Current Events March 14. 1943: GERMAN KRUPP PLANT IN FLAMES / NAZIS GAINING AGAIN AT KHARKOV / JAPANESE CONVOY HIT NEAR NEW GUINEA / FRENCH AND ITALIANS IN BLOODY BATTLE / AXIS DOOMED, EISENHOWER TELLS TROOPS / FRENCH WARSHIPS RENOVATED FOR ALLIES USE:

             The Salt Lake City Tribune

               Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday Morning, March 14, 1943 ,

1000 Tons of RAF Bombs Paralyze Essen

Flames Envelop

Krupp Plant

In Wake of Raid

Flying Fortresses Strike in Force

At Amiens, Abbeville Districts;

British Lose 23 Planes, U. S. None

Allies—(Official) By United Press

LONDON, March 13—American' Flying Fortresses smashed

at nazi communications in France again Saturday, as British

reconnaissance over Essen revealed great 'fires still roaring

through the Krupp arms works more than 12 hours after the

RAF had plastered the city with better than 1000 tons of

bombs.

The Fortresses, out for the second straight day, attacked the

railway yards of the important junction five miles out of Amiens,

striking in strong force at the nazi

rail network behind the French

coastal defenses.

All Fortresses He-turn

All the Fortresses returned from the attacks on Amiens, .the near-by

junction of Longueau, and Abbeville, 30 miles to the northwest, a.

joint communique of the United States army air force and the

British air ministry said. An undetermined number of German

fighters were shot down in clashes with the raiders.

The air ministry, announcing first details -of- the paralyzing:

night raid 'on Essen, said the damage "certainly was heavy," and

ventured the hope that it "finally wiped out the Krupp works."

Crushing Impact

Nazis Gaming

At Kharkov,

Soviet Admits

Moscow Bulletin

Admits Peril

To Industry City

HM-*- Russian—(Official)

By Associated Press

LONDON, 'Sunday, March 14-

German, troops g a i n e d fresh ground in the flaming fight for

Kharkov, a midnight Moscow bulletin announced Sunday, and Russian

field dispatches frankly termed the situation "serious" as

the nazis threw, hundreds of tanks and thousands of infantrymen into

an assault on three sides of the Ukraine citadel.

The German high command declared that elite S S guardsmen

had "shattered enemy resistance" and advanced to the main railway

station, but did not claim the recapture of the city, where it said a

violent street struggle still was going on.

Allied Planes

Hit Two Ships

In Jap Convoy

Fortresses Fire

Transport

And Cargo Vessel

•»»-»• Allies— (Official)

By Associated -Press

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

AUSTRALIA, Sunday, March 14

—Allied, war-planes have pounced upon yet another Japanese convoy

thrusting toward New Guinea ; this time composed of five' merchantmen

and three destroyers—and have damaged, two- ships in an

initial attack, the high command declared Sunday.The convoy was discovered 40

miles northwest of Wewak Saturday afternoon, and Flying Fortresses

immediately raced to the assault, braving antiaircraft fire

and the protecting enemy fighter planes to set fire to one 8000-ton

transport and score ' a . hit and .a near miss on a 4000-ton cargo ship

Saturday evening.

French Patriots, Italians

Lock in Border Battle

LONDON, March 13 (UP) —

French patriots and Italian soldiers

are locked in bloody combat in the rugged, eastern

French border district of Haute-Savoie, reports from Switzerland

said Saturday. ,

Several thousand entrenched guerillas, supplied with arms

and ammunition by allied planes, were reported engaged in heavy

fighting which began Friday and the rumble of guns could be

heard in peaceful Geneva some 25 miles away.

The French-Swiss border was reported entirely controlled by

Italian troops, and the garde mobile, which was first called into

action against the guerillas, is being constantly reinforced.

Swiss reports said the patriotic forces are being led by a

General Cartier, former French army officer.

Axis Doomed,

Eisenhower

Tells U. S. Troops

Cites Rommel's

Failure to

Break Steel Ring

H—». Allies—(Official)

By Associated Press

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN

NORTH AFRICA, March 13- —

General Dwight D./Eisenhower has told his troops that German and

Italian forces in Tunisia are doomed to be pushed into the sea

and eventually destroyed now that three of 'their efforts to break out

of the encircling allied ring have been smashed.

Knox Exhorts

Frenchmen to

Stay on Ships

WASHINGTON, March 13 (UP)

—Secretary of the Navy F r a n k

Knox Saturday warned deserters from French naval vessels now in

American shipyards that they may immobilize the vessels as part of

the united nations' naval forces and thus aid the enemy.

Some crew members — estimates of the number have run as

high as 300—from the F r e n c hbattleship Richelieu, now in New

York harbor for repairs, have "jumped ship" to join the Fighting

French forces of General Charles de Gaulle.

The seamen charge that their officers are Vichyites and axis collaborationists

who ordered their men to fire upon the Americans

before the "deal" which brought the French military and naval

forces in. north Africa and Dakar into the allied. fold.

Knox said Saturday that "the

American government, through the navy department, is undertaking

the repair and reconditioning of these ships. It is doing so for the

express purpose of making them serviceable against our axis enemies.