Current Events December 18. 1943[

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY DECEMBER 18, 1943:

U. S. invasion forces have wiped out the last enemy pockets on the Arawe peninsula in a three mile advance that carried them to the neck of the narrow strip of land-jutting from the southwest coast of New Britain, an official spokesman announced today.

 (A Japanese communique, issued more than 48 hours after -the American invasion, acknowledged
for the first time that the Sixth army had established a bridgehead on New Britain and said that.bteavy fighting was raging. Japanese naval planes were credited by the communique with damaging a cruiser and sinking five transports and at least 55 landing barges in attacks on the invasion fleet.)

The Berlin radio reported- tonight that a massive Russian attack by more than 200,000 men in the Nevel sector east of Latvia had forced the Germans back in what was called a 'shortening of the front."
A Nazi broadcast said the Red army threw into the attack 14 infantry divisions, two complete tank corps, two cavalry divisions, and one artillery division.

 German spies plotted to shoot President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin as they drove through the streets of Teheran, according to information uncovered by Russian agents
and relayed to the Roosevelt party.

                                 SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1943

 Peninsula of
Arawe Now in
U. S. Possession
Patrols Already in Jungle
  Thrusting Toward
     North Coast
ADVANCED A L L I E D
HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea, Dec. 18. (UP)—
U. S. invasion forces have wiped out the last enemy pockets on the Arawe peninsula in a three mile advance that carried them to the neck of the narrow strip of land-jutting from the southwest coast of New Britain, an official spokesman announced today.
Fiont reports "said Sixth army patrols already were thrusting into the jungle north of the peninsula in what appeared to be the prelude to an advance across the rugged back of New Britain to the north coast in an attempt to cut one of the few remaining* supply lines to
Rabaul. Keystone of Jap defenses in the Southwest Pacific.
                                                                      Jap Report
 (A Japanese communique, issued nore than 48 hours after -the American invasion, acknowledged
for the first time that the Sixth army had established a bridgehead on New Britain and said that.bteavy fighting was raging. Japanese naval planes were credited by the communique with damaging a cruiser and sinking five transports and at least 55 landing barges in attacks on the invasion fleet.)
 A spokesman for Gen. Douglas MaeArthur said Brig. Gen. Julian W. Cunningham's Sixth army had reached the neck of the Arawe peninsula, three miles from the briginal beachhead on House Firemen
Beach, Friday.
                                                                   Control Peninsula
"The entire peninsula is now in American hands," he said. Japanese bombers and fighters tried repeatedly Friday to break through the protective curtain of allied fighters to attack troops fighting their way up the Amalut plantation on the south shore of the peninsula, but each time were driven off.

 Soviets Poised
For Opening of
Winter Drive
Roads Harden, Moscow
   Beams With Air of
       Expectancy
LONDON, Dec. 18.— (U.P.)—
The Berlin radio reported- tonight that a massive Russian attack by more than 200,000 men in the Nevel sector east of Latvia had forced the Germans back in what was called a 'shortening of the front."
A Nazi broadcast said the Red army threw into the attack 14 infantry divisions, two complete tank corps, two cavalry divisions, and one artillery division.
                                                             Break Defenses
Plunging into the base of the German-salient looping-northeastward to Leningrad, the Russians broke into the Nazi defense system and threatened its entire structure until the front was shortened, Berlin radio communications said.

NAZI SHARPSHOOTER
PLOT REVEALED TO KlLL
BIG THREE IN TEHERAN
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. — (U.P.) 
German spies plotted to shoot President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Josef Stalin as they drove through the streets of Teheran, according to information uncovered by Russian agents
and relayed to the Roosevelt party. _ _ _ ___
Mr. Roosevelt first disclosed the plot to his news conference yesterday. He said he did not take too much stock in it, but Stalin himself warned him of a plot against the "Big Three.
That was why Mr, Roosevelt abruptly changed his quarters from the American legation to the fortified Russian embassy after one night in Teheran.'
While the President went into no details, Russian officials who informed the President's party about the plot said that German spies planned to slioot the President, the Prime Minister and the Soviet Premier as they rode through the narrow treets of the,colorful Persian city.