Evening star., 1944-03-26

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same effect.
Rather light bombing raids oc.
CURED Monday when targets ir
Southern Germany were hit as vel
as others in the Pas-de-Palais area
Tuesday American planes struck al
PaS-de-Calais in somewhat greater
force, while British bombers struck
several French airfields. At night
100 Nazi planes raided London.
Wednesday more than l, $50 Amer.
lean planes went back to Berlin tc
drop 1,500 tons of bombs, the fifth
American attack on that badly
shattered city, which, despite all
prior claims of almost complete de-
struction, seems to require continued
attention.
Wednesday night the RAF
dropped 5000 tons, including block
busters, on Frankfurt, important in
dustrial city and the American Air
Force came right back Thursday
with a series of raids on Werl, Ach-
mer, Handorf and Brunswick.
Thursday night the Raj attacked
airflelds in France again and the
Americans, with daylight, followed by
attacks on Frankfurt and Schwein-
furt Friday. Friday night the Raj
sent 1000 bombers to Kiel and Ber-
lin. dropping $500 tons of bombs on
Berlin alone. The Raj lost 73
bomherS
Japs Invade India.
Perhaps stung by two Allied drives
in Burma, one by American ane
Chinese troops down from the
north and the other by British along
the ocast toward Akyab, three JAP
anese columns moved northward or
the central front and penetrated
deeply into hndia, seeking capture
of Imphal and thus threatening the
line of supply to Allied forces.
At first the British took this &C.
ton rather lightly as an effort tt
take the pressure off the two areas
under Allied attack, but as the Japs
moved forward, having crossed the
Chindwin River, Lord Mountbatten
Allied commander in the Asiatit
area, declared that major offensive
was under way. He took corrective
measures at once and the Japs al
last reports had been stopped.
However, the enemy is only 81
miles from Imphal and is in &
threatening position.
Reports were current during the
week that a heavy movement o.
japanese troops into Southern
China is now under way, either ir
an effort to break the line of supply
to the Chinese or to prepare de.
fenses against attack from the east
American marines under Admira
Halsey's command, taking another
jump in the leap-frog game beins
played against the enemy, seizee
one of the most important of thu
st. Matthias Islands and thus OBJ.
tanned a position beyond Kaviens
and Rabaul and only $50 miles from
Truk.
With the mopping up of the
Admiralty Islands, all Japs in the
Bismarck Sea area are isolat.
ed and faced with slow death OF
surrender. Not only is their line
of supply cut but they are under.
going unceasing bombing at al
important points. No resistance
other than antiaircraft fire and moi
too much of that is being met in
the raids on Rabaul and Kavieng
Wednesday a heavy raid on We
wax on New Guinea did consider.
able damage to shore installations
and took heavy toll of shipping
Thirty-two Jap ships, mostly barges
have been sunk by Macarthur.
bombers in the past few days.
Many Jap Ships Sunk.
During the past week announce.
ment was made of % Japanese ship.
sunk recently by submarines. The
British bagged a Kuma class cruiser
a small aircraft carrier and eight
supply ships and damaged a secone
cruiser. Included among the ship.
sunk by the American submarine:
were 2 transports, 2 tankers and II
freighters.
1t was revealed during the week
that the American submarine Scor.
pion has been lost The Scorpion
was the fourth reported loss ir
eight days.
Absence of any serious Japanese
submarine activity was explained
by the Toxic radio as due to thu
fact that the subs are now used a.
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