Daily Post - 09.04.1943, Page 4

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Russians Show
Small fiains
London. — Except for the
-good news that our Allies have
strengthened their grip on the
western bank of the Donetz,
there is little to report from the
Russian front today.
Today’s Moscow communique
states that Soviet troops have
enlarged their bridgeheads on
the Donetz river, below Izyum,
after smashing several German
attacks. The Russians captured
several favourable positions on
the west bank during the night, \
and the situation, which some
days ago was described as tense,
has been improved.
In two other sectors of the
vast front, at Sievsk and at
Volkhov, German attacks have
been beaten back, and the posi-
tion in both places remains un-
changed. Elsewhere all has
been quiet.
More and more is coming to
light of what the Germans have
done to the towns and terri-
tories they have occupied, as
they are recovered by the Rus-
sians. In Gshatsk, for example,
about half of the population,
which numbered 32,000, have
simply disappeared, and only
300 out of 1,600 houses are left.
Herds of cattle had been driven
away, and most of the agricul-
tural machinery had been
wrecked.
Bolivia Joins War
Against tbe Axis
The Bolivian Defense Council
has announced that a state of
war exists between Bolivia and
the Axis Powers,—Germany,
Japan and Italy, and with those
nations associated with them.
Bolivia is the 33rd nation to
join the ranks of the United
Nations against the Axis. The
principal industries are mining
and agriculture, and its value
to the United Nations’ cause lies
chiefly in its production of valu-
able minerals, first and fore-
most, of which ’s tin, but also
copper and silver. Besides this,
it is a producer of rubber and
quinine.
An agreement with the Un-
ited States provides for a deve-
lopement of the country’s na-
tural products.
Jap PlaneLosses
London.—It was revealed in
Washington that the Japanese
yesterday lost 37 planes in an
attack on American shipping in
the Solomons area, out of a
force consisting of 50 bombers
and 48 escorting Zero fighters.
The Americans lost only seven
planes.
Build Hospitals
For War Workers
Shipbuilding czar Henry
Kaiser disclosed that he has
three war worker hospitals
under construction where medi-
cal care could be obtained for
only a few cents a day.
The shipbuilder declared that
with fifty percent of the labor
market now subject to call in-
dustrialists would be forced to
fi'nd workers among the people
left behind.
Kaiser said that this meant
taking women, old people and
the sick. He stated that such a
situation required that proper
medical care be made available.
Latvian Terror
Stockholm:— Reports from
German-held Latvia said that
the Nazi Gestapo had razed two
villages after executing all male
inhabitants as well as some
women. At Audrini, in the Re-
zekne district of Latvia, thirty
men were executed in public
Forty-seven men and women
were exécuted at Morduki in
the Ludzewh district.
Careless Talk
Costs Lives
Jap Pacific Bases
Again Hit Hard
London. — Allied aircraft in
the South-West Pacific have
kept up widespread attacks
against Japanese bases in New
G’ .ea, New Britain, and New
Ireland.
Flying Fortresses yesterday
strafed a small Japanese con-
voy off Kavieng, where the ene-
my so recently suffered heavy
losses. This convoy consisted of
two supply ships and an escort-
ing destroyer.
Gordon Williams of the Aust-
ralian Broadcasting Commission
in his dispatch today says that
notwithstanding all their losses
in this area, the Japanese ap-
parently intend using Kavieng
as a supply base for their Wi-
wack basé on the north coast of
New Guinea. There are unmis-
takeable signs, that the Japan-
ese are building large airfields*
for the protection of this convoy
route.
The Japs are also hurriedly
constructing buildings obvious-
ly intended as barracks. Re-
porters point out that it is
pretty difficult to stop this ac-
tion, as the flying line for our
heavy bombers is as long as that
to Rabaul.
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No Change in Borma
London. — News of the land
fighting in Burma is that there
has beén no change in the situa-
tion during the last twenty-four
hours.
The Japanese suffered heavi-
ly from our artillery, when they
attempted to advance on our
positions in the Arakan district,
where fighting continues. Blen-
heims and fighters continued
their sweeps yesterday over the
entire battle area, not one of
them failing to return.
Plane Accidents Low
t
U.S. Army air force safety
record reveals that one thous-
and seven hundred seventy
seven person were^killed during
the first nine months of last
year. Army planes have flown
a total of a billion and a half
miles with one fatal accident
for every million seven hundred
fifty thousand miles flown.
Can take WASHING
for some men.
Kristín Pétursdóttir,