Daily Post - 28.01.1943, Qupperneq 4

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Fortresses Bomb
Wilhelmshaven
Flrst American Daylight *
Raid On Germany
London, Jan. 27th.
American Flying Fortresses
<and Liberator have in daylight
to-ady attacked naval installa-
tions in North-Westem Ger-
many, with Wilhelmshaven as
the main target.
' The raid on Wilhelmshaven
was very heavy, and made by
Flying Fortresses. Simultane-
ously Liberators bombed other
places on Gernaany’s north-
west coast. Results were diffi-
■cult to observe, owing to cloud
conditions. The huge American
bombers flew without escort,
and were intercepted by enemy
*fighters, several of which were
destroyed. Three of the Aemir-
can planes are missing.
This is the first time that U.
'S. Army bombers have atta :ed
Germany in daylight, although
enemy occupied territory has
often been their target.
Saving Shipping
Space
London, Jan. 26th.
More and more food is being
grown in Britain and the Uni-
ted States, it was revealed here
to-day. Two-thirds of Britains
food requirements are now
being grown at home, thus sav-
ing millions of tons of shipp-
ing space.
RBYRIABIO
The Grapes
Of Wrath
ivith
HENRY FONDA
JANE DARWELL
JOHN CARRADINE
Perform. 6 p. m. and 8 p.m.
French Leaders Unite
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The Churchill-Roosevelt meeting was also the occasion
jor the first wartime meeting between Generals Giraud and
de Gaullé. Afterwards they issued a joint statement as to
the end to be achieved by the French armies, to attain
which they pleaded that the union and co-operation in the
was of all Frenchmen was imperative. A permanent liason
is to be established between General Giraud and the French
National Committee in London. Great satisfaction is ex-
pressed in al British papers over their meeting and agree-
ment. With General de Gaulle came Catroux from London.
Rommel Running
London, January 27th.
The British Eighth Army is steadily driving on towards
Tunisia, and is now reported several miles west of Zavia, which
was occupied by Montgomery’s men on Monday. Contact was
made yesterday with the enemy in this region. The extent of
the German evacuation by Zuara indicates a speeding up of the
Axis withdrawal.
The Axis do what they can
in the way of keeping up rear-
guard action by day, and with-
drawing at night. The coastal
road is in a very bad condit.ion,
owing to mining and other
obstruction, and our progress
has necessarily been slower
here than that made a week
ago in Tripolitania.
Enemy bombers tried to raid
the Algiers area last night.
Two of them were destroyed.
R.A.F. Bomb
Bordeaux
London, Jan. 27th.
Aircraft of the Bomber Com-
mand bombed the U-boat base
of Lorient last night for the
fifth time in a fortnight. Fires
were started in the dock area.
Two of our planes failed to re-
turn.
Other aireraft, with some of
the Coastal Command went 250
miles farther away towards the
Spanish frontier to. bomb Bor-
deaux. All of these returned
safely.
Rangoon
Targets
London, Jan. 27th.
An agency message from New
Delhi reports that our air of-
fensive in Burma is being kept
up with good results. Yesterday
coastal Japanese shipping off
the Arakan district was suc-
cessfully bombed and machine-
gunned, and last night the im-
portant Japanese base at
Toungoo in Central Burma, as
well as military targets at
j Rangoon, were very heavily
I raided.
fierman fienerals Trapped
li Stalingrað
London, January 27th.
Since the announcement last night that the doomed German
survivors at Stalingrad now number only 12,000 there came
news from Moscow to-day that a complete German infantry regi-
ment has been wiped out while another has surrendered. Moscow
also announces that railway communications have been restored
with the city.
HOPELESS!
To-day’s Moscow communi-
que deals mainly with the
fighting of the last few days in
this area. Many of the German
generals are reported to have
been flown out of the trap, but
now they have no airfields left,
and though it is possible to drop
a certain amount of food and
supplies by parachute, it is not
so easy to erverse the process
in order to save Nazi generals,
who after all see no point in giv-
ing their lives in a hopeless
situation for the Fuehrer.
HITLER’S BOAST
Russian military spokesmen
seem to lean to the opinion that
had the order been give imedia-
tely to the encircled German
Sixth Army to fight its way
out, it is quite possible that this
might have been accomplished
before the Russians were able
: to fully consolidate their posi-
j tions, but the Fuehrer needs
must make good his boast that
Stalingrad would be taken.
Now Germany has lost a quar-
ter of a million men, including
some of Hitler’s finest cradk
troops. Strong Soviet forces
have new been released for ac-
íion else where.
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Sports Review i
Continued from Page 3.
Britain lifted the Davis Cup in
1933, Fred Perry and H. W.
Austin became national figures.
It was unfortunate for British
sport that they should not har-
ness their athletic ability to the
vital needs of military service
when the occasion arose.
Austin had plenty to say be-
for the war. He has been in
America with the Oxford Group
for the greater part of the war.
Recently, when Dr. Buchman
applied for the release of Austin
and others like him, the Court
refused, averring that the
Groupers were pulling strings.
How different has been the
attitude of most other promin-
ent British sportsmen! One
thinks of the heroism of men
such as S/Ldr Edrich, Hutton
who thrilled the world as he
stood at the crease compiling
his epic test match record at
the age of 21, now disabled and
hundreds like that superb Rug-
ger international, Prince/Obol-
enskey who have finished the
game of life itself in the service
of humanitv.