Current Events June 15, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JUNE 15, 1943:

SUNDAY ATTACK BY WELLINGTONS BROUGHT DESTRUCTION

BY BLOCKBUSTERS AND INCENDIARIES

TO EAST SICILIAN SHIPPING AND MESSINA FERRY

TERMINAL

Germany's home front shook under a violent new storm of

bombs before dawn today—the fourth night assault in a row—as

RAF heavyweights blasted a fiery trail of havoc among nazi war

foundries in the Ruhr.

12 More Jap Ships Sunk by American Subs;

U. S. Undersea Fleet Grows Steadily

               * * The Daily Inter Lake

THE DAILY INTER LAKE, KALISPELL, MONTANA, TUESDAY, JUNE 15, 1943

Heavy Bombers of RAF

Pound Messina, Sicily as

Softening Process Goes On

SUNDAY ATTACK BY WELLINGTONS BROUGHT DESTRUCTION

BY BLOCKBUSTERS AND INCENDIARIES

TO EAST SICILIAN SHIPPING AND MESSINA FERRY

TERMINAL—ALL-OUT ASSAULT DELAYED FOR SECOND DAY

THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES

                RACINE, WIS., TUESDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 15, 1943

   Masses Flee Bombed Nazi Cities

Big Planes Hit

Steel and Coal

Center in Ruhr

Germany's home front shook under a violent new storm of

bombs before dawn today—the fourth night assault in a row—as

RAF heavyweights blasted a fiery trail of havoc among nazi war

foundries in the Ruhr.

A British air ministry communique said the Ruhr attack fell

upon Oberhausen (pop. 110,000) in important steel and coal center

on the Rhine. 35 miles north of Cologne.

Meanwhile. German newspapers received at Bern. Switzerland,

said a mass evacuation of cities in western Germany was under

way as thc result of 180 heavy raids by Allied planes and 600 air

alarms.

Ask Homes Opened.

The nazi press is engaged in a campaign to impel rural residents

to open their homes to refugees. Comfort must bow to the demands

of necessity." Hitler's own newspaper. Voelkischcr Beobachter.

said in urging everyone to crowd refugees into available rooms.

Much-bombed Duesseldorf, target

of a recent 2.000-ton RAF raid, is one of the chief cities being

evacuated, the German papers said.

Not only the bombed-out families but those yet untouched by

the explosives are being moved out. Das Reich said. Men are left

behind to work.

A German war reporter in a Berlin radio broadcast gave an in-

dication today of the tremendous damage wrought by Allied bombs

in thc Ruhr and Rhineland with these words:

"Even soldiers from the eastern front pass these towns in silence

“ bow to the unimaginable suffertngs and sacrifices of these

people," he said.

Plan Is Announced.

Rome Reports Naval-Air Battle/

Blockbusters Hit Sicilian Port

(By Associated Press

Enemy broadcasts again asserted today that Allied warships and

transports were massing in the Sicilian straits, ostensibly prepar-

ing for the grand assault on southern Europe, and declared the fleet

was under heavy attack by axis warplanes.

12 More Jap Ships Sunk by American Subs;

U. S. Undersea Fleet Grows Steadily, Says Knox