant ships
in the Aegean with such ef-
fectiveness that the Germans
had TO employ heavily-armed
patrol boats and reconnaissance
seaplanes 10 hunt them down.