Current Events November 3, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 3, 1943:

Advance Russian columns which have sealed off the Crimea by overrunning the Perekop Isthmus were
thrusting down into the great peninsula last night as other forces drove westward toward Kherson and the mouth of the Dnieper River, now only 30 miles away.

 United States Marines quietly slipped onto the shores of Bougainville Island early Monday morning and with little opposition seized an important harbor installation, thus giving the Allies a firm foothold on the last Jap-held island in the Solomons, it was revealed yesterday in°a special communique from Gen. MacArthur's headquarters.

Reports that Russian front air bases are to be made available to United States bombers for daylight attacks against eastern Germany were current in Berlin last night.


              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. 3,1943

Reds Thrust Into Crimea, Drive
To Within 30 Miles of Kherson;
Germans Admit Kerch Landing
Nazi Troops Pinned
Against Dnieper
Slaughtered
Advance Russian columns which have sealed off the Crimea by overrunning the Perekop Isthmus were
thrusting down into the great peninsula last night as other forces drove westward toward Kherson and the mouth of the Dnieper River, now oniy 30 miles away.
Already menaced from the north by the Russian advance, the Germans themselves announced yet another threat at the eastern end of the Crimea. -Berlin radio admitted that Soviet troops hadlanded by sea on the Kerch Peninsula.
Berlin claimed that the major portion of the invading Red Army forces were wiped out. There was no word from Moscow on the Berlin report. The southern column of the Russian army which smashed the enemy's far
southern front after the Melitopol breakthrough had bypassed a large German concentration in its drive down the Perekop Isthmus into the Crimea. These German troops had little chance of escape, as did countless others who jammed the peninsula in confused disorder helpless under continuous Russian bombardment fiom the air.
                                                    Find Villages Unscarred
So fast was the advance on Kherson that Cossack cavalry, for the first time since the Russian offensive began, were passing through villages unscarred by German destruction troops. Advance Red Army spearheads were now in the rear of many Nazi units, which were being systematically mopped up.

Marines Hit
Big Jap Base
In Solomons
Harbor on Bougainville
Seized by Swift
Island Attack
United States Marines quietly slipped onto the shores of Bougainville Island early Monday morning and with little opposition seized an important harbor installation, thus giving the Allies a firm foothold on the last Jap-held island in the Solomons, it was revealed yesterday in°a special communique from Gen. MacArthur's headquarters.
The swift, coordinated Marine attack preceded by-a murderous air onslaught— saw the Allies jump another 200 miles up the Solomons from New Georgia in the drive to expel the Japanese from Rabaul, the great distributing terminal of theTokyo-Truk-Rabaul supply line which is the life-blood of any enemy operation
in the Southwest Pacific.
Rabaul's much battered airports are only 260 mites from Buin and Kieta. airfields on Bougainville—the ultimate objectives of the Marines consolidating their positions at Augusta Bay. Late last night dispatches said the Leathernecks were only 45 miles from Buin..
                                                           Halsey in Command
Gen. Mac Arthur said Adm. William F. Halsey is commanding the Marine force
which landed from a powerful fleet of naval vessels apparently unsuspected by the Jap force on the island, believed to number about 40,000 men.



Nazis Fear Fort
Bases in Russia
MADRID, Nov. 2 (AP)—
Reports that Russian front air bases are to be made available to United States bombers for daylight attacks against eastern Germany were current in Berlin last night.
Spanish correspondents in Berlin, who repeatedly said that what worried Germans more than any battlefront was bombing attacks from the west, now report the German fear that the Moscow conference may bring the same Fortresses from the east, too.
Such a decision, it was recognized in Berlin, would bring Germany's eastern heavy industries under the pounding Fortresses which have already smashed deep into the Ruhr and Rhineland.