Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 20, 1943, Oran, Oran Vil. 1 no. 166 monday december 20, 1943 one franc daily newspaper far ii. S. Armed forces 6ih Kruni drives of Ruff Aram to Osmala believed next 0i yank list of Conquest. Allied South Pacific Headquarters dec. 19�?As Iro testing bomber fleets overhead fought off repeated Waves of japanese bombers Jungle toughened Texas troops of the 6th u. S. Army yesterday plunged East from their newly won Akrawe Bridgehead on the Southwest coast of new Tain to capture in Lingold Village a mile eastward. Lilily a Culli h if group after group of nip ponese / f a Lulu to lids Churchill passes pneumonia crisis London the crisis is Pritee minister Churchill s pneumonia attack has passed and his condition is improving according to Reuters. The latest bulletin said Quot the prime minister temperature is Normal and signs of. Pneumonia Are disappearing an earlier bulletin said that despite an irregular it Tbs or. Churchill s temperature was sub a siding. With the British Leader. Who is at a Hospital somewhere in the Middle East Are his wife his son Randolph and his daughter Sarah. Yanks capture san Pietro main germ position on Rome Road Senate of s 61 pay in re offensive looms As russians mass of 500-mile Winter line London dec. 19�?a powerful soviet Winter thrust seemed Iii nent today As thousands of red troops Are massed along the &00-mile front from Shlobin in White Russia North to Leningrad while bombers dived in close to the Harbor to break the tank s hold on the Peninsula but each time United dec. Other russian forces in the Dnieper Bend converged on Kirovograd and Smela. Moscow communiques did not mention fighting in the Northern sectors but preparations indicate that the Winter offensive is near 19 the and the germans have a Eady re for s whisky soda behind locked door London dec. 19 a when american Security men bottle up the possible approaches to a travelling president they really bottle them up. Silting in the study of u. S. Minister Dreyfus in Teheran Harry Hopkins Reuter s reports asked for a whisky and soda. The Butler reappeared a few minutes later and reported Quot sorry or. President and or. Hopkins but the american Security men who were Here earlier have bricked up various doors of the legation unfortunately including the wine cellar door. Quot 1,1 a Quot Quot Al fait of Lagone Cerasuola to further perils nazis Washington time inns of Iota and Aric it ick Are Senate passed yesterday Ltd sent ported it has begun. A radio repent nations Pilot and acid ick Are House a pro Orting from the soviet capital said that drove them off. Nine big Jap bomb vice men with mustering out pay 380.000 red army ski troops were ers and five fighters were shot Down ranging from 200 to 500 dollars de training in the Kalinin Region into the sea. Three others were pending upon length of service. Northwest of Moscow. Probably destroyed a communique. That Hin Nav corf cow he Aihan w the germans Are clinging stub said. Barkley Ltd Tkv would allow 90 my to each Strongo a in the immediately after the texans v dollars for those Servine outside of in la pm Bend correspondents re cured their grip on the Bridgehead. U s for 18 months or Ino a ported today and Are offering stiff infantry and armoured units begin Dir Lars for than resistance before Kirovograd. Washington. Dec. 19-presi studded the German Une and which fanning outer Stwart ily observers Miles to the North soviet Dent Roosevelt emphasizing the held up Allied Armor along the Road think the yanks May attempt a dollars for less than 12 months ser spearheads a the converging on Success of the War conferences in Quick land drive to seize Oas Mau. A a a a Roudot me t4nl2rnomhs Smela. A key Rau Junction where the Middle East disclosed that he # Althous Hmok Loi the South Side about 88 Miles East of Akrawe. Within Continental u s and �00 important routes meet rhe stayed in the russian embassy in Road As been clean d for. Tus for lived in soviet embassy to thwart spies be Teheran Allied Force Headquarters dec. 19�?american troops have captured the Shell riddled Village of san Pietro key Point in the Northern Hill positions from which the germans have held up the Allied Advance along the Cassino Rome Road it was announced today. The enemy Winter line position situated on a 600 foot height near the Road through Mignano pass fell after bitter hand to hand fighting and heavy artillery file from both sides. Yesterday san Pietro was reported surrounded on All sides but the West with the germans using every thing to stave off the american attack. The infantrymen which finally stormed into the Village had blasted out one by one the deeply entrenched big German guns which As Allied reinforcements con dollars for those who served Tess German is seem to be massing their Teheran rather than the Ameri Flost /0ut or a a Lmh less capt pc Tinea to swarm ashore onto the than 12 mortll3 the u. B. A try a the 40 Ward Ott a run a can legation because of Marshall of a feature of it. Lungo. To Miles Akrawe beachhead other Yankee the measure would be retroactive breakthrough in the Bend which stall s revelation of a nazi plot bomber fleets continued the relent t0 p0ari Harbor might threaten the nazis on the against the conferees. At the in less Aerial offensive Over rhe South a Kiev bulge. Sis nce of marshal Stalin or Western new Britain coast fro be although the weather is getting a velt said. He. Moved from the in a i us so Gamata to Cape Gloucester. In a honorable Dis Chaee and he c0,de�?T1 4,1 4hf . 0 rve�3_�� legation to the soviet compound. Of 2 a a single raid 200 tons of High expo Quot a Quot Oral ported. A Winter campaigning Otbo it one mile away and near the army sector Over the week end Sives were dropped on g Lucester Parance in equal conditions have not yet arrived and or i h Uff a Tenn fighter bombers were Over Gasma m .tw2. Months All enlisted men my j gym a Handicap to rapid and la constantly the Airfield a Here was officers up to and including Vanees a a the move was made largely made a mass of gaping craters a ran colonel would he Eligi Bop to Southwest of san Pietro strength ened the Allied position. Mountain fighting Yankees a few with the capture of two towns in the Heights of of Lignano. Frenzen troops including moroccans made Allied spokesman said As soon As for tale mustering out pay. La p. I _ the japaneses iad patched the an Congress will adjourn tuesday Nam Lifcia a re Iowa Field Allied pilots returned to wham and reconvene january 10 the up cow Ifasi in rec r anew with tons of bombs. Cess was voted after the farm sub Riach wow i time 6nu observers called the Southwest Sidy controversy was settled by a Montreal dec. 19�?montreal new Britain offensive the greatest temporary Compromise. Policemen and firemen returned to fighter bomber sweeps of me South Congress sent to the White House duty yesterday after the City seat Pacific Campaign As soon As for approval a Bill extending sub recognition of the Canadian con Al tied airfields Are established at Sidy payments unto february i Gress of labor Uff Lona ending what Akrawe United nation bombers will opponents of the subsidy program was described As the gravest be Only an hour s flight rom the have teen trying to end subsidies municipal strike in the Western big Jap base at Rabaul <50 Miles altogether As of january i. Con hemisphere since the Boston pol to nor Iez St i a Gress also sent to the White House tee strike of 1919. One Hundred Miles West i t Akrawe. A 20o.oqo.ooo Dollar deficiency a the strikers walked out tuesday across the Vitiaz Straits aussie tank Propri Tion Bill. Demanding Union recognition forces shoved the japs out of lok Gtna coastal Point on the to Quot on pen a insula. 12 Miles North of Fin Schaf in. The routed japs were hurled in Pell Mell Retreat North of the Sanga River North and Northwest of Allied held Ware the australians lost Cor tact with the japanese who have abandoned their to Sidon in the Bougainville fighting to the Sok Moons american infantryman avoid travel through the streets some gains in the Northern sector of Teheran the president added and May have taken part in the pointing out that there were prob capture of the two towns ably a Hundred German spies in the places both 2,000 feet up in the City and that it would have the mountains were Lagone two been a Quot pretty Good haul had the Miles West of of Lignano and Cera nazis made attempts on the uves Snola three Miles Northwest. La of marshal Stalin prime minister gone fell in the same kind of hand Churchill and himself. To hand Street fighting As san or. Roosevelt said he consid Tetro. Erie the Cairo Teheran discussions successful from both War and Post a German counterattack Fri Day forced americana on the right flank yanks in mausoleum Steep with dead by sgt. Jack Foisie and marines started a new push a stars and Stripe stuff Vieri from the Empress Augusta Bay a Tom the fifth army in Bridgehead and advanced to the Italy a the yanks set up theh East and Northwest. Neutral states May Aid refugees London dec 19�?requests several Neutral states to provide Asylum for refugees have been made by the International governmental committee on refugees the British foreign office announced. Plans Are cow being studied 0 Sharon a. Give physical Relief to refugees in a occupied territories to assist the Esmaoe of others it was said forty thousand poles Are now of guns near an italian cemetery and some of the Crew decided to get out of the rain by moving into the mausoleum. The Tomb was dry. The Cook brought in a Field Range Burner and soon the Coffee was simmering. The bed oils were Laid out on the upper Stone slabs Quot How come the Gap Between my slab and the one below me is filled in a asked pvt. Carl Summers. Someone is buried below you. That s Why sgt. Helmar Christensen w. Orange n. J., said. The Tomb seemed to magnify ing moved from Persia to East and the sound from the slightest move. South Africa India Palestine a did Quot scared a snorted one yank to Mexico Sweden has Al Jeanv receive the other five Quot no Quot drawled to de 8.009 danish refugees and pales Russell Fuchs Middlebourne w Tine has offered Homes 34,000 a. But i done to like it much even Jewit. Mostly women and children after All the dead we be from Southeastern Murrne. Quot we Are dry and warm and i More governments have been ask feel comfortable for the first time de to participate in the committee since a a landed in Italy a said pvt whose Aid is to have representatives Albert Rantala Detroit All countries the British foreign pvt Lew Wooddell Tioga w. Office added. Va., asked Quot who has the cards Quot pvt. Benny leks a Chicago had them they put the stakes at 20-ure limit nothing wild. After once around the six decided to make it a no limit game anything wild they had just been paid. The afternoon went but the rain stayed. A Cord was Strung from january the truck Battery and there was Light in the Tomb. They Hung a i Blanket Over the Entrance and the game continued. Quot you know a said leks a Asne dragged to a pot Quot i feel very Lucky the chicagoan patted the slab. Quot my cold Friend Here is bringing me for a while nobody spoke except when the game required. Quot is it still raining Quot some one asked. Quot yep Quot replied Sargeant Christensen Quot How about a ghost Story Quot someone cracked. Quot shut up Quot chorused two or three others Quot deals it was just before Midnight Quot hey How about you Guys getting on the Ball and relieving us a shouted someone out in the dark War viewpoints adding that Theja ave ground a a conferees shared the Hope there three enemy counterattacks not in we or a Gan in be Quot to the fur Era Rin. Of Une waj8 Repoz tel stubborn asked if he could say whether and Strong. The 5th Mountain i the leaders thought Germany vision was brought Down from tie could be Defeated by 1945, the russian front to reinforce the president replied they were work enemy positions in the Center it was ing Lor speedy subjugation of the announced yesterday. Reich. He expressed sorrow Over on the 8th army front British or Churchill s illness to the mid troops fought Forward a Short Dis dle East where he is suffering Tance to take the town of Poggia fro Iii an attack of pneumonia. Fiorito four Miles Northeast of or or. Roosevelt announced he Scogna and just below the Orsogna would make a radio address Ortona Road. The German 1st Para Christmas eve directed primarily troop division has recently been to the men and women in the transferred into this area from a raied forces. The broadcast will other sector of the line. Include a report of his historic heavy a a Hong Dunn which the enemy lost 13 tanks canadians indians and new sealanders pegged Down securely their positions along the Orsogna Ortona Road Alii # though the enemy counterattacked 11 spend that Christmas often and Force. Journey. That part of the trip not covered will be incorporated in his annual message to Congress in holidays with his family in Hyde Park n. Y. 40 percent of nazi steel output ruined Emmanuele held As obstacle to Italy Naples dec. 19-Catling King Vittorio Emmanuele one of the continued on Page 4j London dec. 19 a concen gravest obstacles to the rebirth of traced Allied air attacks in the Italy the italian committee of first half of 1943 have Cost Ger National liberation yesterday is Many 30 to 40 percent of its a orm sued a statement signed by repro Al monthly steel production in the Senta Tives of six major political Ruhr District according to the parties Here declaring that the British ministry of economic War King would remain an obstacle so fare. Long As he persisted in refusing it was pointed out that Ruhr to heed tiie wishes of the people losses Are of greater importance the committee called attention to the nazis from a qualitative to Che King s participation in fas rather than quantitative Point of Cist and described As a major View because the District concen italian difficulty his refusal to traces on production of High qual abandon the throne and to a Ity armament steel. Cent a constitutional Regency
