Current Events May 29, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY MAY 29, 1943:

The London News-Chronicle said today

that every detail has been worked out for an Allied invasion

of Europe. British warships already have taken up strategic

positions and the opening of a second front is imminent.

American Army troops, supported by strong sea

and air attacks, have captured several more Japanese positions in fierce handto-

hand fighting in the Chicagof harbor area on Attu Island, the Navy Department

announced today.

Reports that Rommel is at present in

Bucharest as commander-in-chief of all Axis anti-invasion forces in the Balkans,

are circulating in Stockholm.

THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES

                RACINE, WIS., SATURDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 29, 1943.

Report Warships Poised

For Invasion of Europe

Plans for Blow

Complete, Says

London Paper

LONDON.—(U.P.)—The London News-Chronicle said today

that every detail has been worked out for an Allied invasion

of Europe. British warships already have taken up strategic

positions and the opening of a second front is imminent.

The dispatch followed axis reports that the Allies have

concentrated invasion barges in Tunisian harbors within

striking distance of Sicily, S a r d i n i a , Pantelleria and

southern Italy and that a big Allied convoy, including large

troopships, entered the Mediterranean Wednesday.

Premier Benito Mussolini met secretly recently with his

fascist party chieftains and mappcd plans to defend Sicily and |

Sardinia "to the end," the Daily Telegraph said. Other sources

reported the Italians were strengthening fortifications, increasing

anti-aircraft batteries and improving airdromes on the two

island outposts, already under heavy daily bombardment by Allied

planes seeking to soften their defenses.

THE STARS AND STRIPES

Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations

New York, N.Y.—London, England Saturday, May 29, 1943

Yanks Win New

Points on Attu

Planes, Warships Support

Land Forces Engaged

In Fierce Battles

WASHINGTON, May 28—American Army troops, supported by strong sea

and air attacks, have captured several more Japanese positions in fierce handto-

hand fighting in the Chicagof harbor area on Attu Island, the Navy Department

announced today.

The other Jap center of resistance on the island is in the Sarana Bay area,

where American troops also are engaged in close-quarter fighting.

These latest attacks have been made in clear weather which followed the snow,

sleet and fog of the earlier fighting, the Navy Department added.

Liberators and Mitchells have destroyed every building in the Chicagof area with

heavy bombing attacks. At the same time, warships have shelled the Japs dug in

along the shore.

In the Southwest Pacific, Lae, big Jap base on the northwestern coast of New

Guinea, received its heaviest air raid of the war when Allied medium and heavy

bombers blasted the airdrome and shore bases with 28 tons of bombs. Fires were

visible for 75 miles.

Rumored Rommel in Balkans

STOCKHOLM, May 28 (UP)—Reports that Rommel is at present in

Bucharest as commander-in-chief of all Axis anti-invasion forces in the Balkans,

are circulating in Stockholm.

Anti-invasion forces, according to the reports, are divided into three army

groups—one in Yugoslavia, one in Bulgaria and Rumania and the third in

Greece.