Current Events November 28, 1943

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY NOVEMBER 28, 1943:

RAF heavy bombers spread fresh ruin with steel and fire through stricken Berlin Friday night, in 20 minutes hurling down "much more than 1,000 long tons" of bombs in the third mighty assault of the week in the campaign to obliterate that heart of nazidom.

Soviet forces battered out a new salient along both banks of the lower Berezina river in White Russia Saturday, flanking the Germans' last natural defense line short of the old Polish frontier, while on another sector of this boiling 100-mile front they advanced nine miles in pursuit of perhaps 300,000 Germans retreating from Gomel.

 American marines and soldiers have driven 800 yards to the northeast during bitter fighting to extend their beachhead at Empress Augusta bay- -stepping stones on the west-central coast of Bougainville in the northern Solomons leading toward Rabaul.

 The Chinese declared Saturday night that they were tightening1 their net around invading Japanese forces in northern Hunan province and that nearly 10,000 enemy troops had been killed in fierce fighting for the rice
bowl city of Changteh.

                   Council Bluffs IOWA Nonpariel
                              COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOWA: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1943.

 Red Army Batters Out New
Salient at Historic Berezina
Where Napoleon Met Defeat
Report 300,000 Nazis Retreating From Gomel;
RAF Reveals Over 1,000 Long Tons of Bombs
Hit Berlin in Third Assault Within the Week
By Gladwin Hill.
LONDON, (AP)—
RAF heavy bombers spread fresh ruin with steel and fire through stricken Berlin Friday night, in 20 minutes hurling down "much more than 1,000 long tons" of bombs in the third mighty assault of the week in the campaign to obliteratethat heart of nazidom.
Other bombers hammered Stuttgart, 300 miles southwest, simultaneously. Thirty-two big planes were lost,
but the air ministry Saturday paid unusual tribute to the cruiser American blow at Bremen Friday and said the American drain on German air strength had contributed greatly to the success of the RAF's long hop in clear weather to Berlin.
                                                             Fires Visible 200 Miles.
Guided by fires still blazing in the German capital, the RAF gouged great new wounds snd set conflagrations visible for 200 miles, their whistling bombs signaling to 14,000 long tons the total weight of explosive heaped on Berlin in 1943, and boosting the total for little more than a week to some 6,000.

By James M. Long.
LONDON, (AP) —
Soviet forces battered out a new salient along both banks of the lower Berezina river in White Russia Saturday, flanking the Germans' last natural defense line short of the old Polish frontier, while on another sector of this boiling 100-mile front they advanced nine miles in pursuit of perhaps 300,000 Germans retreating from Gomel.
The new Berezina bulge was forming between Kalinkovichl and Zholbin, where the Russians had previously cut the railroad and pushed northwest toward Bobruisk.
It was flanking the Orsha- Mogilev line on the Dnieper which guarded Minsk and Die pre-war
Polish frontier.
Mop Up 80 Towns.
Other forces speeding from ths industrial center and long-held German stronghold of Gomel, which fell Friday, mopped up 89 towns and hamlets and advanced to Uvarovichi, 17 miles northwest of Gomel along to German escape route to Zholbin and Bobruisk.

 Measure Allied
Gains in Yards
Bitter Fighting at
Empress Augusta Bay
 By Robert Eunson.SOUTHWEST PACIFIC ALLIED
HEADQUARTERS, (Sunday), (AP)—
American marines and soldiers have driven 800 yards to the northeast during bitter fighting to extend their beachhead at Empress Augusta bay- -stepping stones on the west-central coast of Bougainville in the northern Solomons leading toward Rabaul.
 A spokesman for Gen. Douglas
 MacArthur, in announcing the ad-
 vance Saturday, said strong enemy
opposition was overcome and, "although
no count has been made,
Japanese losses were 'icavy."
Losses Were Heavy
More details were supplied from the south Pacific headquarters of Adm. William F Halsey where it was reported that the fight opened Monday, requiring four days to gain the precious yardage. Halsey's headquarters said both sides sustained considerable casualties.


Chinese Kill 10,000
Japs in Rice Bowl
CHUNGKING, (AP)—
The Chinese declared Saturday night that they were tightening1 their net around invading Japanese forces in northern Hunan province and that nearly 10,000 enemy troops had been killed in fierce fighting for the rice
bowl city of Changteh.
The Chinese have estimated the Japanese have approximately 100,000 troops fighting in the northern. Hunan area,- but a communique announcing the encircling of enemy forces in that area did not specify the number of Japanese caught In the trap.
The Japanese, though suffering heavy casualties, were reported fighting fiercely. The Chinese said that a force of some 1,000 invaders brake through the north gate of Changteh, stronghold guarding the approaches to Changsha, capital of Hunan province, but that the defenders wiped them out m a bloody
battle.
Other Japanese forces swept around and stormed through the south gatft but suffered nearly 3,300 in casualties Thursday and Friday. Previously the Chinese had announced over 5,000 Japanese casualties.