Currebt Events October 19, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY OCTOBER 19, 1943:

The foreign ministers . of United States, Great Britain and Russia .opened their long awaited conference in the Kremlin today, amid increasing, indications that the issue of an Anglo-American second front would take precedence over all other problems of mutual collaboration in war and peace.

British fourengined bombers, hundreds strong, resumed their block-buster raids on Germany last night with a
heavy assault on Hannover while 'twin-engined Mosquitos hit Berlin for the second time in 24 'hours.

Marshal 'Jan C. Smuts, prime minister, of South.Africa-hinted 'today that, the- Allies will invade the Balkans before winter and said the United States "undoubtedly" will lake a leading and perhaps decisive part in the final, grand assault on Hitler's European fortress next year.

Japanese troops, supported, by sea-borne reinforcements, have been hurled back in a second attempt' to recapture their fallen New Guinea base at Finschhafen, a communique reported today,
- The destruction of at least 43 more enemy aircraft also Was announced in the continuing battle for aerial supremacy over the southwest Pacific, and Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's . headquarters revealed that Australian infantrymen have driven northward through the New Guinea jungles to within, about 10 miles of..the Japanese coastal base at Madang, 165 miles above Finschhafen.



                    THE DAILY NEWS
                         HUNTINGDON, PA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1943.

HULL, EDEN AND MOLOTOV IN CONFERENCE AT MOSCOW

ISSUE OF SECOND
FRONT MAIN TOPIC
FOR DELIBERATION
American-British Ministers Arrive
Yesterday—Warm Welcome Given
Diplomats By Russian
Representatives
NEW AGREEMENT FOR
SUPPLIES IS SIGNED
By M. S. HANDLER,
United Press Correspondent
Moscow, Oct. 19. —
The foreign ministers . of United States, Great Britain and Russia .opened their long awaited conference in the Kremlin today, amid increasing, indications that the issue of an Anglo-American second front would take precedence over all other problems of mutual collaboration in war and peace.
U. -S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull and British' Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden arrived with their staffs
at the Moscow airdrome yesterday and received a warm welcome from Soviet
Foreign' Commissar Vyacheslav M. Molotov and an array of Russian military and diplomatic officials.
Hull and Eden conferred briefly with Molotov in the Kremlin last night, preparation to their formal conferences today.
The cordiality generated during the first meetings of • the three statesmen appeared to augur well
for the success of the conference, which may well be one of the most significant Allied discussions of the war.
'Over"shadowing the possible issues was the Russian demand, voiced bluntly in the controlled.
Soviet press during the past week, for an Anglo-American invasion of western Europe that would force the withdrawal of 50 to 60 German divisions from the eastern front.

HANNOVER, BERLIN
AGAIN SUBJECTED
TO RAF BOMBINGS
17 Bombers Lost In Two
Attacks— 9-Day Lull Of
British Fliers
Ended.
By WALTER CKONKITE
United Press Correspondent London, Oct. 19. —
British fourengined bombers, hundreds strong, resumed their block-buster raids on Germany last night with a
heavy assault on Hannover while 'twin-engined Mosquitos hit Berlin for the second time in 24 'hours.
 Air experts said the new raid .probably reduced Hannover, whose importance as a communications center makes it the "Chicago" of northwest Germany, :to a stage of devastation equaling that at Hamburg. Hannover now has been the target of four heavy ' blobk-buster raids since Sept. 22. eventeen bombers were lost1 in the two' attacks and subsidiary raids on other but unidentified; targets, including: a Mosqquito/attaclc on western Germany, the Air Ministry announced.
The big Stirling's, Lancasters and Halifaxes swarmed over the big arms center of Hannover in
strength for the second time this----

HINTS ALLIES PLAN
TO ENTER BALKANS
AHEAD OF WINTER
Smuts Says We May Possibly
.'Play Leading Part In
Final Assault On
Hitler Fortress
By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON
United Press Correspondent
London, Oct. 19.—
Marshal 'Jan C. Smuts, prime minister, of South.Africa-hinted 'today that, the- Allies will invade the Balkans before winter and said the United States "undoubtedly" will lake a leading and perhaps decisive part in the final, grand assault on Hitler's European fortress next year.
Smutsr confidant of Prime Minister. Churchill and a member of the British war cabinet, told a meeting in Condon's Guildhall that the defeat of Germany would, not only hasten the fall of Japan, but ''may mark the beginning of a cataclysmic turn of events in the Far East arid the early ending ; of the war thereafter."
The white-bearded elder British statesman said that the Allies may confidently reckon on "still i
^further advances especially in southern and southeastern----

JAPS HURLED BACK
IN SECOND TRY TO
TAKE FINSCHHAFEN
At Least 43 More Jap Planes
Destroyed In Battle
For Supremacy In
South Pacific
' By DON CASWELL
United Press Correspondent
Allied Headquarters, Southwest
Pacific, Oct. 19.—
Japanese troops, supported, by sea-b'orne reinforcements, have been hurled back in a second attempt' to recapture their fallen New Guinea base at Finschhafen, a communique reported today,
- The destruction of at least 43 more enemy aircraft also Was announced in the continuing battle for aerial supremacy over the southwest Pacific, and Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's . headquarters revealed that Australian infantrymen have driven northward through the New Guinea jungles to within, about 10 miles of..the Japanese coastal base at Madang, 165 miles above Finschhafen. .
The latest Japanese plane losses made a total of more, than 1,600 enemy aircraft ' destroyed since the central Solomons and' New Guinea