Apr. 15, 1944; Japanese unwilling to battle:

SAN MATED, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1944

Admiral Deplores

Nip Unwillingness

To Do Sea Battle

WASHINGTON, April 15.—(AP)

—Adm. Ernest J. King, accusing the Japanese of "lack of cooperation" in staking a major sea battle with the United States navy, said today that powerful new blows would be delivered during the next few months against Japanese bases, and against the Japanese fleet if it can be found.

. Japs Not Willing

Soviets Take

Tarnopol, Kill

13,600 Nazis

LONDON, April 15.—(U.P)—,

Russian troops captured the long-encircled Polish rail junction of Tarnopol today after killing 13,600 of its 16,000 garrison, and in the: Crimea plunged to within four mild of Sevastopol, newly shattered by a mass air assault which left afire..

LONDON, April 15.—(U.P)—

The Red army captured the five-way rail junction of Tarnopol in pre-war Poland today 'and 500 miles to the southeast smashed through rear guard screens before Sevastopol, from which the bomb-groggy Axis defenders were trying to flee by sea.

British Fight

To Save Imphal

From Capture

NEW DELHI, April 15—(U.R)

-—British and Indian troops en7aged Japanese forces in the Mils north and northeast of the Imphal plain today in an attempt to stop the enemy drive which has carried to within 10 miles of Imphal, capital of India's Manipur state.

The Japanese were reported suffering heavy losses in the fight were attacking from three sides in an effort to isolate British and Indian veterans in the town.