Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Current Events February 22, 1943; GANDHI SURVIVES CRISIS / GERMANS ADVANCING IN TUNISIA / SOVIETS ADVANCE CONTINUES IN SOUTH / HEAVY BOMBING ON BREMEN / CHINESE REPEL JAPANESE:


Gandhi's Death Might Bring Allied Catastrophe in India, Says MacKenzie
                                Raleigh Register
BECKLEY, WEST VIRGIN1A, MONDAY AFTERNOON, FEBRUARY 22, 1943

German Forces Advance 12 Miles in Tunisia
Reds Poised For March To Dnieper River
REPORT MARETH
LINE CRUMBLING
BEFORE BRITISH
American Fortes
Take To Scrubby
Hills For Protection
by The Associated Press
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
NORTH AFRICA—A strong German armored force Thrust 12 miles
northwestward through Kasserine Gap in the dierction of Thala early
today and engaged a British lank unit in a violent bailie while ,
American .combat troops turned back two lesser thrusts westward
toward Tebessa.
United Slates and British forces knocked out 14 Nazi tanks during
heavy fighting yesterday nod last night under a bright moon, but one
German column of more than 70 tanks thrust to within eight miles
of Thala, a junction in the Allied Rommel

DRIVES ALONG
ENTIRE FRONT
ROLL FORWARD
Soviet Drive Was
Carried 410 Miles
From Stalingrad
By The Associated Press
MOSCOW—Mopping-up operations in the Donets basin have
carried the Red army into numerous towns about 50 miles south and
southwest of Voroshilovgrad, the Russians said today, while far to
the west Soviet column? were reported poised for a 34-mile march
to the Dnieper river a f t e r capturing Pavlograd and Krasnograd.

Gandhi Grows Weaker As
He Enters 12th Day of Fast
By The Associatrd Press
NEW DELHI - Monhandas K. Gandhi weathered a crisis yester-
day in the 12th day of his 21-day fast, and today, a government bul-
letin issued in Bombay said. He appeared more comfortable and
more cheerful. His heart, however, was weaker.
The report, signed by six doctors, said the frail Hindu ascetic entered
the crisis at 4 p. m. yesterday. But later he took water and lime
juice, rallied and slept well into the night.
India Vital
To U. S. War
On Japanese
(Editor's Nole:\ With The Indian controversy at white heat, The
Register today presents the first of ten daily articles on the situa-
tion by U. S. noted war analyst , DeWitt MacKinsey,
just returned from five months tour of most
of the war zones. During the last six weeks, MacKenzie has
been in India making an intensive study of the developments
there. He has been a close student of Indian affairs since
1916.)
By DEWITT MACKENZIE
AP War Correspondent !
There are five hundred orthodox ways of committing suicide, and
then there is the five hundred and first method, which is for the out-
sider to project himself into the violent controversy growing on
of the Indian nationalist demand for puna swaraj—absolute independence
from England.
Intrusion in family quarrels Is at best a dangerous experiment,
and the British-Indian imgroglio is the most volcanic of our time.
In undertaking to expose the skeleton in the closet, therefore,
I am proceeding with the full knowledge that I am likely to
Incur the displeasure and censure of both my British and my
Indian friends.


BREMEN FEELS
HEAVY ATTACK
BY RAF PLANES

Chinese Repel
Japanese Troops
Heavy Fighting
Reported Around
Burma Road

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