Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 25, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Vol. I no. 5, wednesday August 25, 1943 daily newspaper for . Armed forces in Algiers area one franc record bomb Load allies plan dropped on Berlin 59 Raf planes missing in raid on Industry in German capital Al. Russians pursue vast mores. Against japs nazis retreating from Kharkov la Ndon. A 24�?in a raid that was twine As Larue As any the germ in capital Ever experienced before Britain based bombers savagely blasted b rim s great Industry it in Lear weather just before Nii night last night it was of f i cd a1 in disclosed Hen today. Pity eight British bombers and one fighter failed to return from the Mission. This was a new High in Raf planes lost on a single raid. The previous record being 55 Reuter s air correspondent said that us German radio announced this morning that american bombers went with the Raf to smash Berlin last night. If this Rej it Ort is borne out. He said it will be the first occasion that Saaf bombers hive made a night raid on Germany there was no confirmation of tile German report however. Bbl broadcasts stated that 2. He tons of bombs were drop Jed on tile German capital during the extremely concentrated attack preliminary reports on the great raid from official circles were still sketchy but there was every indication that the new air onslaught was greater than the devastating 1,000 plane attacks on Cologne. The British air ministry reported that a number of enemy sidewalk supers warned in Reich in an Effort to discourage Large crowds that gather anti watch construction and repair Crews the invite chief of Dort and often la my ted Ruhr City has decreed that any such sidewalk spelt to tors May be pressed into service for two hours to help Clear away do Imis according to German press list hitches this decree onlookers have hinder Clearing dispatch added was necessary increased so Ai up  As i to the no fighters Over Italy bombers pressing Mainland sweeps for Churchill Cive few details at end of Quebec meeting que bks Auh 2t Allied  operations against Japan was tile principal topic discussed at the recently concluded conference Between president Roosevelt and prime minister Churchill and their chiefs of staffs they disclosed this after Nix at a joint press Confer lice at the clone of their sixth meeting Here the problem diet Lect Ive Anglo american Aid to China also occupied the attention of the president and prune minister they said in a statement which merely hinted at vast inn is to come soon against the enemy in several quarters of the Glotien the War against Italy and Oer Many received Only slight mention As such but the leaders mad London. Aug. 24 a Heinrich Himmler hitlers chief of the Ges a a it has been named minister of tie Interior according to an announcement made by the Berlin radio. In effect the move was interpreted As placing the civilian Poi elation in the grip of the Gestapo. Fighters were destroyed by the attacking Force Enro Ute and Over the target. Although Mosquito bombers have been making a series of nuisance raids Oil Berlin in recent weeks this was the first heavy raid on Hie City since March 27, when 900 tons of bombs were dropped. Although the loss of Raf bombers was heavy observers Here ignited out that tile Royal air Force us in a position to risk heavy losses in View of its greatly increasing strength in both men and machines. Tile High figure of missing planes was taken As a sign of the immense Power of tins latest blow at the heart of the Reich. Berlin is the largest Center of Industrial production in the whole of euro get. Forty percent of the population of the City or about 2,000.000 Leopie Are working in War production. Industries in Berlin produce tanks military planes motors and parts diesel engines Small arms cont. On Page 4, col. 5 web studies plane worker draft status Washington draft deferment of aircraft workers is being studied by the War production Board As a Means of raising the output of planes officials an i ameed. Production in july was four percent Over june Blit fell behind the schedule set by president Roosevelt. Tile web has ii tie Hope of increasing the number of women workers in the aircraft Industry it was reported. The percentage of women who ran attain the same High degree of manual skill As men has been found lower then expected and tile High pressure work affects the health of women More than it does of men Ai lied Force Headquarters aug. 24�?Iii Sharp contrast to the tour Days previous when swarms of enemy planes in groups of 40 to 80 arose to Challenge Allied bombers Over Italy there was no tighter opposition yesterday to american b-25 Mitchells which lashed at the Railroad Center at Battipaglia 50 Miles Southeast of Naples. Perhaps with the loss of 114 planes to Sharp shooting Allied Gunnels in four Days the Axis had gained new respect for the mighty bombers roaring out of the South. Continuing the systematic destruction of Italy a North South transportation lines the Mitchells Over Battipaglia braved intense night carried on the attack on anti aircraft fire to Send strings of Irmi ibs screaming Down into the marshalling Yards causing great roaring explosions among warehouses and along railway tracks. The bombers were escorted by a-36 invaders and p-40 War Hawks. Raf and Roaf wellingtons last night carried on the attack on italian rail lines with a raid on Bagnoli. Almost 60 Miles Northeast of Naples in Central Italy. In Southern Sardinia american Vav bit Hawks yesterday accurately bowl we factories and Barracks a Lew Miles South of Bur Bush Al bombs fell in the target area causing considerable damage and leaving several of the objectives Iii names. Enemy aircraft dropped numbs in tile Palermo area in Sicily Early yesterday morning. Four j i-88 s were destroyed by deadly rap Beau fighters and the City a ground defences. The Axis has lost More than 4.0 h aircraft since the allies landed in North All Lea last nov. 8, according to an Allied air forces statement released Here today. The cont. On Page 4. Col. J Quebec. Aug 24 a president Roosevelt was scheduled to leave for Ottawa tonight bringing to an end the greatest Allied War Council Ever he id. He will address the parliament in the Canadian capital wednesday afternoon. It known that the a a necessary decisions have been taken to provide for the Forward action of the beets armies and air forces of the two  Roosevelt and Churchill emphasized that Complete Unity exists Between the United states and the British Commonwealth As the War cont on Page 4. Col. 41 nazis slip into fort formations London nazi Hying spies have sneaked captured b-17t still bearing american markings into american flying fortress Lorma tons Over enrol it was revealed licit. The spies dont shoot Down the  planes but use then position to report Altitude and the course of the i urination to nazi ground batteries and lighters and to study the american formations Lor i in ure defensive use Pilous said. Since discovering the German tactics the americans have devised a system of secret markings which identify every . Fortress As to it Pronier place in the formation to forestall a continuation of the practice the nazis were using planes which had made crash landings and had not been destroyed by their Crews. Soviets report new advances near Stalin finn peace moves seen chinese repulse Large Jap moves chunking any. Pm several thousand japanese launched an attack in North Nanhwei province in hic area near the Nanhwei Honan Border but were repulsed by the chinese after particularly fierce fighting a communique issued last night declared. It was officially stated in the announcement that when 47 japanese planes raided chunking monday three squadrons of chinese fighters intercepted them destroying two zeros and probably destroying five bombers. Chinese planes suffered Only minor dam nge. Stockholm. Aug. 24 finnish peace negotiations were reported underway Here with the arrival of Eero Vuori president of Hie Trade Union federation of Finland to Confer with Arthur Deakin. Of the transport and general workers Union of great Britain. The finnish labor Leader said lie Bojied to have great Britain act As intermediary to learn what peace terms Russia wanted and if the soviets were willing to negotiate for a separate peace. The government of Finland has approved the Mission and the finnish terms were referred immediately to the British legation for forwarding to London Vuori said. Among the Finni Sli demands according to the new York times correspondent Here were a guarantee of finnish sovereignty a further guarantee of their frontiers for 40 years and supplies of Coal food and Oil which they now receive from Germany. The summing up Gromyko visits Sumner Welles Washington. Aug. 24�?soviet ambassador Andrei Gromyko Wiio replaced Maxim Litvinov As Russia s envoy to Washington called on and my Secretary Sumner Welles yesterday. It was his first visit to tile state department since timing named ambassador. Gromyko who was embassy counsellor in Washington for some Lime is expected to present his credentials As soon As president Roosevelt returns from Canada. Reporting the action to it. Gen. George s. Patton jr., commander of the u. S. 7th army. Is it. Col. Lyle Vav. Bernard of Highland Falls n. Y., who commanded the two amphibious operations behind enemy lines in Sicily. Col. Bernard also led a sweeping attack to the North of Messina the night before the City fell to clean out the last remaining gals Point of resistance at Cape Peloro. A photo by army pictorial service to Nixon aug 24 while mos of a ablaze with fireworks and cheering people Here was no lest Iii sight today for the German troops fleeing southwestward from Kharkov. Soviet bombers continued in Ming the roads crammed with retreating troops and ground units pursued tin evacuating Garrison ceaselessly. Tired perhaps but not slowed de up by 50 Days of full scale lighting. Russian hoops did not Stop to rest Upun their Kharkov laurels. New break a troughs were reported by Moscow in Hie Mius River sector Between Rostov and Oroshi Novgrad. In tile last three Days the German defense line has been forced 20 Miles Back toward Stalin which now lies Only 35 Miles from the advancing russians. To the West of Kharkov too. Along the Road to poltava heavy tank Battles Are raging As German rearguard troops Light to protect the Retreat of the too is who abandoned the defense of tile Ukraine a greatest Industrial and railway City yesterday. Dispatches from Moscow this morning said that Kharkov fell yesterday when soviet troops broke into the City from three sides the West North and East leaving Only a narrow escape corridor open to the Southwest. Countering German reports of Complete and orderly evacuation. Moscow said that considerable quantities of Booty were captured and Are now being counted. Soviet units cited for distinguished service in the Kharkov Campaign were 252nd. 84th, 299th, 116th, 89th and 183rd Rifle divisions 28th and 15th guard Ritie divisions the 33rd guard division and the 375th division. The ten divisions especially mentioned were a Good indication of the tremendous Force massed around Kharkov by the red army. Although soviet columns continued their Swift Advance in the Southern sector observers who have followed the red army a summer offensive pointed out that a period of slackened movements May be expected. After 50 Days of continuous fighting one analyst said even the russian army with its almost limitless manpower and armoured strength must Stop for a breathing space to give its front line troops time to rest and its maintenance echelons Opportunity to repair the ravages of the Long Advance on the thousands of vehicles which carry the army. It was also noted that the area North and East of Kharkov from which the russians have just come has been exhausted by the Long War and can furnish Little or no cont on Page 4. Col. 51 does Gertie come from Pittsburgh Pittsburgh tile Pittsburgh press says a a Gertie from Berlin a nazi woman propagandist who Lias been beaming programs to North Africa in an Effort to break Down american Soldier morale is Gertrude Hahn former Pitt Burgher. The Majier says she left Pittsburgh s South Side in 1938 to visit Germany with Lier German born parents and became an ardent nazi. Quot Gerties is said to to employed by the Berlin radio under the name of Gertrude William