Tuesday, January 4, 2011

GERMANS STOPPED, CAUCASUS OIL SAVED / R. A. F. FIGHTERS HIT BURMA/ MacARTHUR'S MEN HIT SANANDA / U. S. WAS WARNED BEFORE P. H

REDS TAKE TWO KEY CITIES
             The Bakersfield Californian
BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1943

Caucasus Oil
Saved In Push
Pinccr Movement
Stops German
Drive on Rich 'Area
LONDON*. .Ian, 4. (AP)—The Moscow
radio announced in a special
communique tonight the capture
of the big German air base of
Chernishkoskov and the rail
way station of Chernishkoskov, an
action which apparently drove
closer together the jaws of a second
pincers closing about the remnants
of 2*J trapped German divisions
at Stalingrad.
LONDON. Jan. 4. (UP)—The
Moscow radio broadcast a special
communique tonight announcing
tlie capture of Cbernishkoskov
and the railway station of C'hernakso-
kov, approximately 100 miles
southwest of Stalingrad. The
Soviet monitor recorded the broad*
cast.

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R. A. F. Fighters
Hit Burma Foe
Trucks, Supplies
Strafed From Air
NEW DELHI, Jan. 4. (AP)-- R. A. F.
fighter planes, continuing their
daily assaults on Japanese bases in
Burma, yesterday raided several
enemy occupied villages in the Rathedaung
area, strafed a column of
trucks n
at Meiktila and set fire to
buildings and railway cars near
Monywa, a British communique announced
today.
The raids were carried out without
the loss of a plane, the announcement
said.

MacArthur's Men Close
In on Japs At Sanananda
Navy Boats
Block Nip
Supply Aim
Enemy's Position
Reported to Be
Hopeless"
By Associated Press
AMERICAN and Australian
jungle fighters who wiped
out the last pockets of Japanese
in the Buna area of New
Guinea over the week end
were closing in today on the
invaders* defenses in the
swampy Sanananda area to
the north, where, a communique
from General MacArtliur's
headquarters said, "the
enemy's position is now hopeless."
In Washington, the navy announced
that United States motor
torpedo boats scored a hit on one
and three possible hits on two other
of eight Japanese destroyers sighted
Saturday off the northwestern end
of Guadalcanal island in the Solomon

White Book
State Department Tells
of Japanese Warning
WASHINGTON, Jim. 1. (AP)
Japan warned The United States
14 months before Pearl Harbor
that the Imposition of an embargo
on iron and steel scrap exports to
Japan might be considered an "unfriendly
act" and was promptly re-
buked by Secretary of State Hull for
presuming to question this country's
right to impose such an embargo,

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