Current Events January 22, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY JANUARY 22:

American and British fifth army troops in a sea-borne hop deep behind the Nazi lines . punched ashore at dawn today on the Italian west coast in a bold thrust to turn the German flank and speed the drive upon
Rome.

 (By the Associated Press)
Here is a blow-by-blow account of the RAF raids on Berlin since the launching of the obliteration campaign on Nov.18: (See report below)

Life in a JapCamp —11

Japs Missed No Chance
To Humiliate Internees

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                       PORTSMOUTH, N. H;, SATURDAY, EVENING, JANUARY 22, 1944
(By the Associated Press)
American and British fifth army troops in a sea-borne hop deep behind the Nazi lines . punched ashore at dawn today on the Italian west coast in a bold thrust to turn the German flank and speed the drive upon
Rome. The moonlight landing under support of heavy1 air and naval bombardment was timed with a powerful frontal assault crunching into enemy defenses from the Minturno and Cassino areas.
A special Allied communique did not locate the new landing, greatest amphibious operation in Italy since the September landings at Salerno, but declared it was "deep in the rear of the present enemy front line
position."
                                                     'Satisfactory Development'
The beachhead extends "several miles from north to south," it added. "The situation is developing satisfactorily."

Blow-by-Blow
Record of the
Raids on Berlin
(By the Associated Press)
Here is a blow-by-blow account of the RAF raids on Berlin since the launching of the obliteration campaign on Nov.18:
Nov. 18 — Greatest force of bombers ever sent ever Germany divides 2,500 tons of
bombs between Berlin and Ludwigshafen. Thirty-two bombers lost.
Nov. 22 — Approximately 1,000 planes drop 2,300 long tens on Berlin alone in war's heaviest raid. The cost: 26 bombers.
Nov. 23 — Berliners dive into their shelters again under' hail of an estimated 1,400 long: tons. Twenty bombers missing.
Nov. 26 — The raiders split their forces between Berlin and Stuttgart, but Berlin once again takes some 1,000 tons. Thirty two bombers missing.
Dec. 2—In 30 minutes, the RAF drops 1,500 tons on the city with a loss of 41 planes.
Dec. 16—Berlin again to the tune of 1,500 tons, with 30 bombers missing.
Dec. 23—Berlin and central Germany with 1,000 tons. Seventeen lost.
Dec. 29—Two thousand tons this time, all on Berlin. Twenty planes lost in this and other operations
Jan. .. 1—The new year start* with another 1,000 tons on Berlin and a side blow: at Hamburg.Twenty-eight lost:.
Jan. : 2—:Another_ thousand tons. . Twenty-seven bombers missing-. . :
Jan. 20—The llth of the big raids, 2,200 tons dropped.





      LOW COUNTRY  Close Up map of the Netherlands
            where Hitler has installed heavy fortifications against invasion.
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Life in a JapCamp —11
Japs Missed No Chance
To Humiliate Internees
(This is the second of two articles about Mrs. Frederick S. Pray of Berwick, Me^, who returned
on the Gripsholm.—Editor's Note).
By-MARION CHASE PIKE
"The Japanese commandant at our internment camp was particularly nasty and missed
no opportunity to humiliate us,"
Mrs. Frederick S. Pray of Berwick declared, as she told of her six-month internment in a
Japanese camp at Shanghai, China.
Take inspection, for instance. Morning and then again at night camp he would have us-line up in. forma- '
tion, stand at attention and count off one-two-three-four-five. It-was a stupid regulation. Even he must
have realized it because after a while evening inspections were discontinued."
 Mrs. Pray, who returned on the Gripsholm, recalled the commandant's reaction when 'one of the
internees smuggled a letter out in a loaf of bread. He was furious, she said, and prepared to 'teach them a
lesson. No washing of any kind for two days.
 "If he expected.us to break down  and cry about it. he was mistaken. We just went dirty and laughed at
them. Which, of course, annoyed the commandant even more."

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These tax amounts are based on a married man with two
dependents.


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