LONDON, April 16—(AP)'
American bombers from the
Mediterranean area heavily "raided Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia, for
the first time today, the German DNB agency reported, and also hit several
other Southeastern European cities, including Brasov, Romania.
LONDON, Monday, April 17— (AP) —
Russian forces, capturing Axis
troops at the rate of 3,000 a day, toppled the South Crimean stronghold of
Yalta and 40 other villages yesterday as they closed in swiftly from the
southeast on Sevastopol, where thousands of Germans and Romanians trying to
escape to sea were being blasted by Soviet bombers Moscow announced early today.
WASHINGTON, April 16— (AP) —
In the very act of signing a
treaty outlawing war, the Japanese government took care 15 years ago to leave a
diplomatic door open for It’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Other Cities
Also Bombed
From South
LONDON, April 16—(AP)'
American bombers from the
Mediterranean area heavily "raided Belgrade, capital of Yugoslavia, for
the first time today, the German DNB agency reported, and also hit several
other Southeastern European cities, including Brasov, Romania.
The G e r m a n a g e n c y ' s broadcast said damage and casualties were
heavy in Belgrade and its environs as the Americans attacked through clouds.
Brasov, also known as Kronstadt, is
the Industrial center "of the Transylvania
area 80 miles north northwest of Bucharest. The German account said the
American
raids were fiercely opposed by
German and Romanian fighter planes.
The reported raid on Belgrade) was
the first ever made by the Allies and the first of any sort since the Germans
laid waste to the city in the heavy raids April 6, 1941, when they Invaded
Yugoslavia. The German bombers were reported at the time to have killed about
12,000 persons.
Belgrade, now capital of the
German puppet state of Serbia, is one of the most Important crossroads from
Central Europe to the Middle East. As such, It has been German headquarters for
all the Balkans since last October.
Singapore Actions Near
"Allies Strike -
Kuriles, Naura
By
LEONARD MILLIMAN
Associated
Press War Editor
American air raiders struck at-both
ends of the 3,000-mile Pacific front, .carrying their raids against the northern Kurile islands into -'the' fifth-
straight .'day. and. .renewing their attacks on equatorial Naura after a 'month's'
layoff.
Simultaneously, Adm. Lord Louis
Mountbatten moved his Southeast Asia headquarters' from New Delhi to Ceylon,
-indicating the long expected
amphibious actions directed at Singapore may be drawing near, despite the
Japanese penetration of India.
REDS CLOSE IN SWIFTLY ON GERMANS IN
CRIMEA
LONDON, Monday, April 17— (AP) —
Russian forces, capturing Axis
troops at the rate of 3,000'a day, toppled the South Crimean stronghold of
Yalta and 40 other villages yesterday as they closed in swiftly from the
southeast on Sevastopol, where thousands of Germans and Romanians trying to
escape to sea were being blasted by Soviet bombers Moscow announced early today.
Sevastopol's fall was expected shortly
as Russian artillery mounted three and one-half miles north of the city pumped
shells into the scarred city. Front dispatces said Soviet troops were fighting
in the suburbs within two miles of the 'citadel.
Jap Attack Plan
Fifteen Years Old
By FLORA LEWIS
WASHINGTON, April 16— (AP) —
In the very act of signing a
treaty outlawing war, the Japanese government took care 15 years ago to leave a
diplomatic door open for It’s attack on Pearl Harbor.
Japanese hedging on the Kellog? renunciation
of war pact was revealed today In two volumes of 1929 diplomatic documents
published by the state department.
The hitherto secret papers also disclosed
that in the same year, the U, S. and Britain agreed to pare down their naval
forces as a step to promote peace. A tentative proposal under which neither
nation would build bases in the hemisphere
in which the other is situated also
was considered at the Rapldan, Va. conference between President Hoover and
British Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald.
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