Current Events May 14, 1943:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MAY 14, 1943:

United States forces landed on Japanese-

held Attu island in the Aleutians Tuesday, the navy announced

today, and are now locked in battle with enemy troops.

German occupation forces, struggling to

put down mounting unrest and disorder in Europe, were re-

orted today to have wiped out the last 40,000 Jews in the Warsaw

ghetto in a 10-day battle with tanks and guns against it's

feebly armed defenders.

Swamped in vast piles of captured equipment and

surrounded by swarms of Axis prisoners, Allied troops in Tunisia

virtually turned from fighting men into tally clerks today, trying to prepare

a balance sheet on the victory in Tunis.

An eight-day naval battle between a pack of U-boats and escort ships of a

westbound Atlantic convoy has resulted in the "greatest Allied successes" against

submarines so far, the Admiralty announced yesterday.

             The Charleston Daily Mail

CHARLESTON, WEST VIRGINIA, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 14. 1943

U. S. TROOPS INVADE ATTU

40,000 Polish Jews Massacred

Yanks, Japs Locked

On Isle in Aleutians

Navy Confirms Report From Tokyo;

Details of Tuesday Action Withheld

WASHINGTON (AP),—United States forces landed on Japanese-

held Attu island in the Aleutians Tuesday, the navy announced

today, and are now locked in battle with enemy troops.

The landing was announced in navy communique No. 376

which said:

"North Pacific:

". On May llth. United States forced landed at: the island of Attu

in the Aleutians, and are now engaged with Japanese forces on the

island. Details of -the operation will be released when the situation

clarifies." Naval spokesman declined to go

beyond the limit? of. this bare announcement or offer any comment.

on the course of the fighting. First word of the landing operation

came from the Tokyo radio which broadcast a Japanese

imperial headquarters communique today saying the landing had

begun Wednesday and ihat a fierce batlle was in progress.

(The size ot the enemy's garrison nn Attu is not known but it is

believed to be smaller than the approximately 10,000 troops reported today.

on Kiska island, .east of Attu.

May Encircle Kiska

Nazis Slay

70 Patriots

In Holland

LONDON (UP). — German occupation forces, struggling to

put down mounting unrest and disorder in Europe, were re-

orted today to have wiped out the last 40,000 Jews in the Warsaw

ghetto in a 10-day battle with tanks and guns against it's

feebly armed defenders.

Rabbi Irving Miller quoted reports from Polish sources is say-

ing that, "every living soul was either butchered or uprooted.

German Trick Seen

LONDON (AP).- -German-occupied Holland, seething with. unrest.

had a warning from its exiled government today that

premature revolution would lead only to crushing German retaliations

before it. could grow into large-scale underground warfare.

The official hint, that the time is not yet. ripe for wide-spread

uprisings coincided with reports of spreading violence in both

Holland and Belgium.

Radio Orange, mouthpiece of the exiled Netherlands government.

warned the homeland that a widely-distributed circular urging

the Dutch to register in an underground movement "to help

the British troops liberate your people" is a German plot "to incite

Netherlands violence over the shortest period possible and

to break it most forcibly so that. the consequent, terror regime and

the German plans may be executed without further disturbance.

THE STARS AND STRIPES

Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations

New York, N.Y.—London, England Friday, May 14, 1943

Five Axis Armies Destroyed in Africa

36 Divisions Broken,

600,000 Troops Lost;

Surrenders Continue

Arnim Rejects Terms,

So Allied Patrol

Captures Him

ALLIED HQ, North Africa,

May 13 (UP)—Swamped in vast piles of captured equipment and

surrounded by swarms of Axis prisoners, Allied troops in Tunisia

virtually turned from fighting men into tally clerks today, trying to prepare

a balance sheet on the victory in Tunis.

That victory was complete after the surrender of the last surrounded units

north of Zaghouan. Their commander, Italian Gen. Messe, had refused to give

in to any but troops of the British Eighth Army.

Three Italian and two German armies, comprising a total of 36 divisions, were

completely destroyed in Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, Allied headquarters said. They

included three of the Germans' best and oldest Panzer divisions and every Italian

armored division that ever existed as well as every Italian infantry or motorized

division which was considered to rise above mediocrity.

250 Tanks Captured

Arnim Sends White Flag

Surrounded and trapped in his hillside headquarters, von Arnim sent out envoys

with a white flag, and then gave himself up. Standing in the moonlight, at

British headquarters, the haughty, Englishhating son of an English mother appeared

to be concerned only with his personal baggage.

Von Araim's surrender message was typical of the Prussian officer caste from

which he comes.

'Great Success'

Against U-Boats

An eight-day naval battle between a pack of U-boats and escort ships of a

westbound Atlantic convoy has resulted in the "greatest Allied successes" against

submarines so far, the Admiralty announced yesterday. During the continuous

day and night attacks and counter-attacks while protecting ships of the Royal Navy,

the RCAF destroyed four U-boats and probably destroyed six others.^

It is estimated 25 or more submarines were in the attacking pack, and the battle

lasted from the latter part of April through the first part of May. The convoy

suffered some damage, but the majorityof merchantmen reached port in safety,

it was stated.