IR . AR __ .__._. __ ~..., B e rl'n t ken i Force has just about completed t . e Ninety-fift The infora tion com s from Berlin. Te Nazir dio tellin pro bly more tan it intended. The Jermans claim that thirty british he ~ vy bombers were shot dow, which in it elf indicates th t the raid was a big one, with Lancasters ropping their two and four ton block bustere on the already devastated capital on the River Spree. A bulletin jus ins ys Berlin has been dealt another smashin g blow, as t~e lea ere are repotta d to be bout to tell Germany to surrender or be bombe to A cinder. After the Nazis occu ie 11 of France, they established a new O•boat base at rseilles, a base tha became the target today for a hettvy raid liy our Fl · i ng Fortre es. In fact, the first llied IIR ', R -2 ...:------- air att,ck on tha e base. Our air people report that the att~ck wa delivere just as the Germans had about finisred new pen and other installations, preparing for a fresh undersea war in the Mediterr nean. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY: lo official news toni g ht fro ■ the conferenc of the Big Three. ut aaong the rumors ia one to the effect plan to •quarantine•Geraan7 after the war. In fact it is believed the7 a re on the verge ot proclaiaing t eir intention of throwing the Ger•••• e frontiers. There still is considerable difference of opinion about the location of the conference. Mmt of the European r dios insist they are in session at Radio Vichy adds variety by saying that the7 are at Tabriz, not Teheran. Tabriz is in northwestern Persia, only a fe• miles over the Pamirs from the borders of the Soviet Union. T•ere ie •• Aaerieaa • 2.reee,.t.ePie.e eellege at. fabrim, 91 +,he wa1r= Th e rumor a bout the intention of the Three Big la• to • ~uarantine Germany is attributed to •foreign diploaatic q uarters in London.• A dispatch fro ■ Chungking reports tmt slllt the Chinese have been treaendously encouraged by the results of the Cairo conference between Priae liniat r Churchill, Generaliasiao Chiang Iai-lhek, and Presi4ea\ Boosevelt. lot only tho Chinese, but the toreana aa4 roraoaana, are elated over the deter ■ ination to enforce the ■■■■i unconditional sarrender ot Japan, alao the decision to aet the Ioreana and roraoaans free ot Japanese rule. -----o---~ Director !laer Davie of the Office at War Information, has protested to the British government against theviolation cf confidence by the British Reuters Hews Agency on the Cairo conference. As a matter of fact, questi o ns were asked about this Reuter funny busine s s in the Bouse of Commons today. An M.P. esked how it was that the report fro ■ Reuters' correspondent in Lisbon was allowed to pass from Britain to l a shin ton through channels under control of the British gover ■ ent. Brendan Bracken, British Minister of Information, replied that what ia published in a foreign capital ia not censored when paaaing through London. lbs ■ Bracken ad ■ itted that there had been a clear understanding between Britain and her · ~ Allies that all big news should be published al■altaaeoa1I l•t ■ ai4 Br••~•a OD ••xer1l ' ' ···••i••· ·-· , ...... ... NI aot c1»11i.ed o•t- Te which A ■erlcan uww ■ papwr ■wa - t•• ua. lb cho1111: - , . 1 11 .,.,. ,~ ··••'t o•rr1•4 In his protest, El ■ er Davis threw a subtle ••• doubt on the Lisbon origin of the stor7. He called . . it •a dispatch which purports to have originated in. Lisbon.• .. 0 AD L ... AD _ _, _____ _ Late toni ht a disp tch fro London served to corroborate the Vichy report that the - r ~ Big Three are meeting not in"1urh•~ but in Tabriz. This was reported by the Exch another British wire service~ ~ r ~ i ty on the Ill ••nan._ - !hia ecan fla\ ■a \&a I••• el•~• P•••••"' •••• lty M:t ee4.e1 ll■ er ~•• 1• t,o- 4he -81 tM:alti PACIFIC ... _.__._ ......... _ The late ._.. t fro . t h e war in the P cific! A J ap convoy of about a dozen ships wa s on its way south from N w Ireland to Babaul in Ne• Britain. At a point some forty-five ~ilea to the southwest of New Ireland a force of U. S. heavy bombers attacked. In a running fight t h at lasted several hours, the Allied Liberators landed direct hits which aank one heavily loaded Jap transport, struck two destroyers and se~ afire a large tanker. Ae \he~ \i■e eeiag, &aa tbia ► PIN ■ & at• ii ■e ■hen ike '••• ••• a )g Si 11111: cl icet1u;c1s ts ;zatwat t11wi1 - ... poai\i••• •• le• Qgiaea and lew Brttei~ From luLUAI llaclrthur's headquarters we have the news that a picked force of six hundred Marines have made a daring raid be~ind the Jap lines a t Empress Augusta Bay. They ran into enemy reinforcements of ~out twice t hei r number and killed two hundred of the Mikado's soldiers. forces P CIFIC - 2 -----~-- lost or:z,. fifteen dead an seventy-one wounded. The llarinea ks b•A landed &ehiaa bbe cfte ■y li .ta• by boat 1 ~ were behi~f'::{une for about forty hours and i n ~ t i m e they managed to destroy large quantities of ariillery, ammunition, aaall arae and other supplies. az•,t the eneay. 11,e, • ••1 ierrn sffa1 t bu auto •••• J.••···•• C And no• Admiral Nimitz tells us that the ene ■7 tried to attack our installations in the newly won Gilbert Islands.· The net resul! o f ~ was,tm twenty Jap planes au.- either d~stroyed or ~ damaaed in three engagements. !we of tho•• 4igh\o •••• .,,~ Aae1iean planee aaa •he e\hcr a. ■ •s•iae4 a oouple of Aaeriean jeo~r•1•ro, T~• jeo•reyc1• ell ot 4a •• tli Ha - ' ••• ,hp p ii.Ha' ::ZU.::;dt. !t;.a- ,. .. , , , !I if! wdi J &£ i;; 3 l&IIJl16::lii• U:Giiv .:;;.a - - - - - - y 0 t . l ,. on t e of i r l P ci i is Com and e r James Joseph Tun ey, •ee, Qene ~ st e e n t on i t t. tn • t the still aticks to is u n # o l l e e footbal~ 'ct! ~ n o god f o r t e • 1 b e ab ndoned to aevelop a progra on· be spot for conditioning American sailors and marines. He has a system devised especially for lan ~ ing p rties --G.4 .. ,8...., ~ ~ - . ~tru ~ ~ • u t D,...._~~_a,_., t:t. lil/JIC~ i 1 k e e p t. !D i t i n 1 o n g e r a a r er than t e Japs. Today we have ao■e further details of the adventures of Lieutenantl h-3 Harmon foraer /\i.. /\. t ,,,.,.-.----- -------· All-American hal f back, in China. The information co ■ee fro ■ the commanding officer o the ground crew of the ,:z~~ squadron Ted. -.. arriTed in the United States fro ■ eaterday and telephoned To ■a, Bar ■ on's other at icbigan. light planes went out on that ■ iasion, was one of the pilots of four fighter planes that went along with escort. They coapleted their ■ i•aion ant were flying back at aix thousand feat. Suddenl7 a large force of Jap Zero• ca■e down 11110n the~faca out of the . sun. Four of the fighter planes were shot down, Bar■on"- was one his ship, set it afire, andJhe bailed out. As he was parachuting to the ground, his fellow pilots kept circling around hia to protect hi ■ from bein shot down by the Japs. Then they JA1UIQL- 2 returned to their b e. Harmon bailed out in Jap- occupied country. But they didn't capture him. Be liked lest until he reached a cap of Chinese guerrillas who hid hi■ for ten days, and then helped hi escape to friendlJ terrltor7, from which be baa reported that he's on hla wa7 to join his pal• bat hasa•t reached tbea yet. \c:';.,o '4 1£..c. ~ , a ~ . - ~ ~ ~ D • 1?=0 J ...._ , ~ ~ ~ . Q .. 1-.. ~&,&-V-0,:..4- ~ - ~ c ~ ~ - ~ ~ ~ ~ N U - . RUSSIA - - - Early tod y it looked as thou h that Russian advance had come to a halt, the phenomenal advance which in four months brought the Soviet armies all the way fro ■ the Caucasus to the west of the Dnieper Biver ' and to a short distance fro the old Polish fron,er. A B•••7 lasi counter-attacks at many pbint• have l■tnth ~•finitely slowed it down. But tonight we hear of ■ ore pro1resa aade b7 the Bed armies. Ruasia, coluana of General RotoaaoV,eky'have driven northwest <',.,,,, fro• Goael and recaptured ■ ore than eighty town• and Tillages. e southern wing ot Rokossovsky'a araiea i ■ ~ I pushing toward• Mozyr, a strategic point on the railroal fro• odeaaa to Leningrad. Lond~n reports that thia win1 has already half surrounded lozyr, has recaptured aeveral inhabited places along the Pripet River. !kcfl' t.-lo news from the Iiev salient, but south of Kiev 1 General Vatutin has begun another BOSSIA.~-2 spearhead attack aiaed directly at likolaef and Odessa. Theae units have widened their brid ehe don the west bank oft e Dnieper at Cherkassy, one hundred milea below Iiev. Hn-11ewe~ ltalyf The retreat, itb their Winter Line broken. After a - - four day battle, the Battle of the Sangro RiYer, the ~ ~ British Eighth Aray has driven the en~ay toward a ne line of defense, a line twent7 ailes beyond the one the7 haYe just bad to abandon Tb• Ger•ana left hundreds of killed behind them, and ■ oat of their equipaent aa well as two thouaand prisoners. It was one of the hardest fought battles in all the Mediterranean caapaigna. The reaiatance wa1 a1 intense and bitter aa that which the Aa,aricaa rifth Ara7 aet ~h•• it landed on the beaches of Salerno. A apokeaaan at Allied beadquarteri~:t<" ~4- be prepared to bear of beaTy Britiah casualties in the Battle of the Sangro. rushing The Allies have word that the eneay are ~ he a vy reinforcements~ northern Italy,all the llA~I =- 2 0 way along the valley of the Pescara to the ipennine ;lopes) -,r, il1we¥••1 'lt ts pt] I» announced that the Germana ■ ade good their ·retreat. The spearhead of lontgo ■ery'• ar■y, the British, le• Zealanders and India• ••t•r•n• fro ■ ltrica, did their beat to catch up with the 1 1 atlil\t eneay. But the Ger ■ ana withdrew ia good order, not onl.J leaving ■ inefielda,but alao fighting deaperate rear guard · actions. The pursuer• ~ al■ o,t lsal • a" held back b7 heaY7 rain•. Tbe British are advancing along a twent7-ti•• ■ ile front, and have •••pl1 -e4 -Mia.., t'tl-,. a1te •t.ill fitattltg :to -e•p1l •II• 811 ■ •-~1' &WNJ. ~~ Th-6tollapee on the east will eventually cause a weakening of the~e"l'M• line on the west. e, rr'swarms of A l lied planes are hammering at the Nazi lines on the road to Rome. In the last forty-eight hours, ITALY .:. 3 ~ the German J('~••• no fewer than five counter-attack• A ~ d ) . ~ ~ at our fifth Army~~•' t.hW)-= •er• ri" repulsed. 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In explaining bi& objection in his letter to laahington he writes: •1oaen on the lest Coast sre not lailt the saae as woaen on tbe East Coast.• l uh! •1111 sounds like so ■ething new in biology. ~ Bow do you figure that out, l l & t t ~ ?