Daily Post - 07.01.1943, Side 4

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DAILY POST
March Field, huge United States Army Air Corps base on the West Coast, is using hundreds
of girls to replace young men now in the armed forces. This picture shows eighteen-year-old
Elizabeth Kaplan, a former college freshman, at the wheel of a tow truck used to move
planes.
Kalaol Riidei ipii
London, January 6th.
Late last night a communique jrom General MacArthur’s
Headquarters reported the biggest destruction of Japanese shipp-
ing ever to take place in Rabaul harbour at any one time since
th war began.
Ixis Air Lesses
London, Jan. 6th.
Malta’s contribution towards
the war is revealed in a des-
patch jrom Cairo today gimng
details of air and sea ope a■
tions in the Mediterranean d.ar-
ing the past year.
FIGHTER AND A. A.
Axis aircraft have dropped
12,000 tons of bombs on Malta
since the war began and in re-
turn Malta’s fighters and anti-
aircraft gunners have shot out
of the sky 955 enemy raiders
during the past 12 months, as
well as nearly 300 more proba-
bly destroyed. The fighters de-
finitely accounted for 773 and
the gunners 182. R.A.F. losses
during the same period were
195 machines, from which 89
of the pilots were saved.
NOT ONLY 1N AIR
But Malta’s contribution has
not been in the air alone. R.A.F.
aircraft based on the island
have attacked 46 enemy con-
voys as well as 6 single vessels
and 5 naval forces, as a result
of which 46 ships were either
sunk, severely damaged or left
burning and an additional 40
probably damaged.
Naval aircraft hit 37 enemy
ships, making a total of 83 ships
hit, apart from the probables.
MIDDLE EAST SUCCESSES
Details of enemy aircraft des-
troyed during December in
Europe and the Middle East are
also published today. In offen-
sive sweeps over Europe home-
based R.A.F. aircraft destroyed
22 enemy machines and 18
more were destroyed during
Luftwaffe raids on Britain. The
figure of Axis air losses in the
Middle East during December
is 100.
RBYKJABIO
“His Girl Friday
with
CARY GRANT
ROSALIND RUSSELL
RALPH BELLAMY
Perform. 6 p. m. and 8 p.m.
The communique reports that
9 and probably 10 Japanese
ships were sunk in the harbour
by Allied heavy bombers on
Monday, every ship being hit
by at least a 1000-pounder.
The Allied bombers went
over in two waves. Visibility
was good and the planes bomb-
ed from a medium height. The
estimated tonnage of the ships
sunk was 50,000 tons. Six Jap-
anese fighters which attempted
to intercept our bombers were
shot down into the sea. Only
one Allied aircraft failed to re-
turn to its base.
The communique adds that in
the last 10 days not less than
160,000 tons of Japanese shipp-
ing have either been sunk of
put out of commission in the
New Guinea and New Britain
areas by Allied aircraft.
Russia
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CUT OFF
Important as is the recapture
of Tsymlyanskaya, the Soviet
forces have scored an even
greater victory with the retak-
ing of Morosovskaya. The cap-
ture of this important rail
centre means that the Germans
are cut off altogether from rail-
way communication with the
east, making the sitution of
their encircled troops around
Stalingrad even more hopeless.
Morosovskaya was also the last
enemy hedgehog position east
of the Donetz river.
With fierce fighting going on
west of Stalingrad for the
possession of. two important
heights, Moscow reports a local
success at the approaches to the
city. To the south-west the ene-
my is still falling back, and in
the latter sector German resis-
tance is the strongest on thé
railway from Kotelnikovo to
Salsk.
North Africa
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two armies under his command
in North Africa, — the United
States Fifth Army, which has
just been established under
General Clark, and the British
First Army under General
Anderson.
MISURATA DEFENCES
Official news from General
Alexander’s HQ states that in
Libya there is nothing to re-
port, either on land or in the
air. Morocco Radio, however,
says that forward troops of the
Eighth Army are testing Rom-
mel’s coastal and inland defenc-
es up to Misurata. The Germans
are reported to have been dig-
,ging in at Wadi Zem Zem, west
of Buerat, which last night was
announced to be in the hands
of General Montgomery’s men.
Sundhðll ‘Alafoss’
The Álafoss Swimming Bath is open every day — except
Fridays — from 1—8 o’clock p. m.
In the shop you can get warm Icelandic sweaters — blankets
— sheepskins and socks, all made from first class Icelandic wool,
well made and inexpensive. Wear Icelandic woollens, they may
save your life in this climate.

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PATRONISE “ÁLAFOSS“.