San Mateo Times
SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1943
'Solomons Loss Moderate/ Knox
Kharkov Periled By
Four Soviet Armies
Soviets Seize
City 10 Miles
From Rostov
Russ Await Announcement of Great Victory at Caucasian Gate
•MOSCOW,..Feb. fi.—(IP)—Russian troops > have -captured the
city of Bataisk, 10 miles south of Rostov, a special. Soviet .ommultique
said tonight.- The Red army also has cut through to the
shores of the sea of Azov and captured Yeisk, 70 miles southwest
of Rostov, the communique said.
MOSCOW, Feb. 6.—(U.P.)—
The Red army, breaking across the Donetz river, rolled into
flat country less than 70 miles southeast of Kharkov today,
and here in Moscow the public was primed for the imminent
announcement of a great victory—perhaps the fall of the
Caucasion gateway city of Rostov.
(There were unconfirmed reports in London -that Bataisk, 10
miles south of Rostov, already had fallen)
Navy Secretary
Reasserts No
Big Battle--Yet
Losses 'Moderate' on Both
Sides; New U.S. Raid
On Kiska Told
Washington February 6 (U.P.) —- Secretary of _ the Navy
Frank Knox said today that both American and Japanese
forces have suffered "moderate"
losses of ships and planes in the air-sea actions which are
still continuing in the Solomons area.
But, he told a press conference, there was "nothing significant—"
nothing of a major character"—in these losses.
New U. S. Attacks
A navy communique reported three more U. S. air attacks on
Japanese bases in the Solomons. A bombing assault also was made on
the enemy's Aleutian island base at Kiska in apparent retaliation
for a raid on American positions in the Western Aleutians.
Ciano Ousted to
Nip Italy Peace
Bid, Report
Washington Says Shakeup
by Il Duce Designed to
Boost Morale
LONDON, Feb. 6. — (U.P.) —
Diplomatic sources in Sweden said today that Premier Benito
Mussolini shook up the Italian cabinet to nip a plan for a separate
peace by hIs son-in-law, Count Galeazzo Ciano, and two
other prominent Italians. Ciano, whom Mussolini removed
as foreign minister,
Count Dino "Gfandi, discharged as justice minister, and Marshal Pietro
Bagelio, former chief of the general staff, were reported to have
demanded that Mussolini withdraw from active politics to enable them
to "pave the way to peace,"a Stockholm dispatch said.
"German Interference"
"The Germans, however, intervened and threatened immediate
military occupation," the dispatch said. "Yesterday's shakeup thus
was believed the result of German interference."
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