Current Events February 11, 1943; DWIGHT EISINHOUR PROMOTED TO FULL GENERAL / BRITISH 8th ARMY STORMS AHEAD IN TUNIS / FIGHTING MOUNTS ON RUSSIAN FRONT / U. S. AND CHINA PLAN OFFENSIVE AGAINST JAPAN:

LAWRENCE DAILY JOURNAL-WORLD

LAWRENCE, KANSAS, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1943

EISENHOWER TO FULL GENERAL'S RANK

Allied Forces in North

Africa to Be Under His

Command

BRITISH HIS DEPUTIES

Churchill Tells Commons of the Plans for North Africa

Washington, Feb. 11.

President Roosevelt today nominated Lieutenant General

Dwight D. Eisenhower to be a full general, coincident with

Prime Minister Churchill's disclosure that allied forces

opposing the axis in North Africa would be unified under

Eisenhower's command.

British Eighth Army Storms 2o

Miles Within Southern Tunisia

Cairo, Feb. 11.(UP) The Eighth array, on the move again after a

short respite, has stormed 20 miles into southern Tunisia along the

coastal highway which is Marshal Rommel's main line of retreat and

has engaged the enemy near Ben Gardane, a British communique said

today

Fighting Mounts

On Russian Front

Red Army Forms 50 Mile

Long Assault on the Nazi Forces

TWO TOWNS CAPTURED

Soviet Troops Continue the

Encirclement of City of Rostov

ATTACK PLANNED BY

U. S. AND CHINA

(By the Associated Press)

A concerted United Nations offensive against Japan was foreshadowed

today with the official disclosure that high-ranking American.

British and Chinese military leaders have met and agreed on

"offensive plans" against Japan's far-flung invasion armies.

The British government announced in London that Field Marshal

Sir John Dill, representing Prime Minister Churchill, and

Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, rep resenting President Roosevelt, had

held a series of conferences with China's Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek

In Chungking and with Field Marshal Sir Archibald P. Wavell in

India.