Current Events December 12, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY DECEMBER 12, 1943:

 The German luftwaffe suffered a crushing 'defeat Saturday when U.S. 8th Airforce' heavy bombers and fighters, attacking the Nazi port of Emden, shot down 138 enemy fighter planes. Seventeen' American Flying Fortresses and Liberators and three fighter planes- were missing from the assault,' made by one of the' mightiest fleets of planes ever sent aloft by Lt.Gen. Ira C. Eaker. commander of the 8th.

Australian troops have captured another Japanese strong point a mile and a half west of Wareo, New Guinea. Wareo, which .was.captured Dec. 8. is"12 1/2 miles north west of Flnschhafen..

The new gains were.reported in a - communique from General Douglas MacArthur. Sunday.
In the -nearby Ramu Valley, sharp clashes between ground patrols were reported. Japanese planes also., inflitctcd some minor damage- there.

 THE WORLD
AT WAR TODAY (See below)

Bulgarian Premier Dobri Bojilov and two of his- minister's have resigned under pressure .of'leftists favoring
Bulgaria's withdrawal from .the war, Turkish-' reports said' Saturday, simultaneous with Axis admissions that. 'U. S. Liberators caused heavy damage in t h e i r latest attack on rail yards at, Sofia.

 The Turkish.radio said in a. broadcast'early .-today that' the Soviet government had decided to recognize Marshal Broz's Joseph (Tito's) partisan Yugoslav government as the legal representative of that country
instead of King Peter's regime.

 
 
               SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 12, 1943

 One of Most Vicious Air
Battles of War Fought
When Americans Raid Port
 By United Press
LONDON, Dec. 11.—
The German luftwaffe suffered a crushing 'defeat Saturday when U.S. 8th Airforce' heavy bombers and fighters, attacking the Nazi port of Emden, shot down 138 enemy fighter planes. Seventeen'American Flying Fortresses and Liberator* and three fighter planes- were missing from the assault,' made by one of the' mightiest fleets of planes ever sent aloft by Lt.Gen. Ira C. Eaker. commander of the 8th.
 One of the most vicious sky battles of the war was fought as the American heavy bombers, making their first raid- on Germany in 10 days, beat off swarms of German rocket planes which attacked six abreast to reach the  target area.
                                                                          Short of Record
The total enemy planes shot down, however, was still far short of the 8th's record—307 on August
17th during a twin raid on Regensburg- and ' Schweinfurt, Germany.
 An American European headquarters bulletin said the giant bombers hammered naval and other installations in Kmdcn, which is 330 miles from British bases.

AussiesTake
New Guinea
Stronghold
"'SOUTHWEST PACIFIC -ALIED HDQRS., Dec. 12.—
Australian troops have captured another Japanese strong point a mile and a half west of Wareo, New Guinea. Wareo, which .was.captured Dec. 8. is"12 1/2 miles north west of Flnschhafen..
The new gains were.reported in a - communique from General Douglas MacArthur. Sunday.
In the -nearby Ramu Valley, sharp clashes between ground
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Map showing how Allied advances are providing new bases for blows at- Japan will be found on Page 19. '
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 patrols were reported. Japanese planes also., inflitctcd some minor damage- there.
Allied aircraft and surface vessels struck ' at enemy' shipping from-the -New', Guinea, coast to
New Ireland. Amerian patrol torpedo boats sank 10 barges off the coast of .tho.Huon peninsula and- a navy Catalina sank' an 8,000-ton freighter-' off New Ireland.
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ALLIED LAND ADVANCES In the Pacific are providing bases from which the U.S. eon strike new blows irt the little-publicized but highly successful -submarine war against Japanese shipping. Since Pearl Harbor, America's silent undersea killers have ranged far into the enemy's home waters ,-striking in the China Sea, even off the coast of Japan itself. They have accounted for almost half the losses inflicted by the U.S., and have served as a constant threat to supply lines the enemy needs to exploit the raw materials of his looted empire to the south. This map shows the probable life lines to the Rising Sun which will b« nipped more often as Allied land forces gain ground along tha rood to Tokyo,,

THE WORLD
AT WAR TODAY
BEST NEWS OF' THE DAY
In a shattering raid on Emden, gunners in U.S. heavy bombers destroyed 117 GErman fighter planes"; escorting U.S. fighters knocked out 17 more. Huge fires rage in the important German city.
Russia —
Strong Red Army counterattack against Germans west of Kiev destroys 10:5 Nazi tanks in war's biggest battle. Drive in Dnieper Bend continues with Soviet troops taking 12 more towns. Pago 1.
ITALY'—
Both British and American forces make some progress in stiff fighting in Italy. Fifth. Army forces gain an important height before Cassino. Page 1.
PACIFIC—
Navy Liberators shot down eight Jap Zeros in battle after bombing of Mille, navy announces. Page 1.
CHINA—
American and Chinese airforces stab the heart of Japan's Central China defenses in raid on Hankow.
Page 1.
SOUTHWEST PACIFIC—
 Jungle fighters advance from captured Wareo and Allied airforces score new hits on enemy shipping.
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Bulgaria Upset .
As Premier,
Ministers Quit
By United Press . - . LONDON, Dec.-11.—
Bulgarian Premier Dobri Bojilov and two of his- minister's have resigned under pressure .of'leftists favoring
Bulgaria's withdrawal from .the war, Turkish-' reports said' Saturday, simultaneous with Axis admissions that. 'U. S. Liberators caused heavy damage in t h e i r latest attack on rail yards at, Sofia. . :
' Axis radios reported that passenger'and express train service had been, cancelled ,:on important Bulgarian lines as a result of yesterday's attack by the American Mediterranean -based .bombers, their third of the war.
                                                                  Wny Quit War
A United Press ' Istanbul dispatch said it was reported from Sofia that Bojilov had resigned along w i t h Foreign Minister Georgi Shishmanov and Interior Minister Mikhailov. The report said they resigned because of a display of strength by.Leftists In Bulgaria, which is 'at war with Britain and the U.S., but nore with Russia.

RED LEADERS
RECOGNIZE
TITO REGIME
By Associated Press
LONDON,-. Dec. 12.—
The Turkish.radio said in a. broadcast'early .-today that' the Soviet government had decided to recognize Marshal Broz's Joseph (Tito's) partisan Yugoslav government as the legal representative of that country
instead of King Peter's regime. - . ' '
The broadcast, recorded by the British ministry of information, came amid increasing signs.of British and American . aid to the partisan leader, already the recipient of the bulk of Allied' supplies going ' into
Yugoslavia, as against .his rival, General' Draja Mihailovic, war minister under -King Peter's government.