This Was Today; Current Events April 3, 1943: Red army, in a sweeping winter offensive now ended which is officially declared to have resulted in the killing of 850,- 000 Germans, has pushed its lines almost to Velizh, 70 miles northwest of Smolensk on the central front, and within about 15 miles of White Russia. Allied warplanes have scattered another concentration of nearly 20 Japanese ships in the island above Australia, Gen. Douglas Mac- Arthur's headquarters announced today, amid signs that other enemy warships may be thrusting anew toward American-held Guadalcanal in the Solomons.

LAWRENCE DAILY JOURNAL-WORLD

             LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SATURDAY, APRIL 3,1943

Continue To Move

Up Against Nazis

Russians Publish Maps

Showing the Advance

of Red Lines

HEAVY GERMAN LOSSES

Soviets Battle Hard to Drive

the Enemy From the

Caucasus

Moscow, Apr. 3., UP—The

Red army, in a sweeping winter offensive now ended which

is officially declared to have resulted in the killing of 850,-

000 Germans, has pushed its lines almost to Velizh, 70 miles

northwest of Smolensk on the central front, and within

about 15 miles of White Russia, war maps published in the

official press disclosed today. Russian communiques have not

announced the capture of any specific localities which would advance

Soviet lines so far.

Hammering hard to drive the Germans from their Kuban bridgehead

in the Caucasus, the Russians have advanced to the eastern gates

of Novorossisk, the Black sea naval base, are practically at the front

doors of Staraya Russa in the Lake Ilmen area and are but 12 miles

east of Taganrog1 on the Sea of Azov west of Rostov, the maps

disclosed.

The maps were the first full war maps ever printed in Moscow of

the long Russian front.

End of Winter Offensive

Allied Planes Capture Another

Concentration of Enemy Ships

(By tki Associated Presi) - '

Allied warplanes have scattered another concentration of nearly 20

Japanese ships in the island above Australia, Gen. Douglas Mac-

Arthur's headquarters announced today, amid signs that other enemy

warships may be thrusting anew toward American-held Guadalcanal

in the Solomons.

Two actions suggested the new enemy threat to Guadalcanal:

1. A Japanese communique, broadcast by the Berlin radio, asserted

that Japanese fleet planes had shot down 47 allied aircraft

off the Russell islands, 60 miles northwest of Guadalcanal, Nine

Japanese planes were listed as lost.

2. Tokyo's claim followed issuance

of a U. S. navy announcement yesterday that American bombers

attacked a force of 'five. Japanese destroyers on the night of March

31-April 1 near Kolombangari island, 100 miles northwest of Guadalcanal.

The Tokyo claim that 'Japanese fleet planes 'shot down 47 allied

planes indicated a sizable force of Japanese warships in the waters

immediately north of Guadalcanal.

There was no information, however, whether this force included the

five Japanese destroyers attacked by U. S. fliers three nights ago off Kolombangari.

Allied headquarters said United Nations airmen pounced on 13

Japanese ships, including destroyers, in the harbor of Kavieng, New

Ireland, 550 miles above the alliedbase at Port Moresby, New Guinea,

and half a dozen others in nearby Steffens strait.

A communique said the raiders scored probable hits on. a 10,000-

ton Japanese transport and on a 6,000-ton cargo ship, but darkness

prevented observation of further results of the attack.

Other allied planes bombed the enemy bases at Kavieng; Madang,

New Guinea; and Gasmata and Cape Gloucester, New Britain; and carried

out low-level bombing and machine-gun attacks on Japanese

trenches in the Mubo sector in northern New Guinea.