Current Eents November 22, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 22, 1943:

—Powerul United States forces, carrying the fight to a new section of Japan's Pacific outposts, have landed on Makin and Tarawa islands, about midway between New Guinea and Hawaii.
United States Marines and Army troops pushed ashore at both places, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the Pacific fleet, announced in a communique today, under cover of mighty naval units of all types and after those and nearby islands had been pounded for a week by bombing
planes.

 Russian troops for the second successive day fought the German attack against the vital Kiev bulge to a standstill today, inflicting heavy losses on the Nazi force of 150,000 men, while north and southeast of that area other Russian units j continued their drives toward the prewar Polish border and Rumania, Moscow
announced tonight.

Drew Pearson, radio commentator, said tonight that Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr had been severely "reprimanded " by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and expressed the opinion that Patton will not be used in combat anymore

                    The Titusville Herald
                   TITUSVILLE, PA., MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 22, 1943

Americans Land on Makin and Tarawa in Gilberts;
Russians Check Nazi Attacks Against Kiev Bulge

New Sector
Attacked by
U. S. Forces
In Pacific
Marines, Army Troops
Land Under Cover
Of Mighty Navy Units
After Week's Bombing
MEET RESISTANCE
ON TARAWA ATOLL
Yank Attacks Mean
1,100-Mile Extension
Of Pacific Operations
By The. Associated Press
—Powerul United States forces, carrying the fight to a new section of Japan's Pacific outposts, have landed on Makin and Tarawa islands, about midway between New Guinea and Hawaii.
United States Marines and Army troops pushed ashore at both places, Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander of the Pacific fleet, announced in a communique today, under cover of mighty naval units of all types and after those and nearby islands had been pounded for a week by bombing
planes.
The assault forces met only moderate resistance at Makin island, but the Japanese fought back fiercely at
Tarawa and the battle still rages there.
Since the Japanese on Tarawa had been holding out for 24 hours when the communication was issued, it
appeared that American forces there were up against a win, die of retreat proposition. Makin and Tarawa
are in the Gilbert islands, British-mandated territory which was seized by the Japanese in December, 1941. The American attack there means a 1.100-mile extension of the arc of operations on the perimeter of Japan's southeastern frontier
                                                                Artillery Units Included
These operations extend from New Guinea northeastward through the Solomons and to a point about 2,400
miles from Hawaii. It'brings major Allied forces in the Central Pacific to a point north of the equator for the first time.
It was disclosed that Army artillery and other units besides infantry were among the assault troops.
The Marines in the operation  in the operation were reported to include some of those who fought in the Solomons, but no further clue to their identity was given.
Apparently the enemy threw up some aerial opposition to the landing, but it seems doubtful whether the
Americans encountered any Japanese naval forces.
Landings on atolls such as Makin and Tarawa are tough jobs because they afford no protection to attackers and little to defenders except that the latter have had time to dig in, set up artillery and gouge out shallow foxholes.
Most atolls rise only a few yards above sea level.

Red Drives
Advance in
Other Areas
Push Toward Borders
Of Rumania, Poland
Despite Heavy Mud
TAKE LYUMBIMOUKA
EAST OF DNIEPER
Nazis Claim Column
40 Miles from Kiev
In Counter-Offensive
By The Associated Press
LONDON, Nov. 21.—
Russian troops for the second successive day fought the German attack against the vital Kiev bulge to a standstill today, inflicting heavy losses on the Nazi force of 150,000 men, while north and southeast of that area other Russian units j continued their drives toward the prewar Polish border and Rumania, Moscow
announced tonight.
The Red Army's drive to the southwest, aimed at liquidating the German forces in the Dnieper bend, extended over a 90-mile front from Kremenchug to Dnepropetrovsk, and in some places the Soviet troops made their way for ward through mud waist deep.
While the Russian communique spoke only of minor successes in the southwestern push, the German radio said that the Red Army was using 50 divisions, 600,000 to 750,000 men, in this truggle. The German communique spoke of "grim defensive battles'' which it said Nazi units fought there.
                                                         Germans Claim Big Gains
A claim that the Germans had driven back in the last 48 hours in the Zhitomir-Korostyshev region to within
40 miles of Kiev was made in a broadcast dispatch of the German DNB news agency, but the Russian war bulletin, recorded here by the Soviet monitor from a broadcast, flatly declared that Red Army troops continued to repulse" large German forces in this area,
German Field Marshal Gen. Fritz von Mannstein. on this the eighth day of the bloody fighting in the northern
Ukraine region, struck at the Kiev bulge with waves of infantry and tanks

General Patton
'Reprimanded
Pearson Says
By The Associated Press
WASHINGTON, Nov. 21. —
Drew Pearson, radio commentator, said tonight that Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton Jr had been severely "reprimanded " by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and expressed the opinion that Patton will not be used in combat anymore.
Pearson gave his account on the Blue Network in explaining what he termed the mystery surrounding the  whereabouts of Gen. Patton. commander of the Seventh Army in the invasion of Sicily. Eisenhower, as
commander of Allied forces in the Mediterranean theatre, is Patton's superior.
The War Department said it had no information and no comment on the report.
Datelining his dispatch as Algiers, where Allied headquarters is located, Pearson said that Eisenhower's reprimand followed an altercation involving Patton. a shell-shocked soldier in a Sicilian hospital and the medical officer commanding the hospital. Pearson  said the argument started when Patton ordered the soldier from bed and the medical officer intervened.