CLEARFIELD PROGRESS
THE CLEARFIELD PROGRESS, CLEARFIELD, PA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 2O, 1943
REDS PUSH NEARER KHARKOV
ALLIES ARE CLOSING IN ON AXIS DESERT ARMIES
Libya Campaign Nears
Climatic Phase; News
For Hitler Is All Bad
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Russia's armies were reported storming forward today within 79
miles of Kharkov, the "Pittsburgh ni the Ukraine," while on the North
African front the British 8th Army was swiftly closing in on Homs and
Tarhuna. respectively 56 and 40 miles from the big Axis stronghold
at Tripoli.
A Cairo broadcast said British vanguards were only 30 miles from
Tripoli, last citadel in Premier Mussolini's African empire, in pursuit of
Nazi Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's fleeing columns.
At the same time, the Berlin radio said British parachutists were being
dropped behind Rommel's lines to harass communications.
Coinciding with these developments, German war planes attacked
London shortly afternoon today in the biggest daylight raid in two
years, bombing at least two districts in the capital and machine-gunning
streets during the lunch hour. 'Other bombs fell south of the city.
Preliminary reports indicated that at least 11 Nazi planes were destroyed
by RAF fighters alone. The raiders attacked under cover of 50
to 100 fighters who patrolled the channel.
It was London's first daylight alarm in three months. A school was
smashed and set aflame, and rescue workers dug many bodies from the
wreckage. Others were believed killed or trapped alive in debris.
Twenty-four persons were known to have been killed in London.
On the North African front, Allied fortunes fluctuated, with the British
racing ahead in Libya while the Axis scored gains in Tunisia.
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