The potters herald. [volume] (East Liverpool, Ohio) 1899-1982, 1944-08-10
COMMENT ON WORLD
EVENTS

While public attention has been
| largely riveted on the big events in
Europe, the war against the Japanese
| i'm the Southwest Pacific has been
pressed steadily, with successes that
may help to bring the defeat Of Japan
sooner than many people anticipate.
Development of Allied startegy in the
Southwest Pacific in the last 3 months
has resulted in virtual encirclement
of Japanese land forces in the area,
according to a review of the war situ-
alton issued by the Australian Depart
ment of Information. Twelve months
of co-ordinated offensive has brought
re-conquest or naturalization of the
Solomons, the Bismarcks, the Admir-
altys and New Guinea, giving the
Allies an arc of bases from which to
launch the next great operational
phase aimed at the re-conquest of the
Philippines and the Netherlands Indies,
and the domination of the China Sea,
the review states.
Original strength of japanese forces
i'm the South and Southwest Pacific is
estimated at about 250OOO. OF these it
is thought about 100000 remain. Sixty
thousand are probably still In New
Guinea, $4,000 in New Britain, 10000
i'm Bougainville, and 10000 in New
Ireland Destruction or occupation of
bases, and cutting off of supplies has
reduced these forces to impotence.
While it will take time to clear them
from the area the opera tions will not
hold up the Allied advance.
A Jewish women's squad armed
with hand grenades set in and killed
IS German guards and police when
Jewish workers resisted the liquida
ton of the Jewish community in
Lwow. This is one of the dramatic
incidents given in a new report from
Poland which has just reached the
Jewish Labor Committee, New York
City.
On Nov. 1S and 10, 1913, the Ger
mans, the report says, liquidated the
remnants of the Jewish community
living i'm the labor camp at Janowska
St The Jews, anticipating this liquila-
ton, prepared defensive positions and,
armed with hand grenades and pistols
attacked the German guards.
simultaneously with the armed units,
the wOmen's armed unit attacked the
Germans with hand grenades. Alto
gether between so and 60 Germans
were killed, 16 of which died at the
hands of the Jewish women
The revolt of the Jews was short |
lived, however. The Germans brought |
in reinfOrcements and began general
of the entire Jewish COM
Staying 5000 persons. Only
very few managed to escape, among
them some Russian prisoners who had
been acting as guards.
A revolt of Jews i'm the labor camp
IF LycZakOw, suburb of LwOW, is
ilso reported. The Jews, after disarm-
ng and killing their guards, managed
20 escape.
Also contained i'm the new report are
further details of the mass slaughter
If $4,000 in the labor camp of Traw-
liki. The liquidation started in that
part of Trawniki camp which was in
labited by Jewish intellectuals and
skilled artisans They were ordered to
AXE off their clothes and run naked
o nearby camp where bitches had
,een prepared some days before. They
we're then all ined up and shot In the
meantime, number of Jews in an
,ther part of the camp set fire to
military stores and barracks and as
he Germans approached, opened fire.
The Jews perished i'm the flames