MANITOWOC HERALD-TIMES
MANITOWOK, WIS, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27,1942
FRENCH FLEET SCUTTLE
62 Warships Sunk By
Own Crews As Nazis
TAKE PORT OF TOULON
.
Vichyy Reports "Not One Vessel Afloat" As Hitler
Seizes Big French Naval Base After Overcoming
Resistance By Frenchmen
By the Associated Press
Defiant French seamen were reported to have scuttled the entire
French naval squadron of 62 warships at Toulon today as
Adolf Hitler, ruthlessly crushing the last of France's free homeland
under the Nazi boot, seized the big French naval base after
overcoming resistance.
A Vichy broadcast said German troops marched into Toulon
at 4 a. m. today.
"By orders of Admiral de la Borde, vessels of the French squadron
at Toulon scuttled themselves," the. broadcast said.
"At 10 a. m., there was not one vessel afloat."
The German high command said merely that "part" of the
squadron' had been sent to the bottom by their French crews as
Axis troops moved in to thwart an alleged plot for the fleet to
escape to the Allies.
Hitler Ordered Seizure
Here's What's
Left of the
French Fleet
By The Associated Press
From Vichy announcements and
information obtained from well informed
quarters in London it appeared
today that this is' the disposition
of the French fleet
AT TOULON: Reported all were
scuttled—
Three battleships—the 26,000 ton
Dunkerque and Strasbourg and the
22,000 ton Provence.
Four heavy and three light
cruisers of 10,000 and ",600 tons,
unnamed.
France's only seaplane tender,
the Commandant Teste.
25 destroyers
26 submarines
—A total of 62 warships not
counting sloops and auxiliaries.
SUNK OR PUT OUT OF ACTION
AT CASABLANCA A N D
ORAN DURING ALLIED LANDINGS—
One battleship, Jean Bart, 36,-
000 tons, beached.
Light 7,249 ton cruiser Primauguet,
beached.
Four destroyers disabled.
Three submarines sunk.
One submarine damaged.
AT DAKAR, WHERE MILITARY
AUTHORITIES ARE NOW
COOPERATING WITH ADMIRAL
DARLAN
One battleship, Richelieu, 85,-
000 tons damaged- in 1940.
Three cruisers, of 7,600 tons
each, Gloire, Montcalm and Georges
; Leygues.
" Three, destroyers.
Eight 'to twelve submarines.
Submarine t≫e nder Jules Verne.
DEMOBILIZED AT ALEXANDRIA—
One battleship, 22.189 ton Lorraine.
Four cruisers.
At least one submarine.
IN THE FIGHTING FRENCH
HANDS TWO
battleships, 32,189 ton Faris
and Courbet.
Five destroyers.
Four submarines.
D E M O B I L I ZED AT
NIQUE—
Aircraft carrier Beam.
Two cruisers.
Japs Hold
Positions
Reinforced By Marine Units
In Bona-Gona Area
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA. ( AP)— Reinforced by
strong Marine units. Japanese troops
crammed into the narrow Buna-Gona
beachhead are holding their major
positions in the face of daylong air
aasaults and steady but slightly
abated pressure from Allied ground
forces.
Comparatively meager official reports
from the New Guinea front
today showed little geographical
change in the battle picture in the
last 24 hours.
But a check on the Japanese dead
confirmed earlier indications that
the enemy, despite severe blows
by Gen. Douglas MacArthur's aerial
squadrons, had succeeded in bringing
reinforcements into action
The WAR
TO D A Y
By DEWITT MAC KENZIE
SOMEWHERE IN LIBYA, Nov.
26—(Delayed)—Marshal Rommel is
likely to try to recoup the fallen
fortunes of himself and master by
making a stand at El Aghella, on
the great Gulf of Sirte.
No one here doubts the determination
of the Germans to pay any.
price in blood in an effort to main-
tain a foothold in North Africa—
for this is essential to control of
the Mediterranean,. Without that
domination Hitler can no longer
even hope far victory in the European
war.
How much of a, stand Rommel
can make at strategic El Aghella
must depend on two,things:
(1) Whether Axis forces in Tunisia
can hold Bizerte and Tunis
against the Allied offensive from
the west !
(2) What striking power remains
in Rommel's army. He has suffered
huge losses In men and material
and the troops have been run ragged
by the speed of a retreat of
more than 500 miles that In the
early stages, was a debacle.
The greatest danger to the Axis
undoubtedly lies in the threat to
BIserte and Tunis.
REDS DEAL NAZIS SMASHING BLOWS
BRITISH TAKE CITY IN NORTH AFRICA
KINGSPORT NEWS
KINGSPORT, TENN., FRL, NOV. 27, 1942
Axis Loses
114,000 Men
In 8 Days
Thousands More
Facing Disaster
At Stalingrad
(By The Associated Press)
Moscow reported Friday
that the great Soviet offensive
at Stalingrad was smashing
ahead in an enveloping
a semi-circular arc, sweeping
| around hundreds of thou-
sands of Germans now facing en-
trapment and putting out of action
16.000 more Nazi troops for a
a total of 114,000 dead and captured
in the eight-day-old drive.
Another special communique, the
fifth in five days, said 12,000 more
prisoners had been taken, and the
regular daily midnight communique
listed more than 4.000 killed
in various sectors of the Stalin-
grad area.
Towns Recaptured
Nearly a score of new towns were
i listed as recaptured in Thursday's
action as a strong Soviet force
which had been pushing southward
west of Stalingrad now swung
to the east toward other Red army
forces pushing southwestward from
Stalingrad.
Allies Find Japanese Hard
To Blast Out of New Guinea
By Murlin Spencer
With the American Forces Somewhere in New Guinea
Delayed) (AP)—Fanatical Japanese resistance and "beau-
tifully placed defense positions" are confronting. American
troops in their drive to Uproot the Japanese from the rain
soaked jungle defenses guarding the approaches to Buna,
but the Americans are determined they will drive out the
Japanese in the end.
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