REDS DRIVE ON ROSTOV
U. S. Planes Shower Bombs on Rangoon
The Bakersfield Californian
BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1942
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Subs,Planes
Smash Nazi
Vessels
Reinforcements of
Supply Landed on
Island of Malta
ALLIED Headquarters in North
Africa, Dec. 23. (AP)—Vigorous patrol
activity marked the battle of
Tunisia yesterday and "enemy artillery
has shelled some of our positions,"
an allied communique announced
today.
TONDON, Dec. 23. UP)—Two
axis warships and eight
merchant vessels were reported
.today as sunk or damaged
along the Mediterranean
supply routes to the remaining
German-Italian strongholds
in North Africa.
Russ Push
Deep Into
Ukraine
Russian 'Attacks
Aim at Kharkov,
Rostov Regions
MOSCOW, Dec. 23. (HP)—
The Red army today
broke into the Ukraine, the
rich agricultural province
that lured Adolf Hitler into
taking his Russian gamble,
and the Germans were re-
treating in such haste that the
luftwaffe was reported to be
bombing its own ground
troops in an attempt to halt the
rout.
Allies Sink 10 Axis Ships
in Attack on Supply Lane
English Navy
Planes Raid
Dutch Indies
MacArthur's Men
in Desperate
Assault at Buna
LONDON, Dec. 23. (AP)—Big
American bombers raided
Rangoon by daylight three
times this week while the
British pounded the port of
Akyab and hurled their carrier-
borne naval aircraft at
the westernmost Japanese
base in The Netherlands Indies
in an aerial onslaught of
swiftly rising proportions.
Despite the increasing signs of a
comeback campaign into Burma, the
Japanese apparently were caught
flat-footed. The American raiders
encountered only two. fighter planes,
and the British naval planes also
all returned safely, apparently having
met little or no opposition.
A United States Army Air Force
communique from New Delhi said
big bombers attacked Rangoon twice
on Sunday and once yesterday,
smashing airdrome buildings and
railroad yards anil leaving dock
areas ablaze.
American medium bombers, the
communique said, carried out attacks
Monday on Japanese-used
rail lines in central Burma. The
raids were in force and the communique
said great numbers of
explosives were* dropped squarely
on the targets.
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