Current Events January 19, 1943; ROMMEL FLEES TO TUNIS / RUSSIAN GAINS MAY FORCE GERMANS BACK TO PRUSSIA / U. S. SUBMARINES SINK 5 JAPANESE SHIPS / MARRIED MEN WITH CHILDREN SUBJECT TO DRAFT:

                 Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19. 1943

Tripoli Battle Joined; Russia Front Spreads

Leningrad Coup Spurs 8th Army Catches Up

Offensive Along Line, With Foe; Rommel's

Driving Nazis Back Flight to Tunis Hinted

F.R. Orders End Of Coal Strike

Workers Given 48 Hours to Obey

Presidential Edict Before Military

is Action Taken for Resumption of Work

WASHINGTON. Jan.. 19.—(AP)—President Roosevelt, as

commander in chief of the armed forces ordered

striking anthracite coal miners to go back to work at once.

He said that if they failed to comply with his directive

In 48 hours, the Government would take the necessary steps

to protect the security of the Nation against a strike which

comes at a time of a shortage of fuel in wartime.

U.S. Subs SinkJap Warship

Transport, Two Cargo,

Patrol Vessel Also

Destroyed in Pacific

                     San Mateo Times

VOL. 39, No. 41, SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1943

ROMMEL FLEES TO TUNIS

Nazis in Peril in North Russia

Divers Sink 5 Jap Ships;

MacArthur Takes Last

Jap Positions in Papua

British Take

Big Nazi Base

At Misurata

LONDON, Jan. 19,—(U.P)— „

Britain's Eighth army stormed on toward Tripoli, less than 50

miles away today, and dispatches from Algeria said that.

|Marshal Erwin Rommel, deciding to abandon all of Tripolitania, had

fled to Medenihe, 68 miles inside Tunisia.

The Eighth army's northern army swept through' Misurata, the

big German base for the Wad I Zem Zem defense line, and yesterday

were at Zliten, on the coast, 82 miles from Tripoli, a middle eastern

command communique said..

Advance in South

RED LENINGRAD GAINS

MAY FORCE GERMANS

TO BACK INTO PRUSSIA

MOSCOW, Jan. 19,—(U.P)—Soviet troops pounded a vulnerable

German salient outside Leningrad today arid threatened to

isolate the axis armies on the northern front or,force them,into a

general retreat, front dispatches indicated.

The northern axis salient starts near Novgorod, 80 miles

south-of Leningrad. It already had lost its northern anchor at the

fortress of Schlusselburg, 25 miles east of Leningrad, which was

taken when the Red army lifted the siege on the former czarist

capital. '

Successful operations along 'this salient could become a

springboard for a Russian thrusts into the Baltcs and perhaps a

drive into East Prussia and Poland, observers said.

U.S. DIVERS SINK FIVE

JAP SHIPS IN PACIFIC

WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—(U.P)—United Slates submarines,

striking at enemy shipping in the Pacific and Far East areas,

have sunk five more enemy ships and damaged two others, the

navy announced today.

Ships sunk included:

One destroyer.

One large cargo ship.

One medium sized transport.

On) medium sized cargo ship.

One small patrol vessel.

Damaged were one large tanker.

MARRIED MEN WITH CHILDREN TO

BE CALLED UP SOON, SAYS CAPITAL

WASHINGTON', Jan. 19—(UP)—

Selective service soon will announce plans to lift the ban on the drafting

of married men with children, authoritative sources said today.