Current Events January 28, 1943; GERMANS GIVING UP IN LARGE FORCE / U. S. BOMBERS ATTACK WAKE ISLAND / WEST GERMANY POUNDED BY BOMBS / RAILWAYS & HARBORS ABLAZE IN SFAX:

                                             San Mateo Times

              SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1943

RUSS REPORT NAZI MUTINY

War Council Meeting in Africa;

Quick Invasion Thought Topic

Men Giving Up In Large Force, Says Moscow

Demoralization Found in German Ranks, Russ Claim

MOSCOW, Jan, 28.—(U.P)—

German troops, refusing to continue a hopeless fight, are mutinying

and surrendering in groups to the Russian assault

units storming their crumbling strong holds: at Stalingrad, dis-

patches from the front said today. Today's noon communique

reported the surrender of a general, three colonels, four lieutenant colonels,

and other high officers among crowds of other German and satellite troops

who had had enough.

U. S. BOMBERS AGAIN ATTACK

WAKE ISLAND

HEADQUARTERS OF .THE

HAWA1IAN FORCE, Jan 27— (UP)

— (Delayed) — A force of B-24 liberators, raiding Japanese-held

Wake Island for the second time in six weeks, dropped 90 per cent

of their .bombs on the target area Monday and shot down at least one,

and perhaps five, of eight intercepting fighter planes.

Second Raid

Col. William Matheny, who led the raid on,the,night of Dec, 23-24,

when 75,000 pounds of bombs were dropped on Japanese installations;

also led the second one. He said the scars of the first raid, .which

marked the first anniversary, of the Marine's .gallant stand "there,

were still visible.

Japs Raid U. S. Ships in Alaska

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28—(UP)—

Two Japanese float-type planes attacked American ships operating

west of U. S. positions in the Aleutian Islands, the Navy announced

today.

A Navy communique said the Japanese failed to inflict any damage.

The action apparently occurred early today. The Navy would

not say whether the ships involved were naval vessels.

West Germany Again Pounded By Bombers

Rhineland Attacked; All West Coast Given Blasting

LONDON, Jan. 28.—(U.P)—

British heavy bombers attacked Western Germany during the

night in a new allied offensive, first fruit of the Casablanca deision

to hammer the axis into unconditional surrender, which

had sent the American and British air forces within 24 hours

over a 1000-mile European front from Southwest France to

Northern Denmark.

                        The Charleston Daily Mail

CHARLESTON, WEST V I R G I N I A FRIDAY E V E N I N G , J A N U A R Y 28, 1943

Sfax Blazes After Record Raid;

Rommel Escape Path Narrowed

Railways, Harbors

Ripped by Yanks

Italians Admit Damage Heavy;

Axis' Sees 'Plan to Sandwich Army

LONDON", Jan. 29 (AP),—The harbor and. railway yards of

Sfax, a supply port vital for regrouping of Axis forces in Tunic-

ia were officially declared today to have been hard hit by

the 12th U, S. air force's greatest .raid of the war while. British

eighth army artillerymen with Marshal Rommel's rear

guard in the. Zuara area 35 miles east::of .the Tunisian frontier.

The Axis betrayed jitters by radio suggestions that the Briti-

sh first army already had started a big move in the Tunisian, .

Theater. These following unconfirmed reports that the American

ground forces there had launched, or were preparing an of-.

fensive.