The Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia. Saturday Morning, February 13, 1943.
Roosevelt Says Allied Troops
Massing to Win Tunisia, Then
Cross Straits' Into Europe
Sees Coming North Africa Fight
As One of War's Major Contests
Plans For Offensive Against Japan~Are Made;
Blows Will Be Struck 'From Many Directions'
WASHINGTON Feb. 12—(INS)-President Roosevelt
announced tonight that the United Nations armies under
Gen. Eisenhower are "now massing!' in Tunisia to drive the
enemy into the sea and that victory there leaves only a
crossing of "the straits that lead to Nazi-dominated Europe."
The Commander-in-chief declared the determination to
fight to the day when the United Nations' forces march in,
triumph through the streets of Berlin, Rome and Tokyo."
Russians Take
Railway Link
At Krasnodar
Soviet^ Hammer
Closer to Rostov
Seizure of 3 Other Points
Cuts Communications
Of Germans
MOSCOW, Feb. 13.-(Saturday) — (INS) — Russian forces
hammered closer to besieged Rostov from two directions to-
day, while shattering further the enemy communications system
to the Ukraine and Kuban regions In sweeping new gains.
A special bulletin from the Soviet
high command revealed the capture of Krasnodar, Important
railway junction in the Kuban; Voroshilovsk in the Ukraine;
shakily, some 45 miles northeast of Rostov; and Krasnoarmeysk, 30
northwest of Stalino. Each liberated city lies astride a vital rail-
line.
By occupying Krasnodar the Russians pushed closer on the enemy
units trapped around the Kerch straits from below Novorossisk to
the Sea of Azov.
Ukraine Net Tightens
British Commandos
Raid Bizerte Sector
LONDON, Feb. 12.-AP_Allied headquarters declared today that
snow and rain had stifled ground activity on the Tunisian front but
field dispatches reported a successful British commando raid
and Axis sources claimed British and American units had been
repulsed in two attempts to advance.
RAF Bombers
Lash Germany
American-Built Fighters
Strafe Troops
LONDON, Feb. 12.—(AP)—Swift British Mosquito bombers struck at
northwest Germany this afternoon rounding out a full day of varied
attack on German war installation and communications stretching from
Wilhelmshaven through Holland and Belgium to northern France.
The officials' report did not name the chief target of the daylight attacks,
but the designation of northwestern Germany suggested that
the bombers returned to the U-boat center of Wilhelmshaven, which
was blasted by showers of blockbusters during a heavy preceding
night raid.
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