Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 20, 1943, Oran, Oran Vol. 1 no. 123 wednesday october 20,1943 one franc oily newspaper for u. S. Armed Forcee Ada Miles to take Alun face up and Down fight North of River Al Jed Force head Quad Quarter oct. 19 a slogging through the mud North of the Volturno Ama Cen pair la of the 5th army advanced More than four Miles yesterday to one of the Best Days of the week old offensive. The germans failed to maintain the Pace of their resistance which had All the earmarks of to safer positions. Tank forces were i now Back on familiar terrain where the going is toughest---inot2ntaln country. A it was strictly an up and Aown Soldier allowances increased by House Washington oct 19�?tbs House yesterday voted to increase suss Aimeee fee Tbs Demrea. Of servicemen to so dollars a Ponth for the first child and 30 Donars a month for each i a i or Whir to a Mil lube a i to the Senate for approval. A. A last week a a Liuato approved the same Seale of allow makes for1 i Dena dents of servicemen in an a a la Spra a is Ai Sims Oss. W Nekr too Hasnoo suss top of Hub Hub to another a a huh term tour t Cater ease Ope in mum of conic a me Washington confident on outcome of talks stars and stripes . Bureau Washington oct. 19 a the Moscow conference of Secretary of state Cordell Hull British foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and foreign commissar Vyacheslav Molotov took the diplomatic spotlight in official Washington and comment was generally optimistic that fully hurdle any major differences and reach some sort understand a considered a a Jim cant in View Raslan forces today Are converging g5�?~a��ge�p�b�s5 London oct. 19 a powerful w. Clark slugged to eur Way from Ridge to Ridge. The germans launched Many attacks from Van Tange Point of hilltops leading off with artillery fire and relying on machine guns when the americans got closer but the c Emy attempts were no More than unsuccessful delaying actions. This Type of fighting will keep up Lor some time since Are Many Miles of Hilly Terra before on Melitopol to reinforce the so-1 let troops who Are gradually strengthening their hold on the City in the sixth Day of bitter Street to Street fighting. Southeast of Kremenchug the Battle for the West Bank of the Dnieper is developing into one of the most important of the Cam i pain and the germans admit that their entire Southern front is monday in the soviet embassy a inform ion bulletin official Organ of embassy. The article declared that the current soviet offensive is reaching such proportions that Quot the situation is extremely favourable for the final defeat of Hitler Ite Germany in the near although the bulletin did not mention the question of another front in Europe most observers took it Las the latest in series of broadsides Raf bombers raid Hanover Berlin London oct 19 heavy bombers of the Raf raided Hanover last night for the first time since october 8, Bat Low Clouds prevented observers from checking the damage done. Hanover in Western Germany houses the largest synthetic rubber works in Europe and is a vital Naal communications Center. Mosquito bombers were also Busy going Over Western Gar Many and hitting Berlin for the second consecutive night. From these raids 17 of our bombers Are missing. Jap troops land near Fin Chafen fighting bitter Hull Eden arrive for first confab a a. 7 a a a a a with russians the danger. The bed army is head film at the Anglo american allies Sittl 80 Miles away. The americans a a. I bagged five towns during the Day -1. All Northeast of Capua Fontela tone Liberi Alvig Neno Iota and v Facchio. The Only Flat ground to this Gap pm area is where the Volturno turns a k North Between Al Vinano and capture of High ground by toeesw8� americans menaced still further Sta Derma position West Strong tog toward the important railway from to Kiev which also branches into a Une leading Back to Bessarabia. Both lines Are important to the defense recently by the soviet newspapers Quot pravda Quot and Quot is Estta Quot expressing rusian a belief that the time is Ripe for an All out blow against the nazis that the Quot when Rotthe German positions in the a of such an offensive must be the Dnieper Bend and their possible first or last of topics up for Dis loss has spurred the Naris into cuss or. At the Parley. R i Riff heavy reinforcements into the comment Here concerning a the conference was Para led by the counterattacks hopeful attitude taken by the press egg i Estt amp studs Esse a we a it a. Gra amp is amp the Dav Tefs a red army was reported to be in facials in the British cantal were enemy air action kept to a mini paving its positions along the West of a a a Bce Al mind of toe few planes which Bank of the Dnieper but the actual All Toto of military poetical and did show an two Mlih a were assault on Kiev was still to come Ideal Mrica difference among he was indicate did him damaged by our antiaircraft. The both army facing the same kind of fighting to Hilly terrain also had i Good Day. They registered a three mile gain in toe Cen i. % ideological differences among a three countries. They were Coll at Gomel however the soul tote Dent because Quot this conference has been preceded by a lot of diplomatic double talk about How everything is perfect Between the were winning new victories and pushing toe wehrmacht from its strongholds South of the City in Thel trial sector and four Miles to the Angle formed by toe Dnieper and Powers Quot the dispatch said. East coast Region. British patrols which. Had been forced to fall i Back from Mont Cilfone due to Strong enemy action returned yesterday and captured the town. Mont Cilfone is below Ermoli. The germans were resisting most strongly to the area above Cam i soph riven. The red army has British officials dismissed Frank flanked Gomel on toe South and a the existence of Baste problems. Is now fighting near rchlts., rear adding that these must be brought by 30 Miles to the West of Gomel. Into the open and solved if toe the soviet encirclement tactics whole purpose of the War is not to which took Orel Kharkov and be Defeated. Observers Here and in Bryansk earlier in the summer a London agreed that the need to de jag Reutty Are going into action feat Germany outweighs any 41� Tobasso. At one Point in the town again at gome and May soon snap Ferencek dividing the conferees. Of they had managed to hold Cut after the British troops had advanced beyond them. Ripa Bottol fell yesterday As Well As another town beyond Campo Basic named san Stef mention was made by 5to army officials of the fighting abilities c toe japanese americans All hawaiian born. They were reported to be it voc an excellent account of themselves in toe front line Iron Circle around toe capital of White Russia. Miners ignore work order ip1. announces shift i a Washington diplomats considered it almost certain that Russia would request the second front Issue to be taken up first since Hitler s defeat has been named again and again by Russia As a necessary prelude to the Laving of plans for the postwar world. Two major political issues understood to be on the con rence slate Are the tripartite agreement for toe treatment of a Defeated Germany and joint Anglo american soviet responsibility for obtaining and a a a a a a a a a a world peace. Fhe i Birmingham Ala. Alabama a 22400 striking continuing to defy Back to american dress also has discussed work appeals of both the War la the possibility that russians Oost Bor Board mid their United mine War Boundry plans and it s attitude a Washington oct. 1&�?jdaj. Workers officials and in effect left toward the Baltic states Mav be Gen. Albert a. Wedemeyer Mem the next move up to the web. Placed on the conference table. In we of the War plans division of the the walkout stems from toe Jov. A be sural staff has been appointed Ernie nth a return of the mines desk try chief of staff to Admiral private ownership without Nego a a tto a Louis Mountbatten toe us that Lon of a labor contract. A a Prensa Allied commander to South the position of miners All Over West Asia toe War department an the state was warmly expressed by Allied Force head Quad noun oed saturday. The appoint spokesmen 1or workers at the to hosts 0?1 15�?for the first time meat was did need Shulta Neoushy Bayr top mines of the. Republic since the Start of the italian Cam with a in Mon announcement that steel porn who said they were in pain Gen. Dwight p. Eisenhower a a Fco Wmk a Jar a a by try a a h. Gun. Eisenhower holds Pross confab Iii. It t in a a a in Iii no wer a Quot Sev a Mctott is Allied commander in chief today War a held 4 press coiffure he at Ida of British in Orff. A. In up shitty Orr Rel by them and Iran had beep named apr Board. Well talk a uyt return Headquarters. Since the general t of staff to and Inird mount tog to Woric when the web talks Lart met toe press he has visited about a contract. The front several times. Ppm i Wedemeyer has served to fuels administrator the tiny room was crowded with 1 toe bus totes and Csiha Harold l. Ickes saw catastrophe in newspapermen and women eager Las tip Hwd states. He is cuts touted and pig Iren Induc to get one of their infrequent out of the few Amer soap of oers ton caused by took of Eoal. To hogs glimpses of general Eisenhower. He who attended the German War col were better to Indiana however As was toe Ellent spirits As he Chat lege to Berwin from july 1996 until the states 2400 striking miners ted a Lii the reporters and discuss August 1938. Of amp a Votsi to return to work. De several off the record matters. I Allied South Pacific a Headquarters oct. 19-Jspan-i anese land forces have broken away i from the defensive to Send an am i Phinious Forte knifing into Allied a territory just North of Fin Chafen i of new Guinea according to today a communique. Desperate fighting is now in Progress in the sector although a Dawn Landing near the Mouth of the song River was Quot largely destroyed Quot by Allied fire. Australian troops have reportedly thrown Back two enemy counter attacks in the View amp Nung area three Miles Northwest of Fin Chafen which the allies captured october 2 operating in direct support of ground forces Allied medium and fighter bombers attacked enemy installations. In the a Toiberg area. Japanese planes struck for the second consecutive Day at shipping in Oro Bay South of Buna new Guinea and 24 of the 35 planes to the attack were shot Down. The Day before a Force of 50 enemy bombers and fighters attacking toe same target was virtually wiped out. In addition 19 More enemy planes were revealed to have been shot Down in saturday s fighting Oyer weak new Guinea. This brings toe total of enemy planes destroyed and badly damaged to toe last week to Well Over 400. Further air action accounted for the stoking of an enemy submarine Chaser off new Britain. Mihailovich said fighting Cairo oct. 19-Rpatriot armies in both Yugoslavia and Albania today were threatening from Many quarters the once All conquering Fortes of the German Reich. Iff a dose places to Croatia Slovenia and 1 Montenegro. Free yugoslav partisans harried their country s oppressors with attacks of bitter savagery. For toe first time since he was quoted As say Iii he would not right until Allied troops sat foot on yugoslav so Gen. Drama Mihailovich was reported on the move say Law it Golf tel Mem atm. Bad is army advancing towards Danube i port menacing vital German River Jiffy a a a War putting i up determined and us oct Soful re-1 distance in toe face of two More German divisions reported to have a entered the tiny Balkan state from i \ Moscow oct. 19�?the Long heralded conference of the foreign secretaries of toe United states great Britain and too soviet Union was scheduled to begin today to a diplomatic atmosphere described by correspondents As a Oord Lala and Quot hopeful Quot. On the results of this important meeting called to bring about closer cooperation among toe pro Copal allies to the War against nazi Germany May rest toe future of Allied teamwork against toe common enemy and to the peace to follow. As Secretary of state Cordell Hull and foreign Secretary Anthony Eden prepared to meet with commissar for foreign affairs Vyacheslav m. Molotov press reports Here agreed that Quot a general air of expectancy and friendliness towards British and americans Quot pervades toe City. Cordial atmosphere Moscow is having its brightest social season since the Start of the War and foreign diplomats have been around the City and have been giving parties reminiscent of happier Days. The reception last week for Donald Nelson chairman of the War production Board was re i ported one of the Best and most attended in years. Or. Hull and or. Eden arrived last night within an hour of each other and were met at toe Airport by commissar Maxim let Ivonov former soviet ambassador to the United states. The three foreign secretaries almost immediately went into a meeting to the Kremlin to Clear away the preliminaries so the business sessions of the conference could begin today. Secretary Hull was accompanied by w. Averill Harriman new u. S. Ambassador to Moscow Green h. Hackworth state department Legal consu., James Dunn political adviser and maj. Gen. John Dean. Or. Hull said on his arrival Quot the visit to Moscow has Given me particular satisfaction. This is the capital of a great country United with my country to the common cause. I also have the pleasant Opportunity to pay a visit to Molotov. I an. Looking Forward with pleasure Tov the forthcoming conversations with him and Eden Quot the British representative was accompanied by it. Gen. Sir Hastings ism amp a military adviser to prime minister Churchill and William Strang assistant under Secretary of foreign affairs. The presence of general Dean and general Ismay seemed to confirm rumours that military matters would figure strongly in the three Power conference. First tasks one of the first tasks of the delegates Allied diplomatic circles indicated will be to resolve any differences Over the Quot second front Quot a question which cannot be excluded from discussions aimed at reaching a United Allied policy toward Defeated enemies and liberated friends. Observers Felt that such discussions would be extremely Frank. After military matters Are disposed of it was thought that the be prepared to turn to postwar issues on which Tom has been no Over All agreement As yet among toe russian and Anglo american governments. Although the current meeting was expected to produce important a results to its own right some observers believed that its outstanding task was to do the a a Woric i r i conference among fat stat Roosevelt prime minister Churchill and Premier of taunt As the Moscow conference opened representatives of toe three nations and Canada signed a protocol to London extending toe lend lease agreement for another year
