Current Events December 3, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY DECEMBER 3, 1943:

 The German radio an bounced today that allied bombers attacked Berlin last night for the seventh time in
two weeks. Thirty night raiders were shot down, the nazi broadcast claimed, indicating the assault may have been on the scale of the four recent monster raids which devastated one-third of the reich capital.
DNB, the German agency, also claimed that bodies of 146 allied airmen had been extricated from wrecks of some of the four-engine 'bombers that carried out the attack

Four-motor American Liberator bombers were revealed today to have sunk or damaged four Japanese ships — including a transport loaded with troops — in a smashing blow to an enemy convoy trying to reinforce the battered Jap base of Rabaul, New Britain. The Liberators were engaged in night reconnaissance when they spotted the convoy off the Kavieng area of New Ireland, trying to run the gantlet under cover of darkness. The big bombers scored direct hits with their high explosives on a 10,000-ton loaded transport, a large tanker and two escorting "destroyers. There was a great explosion aboard the transport and it was enveloped in flames. Enemy troops and members of the crew hurriedly abandoned the vessel, and it sank.

Large numbers of Japanese soldiers, wounded in the South Pacific war area, are being shipped in huge hospital liners to Manila and not to tho Japanese mainland — apparently to keep from the Japanese people the true picture of their military casualties. This was revealed in New York tonight by Charles H. Forster of San Francisco, for 20 years manager of the Philippine Red Cross, who returned yesterday on the Gripsholm

            Allied Bombers Hit Berlin Again                           SINK JAP VESSEL
                          CARRYING TROOPS

           LONG BEACH INDEPENDENT-
                                     Long Beach', California, Friday, December 3, 1943


 Nazis Announce
Raids; Claim 30
Planes Downed
 LONDON, Dec. 3.—(Friday)—(INS)—
The German radio an bounced today that allied bombers attacked Berlin last night for the seventh time in
two weeks. Thirty night raiders were shot down, the nazi broadcast claimed, indicating the assault may have been on the scale of the four recent monster raids which devastated one-third of the reich capital.
DNB, the German agency, also claimed that bodies of 146 allied airmen had been extricated from wrecks of some of the four-engine 'bombers that carried out the attack.
Telephone communication between Berlin and Stockholm and Budapest were interrupted suddenly at 11:30 p.m., yesterday, apparently as the first of the raiders appeared over the bomb-blasted German capital.
Swedish press dispatches said small fires still blazed in Berlin 'Thursday as a result of the six previous raids on the headquarters of Hitlerism, last attacked on November 26. The renewed night offensive against the heart of Hitler's European fortress came in the wake of daylight assaults Thursday on coastal targets along the Cherbourg peninsula o£ northwestern France.

 Yankee Airmen
Blast Four Ships
In Enemy Convoy
 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Dec. 3.
—(Friday)—(INS)—
Four-motor American Liberator bombers were revealed today to have sunk or damaged four Japanese ships — including a transport loaded with troops — in a smashing blow to an enemy convoy trying to reinforce the battered Jap base of Rabaul, New Britain. The Liberators were engaged in night reconnaissance when they spotted the convoy off the Kavieng area of New Ireland, trying to run the gantlet under cover of darkness. The big bombers scored direct hits with their high explosives on a 10,000-ton loaded transport, a large tanker and two escorting "destroyers. There was a great explosion aboard the transport and it was enveloped in flames. Enemy troops and members of the crew hurriedly abandoned the vessel, and it sank.
The oil tanker became a raging inferno when it was hit. Its flames could be seen 50 miles. However, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique did not mention whether the tanker also went down, nor did it reveal extent of damage to the destroyers.

                   PLOT NAZI DOOM
 Report Parleys
Now on in Iran;
Chiang at Home
 LONDON, Dec. 2 — (INS)
President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill arid Stalin were reported Premier meeting in Iran today in a momentous climax to the Cairo conference which decided to strip Japan of  her stolen empire. And many
observers anticipated that the 'big three" will decree a" similar dismemberment of the German states alter Hitler iscrushed.
O f f i c i a l announcement that Gencralissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang have arrived back in Chungking put. an end to a flood of rumors that the Chinese president-premier would attend the new conference. But reports from axis, neutral and allied sources all agreed that the leaders of the United States, Britain and Russia are at this moment conferring in Persia.
As Berlin nervously tried to belittle the import of the reported conference, the world's capitals speculated that the big three would decide on a massive military campaign to crush Hitler before another summer—and perhaps before next spring—and demand that the German people oust their nazi leaders and sue for peace.
Military discussions at the conrence are expected to include mapping detailed plans for an inasion of western Europe within the next four months, possibly coordinated with or preceded by a thrust into the Balkans, and the inclusion of Turkey as an active member of the united nations.
Axis propagandists' expect and some allied sources concur—that the conferees will demand that the German people immediately overthrow Hitler and his henchmen and surrender uncondilonally—a demand backed by the strength of the British and American air forces.

Japs Use Manila
Hospitals to Veil
Truth at Home
 NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—(INS)—
Large numbers of Japanese soldiers, wounded in the South Pacific war area, are being shipped in huge hospital liners to Manila and not to tho Japanese mainland — apparently to keep from the Japanese people the true picture of their military casualties. This was revealed in New York tonight by Charles H. Forster of San Francisco, for 20 years manager of the Philippine Red Cross, who returned yesterday on the Gripsholm.
"On most days," he said, "there are three or four Jap hospital ships in Manila bay at the same time.
The Japanese have taken over four of the big Manila hospitals and we know that there are many wounded in them. The Japanese wounded are not allowed on the Manila streets and are kept out of sight of the Filipinos, as well as of the Japanese in Japan. The Japs have abolished the American Red Cross entirely and have set
up their own red cross operations."
Forster is positive that the Filipinos will not be fooled by the "independence" recently granted them by the invaders, but will always want to return to the American way of life.
"I would say that 95 per cent of the Filipinos see the difference in the way of living nowadays. And they like the American way of life, which is accentuated by its absence during wartime conditions.
They will be very happy when our way of living is restored. There is no sign of rebellion among the people. They keep quiet and work their farms. There's no disloyalty to the United States. They just know that there's no use to rebel, because it would cause unnecessary suffering. The Filipinos just nind their own business.
"But they don't like it.
It's difficult to travel and food prices are very high. It wasn't hard to get food at moderate prices until just last spring, but then, when the rainy season came, meat and eggs and fruit—papaya and bananas— became scarce and high priced.

Current Events December 2, 1943; STRIP JAPAN PACT:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY DECEMBER 2, 1943:

The navy disclosed tonight that it cost more than 1000 American lives to wrest the Gilbert
islands from the Japanese. Communiques issued simultantously in Washington and Pearl Harbor said approximately 1092.

 President Roosevelt. Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, in a dramatic six-day conference in north Africa, have agreed on a new program to crush' Japan militarily and then strip her of all territories she has conquered since 1895.
The leaders of the United States, Great Britain and China, who journeyed long distances by air and sea with their military and diplomatic staffs to attend the meeting, indicated in a joint communique issued tonight that a grand - scale plan is being launched to beat the Japs into unconditional surrender.

 Strip Japan Pact Text

 Full text of the agreement reached by President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Prime Minister Churchill at their Cairo conference, as announced simultaneously by the White House and at Cairo, is as follows:

Bitter tank tattles raged at two points along the Dnieper river today, while to the north three powerful Soviet columns bore down on disorganized remnants of a huge German .army fleeing; in confusion along ""the Gomel-Minsk railroad.

                      Gilberts Cost 1092 Yankee Lives

               PULL JAP FANGS FOR
               ALL TIME-WAR GOAL
                        ANNOUNCED AT CAIRO

          LONG BEACH INDEPENDENT
                                Long Beach, California, Thursday, December 2, 1943

Island Campaign
Heaviest Marine
Loss in History
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. —(INS)—
The navy disclosed tonight that it cost more than 1000 American lives to wrest the Gilbert
islands from the Japanese. Communiques issued simultaneously in Washington and Pearl Harbor said approximately 1092
United States Marines and army troops were killed in the 76-hour mid-Pacific action and that 2680
others were wounded. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in announcing the Gilbert islands casualties at Pearl Harbor, said the figures were based only on "preliminary reports." This indicated the American toll may be
even higher when all information has been received and checked.) Japanese casualties in the battle
have been unofficially estimated at 6000.


Allies to Strip Nips
of Lands Taken by
Greed Since 1895
                                 By PIERRE J. HUSS
                              International News Service Staff Correspondent
 CAIRO, Dec. 1. — (INS) — 
President Roosevelt. Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, in a dramatic six-day conference in north Africa, have agreed on a new program to crush' Japan militarily and then strip her of all territories she has conquered since 1895.
The leaders of the United States, Great Britain and China, who journeyed long distances by air and sea with their military and diplomatic staffs to attend the meeting, indicated in a joint communique issued tonight that a grand - scale plan is being launched to beat the Japs into unconditional surrender.
President Roosevelt flew the Atlantic and all the way across Africa while Chiang Kai-shek, accompanied by his wife, spanned Asia by plane and Churchill came by warship to the momentous conference that began last Monday and lasted through Saturday.
After having pledged as their mutual war aim the eventual reduction of Japan to the status of
a third-rate power, bereft of the resources for future aggressions, the leaders and their big parties of advisers departed last weekend for "secret destinations."
A Renter's dispatch from Lisbon Tuesday stated that Roosevelt, Churchill and, Chiang Kaishek had left for Iran (Persia) to meet with Premier Stalin.)
Before leaving North Africa, the American and British conferees held separate talks on global aspects of the war, aimed at the speediest possible defeat o£ Hitler as well as Hirohito.
Special importance was attached to the presence at the meeting of such military leaders as Gen, George C. Marshall, U. S. army, chief of staff; Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army air forces; Admiral Ernest J. King, com-mander in chief of the U. S. fleet Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme allied Mediterranean com mander; Lord Louis Mountbatten chief of the allied southeast Asia command, and ma'ny other notables. Gen. Douglas MacArthur allied supreme commander in the southwest Pacific, however, was not present. 


Strip Japan Pact Text
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—(INS)—
Full text of the agreement reached by President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Prime Minister Churchill at their Cairo conference, as announced simultaneously by the White House and at Cairo, is as follows:
"President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Prime Minister Churchill, together with their respective military and diplomatic advisers, have completed a conference in North Africa.
The following general statement was issued:
" 'The several military missions have agreed upon future military operations against Japan. The three great allies expressed their resolve to bring unrelenting pressure against their brutal enemies by sea, land and air. This pressure is already rising.
" 'The three great allies are fighting this war to restrain and punish the aggression of Japan. They covet no gain for themselves and have no thought ol territorial expansion.
" 'It is their purpose that Japan shall be stripped ol all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the first World war in 1914, and that all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China. Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed.
" 'The aforesaid three great powers, mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, are- determined that in due course Korea shall become free and independent.
" 'With these objects in view the three allies, in harmony with those of the united nations at war with Japan, will continue to persevere in the serious and prolonged operations necessary to procure the unconditional surrender of Japan.'

 Huge German Army
Flees in Confusion
On Russian Front
 MOSCOW, Dec. 2.—(Thursday) (INS)—
Bitter tank tattles raged at two points along the Dnieper river today, while to the north three powerful Soviet columns bore down on disorganized remnants of a huge German .army fleeing; in confusion along ""the Gomel-Minsk railroad.
The Soviet high command announced  that 2000 nazi troops were wiped out in fjerce clashes near Cherkassy, behind the Dnieper bend, and told of the crushing of 15 separate German counterattacks near Kremenchug in which another 800 Germans were killed.
To the north, the midnight communique announced the capture of several more white Russian towns and villages northwest of Gomel, and front line reports said the German retreat was on the verge of becoming a rout.
With their escape corridor narrowed to less than 20 miles, the nazis retreated along the Gomel- Minsk railroad near Zhlobin in a desperate race to prevent encirclement. The high command said futile nazi rearguard counterattacks between the Sozh and Dnieper rivers were smashed and new gains scored during the day.
In the Cherkassy area of the middle Dnieper, bayonet-wielding Russian shock troops were reported
to have thrown another bridgehead across the river and enlarged their original bridgeheads.
The communique said nazi counterattacks were crushed as the Russians extended their right-bank bridgeheads.

Current Events December 1, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY DECEMBER 1, 1943:

 The Norwegian capital of Oslo was reported in a state of high tension tonight as a result of the arrest ol approximately 1500 students and all of the professors of Iho University of Oslo. Advices reaching Stockholm said that l a r g e crowds had gathered in the streets of the city and openly defied police orders that they return to their homes.

 The British Eighth army today shattered the Adriatic flank of the nazi "winter line" across Italy by merging its two bridgeheads across the Sangro river and seizing heights dominating the entire Sangro valley. A special
allied headquarters communique tonight announced the occupation of nazi anchor bases for the line and revealed a huge gap had been blasted :n the main German defenses

 —The British news agency, Reuter's, said today in a Lisbon dispatch that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang-Kaishek have completed a conference at Cairo and now are enroute to meet Premier Stalin "somewhere" in Iran (Persia).
The message said it was "known definitely" in the Portuguese capital that the Cairo conversations, described as protracted, had taken place. China's generalissimo, it  added, was accompanied by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, and also left for Iran to "meet Stalin."

            Nazis 'Purge9 University of Oslo
                      ALLIES CUT AXIS
                      FRONT IN ITALY
           LONG BEACH INDEPENDENT
                                    Long Beach, California, Wednesday; December 1, 1943

Troops Hope to
Spend Christmas
Holiday in Rome
ALGIERS, Nov. 30.—(INS)—
The British Eighth army today shattered the Adriatic flank of the nazi "winter line" across Italy by merging its two bridgeheads across the Sangro river and seizing heights dominating the entire Sangro valley. A special
allied headquarters communique tonight announced the occupation of nazi anchor bases for the line and revealed a huge gap had been blasted :n the main German defenses.
Capture of four more strategic mountain villages placed Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery's veterans in control of the high ridge overlooking the valley, said the communique.
Merger of the two river Bridgeheads was declared to have formed "one large penetration in the enemy defensive position." "Our troops," said the triumphant announcement, "have driven deep into the main enemy winter line."
The smashing gains by Montgomery's men, eager to observe Christmas in Rome, were announced
in a communique from Gen. Dsvight D. Eisenhower's headquarters.
The British threw back-bitter nazi counterattacks and threatened collapse of the entire Adriatic flank of the German winter line after gouging out a 48 square mile hole in the enemy's main defenses northwest of the lower Sangro river.

Arrest Students
And Professors;
Crowds Defiant
STOCKHOLM, Nov. 30.— (INS)—
The Norwegian capital of Oslo was reported in a state of high tension tonight as a result of the arrest ol approximately 1500 students and all of the professors of Iho University of Oslo. Advices reaching Stockholm said that l a r g e crowds had gathered in the streets of the city and openly defied police orders that they return to their homes.
The police roundup was said to have been staged without warning. The students were surrounded -in the socalled Deichman's library where they were reading. They were informed by nazi police chief Redicss that they were to be sent to a special concentration camp in Germany. Later, only the women students were released.
Seldom before have the Germans and their quisling henchmen so enraged the population of Oslo, according to reports reaching Stockholm. Of the 2000.students at the university, only a very few were nazis and of all the professors only four were classed as quislings.

 Report FDR, Churchill
And Chiang Now on Way
To Meet Stalin in Iran
 Hint Roosevelt
Flew Atlantic to
Africa Parleys
 NEW YORK, Nov. 30.—(INS)
—The British news agency, Reuter's, said today in a Lisbon dispatch that President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek have completed a conference at Cairo and now are enroute to meet Premier Stalin "somewhere" in Iran (Persia).
The message said it was "known definitely" in the Portuguese capital that the Cairo conversations, described as protracted, had taken place. China's generalissimo, it  added, was accompanied by Mme. Chiang Kai-shek, and also left for Iran to "meet Stalin."
The cable from Lisbon said further that at one time during the lengthy conversations, President Roosevelt, Premier Churchill and Marshal Chiang met in a tent in the shadow of the Egyptian pyramids.
The president and the generalissimo traveled to Cairo by air, the Reuter message added, while
Churchill made the voyage by sea.

Current Events November 30, 1943:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 30, 1943:
  U.S. heavy bombers, surpassing their best previous month of operations against Nazi-occupied Europe, struck into northwest Germany for the second time in three days yesterday to set air-raid sirens screaming all the way from the Reich's western borders to Berlin.

 The Eighth Army launched a heavy attack yesterday on a five-mile front, pushed its way forward to the outer edge of the main German winter defense line and gained another bridgehead over the Sangro.
The drive, by British, Indian and New Zealand troops, was made in the face of desperate German attempts to withstand the advance. In heavy fighting, the Germans employed flame throwers and
tanks and planes.

 The United States Marines fought the bloodiest and fiercest battle of their whole long history during the capture of Betio Island in the Tarawa atolls of the Gilberts, according to a statement by one of the Leatherneck commanders on the island. Col. Edson A. Merritt said that of the two battalions of the Second
Marine Division, numbering between 2,000 and 3,000 men, who rushed the  beaches in the first assault wave, only a few hundred men escaped death or injury. And that first assault was far from being the end of the battle, he said

 Following the "miracle" victory on Belio island, big air-sea battles were reported raging round the area, according to Tokyo, which described the action as the second and third "air battles of the Gilberts."
There is as yet no confirmation of the attacks from the Navy Department, but Tokyo's account suggests that instead of drawing the Japanese fleet into battle, the U.S. fleet has "attracted the main weight of Japan's air strength

                             Edwardsville Intelligencer
                 EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1943.


Allied Forces Crack Nazi Winter Line, Open Roads Leading To Rome



People Warned Axis Partner
Facing Certain Defeat in Europe;
Anzacs Open Assault on Bonga
Prepare to Fight
Alone, Radio Says
Propaganda Chief Tells Natives
Of Growing Allied Military Might

            THE STARS AND STRIPES 
      Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces  in the European Theater of Operations
           New York, N.Y.—London, England                      Tuesday, Nov. 30,1943

 U.S. Bombers Again Hit Reich
 Eighth Sets
New Record
For Month
Tenth November Attack
Alerts Germany from
Berlin West
 U.S. heavy bombers, surpassing their best previous month of operations against Nazi-occupied Europe, struck into northwest Germany for the second time in three days yesterday to set air-raid sirens screaming all the way from the Reich's western borders to Berlin.
Their objective was described in Eighth Air Force's preliminary flash as "targets in northwest Germany." The specific targets had not been announced at a late hour last night.
The harried German defense forces, fearful of Allied raids by day as well as night upon their battered and burned capital, quickly alerted the city for a new attack. Reports reaching Stockholm last night said Berlin liad been alerted since 3 PM.
The USAAF attack, rounding out Eighth Air Force's most active month of the war—a month that saw launched from British bases the greatest force of American heavy bombers ever dispatched in
this theater—was delivered shortly after RAF Mosquitoes hammered western Germany again in swift nuisance raids designed to keep Nazi fighter forces, and the population as weir, overworked and sleepless.
                                                    One of Bigges Forces 
Although the size of the American heavy bomber formations which droned into Germany yesterday was not immediately disclosed, it was likely it was one of the biggest so far put into the air by Eighth Air Force.
The November targets prior to yesterday's attack were:
Nov. 3—Wilhelmshaven, Germany's most important naval base on North Sea coast.
Nov. 5—Gelsenkirchen, coal mining town in Ruhr, and Munster, railway and waterways center on which many of Ruhr industries depend.
Nov. 7—Duren, great railway center.
Nov. 11—Munster.
Nov. 13—Bremen, Germany's second largest port, war production and shipbuilding center.
Nov. 16—Knaben, Norway, molybdenum mines, and Rjuken, Norway, large power stations.
Nov. 18—Kjeller, Norway, airdrome and aircraft works.
Nov. 19—Northwest Germany.
Nov. 26—Bremen.
Up to yesterday's mission, a compilation of figures from Eighth Air Force communiques showed that 149 enemy aircraft were destroyed against the loss of 45 Forts, six medium bombers and 23
fighters.
                                                           Retaliation Talk Again
New German boasts of a new weapon "which may make total war even more total" came meanwhile from battered Berlin.
The German correspondent of the German-controlled Scandinavian Telegraph Bureau, quoting a statement by Georg Schroeder, chief of Europa Press, who writes with the approval of Propaganda
Minister Goebbels, said the new weapon would be used soon to repay Britain with reprisals.

 8tli Opens Push
OvertlieSangro
Gains Another Bridgehead
Against Nazis Using
Flame-Throwers
 ALLIED HQ, Nov. 29—
The Eighth Army launched a heavy attack yesterday on a five-mile front, pushed its way forward to the outer edge of the main German winter defense line and gained another bridgehead over the Sangro.
The drive, by British, Indian and New Zealand troops, was made in the face of desperate German attempts to withstand the advance. In heavy fighting, the Germans employed flame throwers and
tanks and planes.
Attacking from their bridgehead near Castel Frenrano after a terrific air and artillery assault the Eighth Army repulsed German counter-attacks, enlarged their original gains and occupied high ground to the north of the Sangro.
By winning another bridge over the Sangro near A,rchi the Eighth Army threatened the lateral road running behind the German front. The two bridgeheads are about eight miles apart. In the air, heavy bombers attacked targets at Dogna, north of Trieste, and medium mombers hit shipping in the Dubrovnik, Zara and Sibenik harbors on the Jugoslav coast.

 Gilbert Victory Was Fiercest,
Bloodiest in Marine Annals
 SAN DIEGO, Cal., Nov. 29—
The United States Marines fought the bloodiest and fiercest battle of their whole long history during the capture of Betio Island in the Tarawa atolls of the Gilberts, according to a statement by one of the Leatherneck commanders on the island. Col. Edson A. Merritt said that of the two battalions of the Second
Marine Division, numbering between 2,000 and 3,000 men, who rushed the  beaches in the first assault wave, only a few hundred men escaped death or injury. And that first assault was far from being the end of the battle, he said. 
A full report of the fighting has not yet been released by the Navy Department which handles Marine Corps information. The Second Marine Division took part in the assault on Guadalcanal in 1942.)
It was three days before the Japanese garrison of upwards of 4,000 picked men was completely exterminated and the last effective resistance was overcome. By then dead of both sides lay in heaps. There
was nowhere one could look over the less than a square mile of low-lying coral rock and sand without seeing dead.
Before the landings began, U.S. 16-inch battleships, cruisers, destroyers, heavy bombers and attack bombers literally pulverized the tiny island with 2,800 tons of bombs and shells in a concentrated bombardment almost without parallel in military history.

 Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Tuesday, Nov. 30, 1943
Japanese Claim
Big Navj Action
Off the Gilberts
No Allied Mention of dash;
Aussies Push Forward
In New Guinea
Following the "miracle" victory on Belio island, big air-sea battles were reported raging round the area, according to Tokyo, which described the action as the second and third "air battles of the Gilberts."
There is as yet no confirmation of the attacks from the Navy Department, but Tokyo's account suggests that instead of drawing the Japanese fleet into battle, the U.S. fleet has "attracted the main weight of Japan's air strength.
Meanwhile, the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes is floating in the breeze over Tarawa Island, the main island in the Gilberts and site of the area's only air base. Inspecting the formidable defenses the Japs built on Betio Island, the Marine victorv seems to have been a miracle.
On the southwestern flank of the 1.500- mile long arc which is gradually turning towards Japan, the twin Aussie drive on New Guinea is progressing favorably, and the Japs have another defeat to write home about.

Current Events November 29, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 29, 1943:

—Powerful Soviet tank and nfantry forces raced toward Minsk arid the Polish border today after engulfing more than 150 White Russian towns and villages in a massive pincers drive treatening to trap 300,000 fleeing Nazi troops. 

Eighth Army, called upon Sir Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery to hit the Germans a: "colossal crack" and to drive them,  north of Home, struck out in-a new offensive in the darkness of sunday morning from its Sangro
bridge 'heads -and is making good progress in the face of enemy flamethrowers, Allied headquarters announced today.

 New Japanese aerial reinforcements were reported flowing into the Southwest Pacific battle theatre today a, American  and Allied troopa and warplanes piled p enemy losses aground and  aloft from the Solomons to New Guinea.

 The Berlin radio reported today that the Aegean island of Thera (Santorin), 70 miles north of Crete, surrendered to German naval force Saturday night. It was the first indication that the Allies had penetrated that deeply into islands be low Greece.

Soviets Regain 15O Towns in White Russia
               The Port Arthur News
                  PORT ARTHUR. TEXAS, MONDAY. NOVEMBER:29, 1943.

8TH ARMY OPENS NEW DRIVE ON ROME
 20 GERMAN
DIVISIONS
FACE TRAP
Russian Forces Race
Toward Minsk And
Polish Border
 By Natalia ReneMOSCOW, Nov. 29 (INS).
—Powerful Soviet tank and nfantry forces raced toward Minsk arid the Polish border today after engulfing more than 150 White Russian towns and villages in a massive pincers drive treatening to trap 300,000 fleeing Nazi troops. - - . •
As the-Red army smashed northest from Gomel to within 15 miles Zhlobin on the Leningrad Odesa railroad, other Russian columns 3 the west . seized .24 localities along the ' lower reaches of the Berezina river.
                                                              Narrow Escape Corridor
The Russian nutcracker forming to the north and south threatened to pinch off Zhlobin and encircle the German.divisions attempting.to evacuate the area northwest of Gomel along an escape corridor narrowed to less than 20 miles.
A Reuter dispatch from Mosow said one Russian 'column is less than J2 miles south of Zhloin while another is 20 miles southeast of the strategic railroad junction.)
Russian defenses near Brusllov 40 miles west of the Ukrainian capital of Kiev, held firmly depite eight furious German atacks by powerful tank forces.
                                                    Nazi's Claim Korosten 
The Berlin radio claimed the Germans had recaptured Korosten 85 miles northwest of Kiev on the
Leningrad-Odessa railroad, but the Soviet communique indicated Russian defenses in that area were
holding.

 SANGRO IS
CROSSED IN
2ND PLACE
British Warships Lay
Down Bombardment;
To Cover Troops
 By Edward Kennedy ,„
A L I, I E D HEADQUARTERS
 Algiers, Nov. 29 (AP)
Eighth Army, called upon Sir Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery to hit the Germans a: "colossal crack" and to drive them,  north of Home, struck out in-a new offensive in the darkness of sunday morning from its Sangro
bridge 'heads -and is making good progress in the face of enemy flamethrowers, Allied headquarters anounced today. 
The attack, delivered at night in typical Montgomery style, was preceded  and backed by a terrific air onslaught. It was carried out by veteran British,. Indian and New
Zealand divisions rushing forward in the flashing light of an "exceptionally heavy" artillery barrage. •••-
                                                              Attack 'Going Well'
A headquarters spokesman laid the attack was going well. Before the Eighth Army's wheels were set churning westward from the bridgehead into the enemy's hill positions toward Home, British, destroyers laid down a bombardment of the enemy port of Civitanova, 23 miles south of Ancona on the Adriatic coast . 

Japanese Sending
More Planes Into
 Wewak, Is Report
U. S. Forces Advance Half-Mile In Fighting
On Bougainville; Jap Cruiser Blasted By
1000-Ton Bomb; Nip Bases Raided
 New Japanese aerial reinforcements were reported flowing into the Southwest Pacific battle theatre today a, American  and Allied troopa and warplanes piled p enemy losses aground and  aloft from the Solomons to New Guinea.
 While a communique reported that United'-States troops on Bougainville sland had added another
half mile to their beachhead at Empress Augusta bay, front reports diisclosed that, at least 100 new Japancse planes had reached the enemy staging base at Wewak, in northern New Guinea.
                                            Bombers Attack New Group
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's bombers struck immediately at. the new concentration and destroyed ateast five enemy planes on the ground. . .
The size of the Japanese air craft reinforcements—half of them fighters-suggested the enemy was marshalling new air power for another challenge to Allied aeria supremacy over the Southwest Pacific battlefield.
Lt."Gen. George C. K e n n e y Allied Air force commander, said lowever, that the Japanese were using "second string airmen" and predicted that control of the air would remain with his fliers. -
                                                      Gain Half Mile
American troops extended the Empress Augusta bay beachhead on Bougainville a half mile in fighting between Nov. 19 and 25, a dispatch from Admiral William F Halsey's headquarters said.


Germans Claim
Isle Captured
LONDON, Nov. 29. (UP).—
The Berlin radio reported today that the Aegean island of Thera (Santorin), 70 miles north of Crete, surrendered to German naval force Saturday night. It was the first indication that the Allies had penetrated that deeply into islands be low Greece.
There was no immediate explanation of when and how the Allle took tho island, if the Nazi account of its surrender is correct.

 

Current Events November 28, 1943

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 28, 1943:

RAF heavy bombers spread fresh ruin with steel and fire through stricken Berlin Friday night, in 20 minutes hurling down "much more than 1,000 long tons" of bombs in the third mighty assault of the week in the campaign to obliterate that heart of nazidom.

Soviet forces battered out a new salient along both banks of the lower Berezina river in White Russia Saturday, flanking the Germans' last natural defense line short of the old Polish frontier, while on another sector of this boiling 100-mile front they advanced nine miles in pursuit of perhaps 300,000 Germans retreating from Gomel.

 American marines and soldiers have driven 800 yards to the northeast during bitter fighting to extend their beachhead at Empress Augusta bay- -stepping stones on the west-central coast of Bougainville in the northern Solomons leading toward Rabaul.

 The Chinese declared Saturday night that they were tightening1 their net around invading Japanese forces in northern Hunan province and that nearly 10,000 enemy troops had been killed in fierce fighting for the rice
bowl city of Changteh.

                   Council Bluffs IOWA Nonpariel
                              COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1943.

 Red Army Batters Out New
Salient at Historic Berezina
Where Napoleon Met Defeat
Report 300,000 Nazis Retreating From Gomel;
RAF Reveals Over 1,000 Long Tons of Bombs
Hit Berlin in Third Assault Within the Week
By Gladwin Hill.
LONDON, (AP)—
RAF heavy bombers spread fresh ruin with steel and fire through stricken Berlin Friday night, in 20 minutes hurling down "much more than 1,000 long tons" of bombs in the third mighty assault of the week in the campaign to obliteratethat heart of nazidom.
Other bombers hammered Stuttgart, 300 miles southwest, simultaneously. Thirty-two big planes were lost,
but the air ministry Saturday paid unusual tribute to the cruiser American blow at Bremen Friday and said the American drain on German air strength had contributed greatly to the success of the RAF's long hop in clear weather to Berlin.
                                                             Fires Visible 200 Miles.
Guided by fires still blazing in the German capital, the RAF gouged great new wounds snd set conflagrations visible for 200 miles, their whistling bombs signaling to 14,000 long tons the total weight of explosive heaped on Berlin in 1943, and boosting the total for little more than a week to some 6,000.

By James M. Long.
LONDON, (AP) —
Soviet forces battered out a new salient along both banks of the lower Berezina river in White Russia Saturday, flanking the Germans' last natural defense line short of the old Polish frontier, while on another sector of this boiling 100-mile front they advanced nine miles in pursuit of perhaps 300,000 Germans retreating from Gomel.
The new Berezina bulge was forming between Kalinkovichl and Zholbin, where the Russians had previously cut the railroad and pushed northwest toward Bobruisk.
It was flanking the Orsha- Mogilev line on the Dnieper which guarded Minsk and Die pre-war
Polish frontier.
Mop Up 80 Towns.
Other forces speeding from ths industrial center and long-held German stronghold of Gomel, which fell Friday, mopped up 89 towns and hamlets and advanced to Uvarovichi, 17 miles northwest of Gomel along to German escape route to Zholbin and Bobruisk.

 Measure Allied
Gains in Yards
Bitter Fighting at
Empress Augusta Bay
 By Robert Eunson.SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS, (Sunday), (AP)—
American marines and soldiers have driven 800 yards to the northeast during bitter fighting to extend their beachhead at Empress Augusta bay- -stepping stones on the west-central coast of Bougainville in the northern Solomons leading toward Rabaul.
 A spokesman for Gen. Douglas
 MacArthur, in announcing the ad-
 vance Saturday, said strong enemy
opposition was overcome and, "although
no count has been made,
Japanese losses were 'icavy."
Losses Were Heavy
More details were supplied from the south Pacific headquarters of Adm. William F Halsey where it was reported that the fight opened Monday, requiring four days to gain the precious yardage. Halsey's headquarters said both sides sustained considerable casualties.


Chinese Kill 10,000
Japs in Rice Bowl
CHUNGKING, (AP)—
The Chinese declared Saturday night that they were tightening1 their net around invading Japanese forces in northern Hunan province and that nearly 10,000 enemy troops had been killed in fierce fighting for the rice
bowl city of Changteh.
The Chinese have estimated the Japanese have approximately 100,000 troops fighting in the northern. Hunan area,- but a communique announcing the encircling of enemy forces in that area did not specify the number of Japanese caught In the trap.
The Japanese, though suffering heavy casualties, were reported fighting fiercely. The Chinese said that a force of some 1,000 invaders brake through the north gate of Changteh, stronghold guarding the approaches to Changsha, capital of Hunan province, but that the defenders wiped them out m a bloody
battle.
Other Japanese forces swept around and stormed through the south gatft but suffered nearly 3,300 in casualties Thursday and Friday. Previously the Chinese had announced over 5,000 Japanese casualties.

Current Events November 27. 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 27, 1943:

The RAF's heavy armadas struck , Berlin, the greatest of all German targets, a third' great blow with heavy burdens, of explosives and Incendiaries last night in the campaign to rub it from Adolf Hitler's reich. '
The fifth successive strike at the German capital and the third heavy assault since Monday night was
on the major industrial center of .Stuttgart, 300 miles to the southwest.

 The RAF's heavy armadas struck , Berlin, the greatest of all German targets, a third' great blow with heavy burdens, of explosives and Incendiaries last night in the campaign to rub it from Adolf Hitler's reich. '
The fifth successive strike at the German capital and the third heavy assault since Monday night was
on the major industrial center of .Stuttgart, 300 miles to the southwest.

 Lt. Col, Evans F. Carlson, marine hero of Nicaragua Makin, and Guadalcanal, explained in three words, "Determination, tenacity, courage,1 how a few battalions of leathernecks were able to.annihilate nearly 4,000 Japanese imperial marine's and capture Tarawa, main airbase in the Gilberts, in 76 hours.
"Those boys really did-.the job," Carlson, who as an observer landed Nov. 20 with the marines at Tarawa and; made daily trips through machine- gun and. mortar fire to report to the flagship;.

   
                     Tucon Daily Citizen
                        TUCSON. ARIZONA, SATURDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER 27, 1943

          NEW RAF RAIDS SMASH BERLIN

Delivers Hard
Blow To Help
Blot 0ut City
Third Heavy Raid
   Is Fifth Strike
    In Few Days
By GLADWIN HILL
, LONDON, Nov. 27.(AP)
The RAF's heavy armadas struck , Berlin, the greatest of all German targets, a third' great blow with heavy burdens, of explosives and Incendiaries last night in the campaign to rub it from Adolf Hitler's reich. '
The fifth successive strike at the German capital and the third heavy assault since Monday night was
on the major industrial center of .Stuttgart, 300 miles to the southwest.
The two-ply . blow split German defenses, but nevertheless enemy fighters were more effective^ Jn,
stemming the waves of attacking aircraft and the air ministry announced that 32 bombers had failed to return from the twin operation.
This compared with the loss of 28 bombers on the first night of the campaign and 20 on the second. "
                                                 New 24-Hont Record Set
The operation . brought a new 24-hour record In the deluge, of bombs on the enemy's vital centers.
With Thursday night's RAF at. tack on Frankfurt-Am-Main and, a .record blow of nearly l,000,;American
planes at the North sea port of Bremen: ysterday; the total tonnage probably was considerably, over the 4,000 peak of Nov. 3 when the United;,States alr force bombed Welhelmshaven and  northern
France.' and the RAF hit .Duesseldorf.

Yankees Smash
NaziAttacks
In Italy Zone
Sudden Surge Of Battle
  Breaks Out Along
      Italian Line
WEATHER IS BETTER
   British Extend Their
    Bridgehead Over
      Sangro River
By HARRISON SALISBURY
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Algiers, Nov. 27. (U P)—
The RAF's heavy armadas struck , Berlin, the greatest of all German targets, a third' great blow with heavy burdens, of explosives and Incendiaries last night in the campaign to rub it from Adolf Hitler's reich. '
The fifth successive strike at the German capital and the third heavy assault since Monday night was
on the major industrial center of .Stuttgart, 300 miles to the southwest.
One of the enemy attempts to break Into American lines was blasted with artillery fire before it could get underway around Mignano, in the high ground near the main road to Rome northward from Capua.,
 Better weather along the fifth's front allowed the Nazis to step up the pace of the fighting. It was the first activity on the fifth front in several days.
                                                          Crossing Sangro
Despite a two-foot rise in the already flooded Sangro, the British eighth army extended its bridgehead along tho stream and threw new bridges across it, operating under • protection of what official reports described as a "creeping barrage" laid down by the tactical air force.

Determination Of
Americans Superb
   Grit And Tenacity Of
    Marines Won Over
       Stiff Opposition
By CHARLES H. McMURTRY
PEARL HARBOR, Nov.:27.(AP)'_
Lt. Col, Evans F. Carlson, marine hero of Nicaragua Makin, and Guadalcanal, explained in three words, "Determination, tenacity, courage,1 how a few battalions of leathernecks were able to.annihilate nearly 4,000 Japanese imperial marine's and capture Tarawa, main airbase in the Gilberts, in 76 hours.
"Those boys really did-.the job," Carlson, who as an observer landed Nov. 20 with the marines at Tarawa and; made daily trips through machine- gun and. mortar fire to report to the flagship;.
"Everyone , of those boys ,. was tenaciouis and determined," he asserted in an interview. .
"The Japs might ,have exterminated them with an organized connteroffensive the first night -but they couldn't have driven us off." Secretary of the Navy Knox said at Washington that American losses were heavy .but that the enemy's were much heavier..
                                                           One of.Toughest Ever/Fought
The chief difference in Wake, (a few hundred marines held out for 17 days against heavy Jap bombardment)
and. Tarawa was the determination',, tenacity and courage of the defenders,. It. was by far the toughest job I've 'ever seen. It was one of the toughest battles ever fought In-'.the marine corps (168-year) history."

Current Events November 26, 1943; Gen. Patton's Reprieve:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 26, 1943:
 The case of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., versus a shell-shocked Army private is now being tried before the court of American public opinion;•
The case already has-been tried in private chambers, so to speak; and,a decision made by Gen. D wight D. Eisenhower and the war department. That decision was that both men  should remain on their Jobs because good generals, temperamental or not, are too scarce,.to be spared. so are good privates.

 Premier Marshal Josef Stalin announced in an order of,t;he day broadcast by Radio Moscow today that the Red army had captured Gomel, smashing the entire southern end of German defense . line in Russia. ,
Confirming an 'acknowledgment broadcast -'hours earlier by tha German DNB news agency that thair.
Nazi stronghold had fallen,  Staliin announced that Soviet troops occupied Gomel today.

 American troops smashed , a Japanese, counterattack on the Bougainville beachhead in an all-clay artillery
and infantry battle Monday,gaining new ground over the bodies of 104 enemy soldiers, it was disclosed
today.

      The Tucon Daily Citizen
                TUCSON, ARIZONA, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, i 943

  REDS WREST GOMEL FROM NAZIS

Whole End Of
German Main
Line Crushed
Soviets Penetrate
 German Line Up
   To 27 Miles
By ROBERT MUSEL
LONDON, Nov. 26. (U,P)—'.
Premier Marshal Josef Stalin announced in an order of,t;he day broadcast by Radio Moscow today that the Red army had captured Gomel, smashing the entire southern end of German defense . line in Russia. ,
Confirming an 'acknowledgment broadcast -'hours earlier by tha German DNB news agency that thair.
Nazi stronghold had fallen,  Staliin announced that Soviet troops occupied Gomel today.
The fall of Gomel came as Russian armies, smashing westward irt a new offensive north of the city, broke through the German lines to reach the. Upper Dnieper river on a broad front.
Stalin's order of the day said the Nazis«were driven from Gomel by a bold outflanking thrust executed)
by Gen. Rokossovsky's armies by their continuing offensive toward
the Polish frontier.
The collapse of Nazi resistance in Gomel, main southern anchor of. their line in White Russia, had
been foreshadowed for days as Red! army tanks and infantry closed in on the city from all sides— cutting
off all but one narrow escape gap to the northwest.

 American 45th
Division Joins
Italian Battle
Famed Southwest Force
  Operating Now With
          Fifth Army

 LULL IN ACTIVITY

Planes Knockout Road
    Network Behind
        Nazi Lines
 By NOLAND NORGAARD
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Algiers, Nov. 26. (UP)—
The American 45th division, once part of the seventh army of'-Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, jr., in Sicily /has been in action with, the fifth army in Italy, it was as Allied units counterattacks
along a generally" unchanged front.
The impact of the "fighting 45th," one of the most colorful divisions in the American Army, helped roll back.the German tide when, the Salerno bridgehead appeared likely to be overrun in the early critical period after the first. landing, it was disclosed.
The division, made up largely of troops from Colorado, Oklahoma and New Mexico with a' sprinkling
from a • number of Eastern and more than 1,000 Southwest Indians is rated in army circles.as one of
the toughest and hardest. hitting outfits under the flag. It made its battle debut in an amphibious assaults
against Sicily after only a brief-pause in North Africa.
                                              Nazi, Airforce Strikes
The German air force joined ground forces in determined attacks yesterday against 'British gound forces in determined attacksyesterday against 'British is securely bridgehead carved' 0ut  British Eighth Army forces: now securely entrenched in the bridgehead carved out from  the bitter defense line across the flooded Sangro.near Italy's Adriatic  shore.

Bouganville
Yank^s Break
Up Jap Drive
  And Then Gain-New
Smash Counterattacks
          Ground
By BY.DON C. TAWES
ALLIED ' 'HEADQUARTER?,
: Southwest,;'.' Pacific,
Nov. 26 (U.P) —.
American troops smashed , a Japanese, counterattack on the Bougainville beachhead in an all-clay artillery
and infantry battle Monday,gaining new ground over the bodies of 104 enemy soldiers, it was disclosed
today.  The .enemy dead abandoned on the .field, brought Japanese losses in ground fighting at Empress Augusta bay since Nov. 1 to at least 104 Gen. Douglas MacArthur's spokesman said, while another 4,000 have been killed in sea and air .warfare, including 'a battle Thanksgiving day off the north end of Bougainville in which four enemy destroyers were sunk and a fifth damaged.
                                                   Yankees First Bombarded
Japanese troops'trying to reduce the beachhead on the western coast of the island attacked after long
aerial and artillery preparation. The enemy used field pieces up to 75 millimeters but met replies from
heavier U. S. guns.

 Army Mishandled Publicity
On Patton, General Belief
Public Worries Now If Policy To Continue;
Ask 'Is Such Secrecy Justified'?
BY JAMES MARLOW AND GEORGE ZIELKE
WASHINGTON—(&)—
The faltering way in -which the story of Major General George S. Patton's head-slapping episode became public has brought into focus two sharp questions on the War "Department's policy of giving news to the American public:
1, To what extent—and for how long—Is the department justified In hushing up an unpleasant episode on grounds that publication might give aid and comfort to the enemy?
2. Are there other instances—or will there be—of the same kind of news strangulation Involved in the Patton story?
A central point at Issue is what is "security" and what isn't. Nobody has contended that the army or navy should make public any Information when its publication would threaten the. security^ of the nation or the lives of protect the Interests of the country, feel obligated to make known as much Information as it's possible to tell.
Here is the background of the Patton incident:
On Aug. 10. during the Sicilian campaign In which he commanded- the hard-hitting Seventh army,
Patton strode Into a military hospital, consoled wounded troops, and saw a shell-shocked soldier
sobbing on the side of a bed, when the soldier told Patton the front-line shelling had cracked his nerves, Patton slapped the man on the back of the head, called him "yellow," and ordcrctl him back to the front. Hospital attaches Intervened, General Dwlgbt D. Eisenhower heard of the occurrence, rebuked
Patton. The latter apologized to the soldier, the hospital staff and his troops--- in the hospital.
                                                      Held.Value To Enemy?
Newspaper correspondents covering the Sicilian Invasion got the story. They were told by Elsenhower
that army censorship would not stop their sending It back to----

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 War Chiefs Feel Patton Is
Punished Enough- For Error
 By HAL BOYLE
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, ALGIERS, Nov. 22. (Delayed)—(AP)—
The case of Lt. Gen. George S. Patton, jr., versus a shell-shocked Army private is now being tried before the court of American public opinion;•
The case already has-been tried in private chambers, so to speak; and,a decision made by Gen. D wight D. Eisenhower and the war department. That decision was that both men  should remain on their Jobs because good generals, temperamental or not, are too scarce,.to be spared. so are good privates.

Current Events November 25, 1943:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 25, 1943:

 A mighty RAF armada, striking at Berlin Tuesday night for the second time within 24 hours, left in its wake great searing walls of flame and a Nazi press screaming for revenge, Stockholm reports said yesterday.
Dispatches from the Swedish capital said that Berlin appeared well on the way last night to being temporarily knocked out qf. the war.

 Berlin is being turned into a .hell of burning buildings and streets running with fire. "The trip to the Tempelhof airdrome was like a journey through an inferno," said one of the Swedish d'plomats who made that journey after the first raid. Now, after the second raid, the scenes there, as told by neutrals in the city, almost defy description. Here, "taken from these various sources, is the story of Berlin today.

Berlin is being paid back—with compound interest—for the blitz which the Luftwaffe inflicted on London in the dark winter of 1940-41.

 U.S. Army troops of the 27th Infantry Division captured the atoll of Makin yesterday, a naval communique announced today, and Adm. Chester Nimitz assured that the other 4,000 Japanese on Tarawa and Abamama in the Gilberts "would soon be cleaned up" by the 2nd Marine division.

 Strong forces of German troops southwest of. Kiev were reported last night to be either resisting fiercely or
counter-attacking in a stubborn bid to crush the Russian wedge protecting the Ukranian capital city.
Moscow admitted stiff German resistance in this sector, and last night the Berlin radio claimed the recapture
of Chernyakov and Brussilov, both cities about 35 miles from Kiev itself.

            THE STARS AND STRIPES
             Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed the Eorces In The European Theater of Operations
                    New York, N.Y.—London, England             Thursday, Nov. 25, 1943

      Latest Raid Leaves Berlin an Inferno

Nazi Press Screams
For Revenge as Vast
Fires Sweep Capital
City Near to Being Knocked .Out of War,
Stockholm Hears; Thousands Reported
Killed in RAF Mass Assaults
 A mighty RAF armada, striking at Berlin Tuesday night for the second time within 24 hours, left in its wake great searing walls of flame and a Nazi press screaming for revenge, Stockholm reports said yesterday.
Dispatches from the Swedish capital said that Berlin appeared well on the way last night to being temporarily knocked out qf. the war.
The Stockholm newspaper Afton Tidningen said it learned from reliable sources that new fires started from incendiaries Tuesday night linked with flames still burning from Monday night's 2,300-ton assault. Some reports to the Swedish capital told of great walls of flame more than half a mile long  in Berlin.
And last night another stream of bombers, believed to be RAF, headed eastward over the Straits of Dover for the third successive night. The drone of motors continued for nearly an hour, even longer than on the preceding nightwhen Berlin got its second pasting in arow.
The DNB station in Berlin went off the air at 8.30 PM. Bremen and Cologne radios went off the air shortly after. The German city, which now enjoys the dubious distinction of being the world's most-bombed capital, was paralyzed and virtually isolated. Telephone, telegraphic communications and surface transport had broken down completely.
                                                              50,000 Reported Killed
A Berne message to Afton Tidningen said that 25,000 were killed in each of the two great raids of Monday and Tuesday nights. Another Swedish version of casualties said that the total death toll was 25,000, with an additional 38,000 rendered homeless.

 Hell Comes to Berlin
 United Press Staff Correspondent
SOTOCKHOLM, Nov. 24—Berlin is being turned into a .hell of burning buildings and streets running with fire. "The trip to the Tempelhof airdrome was like a journey through an inferno," said one of the Swedish d'plomats who made that journey after the first raid. Now, after the second raid, the scenes there, as told by neutrals in the city, almost defy description. Here, "taken from these various sources, is the story of Berlin today.
The destruction in Berlin now, after its third raid within a week, is impossible to describe. Buildings are still burning fiercely in many parts of the city. Even the asphalt in the streets is burning.
The heat is so fierce that people collapse because of it. Streets that are still open cannot be passed because the heat strikes like a wall of fire from one side to the other.
Tens of thousands are already leaving the city and pouring out to suburbs like Potsdam, Straussberg and Fuersstenwalde. Thousands of Berliners are filling the streets in this trek. Some of them have only the clothes they stand in. Others carry hurriedly tied bundles and bags. Some of them are wounded, and pass through the streets moaning with pain.
Their faces are blackened with soot and smoke. Many of them have bandaged hands, a sign that they were burned in frantic and useless efforts to put out the flames of the thousartds of fires that raged last night and the night before.

 Berlin Is Now
Most-Bombed
City in World
Last Three A ttacks Alone
Equal 66% of London's
       Whole Blitz
 Berlin is being paid back—with compound interest—for the blitz which the Luftwaffe inflicted on London in the dark winter of 1940-41.
In the last six days more than 5,000 tons of bombs have been dropped into a comparatively small area of the German capital, compared with 7,500 tons dropped on the whole of London during the blitz.
Berlin is now the world's most-bombed city. Hamburg had a total of around 10,000 tons; Essen, Hanover and Cologne around S.,000, and Mannheim and Ludwigshafen over 7,000. Veterans of the London terror raids were staggered Irying to conceive the havoc wrought on Berlin by two such heavy attacks in a row.
Word from neutral capitals that Berlin was on the brink of being knocked out of the war reminded Londoners of the situation the night of May 5, 1941, when the Germans made one of their heaviest attacks on London, and it was generally agreed that if they had returned the next night the chaos would have been awful.
 Moreover, the Germans raided on only a one-fifth scale, using only 400 planes, whereas even Berlin estimated last night that the RAF had used 900 heavy bombers in its twin blows.
Berlin is the crux of Germany's war. because it is the center of the government, a key transportation center and one of the country's major industrial areas, particularly electrical equipment.

 27th Division
Seizes Jap Isle
Other Bases in the Gilberts
Soon to be Cleared Up
Adm. Nimitz Says
 PEARL HARBOR, Nov. 24—
U.S. Army troops of the 27th Infantry Division captured the atoll of Makin yesterday, a naval communique announced today, and Adm. Chester Nimitz assured that the other 4,000 Japanese on Tarawa and Abamama in the Gilberts "would soon be cleaned up" by the 2nd Marine division.
Latest reports of the Tarawa fighting said the Leathernecks were striking forward from the eastern end of tiny Belito atoll and were making good progress against strongly-entrenched Jap troops defending the island's great bomber airfields.
On Abamama a report said the "situation was well in hand by the Marines." The U.S. fleet meanwhile.stood off the coast of the island and fighters and bombers from aircraft carriers supported the U.S. troops.
                                                             No Jap Air Opposition
No Jap air opposition has been offered and no enemy naval vessels have been sighted as yet, but reports from Tokyo indicate the Jap navy may be moving in the direction of the Gilberts for a big engagement
 Adm. Nimitz, commenting on the absence of Jap naval units in the Gilbert area, said, "The American fleet is ready to meet the Japs if they will come out and fight."

 Strong Nazi
Bid to Crush
Kiev Wedge
 
Big Forces Take 2 Towns
SW of City; Russians
Advance in North
Strong forces of German troops southwest of. Kiev were reported last night to be either resisting fiercely or
counter-attacking in a stubborn bid to crush the Russian wedge protecting the Ukranian capital city.
Moscow admitted stiff German resistance in this sector, and last night the Berlin radio claimed the recapture
of Chernyakov and Brussilov, both cities about 35 miles from Kiev itself.
Great tank battles are being fought at many points along the southern flank of the wedge. A United Press report from Moscow said the Germans had lost 500 tanks and thousands of men in making a number of minor gains in the area.
On the Rezhitsa sector, 150 miles north of Kiev, the Soviets were reported to be launching a diversionary attack to relieve their garrisons in the wedge.
                                                     Nazis Trying for 10 Days
 For ten days massed German assaults "have been made on the southern and southwestern sides of the wedge. Soviet anti-tank units played a great part in repulsing the enemy assaults, and the German advances everywhere were made at an enormous cost.

Current Events November 24, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 24, 1943:

Huge fires blazed across Berlin all day yesterday in the wake of the war's heaviest raid on the German capital—a 2,300-ton attack on Monday night by the biggest fleet of four-engined bombers ever assembled to hit that target. While defense reserves were rushed into Berlin to try to check the fires still spreading from the RAF's early night attack, American Marauders and light RAF forces swept across the Channel in daylight yesterday^ and hammered Nazi airdromes in France.

 The Gilbert Islands attack was today called the beginning of a new drive to oust the Japanese from the Central Pacific by Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, a few hours after the news of another landing in the Gilberts area was announced.
A communique from Pearl Harbor this morning said Marines landed on Abemama atoll, 80 miles southeast of Tarawa, while the other landing forces improved their position on both the Tarawa and Makin atolls.

It also was disclosed that Lt.Col. James Roosevelt landed with the infantry on Makin Island. His landing was presumed to have been made primarily as an observer as it was with the Army instead of his own Marines, and marked his return to the atoll he assaulted with Marine raiders in August

 Gen. Koniev's army broke through in the south of the Kremenchug bridgehead today and joined up"with the Russian forces in the Dnepropetrovsk bridgehead to clear the Germans from the western bank of the Dnieper

              THE STARS AND STRIPES
             Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations
                                      New York, N.Y.—London, England       Wednesday, Nov. 24, 1943

     Berlin Fires Rage After Heaviest Raid

Greatest Air Fleet
Drops 2,300 Tons
On German Capital
2nd Raid in 5 Days Indicates Record Blitz
Is On to Wipe Out Whole City;
Marauders Hit French Field
Huge fires blazed across Berlin all day yesterday in the wake of the war's heaviest raid on the German capital—a 2,300-ton attack on Monday night by the biggest fleet of four-engined bombers ever assembled to hit that target. While defense reserves were rushed into Berlin to try to check the fires still spreading from the RAF's early night attack, American Marauders and light RAF forces swept across the Channel in daylight yesterday^ and hammered Nazi airdromes in France.
The raid on Berlin was the second major blow in five nights against the first city of the Reich, and the first reports to get out of Germany indicated that the Nazi capital was getting a beating similar to that which removed Hamburg from the war this summer. Soon after supper-time last night Berlin radio went off the air again, another RAF attack might be in progress.
Air warfare observers in London saw the raid as evidence of "one of the most terrible experiments in military history, namely, an attempt to wipe out a great enemy capital from the air."
                                                 Wilhelmstrasse Hit
The area hit can be described as the "nerve center" of Nazi Germany. Berlin radio and news agencies, whose contact with the outside world was cut off during two bomb-torn hours Monday night, were the first to give an indication of the extent of the damage. The district around the Wilhelmstrasse, the government
area; Unter den Linden, the Alexanderplatz (site of the Gestapo prison), suburban areas housing workers
and containing large factory sites where much of the Wehrmacht's electrical and navigational equipment is made—all were heavily hit in the mass raid by a force which included many hundreds of fourengined bombers. 1 he Germans claimed that many buiidings housing neutral legations and diplomatic staffs were
damaged or destroyed.

New Gilbert Landing in Drive
To Oust Japs from Cen. Pacific
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—
The Gilbert Islands attack was today called the beginning of a new drive to oust the Japanese from the Central Pacific by Secretary of Navy Frank Knox, a few hours after the news of another landing in the Gilberts area was announced.
A communique from Pearl Harbor this morning said Marines landed on Abemama atoll, 80 miles southeast of Tarawa, while the other landing forces improved their position on both the Tarawa and Makin atolls.
It also was disclosed that Lt.Col. James Roosevelt landed with the infantry on Makin Island. His landing was presumed to have been made primarily as an observer as it was with the Army instead of his own Marines, and marked his return to the atoll he assaulted with Marine raiders in August.
Troops on Tarawa and Makin Islands are still encountering considerable enemy ground resistance.
Liberators meanwhile heavily bombed the airdrome area at Nauru Island again and Army Libs continued diversionary attacks on the Marshalls.
Central Pacific operations are being directed by Vice Adm. Raymond Spruance. The amphibious forces are
under the command of Rear Adm. Richmond Turner. Landings were made on Tarawa by the second marine division (Guadalcanal veterans) under the command of Maj. Gen. Julien Smith, USMC. Those on Makin were made by troops of the 27th infantry division, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ralph Smith, U.S. Army.
Maj. Gen. Holland Smith of the Marine Corps is in command of the landing forces. Col. Knox, commenting on the Pacific operations, said the purpose of the attacks was, first, to clear the Japanese from the islands and, secondly, to shorten the U.S. supply line in the Southwest Pacific.

Russians Press 
DnieperDrive;
2 Forces Unite
Koniev's Forces Clear
More Nazis From
Southern Bank
MOSCOW, Nov. 23 (UP)—
Gen. Koniev's army broke through in the south of the Kremenchug bridgehead today and joined up"with the Russian forces in the Dnepropetrovsk bridgehead to clear the Germans from the western bank of the Dnieper.
After the break-through, they advanced 12 miles and entered the Dnepropetrovsk bridgehead several miles east of the Kremenchug-Pyatikhatka railway. The victory was only won by the Russians after a battle which went on night and day for three days. The German losses were extremely heavy. They lost 133 tanks and self-propelled guns and 143 field guns. Large numbers of German prisoners were taken and 4,000 were left
dead on the battlefield.
During the move, Russian forces in both the Dnepropetrovsk and Kremenchug bridgeheads pushed steadily towards one another.
On the northern side of the Dnieper Bend bitter fighting is still raging on the southern flank of the Kiev salient. The German attacks have been switched more to the west and are now coming from, the sector between Chernyakhov and Korostichev. They are still throwing men and tanks into this area in an attempt to cut through towards Kiev and throw the Russian attacks in the northern part of the salient off balance, but the Russian lines still hold, even after a week of some of the heaviest German attacks of the year.
Winter is gradually creeping south across the plains of the Ukraine and the black earth roads which have been stretches of mud during the autumn are now hardening and providing better going for the armor and transport of both sides.

Current Events November 23, 1943; Allies move into Gilberts:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 23, 1943:

 United States armed fores captured Makin island in the Gilberts, a Pacific fleet headquarters communique released here today announced.
On Tarawa island, also in the Gilberts, the marines have consolidated their positions and are making good progress. On Abemama island, the latest of the Gilberts invaded, the situation was described as "well in hand." Carrier-based aircraft and Liberators of the army's Seventh Air Force are continuing raids on the nearby Marshall islands. Text of the Pacific fleet headquarters 

 German forces have captured the Aegean island of Samos, it was announced officially today. Some of the British, Greek and Italian troops garrisoning the island were withdrawn several days ago, along with a number of civilians, the British announcement snltl, adding that the evacuation was completed without: loss.
The fall of the island, which was claimed hy the Berlin radio yesterday, eliminated the last major allied holding In the chain of islands flanking the western coast of Turkey

 In the heaviest aerial bombardrment in history, the R. A. F. engulfed Berlin last night with fire and devastating
explosives thundered down from 1000 bombers.
The roar of strong formations of allied aircraft heading for another blow at the continent cut the clear air of the English channel around noon today, not many hours after R. A. F. bombers had flocked back from their heaviest raid on Berlin.

 A high staff officer disclosed today that Lieutenant-General George S. (Old Blood and Guts) Patton, Jr., struck a shell-shocked soldier twice in a Sicilian hospital tent, then apologized for his conduct which later
was criticized "mercilessly" by his commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower.




 GERMAN FORCES GRAB AEGEAN ISLAND OF SAMOS
              The Bakersfield Californian
                        BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1913
      YANKS CAPTURE MAKIN ISLAND
           Berlin Shattered in Heaviest Air Raid in History

Nip Forces Smashed on
Key Gilbert Atoll as
Yanks Storm Abemama
BITTERLY RESISTING GILBERT NIPPONESE FACING DOOM; TOKYO
CLAIMS HUGE SUCCESS OFF ISLANDS; YANK BOMBERS SMASH KEY
BASES OF NAURU AND MARSHALLS TO BLOCK ENEMY AIR FLEETS

By WILLIAM T. TYREE
United Press Correspondent
WASHINGTON. Nov. 2.'5.(UP)--
United States armed fores captured Makin island in the Gilberts, a Pacific fleet headquarters communique released here today announced.
On Tarawa island, also in the Gilberts, the marines have consolidated their positions and are making good progress. On Abemama island, the latest of the Gilberts invaded, the situation was described as "well in hand." Carrier-based aircraft and Liberators of the army's Seventh Air Force are continuing raids on the nearby Marshall islands. Text of the Pacific fleet headquarters communique No. 19 follows:
                                                                          "Central Pacific:
"1. Our forces have cs\ptured Makin. On Tarawa, the marines have consolidated their positions and are making good progress against enemy concentrations on the eastern end of Hetio island with capture assured. The situation on Abcinama is well in hand.
"2. Raids are being continued against the Marslialls by ; carrier aircraft and army' Seventh Air Force Liberators." Thus, the first of the three Gilbert islands invaded by army and marine troops has fallen.
.Makin and Tarawa were invaded last Saturday.
Tokyo radio today began making extravagant claims of sucess off the Gilberts. A broadcast recorded by
United States monitors quoted a communique as claiming a mudium-slzed aircraft carrier and a destroyer were sunk and 125 planes shot down around the Gilberts since last Friday. Loss of 15 planes was admitted.
"Severe" fighting on the Islands Is continuing, especially on Tarawa, the Japanese said..
                                                          Tokyo Claims
Berlin radio, quoting Tokyo, added to the Japanese claims two large aircraft carriers damaged, one of which
was presumed sunk, a medium-sized carrier damaged and presumed sunk; a battleship, a heavy cruiser and a transport damaged or set afire.
Reports carried from Tokyo by Berlin gave the first hint the Japanese may be planning to give up the Gilberts. Berlin said that It was "stated In Tokyo thut the invasion of the Gilberts was viewed without
alarm since the Gilberts are of no importance for Japan as far as her defense is concerned.")

Germans
Capture
Samos
CANADIANS HURL BACK
NAZI  ATTACK AS BRITISH
SMASH NEARS ALFEDENA
CAIRO, Nov. 2:5. (U.P) -
German forces have captured the Aegean island of Samos, it was announced officially today. Some of the British, Greek and Italian troops garrisoning the island were withdrawn several days ago, along with a number of civilians, the British announcement snltl, adding that the evacuation was completed without: loss.
The fall of the island, which was claimed hy the Berlin radio yesterday, eliminated the last major allied holding In the chain of islands flanking the western coast of Turkey.
British forces hnd moved Into Samos, Leros, and Cos in September, Immediately a f t e r the Italian armistice, in an apparent attempt to secure a foothold on the island invasion route to Greece and the Balkans.
Cos was captured by the Nazis several weeks ago and Leros fell last Tuesday night after a five-day struggle into which the Germans threw in overwhelming ground and air forces from their neighboring strongholds In the Dodecanese islands and on Crete.
                                                                       Canadian Win
Canadian troops have repulsed a German attack north of Agnone and other British Eighth army forces have pushed closer to Alfedena, function on a road to Rome through, central Italy, allied headquarters announced
today.

Airmen
Rip Nazi
Capital
NEW FORMATION ROARS
OUT AFTER RECORD RAID
SMASHES VITAL CITY
By ROBERT STURDEVANT
LONDON, Nov. 23. (UP)—
In the heaviest aerial bombardrment in history, the R. A. F. engulfed Berlin last night with fire and devastating
explosives thundered down from 1000 bombers.
The roar of strong formations of allied aircraft heading for another blow at the continent cut the clear air of the English channel around noon today, not many hours after R. A. F. bombers had flocked back from their heaviest raid on Berlin.
First hand accounts from Berlin correspondents of Stockholm newspapers told graphically how destruction
ran through the heart of the city, wrecking government buildings and foreign legations.
"Berlin never can recover from this blow," the Aftontidningen quoted its sources as saying. Industrial areas still burning from the heavy raid last Thursday night were smashed again. Strong formations. Of daylight bombers roared across the English channel to add further weight to the growing allied-----


Reveal Patton
Struck Man
in Sicily
GENERAL APOLOGIZES
. AFTER EISENHOWER
THREAT TO "BREAK" HIM
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, IN
ALGIERS, Nov. 23. OP>—
A high staff officer disclosed today that Lieutenant-General George S. (Old Blood and Guts) Patton, Jr., struck a shell-shocked soldier twice in a Sicilian hospital tent, then apologized for his conduct which later
was criticized "mercilessly" by his commander, General Dwight D. Eisenhower.
The incident, the officer revealed, occurred last August when Patton, American Seventh Army
commander, called the soldier "yellow bellied" and berated him as he wept.
(The war department in Washington said there was no comment: that it was a theater problem and that all details would come from Eisenhower's headquarters.)
Investigation showed the 24- year-old soldier twice refused to leave front lines and finally did so only upon orders and was back in the fighting a week after Patton saw him.
The officer said Patton was not relieved of his command because of the episode or reprimanded formally by Eisenhower because he was "necessary and valuable" to allied operations in Sicily and because
of his record.
Eisenhower did, however, obtain a full report and "took the hide" off Patton for his action, the officer said.
Patton apologized at once to the hospital commander, a nurse and a doctor who watched the episode.
This apology was witnessed by C. R. Cunningham, United Press correspondent. He also apologized to
the soldier and to men of the divisions under his command. Merrill Mueller, NBC correspondent, and Demaree Bess, of the Saturday Evening Post, made a thorough investigation.
Later Eisenhower was understood to have asked correspondents not to transmit reports of the incident.
Yesterday a formal headquarters statement in reply to questions about the incident, reported in the
United States by Drew Pearson, newspaper and radio commentator, said Patton had never been reprimanded and no soldier had ever refused to obey an order from him.
Patton directed operations in both Tunisia and Sicily, once during the latter campaign disembarking on a beach head to command a drive against a serious German counterattack. He goes into battle packing pearl-handled frontier model revolvers.
The story of the incident has been known to literally thousands for weeks.