Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 6, 1943, Oran, Oran                               Vol i to. 156 1943 of franc doily newspaper for u. S. Armad f red offensive in ii for heroism Quot three vital cities a a it f 1 soviets 20 Miles from mogilev Moin nazi bastion London dec. 5�?spreading their offensive Over Central and Northern White Russia with a Power undiminished by violent snowstorms the soviets today Ltd a nearing the vital junctions and Supply Points of Shlobin Rogacheva and mogilev. The russians Are slowly pushing the germans out of their last Small Bridgehead on the East Bank of Dnieper opposite Shlobin. Another column driving up the West Bank of the River is about five Miles outside the City while a third spearhead is. Encircling the City from the Southwest after crossing the Beresina River last  v a Sharp soviet thrust from Propolsky captured ten Days ago has a faced the red army less than use Mes St Tot ��2cf��v, add there were indication that the germans might not attempt to defend their Bridgehead but would offer a stiff Battle to prevent the attackers from crossing the Dnieper. Also  which is due North of Cornel As a base of operations. The soviets have surged Northwest toward mogilev and Are now Only 20 Miles away from the Central bastion of the German Quot fatherland line Quot which once reaped on Gomel in the South and on Vitebsk in the North. Although Moscow was still silent in a possible offensive around Vitebsk German reports said that a new soviet operation was in Progress Northwest of. Smolensk with the russians attacking from Dawn to dusk. Even with the russians virtually in shelling distance of. The important nazi bases in White Russia immediate capture of any or All of them was doubtful. The red army is moving Forward in a country of a tvs is and mountains where even the Best Supply Unest according to observers Are Little More than Forest trails. Three Hundred Miles to the South the soviets a re overcoming the Handicap of Havy mud to of tone in from two sides on Una Menka. Already under russian artillery fire the bottleneck Junction of the Dnieper Bond probably Lias last most of its usefulness As a Nasi transportation Center. The1 germans have shifted Reserve from other sectors correspondent reported in an  Stem the soviet advances in the Bend. Bitter fighting is going on around Cherkassky up he River from Kremenchug where the so cont sea on Page 11 for we forties not fair to victim Chicago parties for tees the night before they inter the army Aro a distinct disservice to the new so Kef it. Col Saydyk House pre-induction1 training officer of the 8th service. Command said recently. The next Day cok Dyke use explained the inductee will take Bis army general Claass Teatta test and the score  will influence his army career profoundly. A Quot friends a Tab gift Rahv. A Irion that Lea Reshum Var tog a a doing him no Pavoa gift Hub tighten steel noose on four ships sunk As bombers Range islands at will Allied sooth Pacific Headquarters. Dec. 5 a three australian columns today were fashioning a noose of steel about the japanese new Guinea stronghold a War strategy Junction nazis driven Back 2 Miles along front  a. A huge artillery air pounding proceeds drive Allied Force Headquarters dec. 5 a Comparativo quiet was replaced by roaring action on the fifth army front this weekend As the Allied forces shift tier 1-c d. W. Mortenson is congratulated by vice adm. H. Kent Hewitt commander of u. S. Naval forces in North african Waters upon presentation of naval and Marine corps medals for outstanding heroism. Mortenson p. Mar. 1-c e. B. Harris and s. F. 2-c w. E. Kuli members of a Rescue party from the ii. S. S. Vulcan made fast to a burning ship and released several British seamen trapped below decks by cutting through the vessels Side. Those taking part in Eer Emeny Are left to right Harris Kail Mortenson vice Admiral Hewitt it. Cmdr. B. H. Griswold Flag lieutenant it. Cmdr. C. G. Duffy Commodore c. My tates commandant of the naval operating base capt. Clarence h. Pike commanding officer u. S. S. Vulcan Xada mar. Walter a Holden. Story on Page tour mar genteel drama Orny  a sgt. John m. W1llig a for and stripes staff a Friter new York dec. 5�?the plays the thing on booming boisterous Broadway. The legitimate theater after several lean but genteel years has tossed culture to the winds and is dancing to the music of one of the biggest Box office takes in its history. Curtains go up like clockwork in at least three new productions a week. Once ignored play it guv so have producers hanging1 on their words. Producers Are Strong arming the lineup of would be backers who want to put Money in a show. And the critics Are becoming the forgotten men of the theater. Since the Start of the current season in August More than 28 new shows have bounced merrily into Broadway and it s a pretty Tough Quot Turkey indeed that the entertainment hungry War workers and visiting service men. And women can t digest. Drama critic Louis Kroneberger summed it up when he wrote sourly Quot a fairly pretty girl Reading the Constitution could fill one of the smaller to Heaters unless the mole reactionary ticket buyers found the text too subversive Quot a the town s smash hit away and beyond any of the newcomers is the sparkling musical Quot Oklahoma of last season the wild West of the Gay nineties set to music like Quot Oak what a Beautiful Mornin Quot and Quot pm Ople will say we re in love Quot a two of today s top tuned. Most of the flew season s shows Are musicals gilded with Girts Gutter and jags in the proven for Gulf for luring. In wartime crowds mid thelease Money but Only Quot Ope touch of Venus Quot say the critics bubbles Over with anything like the  stuff that hits ate brewed of. This is a the show in which Mary Martin As Venus a comm to Hie end romantically pursues   Sophis tics ted end . A r a a it packing them it however., Ade other girl shows including be Lush lavish Quot Ziegfeld flues Quot and Quot artists and  the shortage of Heaters is forcing the wench filled robust Quot Star and Garter Quot revue Hoo Rayed nightly by visiting service men to take to the Road in december. This Lack of Heaters plus the crush of new shows has made the whistle stops in the hinterland almost As Heater conscious As Broadway with Many shows going on extended Tours before getting a new York spot. On the serious Side the outstanding hits Are the 4ray air Force show by Moss Hart All about the Crew of a b-17 called Quot winged of Inland Jungle trails s a Toelberg. Advance artillery units which already were lobbing tons of explosives onto the nip ponese held Strong Point were placed today by a communique at less than half a mile from the Junction. Powerful aussie tank formations yesterday swept into the Village of Kuranko a Short distance South of Ware. Stiff opposition before the Village was quickly shattered it was reported. Australians pressing West from Bonga encountered Savage resistance in some areas a communique said but forced the japanese Back. Another  in Tbs Vicinity of Monger pushed ahead rapidly with Little resistance. Observers declared a fierce struggle could be expected before Ware situated on a Ridge is taken. United nations pilots continued their relentless pounding of Ftp cont fued on Page 4 Leipzig in flames Feih Grieg Raf raid London dec. 5�?fires visible 250 mikes away were still raging in Leipzig yesterday following the rafts i �00-ton assault on the Central Germany Industrial City Friday night raiding Leipzig for the first time since november 1040, the Raf North of launched violent attacks against heavy bombers sailed Over Oer us Otto  a a a by a a or Quito earner in Victory from induction through the evening went Over  Pacific assignment and Paul the German ketones off guard Robeson a portrayal of Quot Othello Quot has the shakespearean sect and everybody else lined up for tickets. Getting tickets for any Halfway decent show without waiting has become a Quot Rabbit from the Nat Quot stunt seats for Quot Oklahoma Quot Are legendary right now you can be sure of tickets for. About March. Quot Venus Quot and Quot Othello Quot both of which a Here october openings already. Ato unavailable to the average visitor in town Lor a couple of weeks. Even the metropolitan opera is having one of its plus lest season. Begnor hangs on of the other new offerings Elisabeth Bergner in Quot the two mrs. Carrolls Quot has managed to hang on after a slow Start As has the epigrammatic Quot another love Story Quot by Frederick Lonsdale with an open path to the main objective the heavy bombers who turned away from Berlin blasted the important Sarr Basin factories Many of which had been transferred to Leipzig after they had been bombed out of the devastated Ruhr. The vital City has More than 20 firms making aircraft parts Assembly plants for Ju-88s and memo s and motor transport factories and is a City of 700,008 people. It to More than 000miles in a straight line from London. The Raf lost 28 bombers and one fighter to a recently intensified German anti aircraft defense around the key Industrial area. Thursday night s raid on Berlin was also in the 1,500-ton class the air ministry reported. Raf pathfinders flying ahead of the main formations of heavy bombers picked out targets that bad not Well entrenched German troops. Elements of it. Gen. Mark w. Clark s 5th smashed Back a bitter and desperately resisting enemy As Many As two mites and won new strategic Heights As Ever the rough a Penine terrain favored the germans and the Advance was a Tough slogging thing complicated by new Rains. Reports which reached Here said that american and British infantrymen opened the drive thursday night after a tremendous air and artillery barrage had softened up the so called nazi Winter line. The Battle for mount Camino parts of which Are now in Allied hands was opened by. A furious rain of death from the Mouths of 050 artillery pieces and the furious strafing and bombing of fighter bombers and Mitchell mediums. Then in Starlight Allied infantry moved Forward in two columns on either ski of the battered Village of Calab Rafto to begin the hand to hand assault of the slopes of the 2,000-foot-High Southern bastion of the Mugnano Gateway. While first reports were sketchy it was known that British troops captured a highly important razor Back Ridge on mount Camino and two High Points to the West of the Ridge. From these Heights the British Are looking Down the throats of German troops in the Liri River Valley immediately to the North. Waves of attacking american soldiers swarmed up the slope of 1,800-foot-High Mourik a store four Miles West of Mugnano. After taking part of the Mountain the americans a carefully Monsod dated their positions and at last report they were undertaking new of tacks which were bringing other portions of the height into their �blgl4f the importance which Field marshal Albert Kesserling. Commander of the nazi forces gave to Thaie maintain positions was eco from the fact that the  defenders had hacked out  emplacements and personnel helmet in solid Rock to a depth of a Many As eight feet. The formidable nature of those positions miss gave the key to the terrible task which faced the Allied infantrymen who m rooted the germans out of their. As a part of their desperate resistance to the Forward suntan he army the germans repeatedly c Junte attacked american position North of Venafro but the yanks turned Back each assault a Force of three British destroyers Quot helped pm be the Way for 5th army advances along the Obb St starring Rokad Young and mar. Been hit before mainly in the Garry Lindsay from Holly wed. Rose. Trunk Gnu a Quot outrageous Fortune described As Quot toying with Freud and the racial question like Wise rum lukewarm att. Out. In front of the Parade of. Revivals  tune i Hows the melodious and lyrical operetta. Quot the merry widow Quot a a Linda Quot and e Southeast Section of the Chi continuing the systematic destruction wreaked by the Aerial attacks of the past two weeks. In each raid a deferent Section of the City a Ras the principal target. Another Victory la the skies was reported yest Day by Raf fighters i Quot sweeping Ever Holland in Daylight .14 Deri Iler 217vene of Coneo Tacut Yankee Quot Witk my acc b a Tabard Oen Nao Lawt twin Bodge  the Raf men sent 11 of Quot the naked Oahu Quot i prof it the a my pts no Down without Abler the dwt or Andrie a Quot of a 1oeu� a Date Bebr Owh air Immy m of Emit. A 31th a bombardment of a Eniy the Toms in the my Tumo area last wednesday might. Gen. Sir. Bernard Law Montgomery 0th. Army advanced against stubbornly resisting enemy forces to seize san Vito Chi Etino where coastal and Inland rail tines and highways meet in the Adriatic Shore line. Troops of the 8th in Tibt sector a Here approaching the South Banks of the Mero River. 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