Current Events August 30, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, AUGUST 30, 1943:

Big fires blazed fiercely today among the scuttled hulks of, Denmark's naval vessels in Copenhagen harbor, and offshore Nazi patrol boats and planes shot at Danes fleeing a new German military dictatorship clamped upon the rebellious kingdom.

Premier Josef Stalin announced the capture of Taganrog, ...southern anchor of the 1500- mile Russian front, today in a special order of the day. The Germans earlier today admitted evacuation of the city

American heavy bombers wrecked the Orte railroad junction 40 miles north of Rome yesterday in the third

straight day of attacks designed to smash the capital's communications with the rest of Italy, was revealed today

       Russians Capture Tanagorag On Sea of Azov
              The Port Arthur News
                    PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, MONDAY, AUGUST 30, 1943.
DANES FLEE AS NAZIS SEIZE KINGDOM
Military Rule
Is Instituted;
King Prisoner
Huge Fires Blaze In Copenhagen Harbor As
45 Naval Vessels Are Scuttled; Several
Ships Make Escape To Sweden
By John H. Colburn
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 30 (AP)—
Big fires blazed fiercely today among the scuttled hulks of, Denmark's naval vessels in Copenhagen harbor, and offshore Nazi patrol boats and planes shot at Danes fleeing a new German military dictatorship clamped upon the rebellious kingdom.
                                            REFUGEES STREAM INTO SWEDEN
Refugees streaming into Sweden said scores of persons drowned as the Nazi gunners sank many small motorboats, sailboats and fishing smacks in the Oeresund, the narrow stretch of water between Denmark and Sweden.
The Germans ignored the usual Copenhagen blackout during the night. -Street lights blazed  nightly as patrols In tanks and rmored cars toured the city enforcing the martial law decreed by the German military commander
who had interned the aged King Christian X in his castle and set up Nazi rule to replace that of the reigned
Danish government.
The fires in. the harbor area could be seen' from the Swedish coast; A series of deafening exploions set them off at dawn ycs-
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LONDON, Aug. 30 (INS).— 
The German-controlled Oslo .radio announced today that King Christian
X of Denmark had "abdicated."The story was without confirmation
from other sources.
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erday as Danish naval forces sent t.he greater part of their small navy to the bottom.
                                                     Climax To Disorders

NAZI LINES
IN DONETS
IMPERILED
New Soviet Advances
In Kharkov Area
Are Reported
LONDON, Aug. 30 (AP)
Premier Josef Stalin announced the capture of Taganrog, ...southern anchor of the 1500- mile Russian front, today in a special order of the day. The Germans earlier today admitted evacuation of the city.
                                                               Follows Fierce Battle
Stalin said the capture was the result of a fierce engagement in -which the Russians, routed the Germans. The Germans said the town was evacuated after, they had destroyed the town and harbor installations.
Capture of the southern flank of the Russian front indicated the Nazis' entire southern front positions were crumbling. Stalin, whose, order of the day was broadcast by the Moscow radio and recorded by the Associated Press, said the new victory was achieved as a result of a bold maneuver by Soviet cavalry and mechanized formations which broke through to the rear of the enemy troops.
                                                                  Stalino Threatened
20 ENEMY
AIRCRAFT
DESTROYED
British And American
Airmen Again Raid
Naples Area
By Reynolds Packard
A L L I E D HEADQUARTERS,
North Africa, Aug. 30. (UP).—
American heavy bombers wrecked the Orte railroad junction 40 miles north of Rome yesterday in the third
straight day of attacks designed to smash the capital's communications with the rest of Italy, was revealed today.
Naples Area Pounded
While the B-17's concentrated on Rome's railway arteries, U. S, medium bombers renewed their assault
on Torre Annuziata, coast railway center on the Bay of Naples south of. Mt. Vesuvius, yesterday and RAF night bombers follwed through with another raid last night.
American and British medium bombers and U. S. fighter-bombers raked the Italian toe with bombs and bullets, blasting gun positions in the Reggio Calabria-San Gioanni areas across Messina Strait from Sicilyroad and railway communications at Cosenza and railroad camp yards at Lamezia with "good results." American A-36 bomber scored a direct bomb hit on the battcrcd Angitola bridge.