Monday, January 3, 2011

Current Events January 3, 1943; SOVIETS RETAKING CAUCASAS / BRITISH PLAN ATTACK AGAINS ROMMEL / U. S. WARNED OF POSSIBLE PEARL HARBOR ATTACK:

       The Charleston Gazette
    Charleston, West Virginia. Sunday Morning, January 3, 1943.

Reds Peril 2 Key Railways;
Rzhev Salient Held Doomed;
Berlin Hints Rommel Battle

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Riga Thrust May
Isolate Leningrad
Great Smolensk-Vyazma
Bulge Threatened
With Pocket
Caucasus Onslaught
Retakes Remontnaya
Nazis Admit Losing Elista;
Soviets Gain Approach
Of Novosokolniki
MOSCOW, Jan. 2.—(INS)—
Victorious Soviet legions, close
on the heels of Nazi forces retreating
hastily along a 1,100-
mile front, tonight thundered
ever nearer to two of the most
vital German supply arteries in
Russia —the Leningrad-Vitebsk
and Salsk-Rostov railways.

Major Clash Seen
At Wadi Zem-Zem
British Radio Indicates
Germans Digging In
For 8th Army
Six Allied Bombers
Missing in Tunisia
British Units Make Daring
Sortie 20 Miles Inside
Enemy's Lines.
LONDON. Jan. 2.—'(AP)—Britain's
8th army in Libya "obvi-
iously intends to make a fairly
large attack on positions of
Marshal Rommel's German-
Italian tank army in the next
few days," the Berlin radio said
tonight.

Grew Warned
Pearl Harbor
Blow Planned
New American White Book
Discloses Ambassador
Predicted Assault
In Jan. '41
Secretary Hull Also
Warned of Surprise
President Advised Nomura
Of Hitler's Intention
For Domination
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2—(AP)
An American white book issued
by the State Department to night
disclosed that Ambassador
Joseph C. Grew cabled from
Tokyo on Jan. 27,1941, that the
Japanese had plans for a "sur
prise mass attack at Pearl Harbor
In case of trouble' with the
United States."
The Grew cablegram was one of
a series of warnings dating back
to 1932 and growing progressively
urgent in the subsequent years
until Nov. 29. 1941, Secretary of
State Hull told the British ambassador
that "the diplomatic part of
our relations with Japan was virtually
over, and that the matter
will now go to the officials of the
army and navy."
Hull Warns Of Surprise
Moreover, the white book reported,
Hull said that it would be
a "serious mistake for our country
and other countries interested
in the Pacific-situation to make
plans to resistance without including
the possibility that Japan may
move suddenly and with every
possible element of surprise, and
spread out over considerable areas
and capture certain positions and
posts before the peaceful countries
interacted in the Pacific would have
time to confer and formulate
plans”.

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