Current Events December 3, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY DECEMBER 3, 1943:

 The German radio an bounced today that allied bombers attacked Berlin last night for the seventh time in
two weeks. Thirty night raiders were shot down, the nazi broadcast claimed, indicating the assault may have been on the scale of the four recent monster raids which devastated one-third of the reich capital.
DNB, the German agency, also claimed that bodies of 146 allied airmen had been extricated from wrecks of some of the four-engine 'bombers that carried out the attack

Four-motor American Liberator bombers were revealed today to have sunk or damaged four Japanese ships — including a transport loaded with troops — in a smashing blow to an enemy convoy trying to reinforce the battered Jap base of Rabaul, New Britain. The Liberators were engaged in night reconnaissance when they spotted the convoy off the Kavieng area of New Ireland, trying to run the gantlet under cover of darkness. The big bombers scored direct hits with their high explosives on a 10,000-ton loaded transport, a large tanker and two escorting "destroyers. There was a great explosion aboard the transport and it was enveloped in flames. Enemy troops and members of the crew hurriedly abandoned the vessel, and it sank.

Large numbers of Japanese soldiers, wounded in the South Pacific war area, are being shipped in huge hospital liners to Manila and not to tho Japanese mainland — apparently to keep from the Japanese people the true picture of their military casualties. This was revealed in New York tonight by Charles H. Forster of San Francisco, for 20 years manager of the Philippine Red Cross, who returned yesterday on the Gripsholm

            Allied Bombers Hit Berlin Again                           SINK JAP VESSEL
                          CARRYING TROOPS

           LONG BEACH INDEPENDENT-
                                     Long Beach', California, Friday, December 3, 1943


 Nazis Announce
Raids; Claim 30
Planes Downed
 LONDON, Dec. 3.—(Friday)—(INS)—
The German radio an bounced today that allied bombers attacked Berlin last night for the seventh time in
two weeks. Thirty night raiders were shot down, the nazi broadcast claimed, indicating the assault may have been on the scale of the four recent monster raids which devastated one-third of the reich capital.
DNB, the German agency, also claimed that bodies of 146 allied airmen had been extricated from wrecks of some of the four-engine 'bombers that carried out the attack.
Telephone communication between Berlin and Stockholm and Budapest were interrupted suddenly at 11:30 p.m., yesterday, apparently as the first of the raiders appeared over the bomb-blasted German capital.
Swedish press dispatches said small fires still blazed in Berlin 'Thursday as a result of the six previous raids on the headquarters of Hitlerism, last attacked on November 26. The renewed night offensive against the heart of Hitler's European fortress came in the wake of daylight assaults Thursday on coastal targets along the Cherbourg peninsula o£ northwestern France.

 Yankee Airmen
Blast Four Ships
In Enemy Convoy
 ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC, Dec. 3.
—(Friday)—(INS)—
Four-motor American Liberator bombers were revealed today to have sunk or damaged four Japanese ships — including a transport loaded with troops — in a smashing blow to an enemy convoy trying to reinforce the battered Jap base of Rabaul, New Britain. The Liberators were engaged in night reconnaissance when they spotted the convoy off the Kavieng area of New Ireland, trying to run the gantlet under cover of darkness. The big bombers scored direct hits with their high explosives on a 10,000-ton loaded transport, a large tanker and two escorting "destroyers. There was a great explosion aboard the transport and it was enveloped in flames. Enemy troops and members of the crew hurriedly abandoned the vessel, and it sank.
The oil tanker became a raging inferno when it was hit. Its flames could be seen 50 miles. However, Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique did not mention whether the tanker also went down, nor did it reveal extent of damage to the destroyers.

                   PLOT NAZI DOOM
 Report Parleys
Now on in Iran;
Chiang at Home
 LONDON, Dec. 2 — (INS)
President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill arid Stalin were reported Premier meeting in Iran today in a momentous climax to the Cairo conference which decided to strip Japan of  her stolen empire. And many
observers anticipated that the 'big three" will decree a" similar dismemberment of the German states alter Hitler iscrushed.
O f f i c i a l announcement that Gencralissimo Chiang Kai-shek and Madame Chiang have arrived back in Chungking put. an end to a flood of rumors that the Chinese president-premier would attend the new conference. But reports from axis, neutral and allied sources all agreed that the leaders of the United States, Britain and Russia are at this moment conferring in Persia.
As Berlin nervously tried to belittle the import of the reported conference, the world's capitals speculated that the big three would decide on a massive military campaign to crush Hitler before another summer—and perhaps before next spring—and demand that the German people oust their nazi leaders and sue for peace.
Military discussions at the conrence are expected to include mapping detailed plans for an inasion of western Europe within the next four months, possibly coordinated with or preceded by a thrust into the Balkans, and the inclusion of Turkey as an active member of the united nations.
Axis propagandists' expect and some allied sources concur—that the conferees will demand that the German people immediately overthrow Hitler and his henchmen and surrender uncondilonally—a demand backed by the strength of the British and American air forces.

Japs Use Manila
Hospitals to Veil
Truth at Home
 NEW YORK, Dec. 2.—(INS)—
Large numbers of Japanese soldiers, wounded in the South Pacific war area, are being shipped in huge hospital liners to Manila and not to tho Japanese mainland — apparently to keep from the Japanese people the true picture of their military casualties. This was revealed in New York tonight by Charles H. Forster of San Francisco, for 20 years manager of the Philippine Red Cross, who returned yesterday on the Gripsholm.
"On most days," he said, "there are three or four Jap hospital ships in Manila bay at the same time.
The Japanese have taken over four of the big Manila hospitals and we know that there are many wounded in them. The Japanese wounded are not allowed on the Manila streets and are kept out of sight of the Filipinos, as well as of the Japanese in Japan. The Japs have abolished the American Red Cross entirely and have set
up their own red cross operations."
Forster is positive that the Filipinos will not be fooled by the "independence" recently granted them by the invaders, but will always want to return to the American way of life.
"I would say that 95 per cent of the Filipinos see the difference in the way of living nowadays. And they like the American way of life, which is accentuated by its absence during wartime conditions.
They will be very happy when our way of living is restored. There is no sign of rebellion among the people. They keep quiet and work their farms. There's no disloyalty to the United States. They just know that there's no use to rebel, because it would cause unnecessary suffering. The Filipinos just nind their own business.
"But they don't like it.
It's difficult to travel and food prices are very high. It wasn't hard to get food at moderate prices until just last spring, but then, when the rainy season came, meat and eggs and fruit—papaya and bananas— became scarce and high priced.