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On
Yanks Sipre
Isiaid
top Resistance Almost Ended
London, May 22 nd.
Aiu for Attu Island has entered the final phase, the
^can forces being now engaged in moppingup operations.
This
day) “ news follows yester-
seerSfStatement by CoL Knox’
of the U.S. Navy, —
ce(j e ’lapanese on Attu fa-
°a. S^rrender or exterminati-
Wh0 dapanese spokesman,
ese ^dmitted that the Japan-
Hp rces °n the island were
"teetivatriSt terrific odds, indi-
y c°nfirmed this.
^oton satisfac-
1h
at J ^merican forces landed
ce on May the llth. Sin-
^Porte ancbn§> Washington has
, satisfactory progress
•out ^ ay to day. It is pointed
SUccessíe tbat the sPeed and
heen ,, °f the campaign has
reinarkable.
W
the isl
V}oTstS an<^ are among the
fon0 ln the world, with sea
o/ ev Tain eÍ9ht days out
ather conditions on
lík
:ivíMed
'y ten.
IN
Th
^.^Panese occupied Attu,
^ost ex6s West of Kiska, al-
r°Ught aCtly a year ago. This
^iles of them within 1,000
a'lct frn 6 ^iashan mainland,
this base they
ace American shipp-
rthern Pacific wat-
aPs still hold Kiska,
COald "0tn
itig men?
Crs. -p,
W rhe
+1_ . # ___ íivau jLVj.orwa.
netl>tUed • Stand base is now
J t\\,0 n by the Americans
,re 2,5q0 "'s; E'rom Attu there
S^.*,™** ‘° T»ky»-
u d’ nortb ° ^ aramushir Is-
S°ese K, fnmost ef the Ja-
°ut ^OOO1^.!Slands’ is iust
u miles.
Fightlng Brisk In
Knban Area
London. May 22nd. Moscow
dispatches report that follow-
ing attacks in considerable
strength in the Lisichansk sec-
tor, Soviet troops have widen-
ed their bridgehead on the
right bank of the Donetz. Mes-
sages indicate that local fight-
ing is still brisk in many pla-
ces including the Kuban. The
communiqué mentions engage-
ments near Sukhinichi, which
lies on the Briansk-Kaluga
line. Preparation is the key
note all along the front.
“Pravda” announces to-day
that the Comintern is being
disbanded. This is considered a
great blow to Nazi propaganda
which is always stressing the
menace of Bolshevism.

Eisenhower Te Vavell
London. May 22nd. — Gen.
Eisenhower has replied to
Field Marshal Wavell’s mess-
age of congratulation.
He expresses the pride he
feels that it should havé been
forces under his command
that struck the final blow at
the Axis in North Africa. ‘But’,
he adds, ‘it was the same batt-
le that was begun under your
leadership. The ideal that in-
spired us both was the same:
the utter destruction of the
enemy.”
Half A ‘Battle Of Britain’ Bombing Prooramme
A fflonth For Nazis
Mr. Oliver Lyttleton, British
Production Minister, opening
the “Wings for Victory Week”
at Aldershot yesterday, com-
pared our position now with
what it had been during the
worst year of raids, 1941. The
Luftwaffe had that year drop-
ped 22,000 tons of bombs on
Britain. Now Britain had
dropped half that weight on
the Reich during the month of
April alone.
War Department’ Budset
Washington. — President
Roosevelt has submitted the
War Department’s budget for
the fiscal year, 1944. It totals
72 billion dollars. The largest
item in the new budget is 23
Only Started
London. Captain Balfour, —
Under Secretary for Air, has
disclosed that in one week a-
lone of this month, from May
lOth to 17th, the RAF’s fight-
ers made almost 5,000 sorties
across the Channel, which
works out at about 700 sorties
every day of that week.
Speaking of the bombing of-
fensive, Captain Balfour said
that the RAF had a long cal-
endar of German and Italian
cities due for really big raids.
This month we had picked two
of them, Dorthmund and Duis
burg, the turn of the others
was coming.
billions. The Army Air Forces
are slated for 655 millions.
Mosqnitos Fourth Visit To Berlio In Week
London, May 22nd.
The RAF were out again last night, vutting a brake on Hitl~
er’s road and sea communications.
Mosquitos flew to Orleans,
to make a high speed bombing
attack from a low level on the
locomotive depot there for the
second night running. Soon
afferwards, Whirlwinds, carry
ing bombs, caught a heavily es
corted’ Nazi supply ship off
Cherbourg. The pilots left
her with her stern tipping up
at a sharp angle. They also
sank the biggest of the armed
trawlers — there were four of
them — and damaged anoth-
er.
Strong formations of Mos-
quitos, Beaufighters and Bost-
ons swept Northern France, —
and, in the words of one of the
pilots, they had some pretty
good hunting in the monnlight
He found four locomotives, —
and left them all riddled with
cannon shells.
Heavy bombers backed up
the offensive by laying mines
in enemy waters, and just to
round off the night’s work, a
number' oí Mosquitos flew to
give Berlin its fourth raid
this week. All these operations
cost five bombers and one
fighter.
Berlin Radio had a word to
say this morning about yester-
day’s heavy raids on Emden
and Wilhelmshaven, made by
big American bombers. The
Nazis actually admitted con-
siderable damage in both
towns.
RJ.F. Attacks In Biirma
In Burma, the RAF has
made another series of attacks
on Japanese positions.
Some formations concentra-
ted on the Upper Chindwin,
while others bombed objective
es in the Buthé Daung and A-
kyab areas. Wellingtons at-
tacked the marshalling yards
at Mandalay with good re-
sults. From all these extensive
operations two aircraft are
missing.