Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND. CALIFORNIA. THURSDAY. JANUARY 14 1943
Three Jap Destroyers Damaged
By Fleet Of U.S. Torpedo Boats
Enemy Flotilla
Forced to Flee
New Attempt to Relieve Nipponese
On Guadalcanal Apparently BaIked;
Two Hits Scored on One of Worships
WASHINGTON. Jan. 14.—(/P)—Motor torpedo boats, dash-
ing into battle against Japanese destroyers, damaged two and
possibly a third enemy destroyer off Guadalcanal, the Navy
reported today.
The enemy vessels presumably were attempting to carry
reinforcements to Guadalcanal strategic island in the Solo-
mons, but were forced to withdraw to the northwest by the
furious torpedo boat assault.
The damaging of the Jap destroyers brought to 87 the
number of enemy warships damaged in the Solomons. In
addition, in :ha: same area 57 Japanese war vessels have been sunk
and six probably sunk.
Indiana Evening Gazette
INDIANA, PENNSYLVANIA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 1943
REDS BREAK CAUCASUS MAIN LINE
Nazi Officers Leave
Russia By Airplane
To Escape Trap
RAF Hits German-Occupied France and
Holland for Eighth Night—Allies Rain
Havoc on Rommel's Africa Corps;
Surprise Raid South of Tunis;
Rain Slows War in Guinea
By The Associated Press i
A new 50-mile retreat by Adolf Hitler's Caucasian armies
was reported in Soviet dispatches today as the Russians
crushed Nazi counter-attacks and captured 12 more towns
in their north-bound drive toward the great German base
at Rostov.
Simultaneously, London heard a broadcast by the German
news agency DNB admitting that Soviet tanks had
broken the Axis main line in the Caucasus.
On the Stalingrad front, Russian shock troops battling
to annihilate the remnants of 22 Nazi divisions trapped in
the Don-Volga corridor reported they had killed 400 Germans,
thrown back counter-attacks and routed the invaders
from 27 more dugouts and blockhouses.
A Reuters (British news agency) dispatch from Moscow
said high German officers were now leaving the Stalingrad
area by plane to escape the Soviet death trap.
High-lighting other developments in the Global War, Britain's powerful
new 1943 aerial offensive hit Germany overnight for the eighth
time in 11 nights, following up a thunderous daylight assault yesterday
on Nazi-occupied France and Holland.
London said the RAF's big bombers unloaded 100 tons of high ex-
plosives and incendiaries in the 3(???) minute night raid, striking at Ger-
man war foundries in the Ruhr for the third night in a row.
Once again the RAF's main tar- get was the battered city of Essen,
home of the giant Krupp armament works. Our RAF bombers were listed
as missing.
Other Allied aerial blows fell upon the Axis in North Africa,
where squadrons of United Nations fliers rained havoc on the forward
positions of Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's Africa corps and
blasted Axis transport convoys in Tunisia and Tripolitania.
While furious battles raged in the African skies, British headquarters
announced that the lull still prevailed in landing fighting on the
Libyan Desert, with Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's 8th army
gathering strength for the final I5O miledrive to Tripoli.
See INTERNATIONAL
In Tunisia, French headquarter; reported that French troops killed
10 Axis soldiers and captured others. In a surprise raid on an enemy outpost
at Sidi Arat, 87 miles south of Tunis.
Dispatches from Allied headquarters in North Africa said the French:
also stormed and captured two strategic heights northwest of
Kairouan, rail and highway junction town.
Allied warplanes, blasting at Japan's far-flung invasion armies
from Burma to the South Seas, were o f f i c i a l l y credited today with
s e t t i n g big fires at the important1 enemy base of Lae New Guinea.
and raining destruction on half a dozen other targets
On the New Guinea land front, heavy rains slowed efforts to annihilate
the trapped Japanese- garrison at Sanananda Point, but small
Allied patrols worked constantly to ferret out hidden enemy positions
in the swamps and jungles. General Douglas Mac-Arthur's
headquarters said United Nations airmen bombed Lae. Salamaua,
Madang and Finschhafen in northeast New Guinea, striking the
heaviest blows at Lae where the Japanese reinforcements landed
from a badly battered convoy last week.
Nine Japanese bombers raided
the wharf area at Merauke in Dutch New Guinea, the communique
said, but caused negligible damage.
In Burma, RAF planes flying from bases in India renewed the
attack on the big Japanese base at Akyab, on the Bay of Bengal, and
pounded targets at Kauktaw, 40 miles north of Akyab.
Joltin Joe
To Enter
Army
RENO, NEV., Jan. 14-(AP)-Joe DiMaggio, perhaps the greatest
player in the game today, is quitting baseball to join the armed
forces.
WOMEN WANT
PROHIBITION
Church Group Asks FDR
to Protect Their Boys
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 —(UP)—
Urging that President Roosevelt "give us wartime prohibition as
Woodrow Wilson did in World War-No. No. 1." a letter from members
of Hopewell United Presbyterian Mission Society Church, of Laurel,
Pa., was placed in the congressional record by Representative Gross (R Pa.).
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