CURRENT EVENTS MARCH 25, 1942; Russians Make Gains Against Germans:

GERMAN LOSS HEAVY

Fairbanks News-Miner

America's Farthest-North Daily Newspaper — Member of The Associated Press

FAIRBANKS, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 25, 1942

Russ Keep On Making New Gains

Successes Are Reported on

Virtually All Muscovite

War Fronts

BERNE, Switzerland, March 25. —

Soviet front line dispatches today

declared Hitler's invasion armies

are reported to have been reinforced

by 600,000 troops and are

going through the meat grinder of

Russian attacks, which have cost

the Germans 140,000 men killed

alone since February 5.------

U. S. Navy Raids Jap-Held Islands

Attacks In

Philippines i

Renewed;

Nipponese Airmen Are Tckcn

by Surprise and Many

of Them Killed

Jap Advance Is Near End

CANBERRA, Australia, March 25.

WASHINGTON, March 25. — i

Japanese aerial bombardments Of I

harbor defenses in Manila bay and I

of American and Filipino positions

in Bataan peninsula in the Philip-

pines were reported today to the

War department.

The continued enemy ground activity

on Bataan peninsula indicated

the arrival of Japanese reinforcements----

Equipment

Of Enemy

Destroyed

Attack on Marcus Isl a n d

Scares Tokyo and It

Blacks Out

WASHINGTON, March 25.—The

Navy Department told of highly successful

raids recently on the Japanese-

held Wake and Marcus islands.

These raids so disturbed Japan that

reports from Pearl Harbor, T. H.,

declare Tokyo's lights were blacked

out for several nights.