current Events May 5, 1942; BITTER FIGHTS RAGE IN MADAGASCAR and UKRANE;

                     THE DAILY TIMES-NEWS

ASSOCIATED PRESS SERVICE BURLINGTON, N. C, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 194

BITTER FIGHTS RAGE ON MADAGASCAR

REDS HAMMER KEY NAZI BASES IN UKRANE

French Battery Is Seized Despite Resistance

BY ROGER D. GREENE

Associated Press War Editor

British commandos, marines

and infantry were re-

ported storming the big

French naval base at Diego

Suarez, Madagascar, from the

rear while warships and

squadrons of airplanes attacked

the harbor frontally----

Efforts Made To Break Hold At Leningrad

In Hard Fight

Three Fronts Opened

Up Before Hitler Can Attack

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's

Red armies were reported

hammering at three

key German bases in the Ukraine

today, attacking in the

vicinities of Kursk, Kharkov

and Taganrog, while in the

north the defenders of Leningrad

strove desperately to

break the nazi siege ring.

Timoshenko's huge-scale assaults

on a 300-mile front, ranging from

the sea'of Azov half way to Moscow,

coincided with a special message

he. sent yesterday to residents

of the German-occupied Ukraine

“The Red army' is on its way to

liberate you.”

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