Daily Post - 17.02.1943, Blaðsíða 4

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iTímoshenkð’s Staff |
IReported In D. SJ
s
Washington.
Secretary of State Cordell
Hull has said that he is unable
to givp any information regard-
ing the reported visit of Rus-
sia’s Marshal Timoshenko and
four other Soviet staff officers
to the United States. Earlier it
was reported from Rio De
Janiero that the Soviet leader
and his aids had stopped there
en route to Washington.
BUTTER CEILING
Ceiling prices on all butter,
from the dairy to the retailer, i
have been fixed by the Offi.ce
of Price Administration. New
York, Chicago and San Fran-
cisco are being used as the base
cities in computing the new
ceilings. In some cases, house
will save up to one cent per
pound.
LAUDED FOR HEROISM
Chief Gunner’s Mate Ant-
hony Zawadski has been laund-
ed by navy department officials
for donning a diving suit and
'descending into excessively
cold water for 35 minutes to
locate and render harmless h
sunken mine endangering
nearby ships. The mine was
disabled by Zawadzki, who also
secured a line to it so it could
be towed to sea.
RAF Swoop On
Railways
London, 16th Feb.
Bomber Command attacRed
Belgium and Western Germany
last night.
Fighter Command also made
sweeps, attacking railways and
destroying or damaging 11
goods engines.
lair Clips
Eygló
_________________SUNDA
lappy Doder
Eisenhower
— Gnnninoham
London, 16th Feb.
The smoothness of American
and British collaboration in the
North African campaign was
stressed by Admiral Cunning-
ham, C-in-C. of the Allied
Mediterranean Fleet, when he
addressed a Press conference
to-day.
OVER 6 MILLION TONS
He told reporters that he was
happy to be serving under
General Eisenhower. Since the
present campaign opened, he
said, 780 ships had beeh brought
into port. This representing 6V2
millions tons of cargo. Our
losses were less than two per
cent.
Dealing with the U-boat
menace, Admiral Cunningham
said. “We are more than hold-
ing our own in submarine war-
fare, although the Germans are
showing better organisation and
planning in their U-boat at-
tacks.”
RE ARMING FRENCH FLEET
Referring to the arrival of the
‘Richelieu’ in New York, he
said this was the first step in
the re-arming of the French
fleet.
North Africa
(Continued from pags 1J
Marshall also reports that
the main battle is now being
fought further to the north-
east, near Sidi Bou Zid, and
nearer the Faid pass. The
Americans are still holding hills
near the pass. U. S. troops coun-
ter attacked in the south we*st
yesterday, driving the enemy
six miles back and destroying
at least 20 Axis tanks. The si-
tuation is reported to be rea-
sonably satisfactory, but both
sides have suffered heavy los-
ses.
To-day’s communique gives
the news that the British
Eighth Army yesterday occup-
pied Ben Gardane, and was in
touch' with the enemy west of
this place.
Y POS T_____________________
Amerieans Attack
St Nazaire
London, 16th Feb.
Flying Fortresses and Libera-
tors, piloted by Americans
bombed St Nazaire in daylight
today.
Visibility was good and
bombs were seen bursting in
the target area. Large fires
were started.
Strong opposition was en-
countered by our aircraft and
in addition to being attacked
by fighters they met with
heavy anti aircraft five. Six of
our planes failed to return.
Letters To Germany
London, 16th Feb.
Letters sent to British prison-
ers-of-war in Germany will go
by air mail all the way. This
was stated by the Assistant
Postmaster General in the
House of Commons to-day.
The ration of sending one
letter to a prisoner a week still
stood.
Britain’s Home
Front
27 million shell eggs were
distributed in Britain last
week-end. Only a quarter of
these were imported.
New ration books have been
issued. These are in two parts
and hav been designed to save
paper. There is no need to re-
register with the same shop-
keeper.
A check has been made on
milk bottles. It has been found
that 214 million were thrown
away for salvage last year. It
is now an offence to throw a-
way milk bottles.
Clothing For Onr
Prisoners
London, 16th Feb.
British War Minister, Sir
James Grigg, told Parliament
to-day that supplies of clothing
to British prisoners of war in ,
Italy had been sent to the In-
temational Red Cross. The
Italians had no supplies to
clothe British prisoners.
Beveridge Plaa
Debate Id
Commons
London, 16th Feb.
The eagerly awaited House of
Commons debate on the Be-
veridge report began to-day,
and was opened by Mr. Arthur
Greenwood, Labour member,
who moved a resolution suppor-
ted by members of all parties,
wel coming the report.
Mr. Greenwood said that
what the people wanted was a
pledge from the Government
that the broad principles of the
plan were accepted, and pres-
sed for early legislation to de-
termine the lines on which the
Government' meant to pursue
port-war policy. He suggested
that a ministry of Social Se-
curity be set up.
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE
The Lord President of thé
Council, Sir John Anderson,
spoke on behalf of the Govern-
ment. He said that the Govern-
ment accepted the plan’s main
points, and that legislation to
carry out the proposals would
be introduced as soon as possi-
ble. The Government had ac-
cepted the three .main prin-
ciples on which the plan was
based, namely: social security
to prevent mass unemployment;
secondly: childrens’ allowances,
and thirdly: the existence of a
comprehensive health and
medical service. The Govern-
ment, Sir John said, had not
made up its mind yet, what
form the administration would
take, but declared that the
nucleus of a Ministry had al-
ready been set up to help draft
legislation.
HEYKJABIO
Bitter Sweet
with
JEANETTE MAC DONALD
NELSON EDDY