San Mateo Times
SAN MATEO, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, NOVI'MBER 19, 1942
NEW JAP LOSSES IN SOLOMONS
Navy Lists 5 Enemy Warships*
Climax Nearing in Tunisia;
3 Allied Armies Close In;
Germans Arrest Weygand
GIANT BATTLESHIPS
REVEALED AS SLUGGING
IT OUT IN SOLOMONS
WASHINGTON. Nov. 19.—(U.P)—Five Japanese warships,
including a battleship or heavy cruiser, were sunk in a fierce en-
gagment during the night of November 14-15. one of the encoun-
ters which occurred during just a week-end's battle in the Solomons
the navy announced today.
Laval Thought
Now in Full
Vichy Control
LONDON, Nov. 19.—(U.P)—
An allied army estimated at
300,000 men moved on Tunisia
today with strong indications
the climax of the drive may be
reached by this week-end.
Axis positions in Africa were
beset by a three-way allied offensive.
The British Eighth army was
clashing with Marshal Erwin Rommel's
rear guards south of Benghazi
and from the Lake Chad region.
1300 miles south of Tripoli,
an American and Fighting French
force was reported racing north
across the almost trackless desert.
Italy Soft
London observers believed the
allies were making; every effort to
bring the African campaign to a
stunning conclusion and open the
way for attacking Nazi Europe and
particularly the axis weak spot,
Italy.
The axis radio reported that Gen.
Maxime Weygand has been arrested
and taken to Germany, and hinted
that Pierre Laval already may have
negotiations in progress to
bring France into the war as a full
axis partner.
Death Toll 47
After Oregon
Hospital Meal
Frozen Egg Yolks Investigated
as Source of
Poison
SALEM, Ore., Nov. 19.—(U.P)
—A ward-by-ward check today
showed deaths from food poisoning
at the Oregon state mental
hospital had risen to at
least 47, with the possibility
that one or two more of the 400
patients stricken last night had
succumbed.
Hospital authorities said unofficially
they believed 47 were
efforts to save the survivors there
was no central cross-check on casualties.
Forty two bodies were
counted in the hospital morgue.
Blames Eggs
Staff doctors agreed that frozen
egg yolk, served scrambled at dinner
last night, were the poisoning
agent, but there was disagreement
as to the nature of the death dealing
mixture.
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