Sunday, March 21, 2010

CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 13, 1942; Brazilians Assault German Enterprises


THE MONTANA STANDARD
BUTTE, MONTANA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1942
Reds Launch Savage Ukraine Push
90 Divisions Are Hurled Against Nazis
Spring Offensive
Plans of Hitler
Are in the Balance
LONDON, March 12.—(U.R)
Marshal Semyon Tlmoshenko
Thursday was reported to
have hurled 90 Red divisions
a p p r o x i m a t e l y 1,750,000
men—into a mighty push
against the Germans on a
250-mile front in tile Ukraine
which if successful would
blast plans for the heralded
Nazi "spring offensive" beyond
Adolf Hitler's recall----

Nazi Stores in Rio Are Attacked
Furious Throngs
Are Inflamed
by Ship Sinkings
__RIO DE JANEIRO, March
12.—(U,R)—Furious throngs of
Brazilians assaulted big German
department stores and
other Axis enterprises on
Rio's main avenues Thursday
In hours of rioting after this
largest Latin American republic
had advanced to the
edge of war by seizing many
assets of German, Japanese
and Italian subjects.
Inflamed by the sinking of four Brazilian ships,----



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