Current Events April 14, 1943:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY; April 14, 1943:

Jap bombers smashed at the important allied base of Milne bay on

the southeastern tip of New Guinea by daylight today

soon after Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Prime Minister

John Curtin had warned of powerful enemy operations

impending 'against the Australian zone.

The Morocco radio said tonight that the British Eighth

army had occupied Enfidaville, in East Tunisia, 27 miles

above Sousse.

                                                        The Ogden

                                     STANDARD EXAMINER

                                  OGDEN CITY, UTAH, WEDNESDAY EVENING. APRIL 14, 1943

Japs Bomb Allies in New Guinea;

British Army Occupies Enfidaville

Powerful 'Nip Operation,

Claimed Moving On

Australia

GEN. MACARTHUR'S

HEAD QUARTERS, AUSTRALIA,

April 15 (Thursday) (UP) — Jap bombers

smashed at the important allied base of Milne bay on

the southeastern tip of New Guinea by daylight today

soon after Gen. Douglas MacArthur and Prime Minister

John Curtin had warned of powerful enemy operations

impending 'against the Australian zone.

Japan's control of the sea lanes of the western Pacific and the recent

massing of enemy air, land and sea strength in the northern

zone means reinforced thrusts "aimed directly at Australia" which

can be halted only by increased allied air power, the two leaders

said.

British, Yanks Map Drive

On 'Coffin Corner

In Africa

LONDON, April 14 (UP)

The Morocco radio said tonight that the British Eighth

army had occupied Enfidaville, in East Tunisia, 27 miles

above Sousse. Earlier reports from allied heaquarters in

North Africa said the town had not been occupied at the

time they were filed.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,

NORTH AFRICA,

April 14 (UP)— Allied armies paced by shattering aerial

onslaughts thrust ahead on three key sectors of northwest

Tunisia today but advance patrols reported increasing

axis resistance in the outer fringe of the enemy's

semi-circular mountain defenses guarding the approach to Tunis and Bizerte.

THE CHARLESTON D A I L Y MAIL, W E D N E S D A Y E V E N I N G , A P R I L 14. 1 9 43

Allied Spearheads Pierce Siege Lines

AUSTRALIA FEARS JAP BLOW

Axis Troops

Evacuation

Is Reported

Nazi Commentator

Sees 'No Dunkirk'

145 Planes Blasted

By The Associated Press

Allied spearheads were reported driving into Field Marshal

Erwin Rommel's siege lines in the narrowing Axis-held corridor

in northern Tunisia today, and an Algiers broadcast declared

that Rommel had already started evacuating German

technicians from the North African trap.

Other reports from Rome and Marseille said Axis troops, mostly

Italians, had been slipping out of Tunisia during the last few nights

and had been seen disembarking

dawn .in Sicily and Sardinia.

A German military commentator, however, declared there would

be "no Dunkirk" for Rommel's 200,000 beleaguered troops, and

thus indicated they would be left as a time-saving sacrifice in a sequel

to the German disaster at Stalingrad.

MacArthur

Sees Battle

To Hold Air

All-Out Japanese

Attempt lo Grab

Control Predicted

GEN. MacARTHUR'S,

HEADQUARTERS, Australia

(UP).—Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur and Prime Minister

John Curtin joined in a vigorous warning today that Japan's

control of the Western Pacific sea lanes means an

early thrust by reinforced enemy land, sea and air forces

"aimed directly at Australia."

Only air power con stop the Japanese, MacArthur and

Curtin said

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS!

IN AUSTRALIA OP). — Gen.

MacArthur warned today that! the Japanese are set for a no-;

holds-barred struggle, lor domination of the skies over the;

Southwest Pacific to capitalize; on what he described as their,

"complete control of the sealanes in the Western Pacific and

outer approaches to Australia."