Current Events December 2, 1943; STRIP JAPAN PACT:

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY DECEMBER 2, 1943:

The navy disclosed tonight that it cost more than 1000 American lives to wrest the Gilbert
islands from the Japanese. Communiques issued simultantously in Washington and Pearl Harbor said approximately 1092.

 President Roosevelt. Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, in a dramatic six-day conference in north Africa, have agreed on a new program to crush' Japan militarily and then strip her of all territories she has conquered since 1895.
The leaders of the United States, Great Britain and China, who journeyed long distances by air and sea with their military and diplomatic staffs to attend the meeting, indicated in a joint communique issued tonight that a grand - scale plan is being launched to beat the Japs into unconditional surrender.

 Strip Japan Pact Text

 Full text of the agreement reached by President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Prime Minister Churchill at their Cairo conference, as announced simultaneously by the White House and at Cairo, is as follows:

Bitter tank tattles raged at two points along the Dnieper river today, while to the north three powerful Soviet columns bore down on disorganized remnants of a huge German .army fleeing; in confusion along ""the Gomel-Minsk railroad.

                      Gilberts Cost 1092 Yankee Lives

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               ALL TIME-WAR GOAL
                        ANNOUNCED AT CAIRO

          LONG BEACH INDEPENDENT
                                Long Beach, California, Thursday, December 2, 1943

Island Campaign
Heaviest Marine
Loss in History
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. —(INS)—
The navy disclosed tonight that it cost more than 1000 American lives to wrest the Gilbert
islands from the Japanese. Communiques issued simultaneously in Washington and Pearl Harbor said approximately 1092
United States Marines and army troops were killed in the 76-hour mid-Pacific action and that 2680
others were wounded. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, in announcing the Gilbert islands casualties at Pearl Harbor, said the figures were based only on "preliminary reports." This indicated the American toll may be
even higher when all information has been received and checked.) Japanese casualties in the battle
have been unofficially estimated at 6000.


Allies to Strip Nips
of Lands Taken by
Greed Since 1895
                                 By PIERRE J. HUSS
                              International News Service Staff Correspondent
 CAIRO, Dec. 1. — (INS) — 
President Roosevelt. Prime Minister Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, in a dramatic six-day conference in north Africa, have agreed on a new program to crush' Japan militarily and then strip her of all territories she has conquered since 1895.
The leaders of the United States, Great Britain and China, who journeyed long distances by air and sea with their military and diplomatic staffs to attend the meeting, indicated in a joint communique issued tonight that a grand - scale plan is being launched to beat the Japs into unconditional surrender.
President Roosevelt flew the Atlantic and all the way across Africa while Chiang Kai-shek, accompanied by his wife, spanned Asia by plane and Churchill came by warship to the momentous conference that began last Monday and lasted through Saturday.
After having pledged as their mutual war aim the eventual reduction of Japan to the status of
a third-rate power, bereft of the resources for future aggressions, the leaders and their big parties of advisers departed last weekend for "secret destinations."
A Renter's dispatch from Lisbon Tuesday stated that Roosevelt, Churchill and, Chiang Kaishek had left for Iran (Persia) to meet with Premier Stalin.)
Before leaving North Africa, the American and British conferees held separate talks on global aspects of the war, aimed at the speediest possible defeat o£ Hitler as well as Hirohito.
Special importance was attached to the presence at the meeting of such military leaders as Gen, George C. Marshall, U. S. army, chief of staff; Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the army air forces; Admiral Ernest J. King, com-mander in chief of the U. S. fleet Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, supreme allied Mediterranean com mander; Lord Louis Mountbatten chief of the allied southeast Asia command, and ma'ny other notables. Gen. Douglas MacArthur allied supreme commander in the southwest Pacific, however, was not present. 


Strip Japan Pact Text
 WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.—(INS)—
Full text of the agreement reached by President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Prime Minister Churchill at their Cairo conference, as announced simultaneously by the White House and at Cairo, is as follows:
"President Roosevelt, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Prime Minister Churchill, together with their respective military and diplomatic advisers, have completed a conference in North Africa.
The following general statement was issued:
" 'The several military missions have agreed upon future military operations against Japan. The three great allies expressed their resolve to bring unrelenting pressure against their brutal enemies by sea, land and air. This pressure is already rising.
" 'The three great allies are fighting this war to restrain and punish the aggression of Japan. They covet no gain for themselves and have no thought ol territorial expansion.
" 'It is their purpose that Japan shall be stripped ol all the islands in the Pacific which she has seized or occupied since the beginning of the first World war in 1914, and that all the territories Japan has stolen from the Chinese, such as Manchuria, Formosa, and the Pescadores, shall be restored to the Republic of China. Japan will also be expelled from all other territories which she has taken by violence and greed.
" 'The aforesaid three great powers, mindful of the enslavement of the people of Korea, are- determined that in due course Korea shall become free and independent.
" 'With these objects in view the three allies, in harmony with those of the united nations at war with Japan, will continue to persevere in the serious and prolonged operations necessary to procure the unconditional surrender of Japan.'

 Huge German Army
Flees in Confusion
On Russian Front
 MOSCOW, Dec. 2.—(Thursday) (INS)—
Bitter tank tattles raged at two points along the Dnieper river today, while to the north three powerful Soviet columns bore down on disorganized remnants of a huge German .army fleeing; in confusion along ""the Gomel-Minsk railroad.
The Soviet high command announced  that 2000 nazi troops were wiped out in fjerce clashes near Cherkassy, behind the Dnieper bend, and told of the crushing of 15 separate German counterattacks near Kremenchug in which another 800 Germans were killed.
To the north, the midnight communique announced the capture of several more white Russian towns and villages northwest of Gomel, and front line reports said the German retreat was on the verge of becoming a rout.
With their escape corridor narrowed to less than 20 miles, the nazis retreated along the Gomel- Minsk railroad near Zhlobin in a desperate race to prevent encirclement. The high command said futile nazi rearguard counterattacks between the Sozh and Dnieper rivers were smashed and new gains scored during the day.
In the Cherkassy area of the middle Dnieper, bayonet-wielding Russian shock troops were reported
to have thrown another bridgehead across the river and enlarged their original bridgeheads.
The communique said nazi counterattacks were crushed as the Russians extended their right-bank bridgeheads.