Apr 13, 1944; LONDON RAIDED:

C H A R L E S T O N , WEST  V I R G I N I A , T H U R S D A Y  E V E N I N G . A P R I L 13, 1944

Reds 40 Miles From Sevastopol

Forts' Smash Luftwaffe Plants

Vital Cities

In Hungary,

Reich Jolted

2,000 Bombers

Hurl Explosives

Into Factories

LONDON (UP),—

More than 2,000 American w a r  p l a n e s  struck from Britain and Italy today at Nazi aircraft and component, factories along a 400- mile front through Schweinfurt

and Augsburg in south Germany to Hungary.

Flying Fortresses and Liberators of the United States third and 15^th  Air Forces dumped a destructive pincers on fountainheads of the luftwaffe in one of the most staggering blows struck in the pre-invasion bombing campaign now in its sixth straight day.

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London Raided,

"LONDON (AP).—

German raiders sped over southeast. England, the home counties and greater London last night, and an authoritative announcement today said their bombs caused a small number of casualties and slight damage.

 It was the first, thrust against London since March 31. But  no bombs were reported dropped in  the capital itself. At least one plane was downed.

Up to 750 heavy bombers escorted  by nearly 1.000  f i g h t e r s swarmed out of Britain and into

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Shock Troops Knife

Deeper Into Crimea

Dual Force Hammering at Rim

Of Simferopol and Feodosiya

MOSCOW (UP).—

Front dispatches said today that Soviet armies closing a trap on 100,000 to 150.000 fleeing Axis troops in the Crimea were "reaching" the outskirts of both Simferopol,

the capital, and the south coast port of Feodosiya in a pincers drive toward the big Sevastopol naval base.

Soviet tanks rolled over the approaches to the two cities as the Red air force and the Black sea fleet clamped down a complete air and sea blockade of the Crimea, presumably bottling up the largest Axis force since 300,000 troops were killed or

captured at Stalingrad.

Commanding officers and staffs abandoned many German and Romanian

units in headlong flight toward Sevastopol after resistance collapsed in the Ishun hills to the north and on the Kerch peninsula to the east.

Jap Thrusts

Peril Imphal

, Enemy Opens Attack

Northwest of Base

WASHINGTON (AP). —

Secretary of War Stimson said today that Japanese troops had cut the road between Imphal and Kohima and "are attacking both towns

NEW DELHI  (AP)

The Japanese have edged around to the northwest of  Imphal. Supplementing their positions lo the southwest of that partly-surrounded base in the Manipur plain of eastern India, a communique from Adm; Lord Mountbatten’s southeast Asia headquarters disclosed today.

The announcement said British and Indian forces had captured a  h i l l  position in t h a t area in hand-to-hand fighting.

Japs Feel

Yank Wrath

Bomber* Blanket

4,000 Mile Front

 With Explosives

PEARL HARBOR (UP).—

American bombers. Demonstrating the growing Allied power in te Pacific swept Japanese air and naval bases along a 4,000 mile front from northern Japan to New Guinea in a two-day offensive that carried to within 1,100 miles of Tokyo, it was revealed today.