Current Events January 30, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JANUARY 30, 1944:

               OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY/JANUARY 30, 1944

1500 Planes Attack German
City With 1800-Ton Load,
Down 102 Enemy, Lose 44
LONDON, Jan. 29.—(U.P)—
An air-raid alarm was sounded here early this evening, and the city's anti-aircraft batteries
immediately threw up a heavy barrage. The all clear came after the barrage drove away raiders attempting to cross the city at two or three points.
LONDON. Jan. 30.—(Sunday)—(AP)—
More than 1800 tons of bombs were hurled on Frankfurt, Germany, in daylight yesterday by more than 800 U.S. Flying Fortresses and' Liberators—the greatest armada of heavy American bombers ever sent into action.
They and their fighter escort, totalling more than 1500 planes, shot down 102 German fighters, it was announced' in. a joint communique early today from U.S. headquarters and the British Air Ministry.
Thirty-one U.S. bombers and 13 fighters failed to return. The bomber airmen themselves shot down 60 enemy planes and the escort pilots 42.
CITV. DELUGED
The big German manufacturing and transport center, was deluged with high-explosives, incendiaries and propanganda leaflets.
The bomb tonnage was the greatest ever reported for an American raid.
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Oakland Tribune, Sunday, January 30, 1944      A-3
BRITISH PRESS LASHES OUT
AGAINST INHUMAN JAPANESE

LONDON. Jan. 29.—(AP)—
The London Daily Express asserted today that the revelations of Japanese atrocities against Allied prisoners should dispel any last doubts that Britain will hurl her full might against Japan when Germany is
defeated. "If there lingered in any man's mind a thread of doubt that Britain would throw the whole weight of
her military power against the Japanese the day Hitler is dead, it must snap now," the paper said.
The British press as a whole lashed out against the Japanese, calling them barbarians and savages and demanding retribution.
(F.C.C. monitors said they had heard no mention of the Allied charges on any Tokyo broadcast to
the Japanese people.)"When the Japanese are beaten back to their own savage land," said the London Daily Mail, "let them live in complete isolation from the rest of the world as in a leper
compound, unclean."
The Daily Herald suggested that "delicate though the situation is." a direct approach by the Russians to the Japanese might have a chance of remedying the situation, if the Russians felt it wise to make such a move.
Echoing the sentiment of the Daily Express, the News Chronicle said that "never was there any doubt that Great Britain would throw her utmost strength against Japan as soon as she settles accounts with Germany. Stories made public of Japanese treatment of military and civilian prisoners make that assurance doubly sure."
"Are they (the Japanese) human?" asked the Daily Mirror, and the Yorkshire Post denounced them as "a nation of savages tricked out deceptively in modern dress."
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76 Nurses
Still Captive
WASHINGTON, Jan. 29. —(AP) —
Seventy-six women nurses of the Army and Navy apparently are still prisoners of the Japanese, captured
when the Philippines fell.
Army files show that 66 Army nurses are prisoners. Persons recently returned to this country in an exchange of internees say that 10 Navy nurses, brousht into Manila early in 1942 (possibly taken at the time naval installations in the Manila area were captured) alsoare held by the enemy.
The Army nurses are of the valiant little band who nursed more than 5000 wounded and sick through
the Bataan campaign. On April 7, 1942, they wore taken to temporary safety at Corrcfiidor—until that
fortress was taken by the enemy a month later.
Persons returning to this country since the loss of the Philippines say that the Army nurses who fled to
Corregidor were kept in the tunnels of the Fortress for several
months by the Japanese to care for wounded prisoners. They then were taken to Manila and eventually sent to Santo Tomas University, in the city, used by the Japanese as a civilian internee camp.
A total of 88 Army nurses were on Bataan and Corregidor as the peninsular campaign bcgan to draw to a close. On June 1. 1942. General MacArthur reported that 22 nurses had arrived in Australia and that "nearly all" of them escaped only a few ddays before the fall of Coregidor.