SALAMANCA REPUBLICAN-PRESS
SALAMANCA, N, Y., SATURDAY, MARCH 6,1943
Allies Yield Sedjenane, Americans Take Pichon
STRONG PATROL
ACTIVITY ALONG
MARETH LINE
U. S. Occupation of Ousseliia Valley
Town Regarded as Most Important
Development
REGAIN TERRITORY
British in North Fall Back Seven
Miles io Higher Ground at Tamera'
Allied Headquarters .in North Africa,
Starch 6 (AP)—In the face .of weeks of strong German attacks, the
British first army abandoned Sedjenane yesterday, falling back seven
miles to higher ground at Tamera, it was announced today, but Allied
forward elements moved eastward at the center and occupied Pichon.
The British withdrawal from hard contested Sedjenane gave the Germans
a total twenty-mile- advance along the Bizerte-Mateur-Tabarka
coastal road in seven days of fighting. Sedjenane previously had changed
hands twice, the Germans occupyingthe town Wednesday but being driven
Out Thursday.
Activity OB Reduced Scale
REDS CAPTURE
OSUGA IN DRIVE
FROM RZHEV
Sweep More titan 144 Communities
While Increasing Threats io
Gzhatsk and Vyazma
FOLLOW RA1L LINE
Make Steady Progress in Ukraine
Nazis Claim Divisions Wiped
Out in Caucasus
Moscow, March 6 (AP)—The Red
Army victors of Rzher have moved down the railway toward Vyazma,
capturing the town of Osuga, seventeen miles south of Rzhev, and increasing
the threat to Gzhatck and Vyazma.
Soviet troops operating southwest of Rzhev continued their push, occupying
more than eighty settlements in, this forest-filled area within the
last 24 hours.
144 Communities Captured
(Combined with drives in sectors south of the central front, Russian
forces in two days have been reported sweeping more than 144 communities
under the Red flag.)
Before taking Osuga, the Red army had to force German positions on.the
Osuga river and then blast their way into the railway station.
NAVAL FORCES
SINK TWO JAP
DESTROYERS
Engaged by Enemy Surface Units
While Bombarding Vila and
Munda in Central Solomons
Washington, March 6 (AP)—United
States warships sank two Japanese destroyers Friday night, the Navy
announced today, when a light Jap naval force tried to break up an
American bombardment of enemy installations in the central Solomon
islands.
United States aircraft bombed Jap positions at Munda, on the island of
New Georgia, and at Buin on the southeast coast of Bougainville yesterday,
the communique said.
SEVERAL SCORE
U-BOAT KILLER
VESSELS READY
Destroyer Escorts Put on Mass
Production to Meet Expected Increased
Sub War This Year
Washington; March 6 (AP)-~-Fresh
hope Allied sea forces will be able -.to crash Germany's reinforced U-boat
fleet this summer was expressed by. naval authorities today after Secretary
Knox disclosed a new fleet of submarine killer ships is at last coming
down the ways on a mass production schedule.
Several score of the sleek little vessels, known in the navy as destroys
already have been launched, the secretary told a press conference,
and hundreds of others are Being off will be built. Each ship require*
about four-months for construction, less-than half the- time necessary to
build a regular destroyer.
Squadrons Soon On Duty
Crews are being trained at a pace to match the speed of construction and
the first squadrons should be in operation soon—later to be organized in
to teams of, ships—Knox said.
These teams .of sub killers, working in close cooperation with plane*
and blimps where possible, are considered by some well-qualified auth-
orities to be;the answer to the Navy's vaunted and deadly U-boat wolf-pack
methods.
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