THE CHARLEROI MAIL
CHABLEEOI, WASHINGTON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1943
MAJOR VICTORY AS TRIPOLI FALLS
Two Navy Transport Planes Missing
British Hoist
Flag Over City
BULLETIN
Allied Headquarters In
North Africa, Jan. 23—(UP)
—Allied troops have halted a two-column German drive
in northeastern Tunisia and American planes continued
to hammer the corridor thru which the routed Afrika
Korps must flee from Tripoli. it was disclosed today.
LONDON, Jan. 23—(UP),
—The British Eighth Army marched into Tripoli and;
hoisted the Union Jack at. A. M. today and then sent
striking forces racing west of Benito Mussolinis
last African capital in an attempt to encircle and annihilate
Axis forces straggling into Tunisia.
25 Officers, Men
Reported on board
LONG OVER DUE
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 23—(UP)
—Army and Navy aircraft. Coastal vessels and ground parties searched
the California coastline and inland territory today for two Navy transport
planes missing- with 23 officers
and enlisted men aboard.
One was a giant seaplane—carrying1 10 officer passengers and a crew
of nine from Pearl Harbor—which has been missing since Thursday morning
when fog and bad weather prevented a landing: near San Francisco. The second
plane, a cargo transport, has been missing- since Thursday with its
crew of three officers and three enlisted men on a flight from Winslow.
Ariz., to San Pedro. Cal.
THE LOWELL SUN
Lowell Mass. Saturday. January 23 .1943
MACARTHUR'S TROOPS MOPPING UP
SCATTERED JAP REMNANTS IN PAPUA
Only Few of
15,000 Troops
Still Alive
Allies Hunt Down Hungry Fugitives in Dense Jungle
By Don Caswell
GEN. MacAATHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,
Australia, Jan. 23 (UP;)—American and Australian
troops after smashing the last organized Japanese resistance in
Papua, hunted down today the handful of tattered, hungry,
fever-ridden fugitives who remained of an enemy army that,
four months ago, 15,000 strong,was within 32 miles of Port-
Moresby.
Gen. Douglas MacArlhur announced in a communique,
that the last three enemy pockets of resistance, two
flanking Sanananda point on the north coast of New Guinea,
the third inland, had been broken and that 725 enemy
dead had been counted. The day before 150 Japanese
had been killed when the first of the enemy pockets was
taken.
THE BISMARCK TRIBUNE
BISMARCK, N. D. SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1943
TRIPOLI FALLS BRITISH
8th Army Pursues
Rommel Remnants
Into Tunisia
LONDON — (AP) — The conquering British Eighth
army wrested Tripoli from the Axis Saturday and the conquest
of Premier Mussolini's African empire, which Prime
Minister Churchill pledged in 1940 would be torn "to shreds
and tatters," was all but complete. Rear guards left behind by
Marshal Rommel to slow the pursuit of his main forces into
Tunisia were overwhelmed and
the British took possession of the burning city at 5 a. m.,
officials announced in Cairo. "Our forward troops entered Tripoli
early this morning," British headquarters announced.
Russian Army Captures
German Air Base at Salsk
MOSCOW— (AP) —Soviet troops, smashing through the
German defense lines along the Manych waterway, have
captured the railroad center and air base of Salsk, 100
miles southeast of Rostov, and dispersed fresh German forces
which for a time threatened to slow the Russian advance
in southwestern sectors, dispatches from the front said
Saturday.
RAF Stabs at
Western Germany
LONDON—(AP)-For the second successive night British bombers
were reported Saturday to have stabbed during the night at Western
Germany, which embraces the great Industrial Ruhr valley and
such important centers as Duesseldorf, Essen, Duisburg, Cologne and
Frankfurt.
First news of the raid came from the Berlin radio, which said scattered
bombings had caused civilian casualties and some property damage.
The RAF had been over Germanyon 12 previous nights this month,
including the heavy attacks on Berlin last Saturday and Sunday.
German planes struck back by
bombing several places in Northeastern and Southern England Friday
night, but the raids were not on ra heavy scale and while damage
was done casualties were reported light.
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