Current Events December 4, 1943;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY DECEMBER 4, 1943:

 President Roosevelt,Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin in the greatest such meeting in history have

conferred at Teheran, the capital of Iran (Persia), and agreed upon both military and political plans for the war against Germany, Moscow radio announced today in the first official disclosure of the parley.

Cutting through numerous Axis and neutral reports of the "big three" meeting, Moscow in a broadcast

recorded here by the Soviet monitor stated officially that the talks were held "a few days ago," and that "diplomatic and "military representatives took part.

  Biggest of announced Russian gains yesterday were in the sector northwest of Gomel, where the Red Army mopped up 90 villages in its drive for Zhlobin, but Moscow remained silent on Berlin revelations of a vast Soviet offensive west of Smolensk.

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Reds Praise Capra Film
MOSCOW, Dec. 3 (UP)—

Frank Capra's film "Battle for Russia" was enthusiastically received at a 

privateshowing to leading members of the Soviet film industry in Moscow.

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 —U.S. Liberators caught a Jap naval convoy of ten to 12 ships trying to sneak through the Allied air and sea blockade of New Guinea and New Britain yesterday and sank a 10,000-ton fully laden transport, set fire to a large oil tanker and damaged two escorting destroyers, Gen. MacArthur's communique said today.

                   The Charleston Gazette
                             Charleston, West Virginia^ Saturday Morning. December 4, 1943.


Moscow Reveals 'Big Three, in Persia
Political Military, Decision Made

Historic Parley Sets
Offensives to Knock
Germany From War
      Surrender-or-Die
          Ultimatum Given
    Invasion From Britain
       Believed Dated
LONDON. Dec. 4.—(Saturday)'— (AP) —
President Roosevelt,Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin in the greatest such meeting in history have
conferred at Teheran, the capital of Iran (Persia), and agreed upon both military and political plans for the war against Germany, Moscow radio announced today in the first official disclosure of the parley.
Cutting through numerous Axis and neutral reports of the "big three" meeting, Moscow in a broadcast
recorded here by the Soviet monitor stated officially that the talks were held "a few days ago," and that "diplomatic and "military representatives took part."
"At the conference." said the official Moscow broadcast, "questions on the conduct of the war against Germany were discussed as well as a number of political questions. "Corresponding decisions were adopted which will be made public later."
                                                                 May Reveal More Today
The Soviet, monitor stated that all details of the conference might be announced between noon and 2' p. m., EWT today, basing this prediction on the usual routine of the Moscow radio when announcing future broadcasts.
It has been widely reported that the three Allied leaders, in addition to mapping the strategy of the
land, sea and air war against Germany, would agree upon a political program for the treatment of defeated
Nazidom and also perhaps formulate a propaganda war to be aimed at the German people immediately.


8th Army Nearing Tescara,
5th Attacking German Flank;
Soviets Grip Gomel Rail Web

             STARS AND STRIPES
    Dally Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations
                  New York, N.Y.—London, England                          Saturday, Dec. 4,1943

 'Big Three' Mapping Ultimatum to Reich
 Roosevelt, Churchill,
     Stalin Meet in Iran
        For Historic Parley
 'Surrender - or - Die'
          Edict to Germans
                     Felt Imminent
 President Roosevelt,Prime Minister Churchill and Premier Stalin are meeting "at another great conference
in the Middle East," Sen. Tom Connally, of Texas, announced yesterday  at Fort Worth, thereby putting an
official stamp on a flood of reports that the long-awaited parley was on. Connally, chairman of the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee, refused to amplify his statement, bu6 it appeared from both Axis and neutral reports that the Russian chieftain was meeting the Anglo-U.S. leaders either at Teheran or at Tabriz, in Soviet-occupied Iran.
The entire world—Allied, Axis and neutral—expected a surrender-or-die ultimatum to come out of the conference, similar to that lain down to Italy prior to that country's surrender.
                                                Demand on Satellites Foreseen
It was assumed that upon completion of the talks Germany would be given the choice of unconditional surrender or the unenviable fate of being bombed and battered to death. Likewise, a demand that Hitler's satellite states withdraw their troops from the fronts and break their alliances with Berlin was expected.
Vital decisions for the defeat of Germany, the abolition of Hitlerism in Europe, the future of the Reich and her
satellites and possibly a settlement of the differences between Poland and Russia were forecast in neutral reports.

 Berlin Blasted Again by RAF
 British Lose
 41 Dumping
 l,500, Tons
 Fiercest Night Air Battle
Of War Rages Above
Flaming Capital
 Berlin's fifth great blasting in two weeks by RAP heavy bombers set enormous fires blazing through the
capital's north, central and south sections yesterday after one of the most terrific night air battles ever seen
over Europe.
Forty-one British bombers went down, but the big raiding force achieved what the Germans described officially as "heavy damage" in spite offierce fighter attacks and intense antiaircraft fire.
More than 1,500 tons of bombs were delivered, the Air Ministry announced. They were aimed at new objectives and started fires that still could be seen when the main bomber force was 200 miles away.
Mosquito crews who bombed and reconnoitered the city some time after the attack was over reported they could see the glow of fires and smoke rising thick among the clouds. They said the fires were concentrated principally among objectives in the city's southeast sector.
German dispatches received in Stockholm said the "RAF spread loads of high explosives, including 30 or 40 four-ton block-busters, over the factory areas in the north and south sections of the city. Potsdamerplatz was plastered and the Anhalter station was hit again.
The capital was left completely paralyzed, the Stockholm Allehanda reported. Street traffic was brought to a standstill, the paper said, and no daily papers appeared yesterday.


Soviets Breach
German Line in
Smolensk Area
Driving West for Minsk;
Russians Gain in Push
Northwest of Gomel
 Biggest of announced Russian gains yesterday were in the sector northwest of Gomel, where the Red Army mopped up 90 villages in its drive for Zhlobin, but Moscow remained silent on Berlin revelations of a vast Soviet offensive west of Smolensk.
The Nazis reported that heavy tank and infantry assaults had breached the first German line at two points and that the fighting now raged in their secondary defenses.The Russians were smashing westward along Napoleon's "retreat road" toward Minsk, capital of White Russia.
As the Russians pressed their offensives along a 200-mile front from Zhlobin to the Dnieper Bend, the Red Army of the south plunged closer toward Znamenka, rail junction that is a key to lateral communications between the Dnieper Bend sack and the" Soviets' Kiev salient. ;
The Russians captured Dmitrovka, six miles north of Znamenka, as well as a number of other heavily fortified points.
No advances were reported by Moscow in the vicinity of the new Cherkassy bridgehead across the Dnieper, but the Red Army moved forward southwest of Kremenchug and southwest of Dnepropetrovsk
in the,Dnieper Bend.
. Meanwhile, both Berlin and Moscow remained silent on progress of fighting in the Kiev bulge. The Germans were believed making a heavy bid to smash back the forces which threw them out of Kiev and drove swiftly westward.
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Reds Praise Capra Film
MOSCOW, Dec. 3 (UP)—
Frank Capra's film "Battle for Russia" was enthusiastically received at a 
privateshowing to leading members of the Soviet film industry in Moscow.
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 Libs Break Up
Big Jap Convoy
Sink Transport, Damage
Two Destroyers North
Of New Britain
 ALLIED HQ, Southwest Pacific, Dec. 3
—U.S. Liberators caught a Jap naval convoy of ten to 12 ships trying to sneak through the Allied air and sea blockade of New Guinea and New Britain yesterday and sank a 10,000-ton fully laden transport, set fire to a large oil tanker and damaged two escorting destroyers, Gen. MacArthur's communique said today.
As the Jap position in the Solomons and New Guinea becomes more precarious, fleets of American and Australian planes and warships stand ready to meet any mass Jap attempt to smash through supplies for their beleaguered garrisons.
In New Guinea, any hope for the Japs retreating before the Australian drive in the Huon peninsula lies with their shipping north of New Guinea. The blockade has prevented the enemy from receiving any substantial supplies for a long time, and the determined resistance they put up before the fall of Sattelberg must have used up a large quantity of their supplies, as well as men.