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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1943
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Turkish Merchant Ship Sunlc by Torpedo
War Cost Cut Again For 1944
Budget Bureau Says 11 Billions Lopped From Estimates
Attack on France Is Predicted
By UKITED PRESS
Rome newspapers expect Al¬ lied landings in western France before the end of the year. Radio Ankara reported Saturday, quot¬ ing  Swiss  dispatches.
"It is felt that they will be effected thia year, thc present time being favorable for such action on account of the long and dark nights which would permit the fleet, as well as planea, to approach without be¬ ing noticed', the CBS listening post in New 'Vork quoted thc Turkish broadcast.
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iGermanS on Only 22 Miles;
Samos Isle Are Blamed
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Washington, Nov. 27, (UP)~The Budget Bureau announced tonight that re-examination of the entire war program, after nearly two years of hostilities, has made it possible to chop $11,000,000,000 froip the estimated federal deficit for fiscal 1B44.
Budget director Harold t>. Smith predicted that 1944 war spending would be $8,000,000,000 short of the previously estimated (100,000,000,000 and that gov>!rnmcnt receipts would be $3,000,000,000 more than the $38,000,000,000 formerly anticipated. Staffs, Agencies Kevlew Caata
"A special Joint production sur¬ vey committee under the Joint chiefs of staff has been established to review the program In close col- laborstion with the Director of War Mobilization and the procure¬ ment agencies," he said. "As a result, the war program is being continually revised."
The revised estimates set 1»44 war spending at (82,000,000,000 and expected receipts at $41,000,000,000. The receipts eatimate InclaAad only! theae expected under present tax laws and did not take Into ac-| count any posaible increases underj the tax bill passed this week by the House.
DeAelt Also Due Far Cut ,   Smith said the prospective deficit had   decreaacd   from   the   August estimate   of    168,000,000,000   to   an estimate of about $97,000,000,000.
As a result, be aaid, the public debt will rise to about $194,000,- 000,000 by next June SO instead of the previously estimated $200,- 000,000,000  plus.
The director explained, however, that another $3,000,000,000 of direct debt will be required for the re¬ funding of guaranteed government obligations during the year. Huge >lanthly Spending
Smith said the estimate of $92,- 000,000,000 for 1944 war spending was baaed largely on the rate of ex¬ penditures since the beginning of the fiscal year on luly 1, which up to Oct. 31 were at the annual rate of $17,000,000,000. Thia month they have been running at an annual raU above $90,000,000,000.
"They are likely to inereaae stiH further as tha strength of the armed forcea increases and as alr- rraft and ahip production Is ex¬ panded." Smith said.
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CHINESE CLOSING TRAP ON 100.000 JAP TROOPS
14 More Subpoenas Issued In Chicago By U.S. Attorney
Chicago, Nov. 27 <UP)—tJ. S. Dist. Atty. J. Albert Woll issued 14 more federal grand jury subpoenas today and nssigned his top racket buster to Investigate the growing liquor shortage.
The grand Jury Investigation to determine If the growing liquor shortage is artificial and "wilfully created by certain firms and Indi¬ viduals" will open Tuesday. ,Woll hai Issued 21 subpoenas, 14 last night and another 14 today.
"I expect this investigation to continue through the holidays without interruption until we fer¬ ret out the last fact on the liquor situation." Woll said. Plent>- Liquor In Warehouaes
"I am convinced that there is plenty of liquor being held in ware¬ houses throughout tba nation. I understand that the bureau of in¬ ternal revenue is of the same con¬ viction."
Woll said the investlgntlon would i Include possible violations of all phases of the War Fraud Acts Including:
1.—Blsck  market operations.
2.—False statements and rcpie- sentatlons as to supplies and dis¬ position.
3—Price  ceiling  violations.
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Tho above picture, released by the Nav}' Department, shows thc harbor at Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands.  Tarawa was won for the
United States but only after thc United States Marines hsd paid the stiffest price in human life per  square  yard  in  the  history
of thc corps. "Nothing in any previous war or in this one com- paics with it,' said Col. Merritt A.   Edison  of Guadalcanal  fame.
Eyewitness Story
HARI-KARI END FOR JAP OFFICERS
Bodies Everywhere As 'Fighting 69th' Smashed Defenders
The flrat eye-witness account ef the conquest ef .Maldn Island In the OllbeHs. filed by Inlted Preaa War Caerrespondent H. D. <)ulgg, followa.
Japs' Supply Line on New Guinea Cut by Aussies
Turks Nearly Ready To Join Allies; 1,000 Killed in Earthquake Disaster
Ankara Nov. 27. lUP)—A tor¬ pedo boat of undisclosed national¬ ity sank a Turkish merchant ship iin Turkish territorial waters near Izmer (Smyrna) yesterday, it was disclosed* today.
The vessel, a small motorship, was torpedoed while enroute from Alexandria to Istanbul with a cargo of caustic soda. The entire crew was rescued.
The attacking warship \vn.< yaid to have been a Vedette type tor¬ pedo boat.
Americans Advance 800 Bitter Yards On Bougainville
By DON CASWEIX
Allied Headquarters, Southwest Paetflc, Bunday, Nov. 28. (UP) — Australian patrols above Finsch¬ hafen, New Guinea, have moved Into a key position dominating the eastern half of Japanese supply lines from the coast to their in¬ land outpost at Wareo after ad¬ vancing northward from the Song River and capturing Pino Hill, eight mllea north of the Allied coastal baae. Pino, a large, irregular mass, was Butarltarl Village, Makin Island, captured while main Australian Nov. 23. (UP)-Five Japanese offl- 'orces were taking Satelberg, 10 cers disemboweled thcmselvps with I"""" northwest of Finschhafen. their Samurai swords at a UnklEnemy forces fleeing Satelberg trap Ciist of this shattered town]«<''¦« reported heading for Wareo, today when their troops broke and;'*'" m[\es beyond, fled before the tanks and bayonets'    Meanwhile,  at Empress Augusta
of the Shamrock Battalion of New I Bay on Bougainville Island  In the
Conviction on chargea of making York's  Fighting 69th Regiment.        northern    Solomons.    American
false    slstements   and   represent-1    The   "Fighting   Irish"   swept   oni«''°""^ forces enlarged  the north-
B> WALTER L. BBIG08
Chungking, Nov. 27. (UP>—An¬ other 3,300 Japanese have been killed in the battle for Changteh. Chinese "Stalingrad" in northern Hunan province, it waa announced tonight as Generallaslmo Chiang Kai-Shek's forces draw tighter their noose of inclrclemcnt around 100,- 000 enemy troops trapped south of the Yangtxa River.
Tha Japaaaaa launched ferocious attacks on lliursday and Friday and ence agal|i resorted to the uae of poison gas, a Chinese com¬ munique said, but the garrison ^^^turned back all onslaughts. One^ H^thousand Japanese who penetrated i ^Changteh's north gate on Thurs-j day were destroyed, and another. 800 invaders suffered the same fate \ The defenders k>lled 1.500 other Japanese in the Immediate outskirts of the city, bringing enemy losses in that sector alone In a week to 9,000 men.
The communique said that else¬ where in Hunan province Chinese forces were "completing the en¬ circlement of the enemy and tight¬ ening the cordon" and that heavy losses had been inflicted on the in¬ vaders in all sectors. American and Chinese fliers were reported aupporting thc counter-offensive, bombing and starfing scattered Japanese columns.
tions could mesn a maximum per, alty of 10 years in prison and $10,000 fine or both. Conviction of conspiracy carries a penalty of two years In prison. $10,000 fine, or both.
"I expect to have more than 100 persons under subpoena before the end of next week," Woll said.
The U. 8. district attorney as¬ signed Maurice Walsh, who un¬ covered and broke a nationwide lottery ring last fall, to take charge of the grand jury investiga¬ tion.
Woll's Investigation came after Office of Price Administration ac¬ tion against several dUstilleis anJ warehouse brokers for alleged price celling violations amounting to sev¬ eral million dollars.
It also followed issuance of a statement by thc American distilled spirits institute ni Washington that
whiskey    in     bonded     warehouses the front at 8 oclock this morning.
past thc abandoned tank trap and "¦^"¦"    portion   of   their    beach- its dead defenders in  pursuit of aj'^ead    by    advancing    800    yards lieaten    enemy,    moving    eastward through the tiny island at the rate of a mile an hour.
Japanese snipers and suicide squads battled desperately from a maze of pillboxes and foxholes, but the suicide of the flve officers in¬ dicated clearly that all organized resistance was ended. VIrtory Assured
This is the third day of the American Invasion and victory is now assured. Gen. Ralph C. Smith, commander of the 27th Division, hss flashed to the commander of thc Gilbert Island.<! amphibious force. Rear Adm. R. K. Turner, the brief  message:
"Makin has been taken."
The Shamrock Battalion, com¬ manded by lA.-Catt Joseph T. Hart, Elmhurst, Queens, L.  I.,  took over
amounted to 405.000.000 gallons as of Sept. 30. 1943. compared with 300.000.000 gallons a year ago. The institute said warehouses undei government bond held 419,000.000 gallons of distilled spirits such as rum and gin on the same dste a.<i compared with 821.000.000 gallons a year ago.
relieving another hardworked unit. The latter outfit, headed by Lt.-Col. John F. McDonough. New York City, had boiVe the brimt of the attack against the tank trap yesterday. Officers Suicide When the Shamrocks took over (Continued   on  Page   B-9)
against   stiff  opposition.   Bombers helped  this  attack. Jap Losses Heavy
Jspanme losses in the fighting wer* reported heavy but as yet uncounted. The gains enlarged the beachhead to 10,000 yards slong the coast and at least 7,000 yardr deep, a headquarters spokesman said.
Troops which pushed north along the New Guinea coast »o take Pino Hill cut the Bonge- Wareo trail running inland from the coast.
Two waves of Liberators con¬ tinued the pounding of enemy air bases and installations on the southern loast of New Britain Island Friday, dropping 2« tons of bombs on Lindcnhafen plantation Kittyhawk fighters escortec^ the big bombers on llic rsid. Dust and smoke prevented observation of results.
Air palrol.s supported ground troops In New Guinea with attacks at enemy installations on the pen¬ insula at Sio, IW) mile.') above Fin¬ schhafen. where medium bombers hit the enemv barge base and sup- - (Continued  on Page A-lOi
250,000 Trying To Flee Westward
Germans Abandon Armament in Effort to Escape Great Trap; Jaws of Red Pinchers Closing
London Sunday, Nov. 28 (UP)—Soviet forces, seeking to close the jawH of a gigantic pincer about German troopa remaining in White Ru-ssia. yesterday narrowed to 22 miles the only corridor by which the retreating Nazis could escape the crumbling front.
Mo^M:ow reported that its troops killed more than 5,000 Germans in fighting on four fronts yesterday and captured more than 80 inhabited places in only the sector northwest of Gomel between the Sozh and Dnieper rivers.
Reports reucliing London said the Nazi forces, estimated up to 250,000 men were jamming tliroujrli the Zlilobin escape bottleneck with liaiste appi'oaciiing a rout, abandoninj; their precious iieavy armaments in an effort to avoid the develop¬ ing Soviet threat to cut them off.
Gen. Konstantin K. Roltossovskx's forces, moving north-
At Critical .Moment
me^'rchaVt''shV'"p'«'um''a;iy^by''a ^v«.'d from  Gomel and southward from  positions won In Orman torpedo boat, came at S tlieir bieak-through from Propolsk, liacked nearly 20 miles
critical moment in Tuoka-German relations. Persistent reports tn re¬ cent weeks had indicated that Turkey was on the point of enter¬ ing the wsr on the side of the Allies or granting the use of air bases to Britain and the United SUtes.
and other nearby islands.
RUMORS PERSIST OF PEACE MOVES BY POPEPIUS
Warring Envoys Reported Received; Asl(S World Prayers
Stockholm, Nov. 27. (UP)— Rumors of a possible peace move by Pope Plus persisted today as the Swedish newspaper Dagbladet published a report from Bern that the pontiff had received the Amer¬ ican British, French.and German envoys to ths Holy See for dis¬ cussions of "war problems."
Gabladet's correspondent Indi¬ cated that the talks probably dealt with the possibility of an attempt by the Vatican te mediate the European war.
(British sources in London yes¬ terday "completely discounted" rumors thst the Pope was ready to intervene, describing them as "gossip, nothing more")
According to a Swedish traveler arriving from Rome recently, Adolf Hitler originally was determined to compel the Holy Father to leave the Eternal City and to bring him | first  shock   lasted  13  seconds  nnd
from the escape corridor in yesterday's figliting.
The Southern arm of the pincer I- advanced five miles up the Gomel- Minsk railroad and captured the station of Uza. The northern arm advanced 15 miles southward from Korma and captured Cheeherak. Between Uza and Chechersk was e
was checked again in the Chernv- kahov and Korosten sectors, nor*h of  Zhitomir,   and   near   Brusatlov, southwest of Kiev, New Oertnaa Troopa Arrive
The Ciermans threw eight tank units into this fighting, Moscow said, and loat 82 machines. Re¬ porting anow  that  the  Nail  cim\-
The scene of the atUck appar- 22-mile stretch of open country, ently was within a few miles of'narrow enough to be put under Samos Island, which was  occupied cross-fire by Soviet artillery, across
by British forcea after the Italian Which Field Marshal Gunther von - ,_ . - ui/.i.,-    ,.»;..    #..»».
armistice last September and was!"luge was speeding his  forces to "l*"f   „h  „.!fjl„ l-„r„n.  »„  .hT re-captured by th. German. earlleriZhlobin,    60   miles    northwest    »'j^'^Jf,,-?J,"'j5/-„",,f,"'rid^^': ¦ The   Soviet   lupplementary   and,Kff;'/_»,»;«d   In   the   Kiev   salient
had torpedo boats based on Samos
It   was   presumed   the   Germans      •¦-   °"'--   ""•"""""¦""'•'j ".U"! vesterdav  Included   the  ehte   tank
operational  communiques  .aid  the ^""r.l'y,'"i,"?",, Ml f' \f ^^^^
Fierce Earthquaket Hit Northern Turkey
Ankara, Nov. 27. (UP)—At least 1.000 persons were killed in a series of earthquakes thst convulsed northern Turkey Friday night, un¬ confirmed reports said tonight. Authorities rushed medical aid and relief supplies to the stricken area.
The disaster, one of the worst In modern Turkish history, centered about 180 miles northwest of An¬ kara, along the Black Sea coast. Ths shock.t were felt distinctly in Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir, but no damage was reported from thoae cities.
Most of the casualties were re¬ ported to have occurred in the Amasya region, where 60 per cent of the buildings collapsed and SOO persons were said to have been killed or injured. There was no immediate confirmation of the cas¬ ualty totals.
Reports from  the scene said thr
to Germany, If possible, thc dis¬ patch said. Field Marshal Albert Kesselring, Nazi commander in southern Italy, reportedly was given a free hand to force the jof their homes and waited In door- Pope from Rome, but It was said I ways and hotel lobbies for hours In the  plan was dropped after Baron anticipation  of  further shock.'.
wn.^  followed  at  two-second   inter vnls   by  two  more  tromor.t  lasting seven  and  six  seconds. ResidenUi  of Ankara  rushed out
Ernst von Weizsaccker. German amba.isador to the Holy See, con¬ vinced Berlin at the last minute that it would not be wise because (Continued  on Page  A-10)
It was the .iiecond major earth¬ quake to hit Turkey in the past six months. Last June almost 200 per¬ sons were killed In an earthquake in  western  Turkey.
(jiermans threw in reinforcements in a futile effort to check the Red Army's drive south toward Zhiobin. All Nazi counterattacks were re¬ pulsed, 800 Oermans were killed, and quantities of heavy equipment taken, Orcupjr >tany Towns
Northwest of Gomel, Rokossov- skys' southern arm occupied more than 80 towna and villages, "pur¬ suing the routed enemy forma¬ tions" Moscow's midnight bulletin said. In addition to UZA the Soviets captured UvarovichI, 18 miles northwest of Gomel, and the rail stations of Pribor and Yaki- movka. on the railroad to Rechltsa and Pinak. These stations are 10 and I.I miles, respectively, west of Gomel.
Advancing IA miles westward in two days. Red Army units oper¬ ating In the eastern fringe of the Pripet Marahes captured the county seat of Velsk. on the Korosten-Rogachev highway, thus outflanking   Kalin-Kovichi,   where
the   Gomel-Pinsk   and   Leningrad-1 west and east simultaneously. Ode.*sa    railroads    cro.is.    and    its     His plan was to squeeze the (3er- neighboring   rail   point   of   Mozyr , mans  from  the  city and cut them
Field   Marshal   Fritz   Erich   von' down on the run. I Mannstein's   desperate   thrust   intoj    Rokossovsky ordered hundreds of the  Kiev  salient  toward  the  cani-  bombers and dive bombers Into the j tal   of   Ukraine   and   the   Dnieper! (Continued   on   Page   B-9)
Gen.Montgomery Predicts 'Colossal Blow In Italy
unit "Adolf Hitler," the 18th Tank Division from Italy, the First Tapk Division from Greece and the :;5fh Tank  Division  from   Norway
Within the Dnieper Bend, south¬ west of Kremenchug. Soviet troops smashed through (Jerman tank on- position, destroying 22 Ger nan tanks, and captured a number of enemy strongpoints. Heavy bootv and a considerable number ot prisoners were taken in this fight¬ ing.
The focal point of yesterday', fighting, however, was \Vhita Russia, where German forces were menaced with another entrapment of catastrophic proportions. How Gomel Was Taken
Front dispatches brought details of the fall of CJomel. Rokosso\'Sky began his campaign against the city from Rechltsa, 2f) miles to the west. After taking this rail point on ths Gomel-Kallnko\ichl-Pln8k line from the west Instead of by a frontal attack from the east. Rokossovsky   deployed   his   troopf
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Big News' Still a Puzzle
Predict Political Blockbuster to Hit Axis Soon
By NKD R188ELI.
London. Nov. 27. (UP)—Well Informed persons expect the Allied Powers within a short time- possibly days to drop a political block-buster upon Germany and Japan which would have more violent results within the Axis than any previous development except possibly American entry into   the   conflict.
"Good  luck  to you  all  and  good hunting as wc go forward." A Political  >love
The development:! are expected to have strategical and political rather than   military  significance.
One phase of thc developments as foreseen here would have the effect of a great rallying call from the Allies to the Axis-dominated people,  ef   Europe   and   the   Far
British censorship haa per¬ mitted l'niled Press correspon¬ dent Ned Russell lo file from London a dispalrli reporting thf expectation within a short lime of • iiiomenlous political devel¬ opment which Is expected to roek the, Axis. The dispatch fellows.
plosive power of the political block¬ buster.
Russia reporle ' that Germany's front in White Russia was chaos, with thc escape corridor nar*owcd down lo 22 miles. 250,000 members of the Nazi army trying desperately to get out of the traps while the Reds closed both ends of the gigan¬ tic pincer.-i. The Germans were fleeing to Zhlohin but the Ru.^sinns also were nearing that city. . . The atory of how Gomel fell was told.
There is a belief In some British ,„       . quarters   that   while   the   German     Eycwitne.v  stories   were   coming armies  still   are  immensely  stron-iio"' °f ">« Gilbert Lslands. giving a
Clark's Army Stops Two German Attacl(s; Sth Widens Bridgeliead
interior was cut and the Allies stood on Huon Peninsula, only TO miles across the water (rom the ,g^. ^ \|XED PR1C!(8 eastern tip of New Guinea. On thc " western tip is Rabaul, threatened also by the Americans in tiie nor¬ thern Solomons. The beachhead at Bougainville was extended another 800 yard.!*, although the enemy was reported moving in reinforcements from other parts of the island. The „    , ...
blockade   kept   more   troops   from^"/'* l°"'8"( reaching Ihe  island. '     ^"   "   '^""'^
Gen. Sir Bernard L. Montgomery, in an order of the day to his Brit¬ ish Sth Army, said today that the Allies are ready to deliver a "col¬ ossal" blow to the German armies •-.,,.. . m   Ital.v.   according   to   a   London^- <-'"•*»  Fifth Army.
Venafro and the British Eighth Army has widened and deepened its bridgehead across the swollen Sangro River, it was announced today.
Another German counter-blow, in the key region of Mignano, waa broken up in the course of forma¬ tion by American artillery as the Nazis, taking advantage of clearing weather, sought In vain to wrest the   initiative  from  Lt.  Gen  Mark
turned to action on a massive front,
fident   message   to   his'blasting  railroads and bridges be-
Iroop.s that appeared to foreshadow!hind   the   battle   line   and   heaping
a new Allied drive on Rome. Mont- new   destruction   on   Lanclano  and
.said    the    Germans    have' fossaccsia.  Nazi  strong points Im-
Cliincse    arc    reported    to    have
and   German   clviiianVm'av  nniss  blueprint of thc road to Tokyo.  Thcl surrounded a force of 100.000 Japn-gomcry    ..„      _ "-   ,„.,.i...i„    .i,..^    „»,»,¦.    a>,,k»u
rman   cixiiians  ma>   not  S3 j^^^i^^^^^ j^^^l^^ j.^^^^l^.   j,^^^. ^.^_.^j„„p  ,^  „yjj^^  p^„^..^^^^   j^ outfought     throughout     the m'^'afly    ahead    of   the    Eighth
American   losses; ern  Burma, Gen. Stilwell's Chinrsp Sicilian and Italian campaigns and'Arm.\.
forces   have    run   into   difficultios   are  now   "in   the  very  condition   in'Airmen Helped River Crnsalng meeting    strong    Japanese    forces, which we want  them." Elghlli    Army    dispatches    paid
defending the approaches to Mylt-      He   concluded   with   thc   familiar;special   tribute   to   American   Mit- kyina  on  thc  Jrrawaddy. i salutation   of   his   North   African'chells and Invaders and RAF Bo»-
. I desert  orders: tons   for   laying  a   "creeping  bar-
„.,_.„. „„„___ ,     Rumors   still   abounded   on   the;    Observers   refer  lo  the   develop-' rage'  with   the  precision  of  artil-
be accompanied by warnings to thc j ••"*¦"» ««icnea ; ^^j  ^  "colo.ssal"  blow   to  fall  upon    big news   expected.  Some thought i ments as "momentous" and believe lerynien    as    British,    Indian   and
subjugated  peoples  not  to let pre-      The   nerve   war   has   been   cspe-  the Germans In Italy as his srmy,  Roosevelt    and    Churchill     wereithat     thev     would     affect     every Canadian  troops poured across the mature action on their part vitiate I clally    effective    in    the    Balkans, with good airplane cover, widened' meeting   Stalin,   preparing   an   an    theater of the war. I Sangro
the  role   they  can   play   when   the j where Hitler's satellites are suscep- its bridgehead across the Venafro.'nouncement   that  would   end   Gc-   sithnM.h th. r«in. liart sUrkened
Allied military blows are launched! tible   to   the   old   Nazi   technia-ie To the west. Gen. Clark's Sth Army many's last hope   that of splittlnB 5th   Slops   Xazl   AtUck; L.   y.^frn   rtm.incri   flo^^^^^
Others     believed     (• 8tli   Widen-.  Bridgehead '"'   hangro   remainca   iiooaea   oui
would     be     formal    annountcmeiit  By   H.*RRISO\   SALISBl RV
a   whole   be   convinced   that   Ger
many   will   be   defeated,   ncvcrthe-' ¦''li"""'  «ipod out
less    a    dramatic    stroke    in    thc «'<"•¦''  heavy   but   victor>-  was  won.
Allied   war   of  nerves  might   have Tiiere was speculation whether U. S.
more   important   result,   than   anJ'j-''<r«tcg>-  might   call   for   bypassing
military   stroke   which    coulu    be Truk. the eastern rampart of Japan.
East. Any such call no doubt would! ^7"*''''  '"  '*!«  Immediate  future '
Balkans Watched
Gen.   Montgomery   gave  warning
technique jo the west. Gen. Clark's Sth Army • many s
against   Europe    the   Balkana   and  "divide   and   conquer."   Any   stroke   repulsed    several    German    attacks; the     Allies.      ^.,.^,^     ,.i,.^.iu     ,    -...   ..     ,.  „   .    vnntsomerv. troona
Japan. which   severed   Hungary,   Bulgannlnrt  Improved   Us  positions. would     be     formal    announcement  By   H.*RRISO\   SALISBl RV 'i'.'Lf'cror. new ^S brX^
The     RAFs     thunderous     blows and Rumania from the Axis would ' that Turkey had joined  thc  Allies       Allied       Headquailer.s.       AlK'*-". * ?    ^   ,     u    V'"^»''   »»   '•*
against the heart of Germany, com-  open   the   way  for  exploitation   hy!    The    Australians    al.so    bettered Still  others   felt   it   would   directly  Nov. 27  "UPi-ln a frontwide out- f*"""   ^^ ,'^    h   h    h    d '"/"*
bined with the Red Army's success  the   Russians   from   the   east   and their positions—while making those j affect thc Balkans.   There wss nnt  hurst of fighting, American  troops '"l?^"       ,    if      k '^,
in splitting  the Cierman  armies  in
the   iaat,  ahould  add   te  the   ex-' Mediterranean.
the    Anglo-Americana    from
theiof   the   .Ispane.se   worse   in    Newjthe   slightest   confirmation   of   anyiin  Italy  have smashed  two  strong' Guinea. Tbe Jap aupply. Une to tha' of these rumora. German   counter-attacks  norlh   of
Bitter   clashes   broke   out   along (Continued on Page A-IO)