Current Events December 13, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY DECEMBER 13, 1941:

 Russian defense forces, rallying in one of the mightiest, continuing tank battles of the war, have lashed out against attacking German forces pounding for Kiev and have retaken several hamlets, killing 1,600 Germans and wrecking 35 tanks, Moscow announced today.

 As continental reports to Stockholm told of the hasty dispatch of more German troops to prevent a repetition of World War I—when Bulgaria was the first of the kaiser's allies to desert the doomed second Reich—unmistakably signs seeped through the tight censorship today that Allied bombings and counter propaganda were bearing fruit.

 The Czechoslovak government in exile took the first great stride today toward erecting a solid barrier against future German aggression in eastern Europe by binding themselves together in a treaty of friendship, mutual assistance and post-war collaboration.

 Savage German counter-attacks were smashed back yesterday at both ends of the Allied line in Italy, Allied headquarters announced today, with British artillery taking heavy toll especially ol tank-led Nazi assault troops along the Adriatic.

 

 Russian Artillery
Rips German Tanks
Encirclement Confronts
Foe at Kirivograd
LONDON, Dec. 13.—(Monday)'—(AP)—
Russian defense forces, rallying in one of the mightiest, continuing tank battles of the war, have lashed out against attacking German forces pounding for Kiev and have retaken several hamlets, killing 1,600 Germans and wrecking 35 tanks, Moscow announced today.
The fighting south and southwest of. the town of Malin, about 58 miles west of Kiev, continued early this morning with unabated, violence,
Tass reported in a Moscow broadcast. Two hundred miles to the south the, 'Russians announced they had"
captured the town of Chigrin at the northern end of their Kremenchug bridgehead and captured eight more populated places in their drive for the industrial town of Kirovograd,;' 15 miles west of Russian advance guards. They were also reported fighting in the streets of Cherkasr, 35 miles further north. The Moscow midnight

Red Voice Tells
Bulgars to Quit
Pro-Russian Populace
•Presses for Peace
LONDON, Dec. 12.—(AP)—
As continental reports to Stockholm told of the hasty dispatch of more German troops to prevent a repetition of World War I—when Bulgaria was the first of the kaiser's allies to desert the doomed second Reich—unmistakably signs seeped through the tight censorship today that Allied bombings and counter propaganda were bearing fruit.
The Cairo radio said the tension was spreading to Hungary where the country was said to be flooded
by pamphlets of the Hungarian peace party urging resistance to the war effort.
A concerted campaign to explode Germany's Balkan satellites internally, possibly as a prelude to invasion,
is shaping up in Allied capitals. That is the construction placed on he almost simultaneous warnings of the Balkans issued over the weekend by Secretary of State Cordell Hull in Washington and semiofficial
Russian sources in Moscow.
                                                                     Warnings Coincide
While the American and Russian statements were issued independently, their import to the strategic Balkans was the same: If the countries of Bulgaria, Hungary and Humania continue to support their pro-Axis governments, they must expect the same consequences of defeat' Germany now faces.

 Russia. Czechoslovakia Sign Pact
With Disclaimer on Bolshevizing
 LONDON Dec 12.—(AP)—
The Czechoslovak government in exile took the first great stride today toward erecting a solid barrier against future German aggression in eastern Europe by binding themselves together in a treaty of friendship, mutual assistance and post-war collaboration.
The far-reaching agreement, which opened the way for Poland also to join in wiping out once and for all any German dream of a drive to the east, was signed at the Kremlin in a ceremony attended by Premier Marshal Stalin and the Czech President EduardBenes, the Moscow radio announced.
The way may have been paved by fhe conference of President Roosevelt, Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin at Teheran.
The brief announcement said the details of the agreement would not be published until Tuesday, but the protocol, the contents of which were learned in London before Benes left for----
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the Moscow signing, provided that any neighbors of Russia and Czechoslovakia which are not aligned with the| Germans, could come in later.
This was considered here as a flat invitation to Poland to join for she is the only country definitely coming within this category and some Poles here are understood Ito be favorably inclined.
The new agreement, which is for 20 years duration and is patterned after the British-Russian pact of May 26, 1942, includes a Soviet disclaimer of any intention of Bolsheilnzing the smaller European countries, it is understood.
Besides Stalin and Benes, the Kremlin signing ceremony,was atended by Soviet President Michael Kalinin and Marshal Klementi E. Voroshilov.
The broadcast said that Foreign Commissar Vyacheslav Molotgv signed the document for the Soviet Union and Col. Zdenek Fierlinger, Czechoslovak ambassador to Moscow, for his government.


British Extend
Moro Crossing
 Americans Force Enemy
To Leave Mignano
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Dec. 12.—(AP)—
Savage German counter-attacks were smashed back yesterday at both ends of the Allied line in Italy, Allied headquarters announced today, with British artillery taking heavy toll especially ol tank-led Nazi assault troops along the Adriatic.
The fierce German recoil brought the 8th army advance toward Pescara and Chieti to a virtual standstill, but Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery's troops managed to extend their Moro river bridgehead in the San Leonardo area, 'battlefront advices said.
In one area, an 8th army battalion buried 200 enemy dead strewn over ground from which the Germans had been dislodged. The enemy lunged out also on the 5th army front to the west, attempting especially to recover a height a mile west of Filignano. German infantry charged after a heavy artillery and mortar barrage, but American troops threw them back.
                                                        Mignano Reported Evacuated
(A British radio broadcast recorded in New York by CBS said today the Germans had announced
evacuation "some Time ago" of Mignano, stronghold on the 5th army front in Italy that had been nearly isolated by Allied seizure of surrounding hills.