Daily Post - 14.11.1943, Page 1

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Snccess
Enemy’s Air Concentration of
300 Completely Routed
Phenomenally Rapid Advance
By Vatutin’s Army
London, Nov. 13th.
From the South-West Pacific comes news of another re-
sounding Allied victory over the
Today’s communique from
General MacArthur’S HQ re-
ports the sinking of one Jap-
anese cruiser and two destroy-
ers, as well as the damage of
another cruiser and 11 destroy-
ers in an engagement fought by
Allied land and carrier based
jircraft against the concentra-
tion ei 23 Japanese warships,
ivhich Allied reconnaissance
Itad r©vealed at Rabaul.
Besides this, the Japancse
were known to have assembled
a big armada aí Rabaul, some
300 planes at least.
On Wednesday therefore,
Allied medium bombers made a.
heavy attack on the enemy air-
field at Rabaul. This was fol-
lowed by the attack against tlie
warships, during which en-
gagement the enemy lost 23
aircraft.
The Japanese then thought
’o riet some o£ tkeir own hacfo
:ad flew in strength to g-tsack
Jis Ailied warships. They
avæed only minor
--O-.vcver, but the aeíion cost
them 64 machines. The Allies
lost only 17 aircraft in tlie
whole engagement, and several
of the pilots are reported safe.
Allied reconnaissance later
disclosed only eight enemy
v/arships at Rabaul, and some
150 aircraft. The latest mes-
sages suggest that the Japs
have withdrawn their ships to
Kavieng in New Ireland.
Strong forces of Allied planes
yesterday attacked the four
Japanese airfields on Bougain-
ville Island in the Solomons.
Enern^ shipping was also hit,
and the Japanese positions :'ac-
ing the Allies at Emmress Au-
Japanese in the Rabaul area.
gusta Bay were heavily pound-
ed.
An Allied low level attack is
also reported on Japanese posi-
Gons north of Madang in Xew
tiainea.
. — —-TnrXcTTO
Mazi' Officer
Captured
The commanding officer of a
German submarine talks with
an officer aboard a U.S. Navy
escort carrier after his under-
seas raider was destroyed by
Navy planes operating off the
carrier. Four enemy raiders
were sunk in six weeks by
planes flying off the carrier
during anti-submarine and es-
cort duty in the Atlantic.
London, Nov. 13th.
In a Special Order of the Day, issued this afternoon, Marshal
Stalin announced the capture by General Vatutin of Zhitomir,
the important tovvn and railway junction due west of Kiev on
the main supply line between all the German forces in Russia,
north and south.
After suffering this new
blow, the Germans can only
supply and reinforce their
Kiev front by difficult and
roundabout routes.
Zhitomir, a great industrial
center of 100,000 inhabitants,
lies only 65 miles from the pre-
war Polish border, but 80 niiles
from Kiev, and General Vatu-
tin’s forces have thus nego-
tiated more than 10 miles a day
on the average since they cap-
tured Kiev a week ago.
In this ever-growing Kiev
salient, General Vatutin’s men
yesterday liberated more than
100 places. Among them was
Korostchev, on the main road
from Kiev somewhat less than
20 miles from Zhitomir. Korost-
chev was taken after some very
bitter fighting by a flank at-
tack and the Germans so com-
pletely 'routed that after the
battle they had to leave the
road to Zhitomir practicaily
open and undefended.
Further north, the Red Army
ýesterday captured a place 30
miles from Korosten cn the
Leningrad-Odessa line, v/hile
still further north the Germans
are resisting fiercely south of
Ryetchitsa, which lies 30 miles
west of Gomel. The enemy here
is being pressed back against
the Pripet Marshes, and in fact
is doubly threatened as the Red
Army draws nearer Korosten.
In the sector below Fastov,
south-west of Kiev, , neavy
fighting is reported this after-
noon, the Gprmar.s counter-
attacking desperately to pre-
vent the immediate threat to
his Dniepr bend forces from
developing.
Down in the Crimea, the
land, sea and air battle iar
Kersch still rages day and
night. The Russians are pour-
ing supplies across the .Straits,
and the Germans admit tlie pre-
sence of Russian tanks i i the
Crimea.
According to the latest Mos-
cow dispatches today, there is
no sign anywhere of the Nazi
Iiigh • Command being able to
stem the Russian advauce in
any sector.
Allíes’ Ceaseless
Communication
Blasting
London, Nov. 13th.
The Allied air offensive on
the Western Front was kept up
during the night by U.S. bvmb-
ers based in Britain, vvhich,
with fighíer escort, flevv to
targets in Western Germpn;/.
Mosquitos of the Eomber
command also raided objectives
in Western Germany during
the night.
In daylight yesterday, aircraft
of Fighter Command attacked
an enemy patrol vessel off
Boulogne and sank her. Other
daylight targets included road,
rail and water transports in
(Cont. on p. 4)