Current Events April 16, 1943:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY:

American bombers battering Japanese positions in the central Solomon islands Thursday destroyed a building believed to be a power generating station and sank an 80-foot vessel, the navy announced today.

First army infantrymen were within 15 miles of the key road junction of Tebourba today after some of the fiercest fighting of the Tunisian campaign, it was announced today.

The Red army is throwing a mounting force into the bombing of German military objectives and cities, the latest feat of Russian flyers---

                         The Charleston Daily Mail

CHARLESTON, WEST VI R G IN I A, F R I DAY EVEN I N G . APRIL 16. 1943

3 JAP CONVOY SHIPS BLASTED

Forts Pound

9 Vessels

Off Wewak

3 Warships Among

Targets of Yanks

Continuing Attack

W A S H I N G TON (AP).—

American bombers battering Japanese positions in the central.

Solomon islands Thursday destroyed a building believed

to be a power generating station and sank an 80-

foot vessel, the navy announced today. In the North

Pacific, meanwhile, h e a v y raids on Kiska island continued.

A communique said that the enemy base there was attacked

eight; times Wednesday.

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS

lN AUSTRALIA (AP).—Flying Fortresses kept up an attack to-

day on a Japanese convoy of three warships and six merchant, vessels at Wewak

New Guinea. Striving to add to the heavy blows dealt three merchmen

at the outset.

Drive in Mountains

Carries Allied Line

Nearer Capital City

Forces Now 25-30 Miles From Tunis;

1st Army Nears Tebourba Junction;

Fighting Is Fiercest of Campaign

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN NORTH AFRICA (AP)-

First army infantrymen were within 15 miles of the key road

junction of Tebourba today after some of the fiercest fighting

of the Tunisian campaign, it was announced today.

In a series of local attacks east of Medjez-El-Bab, the Allied

mountain' line advanced to points between 25 and 30 miles from j

Tunis. Tebourba, once held by the Allies in the eastward push

last fall lies 18 miles airline west of the Axis-held capital.

Allied bombers and fighters continued their assaults upon Axis^air

fields in. Tunisia, although the weather was bad, and it was an-

nounced that RAF Wellingtons struck effectively Wednesday night

at enemy airdromes in southern Sardinia.

Reds Bomb

Two Major

Nazi Cities

Koeuigsburg, Danzig

Liberally Plastered

In Long Range Raid ;

MOSCOW (AP). — The Red army is throwing a mounting:

force into the bombing of German military objectives and

cities, the latest feat of Russian flyers being announced as a

raid on a German airdrome on the Leningrad front where 13

German planes were destroyed on the ground.