The San Antonio Light
FRIDAY, MARCH 20, 1942.
Aussies Pledge Aid to Bataan
MacArthur Given Full Support
CANBERRA, Australia, March 20.
(AP)—United States forces in Australia
drew fresh inspiration today
from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
promise- of an all-out offensive to
wrest back the Philippines, while
the fight for this continent's northern
approaches flared anew on New
Guinea.
Ugly Duckling's' Cruise Success
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, March 18.
(Delayed)—(AP)—An American-built
"ugly duckling" freighter flying the
Stars and Stripes has braved the
challenge of Nazi bombers and submarines
by sailing through the eastern
Mediterranean into Alexandria
bringing war materials to reinforce
Britain' North African armies.
.The ship—first of her class commissioned
under the United States
emergency wartime building program—
brought a note of cheer to
British forces in Egypt, which have
scarcely seen an American flag since
the beginning of the war.
The vessel, under command of
Capt. Richard Ellis, a tall Louisianan,
immediately began discharging
her 10,000-ton cargo.
The ship, built and loaded in Baltimore,
traveled around Africa,
through the Red sea and the Suez
Into the Mediterranean.
Not a single enemy submarine or
plane was sighted.
She carried a naval gun crew.
NAZIS READY KARKOV RETREAT
by the Associated Press.
Hitler's Ukraine armies were reported
in Stockholm dispatches Friday
to be making hasty preparations
for a retreat from Kharkov,
the Soviet "Pittsburgh".
The city was reported in flames
> Nazi demolition squads blasted
military stores and oil supplies.----
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