Daily Post - 22.06.1943, Blaðsíða 4

DAILY POST
News Of The World
Little Action On
Soviet Front
LONDON — From the East-
ern Front, there is still no news
of any big scale land fighting.
The Soviet Air Force has been
keeping up its attacks on Ger-
man airfields and supplt be-
hind the Orel bulge. The chief
targets of the Russian bombers
have been airfields in the Bri-
ansk ánd Karachev sectors,
which our Allies have attack-
ed in strength.
A German attempt to raid
Volkhov, cost the Luftwaffe 15
out of a force of 60 bombers
sent. The Russians lost orily
two aircraft.
Chinese Victory
Chungking — Chinese troops
on the Yangtze river front have
recaptured four strategical po-
ints on the Kutu river across
the Yangtze from Shasi. The
Chinese High Command anno-
unced that the places retaken
from the Japanese were Chang
tinsu, Tienchenwang, Chaoky-
an, and Huiluwang. They were
recaptured on Saturday.
LONDON — Sir Stafford
Crips, minister of aircraft
prodtiction, told an Anglo-Sovi
et meeting here Sunday that
Hitler had been of some use to
the world. Cripps said that
Hitler had destroyed the distr-
ust which formerly existed bet
ween Soviet Russia and the rest
of th civil world. Sir Stafford
added that Hitler had unknow-
lingly opened the way to new
and more hope negations for in
ternational security. Cripps
also said that Britain and the
United States would have heavy
etonomic responsibilities to Russ
ia when the Soviet Union be-
gins repairing the devastation
left in the path of the retrea-
ting Germans.
*
BERNE — Radio Rome has
reported Mussolini presided
over a meeting of the Italian
cabinet Sunday morning. If
true, the report would dispel
rumors that II Duce has be-
come to ill preside.
*
LONDON — Reports from
various sections of occupied
Europe indicate fresh waves of
wholesale sabotage against Ax-
is positions, lines of communi-
cations and moving troop col-
umns on the continent.
VICHY — Vichy Radio re-
ports that he British Navy is
concentrating in the Eastern
Mediterranean while troops con
tinue to mass in Syria. “These
may be preparations to invade
Greek islands at the same time
as landing in Sicily”, the radio
added.
*
TOKYO — Domei, Japanese
news agency, has quoted Premi
er Hideki Tojo and Navy Mini-
ster Shimada as reporting to
the Japanese' Diet that the war
áituation is adrriittedly serio-
us since the Allied offensive got
underway.
íjí
WASHINGTON — Elmer Da
vis, head of the Office of War
Information, has stated that the
foreign battlefields currently
are in a state of lull. “This is
what Hitler used to call a crea-
tive pause”, Davis said. “Only
this time it is our that doing
the creating”.
*
U. S. Army Photographer
Sergeant Worden F. Lovell of
Malden, Mass., jockeying his
jeep in the wake of a British
Eighth Army advance unit in
Tunisia, briskly demanded di-
rections. Asked by one of the
limeyfe why he wanted to know,
Cameraman Lovell made it
pretty clear that he had no
time for conversation, gave and
got a few personal remarks
anyway. Said Lovell to a by-
stander, when his questioner
had walked away: “That fell-
ow must be a sergeant, the way
he talked to me”. Bystander:
“That’s Montgomery”.
*
CAMBERRA — Just as the
Australian Commonwealth Par
liament was due to reassemble
this morning, the Opposition de
cided to launch a motion of no
confidence. The motion will be
debated in the House of Re-
presentatives to-morrow, and
the outcome is eagerly awaited,
as the Government has enjoyed
a majority of only one vote, and
that of an Independent memb-
er.
LONDON — The people of-
Belgium have been warned to
get awaj' from war factories
and other targets of a like mili-
tary nature, and were told that
from now ori these targets will
be sysematically bombed by the
R. A. F.
MacArthnr Gets
More Planes
Southwest Pacific Allied
Headquarters — General Mac
Arthur has announced that a
large number of Vultee Venge
ance dive bombers have arrived
in the Southwest Pacific to rein
force Allied air strength in that
wide war theater.
Accompained by long-range
fighter planes, the dive bomb-
ers have already blasted a numb
er of Japanese villages on Sal
aru island in the Tenember gro
up.
Allied Liberator bombers
have carried out a smashing
new raid on Jap installations at
Rabaul, New Guinea. Bombs
were poured on enemy
objectives in Rabual and
th adjoining air field blasted.
Other Allied bombers struck at
wide;-separated targets in New.
Guinea.
Australian based Spitfires
had another big day Sunday
when they shot down nearly
half of a raiding force of 50
Japanese aircraft near Port
Darwin.
The Spitfires met the attack-
ing force about 40 miles from
Port Darwin, and in a running
fight destroyed, or damaged 22.
The few enemy planes which did
get through, caused little dam-
age. Only two Allied aircraft
were lost.
French Confer
LONDON — The French
Committee of National Libera-
tion met in Algiers Monday with
General de Gaulle presiding.
The meeting, which dealt sol-
ely with the reorganisation of
the French armed forces, las-
ted three hours, and will be re-
sumed Tuesday.
Qnake h Turkejr?
i —
LONDON — The German
Transocean News Agency to-
day reports a serious earhquake
in Anatolia in Turkey, with the
death toll already at 15,000. The
shock is reported to have been
felt in Istanbul, causing minor
damages there.
Leslie Brooks, Hollywood Film star, shows the latest summer
liat as she admires flowers.