Current Events November 21, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 21, 1943:

 The British Eighth army in Italy has cut the last German-held lateral railroad below Rome in a 5-mile advance, it was reported Saturday night, while the Fifth army improved its position on the western flank despite continued bad weather, and Allied planes swept the battle area and the Jugoslav coast.in Russia| the Red army hurled back heavy German tank and infantry attacks against the Korostishev salient west of Kiev, and Moscow reports indicated that the loss of Zhitomir would not halt the drive on Poland. Reports in Jerusalem said Saturday night that an agreement had been reached on the Lebanese crisis at conferences in Bein among Richard G, Casey, British minister of state to the Middl East; Maj. Gen. Sir Edward Spears.

 Vichy France was reported Saturday night in the throes of it's greatest crisis since July 1940 with the

German occupation authorities and their collaborationist sycophants tensely on guard against a possible
general internal revolt sparked by Marshal Henri Philippe Petain's rumored resignation and llth hour
conversion to a democratic France.

 A documented story of 10 years of Japanese duplicity in foreign affairs and faked friendship toward this
country, was made public Saturday night by the state department in another edition of papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States.



               The Wisconsin  State Journal
                                          MADISON, SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1943

 Nazis' Last Rail Line
Across Italy Slashed
(By United Press)
The British Eighth army in Italy has cut the last German-held lateral railroad below Rome in a 5-mile advance, it was reported Saturday night, while the Fifth army improved its position on the western flank despite continued bad weather, and Allied planes swept the battle area and the Jugoslav coast.in Russia| the Red army hurled back heavy German tank and infantry attacks against the Korostishev salient west of Kiev, and Moscow reports indicated that the loss of Zhitomir would not halt the drive on Poland. Reports in Jerusalem said Saturday night that an agreement had been reached on the Lebanese crisis at conferences in Bein among Richard G, Casey, British minister of state to the Middl East; Maj. Gen. Sir Edward Spears British minister in Lebanon; Gen Georges Catroux, representativ of the French Committee of National Liberation and Georg Wadsworth, U. S. diplomatic agent and consul general in Syria and Lebanon.
• In the Pacific, Australian manned tanks battered Japanesi positions at Satelberg, New Guinea as Allied planes dropped 39 ton of bombs on enemy lines.
Elsewhere, in the Aegean, Germans were reported invading Samos, and in Jugoslavia, out-
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WASHINGTON — (U.P) —
Washington report* Saturday night said that announcement of another meeting between Pres. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill is likely "in the near future," and that this time it may include the lone-desired attendance of Premier Josef Stalin of Russia. London Sunday papers bannered similar reports.
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numbred Partisans were reported to have halted a German drive below Fiume, upsetting Rommel's plans to bolster anti-invasion defenses on the Adriatic coast.
On the diplomatic front, reports of an early meeting of Pres. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill, and Premier-Marshal Joseph Stalin were rumored to have touched off a desperate flurry of nerves in Rumania—one of the first potential targets—and Rumania was reported to have started recalling her forces from the Russian front,
In Washington, the state department made public another edition, of papers showing 10 years of Japanese duplicity and faked friendship to the U. S.

(The following were reported on page 2)
Vichy Reported
in Grave Crisis
LONDON _(U.P)_
Vichy France was reported Saturday night in the throes of it's greatest crisis since July 1940 with the
German occupation authorities and their collaborationist sycophants tensely on guard against a possible
general internal revolt sparked by Marshal Henri Philippe Petain's rumored resignation and llth hour
conversion to a democratic France.
Unconfirmed reports from Vichy, Bern, and Madrid claimed  variously that the 87-year-old chief of state had "abdicated," offered his resignation, was a prisoner or under arrest of either the Nazis or Pierre Laval, or was ill of a heart ailment, presumably the aftermath to the ban on his speech last Saturday in which he supposedly planed to promulgate a new constitutional act disinheriting Laval.

So' Sorry' Japs Say
in 10 Years of Guile'
By MERRIMAN SMITH
(United Press Staff Correspondent)
WASHINGTON—(U.P)—
A documented story of 10 years of Japanese duplicity in foreign affairs and faked friendship toward this
country, was made public Saturday night by the state department in another edition of papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States.
The Japanese government regrets . . . exceedingly" was the constant refrain in official communications from Tokyo to Washington from 1931 until Doc. 7, 1941, when the Japanese used bombs on Pearl
Harbor as substitutes for their well-worn platitudes of diplomacy. 
                                                                  691 Documents
The 1931-1941 record of relations with Japan contained 691 documents, most of them complaints
or Japanese answers to complaints by the American government against acts of Japanese aggression and expansion. In their answers the Japanese almost always apologized.
The story began with a report from the American minister in China on Sept. 19, 1931, that Japanese soldiers had attacked and surrounded Mukden in the first overt step of the Japanese plot to seize Manchuria.
The last document in the 10- year record was dated Nov. 25, 1941, when Ambassador Joseph C. Grew reported from Tokyo that there was a strong implication that Japanese officials were ignoring carefully
p r e p a r e d American reports on Japanese  interference with Uunited States interests m the Far East.

Southwest Pacific
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS,
Southwest Pacific —(U,P)—
Australian forces supported by light tanks increased . pressure Friday against the southern defense line
of Japanese-held Satelberg above Finschhafen, New Guinea, while Allied bombers dumped 39 tons
of bombs on enemy supply positions in the area, it was announced early Sunday.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Sunday communique reported the heavy raids against Kulungttlfu, 15 miles northwest of Satelberg, where bivouac areas and supply installations were hit. Fires and heavy damage were caused in the building area in the raid.
The most advanced flank of the Australian forces was slightly less


Jugoslavia
LONDON —(U.P)—
Outnumbered and underequipped Jugoslav Partisans have halted a German drive below Fiume with a series of fierce counter-attacks, Jugoslav sources said Saturday night, upsetting Marshal- Erwin Rommel's plans to bolster'the Nazis' eastern Adriatic defense against possible Allied thrusts from Italy into the Balkans. . '
Other Partisans under Gen. Josip Broz (Tito) halted or threw back German forces in .central Bosnia and in lower Dalmatia. A Partisan communique reported strong fighting against German marines and amphibious troops on the islands of Krk and Cres below Fiume, and on the Peljesac peninsula, all areas which the Germans- claimed days ago to have cleared of all resistance.
Allied aircraft from Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's command . continued their almost daily attacks in 'support of the Jugoslavs, attacking motor transport near Split and destroying four vehicles. Near Metkovic, Spitfire fighters destroyed a gasoline train, damaged a locomotive and nine rail cars, and 13 trucks.