CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 12, 1942;

The Portsmouth Herald

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., THURSDAY, EVENING, MARCH 1 2, 1942

U.S. Bombers Blast Jap Ships

Cripple Armada Tokyo Declare

(By the Associated Press)

Heavy US army bombers were credited today with

crippling at least part of a Japanese invasion armada

sailing down the coast of New Guinea toward Australia,

while in Tokyo, Japan's Premier Gen. Hideki

Tojo boasted that Allied sea power had been crushed----

Reds Break Nazi Lines At Smolensk

(By The Associated Press)

Russia's armies were reported to

day to have broken through German

lines guarding the direct approach

to Smolensk; key Nazi stronghold

230 miles west of Moscow, and front line

dispatches said German positions

in the whole vast region north

of Smolensk were now endangered

by the Soviet counter-offensive.

Red army troops scored another

important break-through north of

Lake Ilmen on the Leningrad front,

it was reported, smashing strong

German defense positions.

Gandhi Sees Agreement With Britain Unlikely

Wardha, India, March 12 (AP)—

Despite the British government's

dominion status for India, the supreme

leader of Hindu nationalists,

Mohandas K. Gandhi, professed today

to see no sign of settlement for

the Indian question.

Brazil Seizes Axis Alien Holdings

Retaliation For Ship Sinkings May Presage Declaration Of War

Rio De Janeiro, March 12 (AP) — Brazil today

confiscated up to 30 per cent of the funds of Axis

subjects in this country in a decree which branded

Germany, Italy and Japan as aggressors and strengthened

belief that a declaration of war might follow.