Current Events March 13, 1943; GERMANS RECAPTURE KHARKOV IN BLOODY BATTLES / GERMANS IN RETREAT IN NORTH AFRICA / LIBORATOR BOMBERS, BILLY MITCHELL BOMBES, AND BEAUFIGHTERS BATTER JAPANESE BASES:

              Nevada State Journal

            RENO, NEVADA. SATURDAY MORNING, MARCH 13, 1943

Kharkov Captured Again By Nazis

Bloody Battles

Rage In Russia

LONDON, March 12. (UP)—Germany asserted tonight

that its forces had broken into the Red square at Kharkov and

that "thus the town is again in German hands after three weeks

of temporary Soviet occupation."

A Russian special communique, issued almost simultaneously,

announced the capture by storm of Vyazma, last of the

great German salients pointed at Moscow, and said an enormous

quantity of war spoils was taken in

l«n ft rti n i rm/\ftl a battle which had cost the Ger

mans more than 9,000 men killed.

It was indicated that one of the bloodiest battles of the war was

raging in the blacked-out streets of Kharkov, Russia's fourth city,

into which a triumphant Red army had fought its way 24 days ago for

its biggest reconquest of the historic winter offensive.

In Red Square

EIGHTH ARMY

THROWS BACK

NAZI FORCES

Enemy Is Pounded by

Airplanes of

Allies

A L L I E D HEADQUARTERS,

North Africa, March 12 (U.P)—The British eighth army has thrown the

Germans into retreat in the Ksar Rhilane area west of the Mareth|

line, aided by Allied planes which wrecked 21 armored machines and

seven big guns, it was announced tonight.

A supplement to the regular allied communique said the enemy had

"withdrawn to the north" from the Ksar battlefield on the edge of the

desert, stripped of better than two thirds of the 30 armored cars

which spearheaded the Axis attack on the eighth army last Wednesday.

                                                      Patrol Activity

ENEMY CARGO

VESSEL HIT

AT JAP BASE

Heavy Storms Braved

By Bombers to Strike

New Blows

GEN. MacARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,

Australia, Saturday, March 13. (U.P) —

Bucking equatorial storms, four-motored American

Liberator bombers battered the key Japanese base at Ambon yester-

day scoring a direct hit on a 7,000-ton enemy cargo vessel and shooting

out of action four hostile planes, Gen. Douglas MacArthur

announced today.

Braving the h e a v y weather, Dutch-manned Billy Mitchell bombers

and Beaufighters of the Royal Australian air force earlier swept

Timor Island, pounding Fuiloro air field and damaging two small Japanese

ships at Lautem.

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