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FIVE CENTS T1IJI A ..GeIATID nl•• VOLUME XUV NUMBER 64 MEETING SHAPES COMING EVENTS :e Allied Plans.. for Spring AHacks I aid lot. from South APIlea~ Underway N"ips , lose . 4 Ships, -­~ne 01 e ' lot ~ following 'Diplomali,cActivity 'PrO[es. lent or ~s that LONDON (AP)-Plans fur sprin'g attacks from the south b~' lness Of more tban a half a dozen regullll' allied and guerrilla armies in the 72 Pla"nes In Id made Pacific; promised three·front assault against the Germans appeared well . :, When underway last night following the mOHt intensive diplomatic ac­ 'as iusl: thity ince the fall of Prance. ! of hll. Turkey's int ntions, and whather and how fal' • he may aid the ''II scal. ry, who allies following President Ismot Tnonu '8 conference with President •hiP.lIe 1\oosevell and Pl'ime Ministel' Chul'cllilI, remained an nigrna . Jnd un. '/ Briti h commentator made it clear rrurkey's change from n British: Aid Partisans !lee de­ benevolent non-bolligerency to outright a 'istanco to the united lIes. D.tions-if it does come-is not expected for several months. 111 it to Reuters Ankara correspondent, meanwhilo, reported tl1e wille IS Work open opinion there was that a general allied offensh'e againqt Gloucester Blasted Cabinet Spokesman qe Was Europe may be expected in tbe near futurc--" pO!; ibly before Yanks Sink 2 Light Cruisen r in reo - .pring." /hile he Turkey's official silene as to In 195-10n Bombing Says Tito's Forces I teach. elf thaI Yanks, British Take Iter intentions has l(opt the IeI'. lllanlS ond t h ir satellites guess· In Assault on Marshall Islands He w~ By Allied Airmen Do Most of Fighting I which ing. 'rhe Vichy radio 'aid Inollu last Major Heights was lo inform the Turkish cabinet Aussies Add 2 Miles PEARL HARBOR (AP)-SL'f asy ranee of the enemy'. land­ 3, dean yesterday of the Cairo conversa­ Japanese ship, including two oa ed lighters and bombers. British Policy Favors t pharo tion while the Nazi-controlled To Pre-Invasion Strip from Nazis in Italy light crut ers, were unk, four Of the '/2 planes destroyed, 64 Opponenh of Slav j 0 u bt Paris radio said Turkey's Premier I On New Britain Coast other ves Is damaged and at least IS ever Sukru Saracoglu would make an WHAT IS IN TORE for the various nallon of Europe ha, been re· 72 Nipponese planes destroyed by were shot down in combat by our General, Mihailovic I in his Fifth, Eighth Armies. important speech on Turkey's po- vealed-In part, at least.--In the ~nneuncement of the Roo;evelt. U. S. carrier task forces Which carrier planes. Anti-aircraft !ire sition Dec, 12. Churcltlll·8talin conference In Teheran. First, a .. econd front" In SOUTHWEST PACIFIC AL- attacked the enemyheld Marshall r Rieh. Roll Toward Defenses ot our ships bagged the torpedo LONDON (AP) - The Britlsh , a de. The German-cont~o\]ed Vichy western Europe was proml ed to the Ru Ian In co-ordination with LIED HEADQUARTERS, Thurs- i lands in the mid-PacifIc Iasl plan and two medium bombers. government disclosed yesterday m with radio claimed Bulgarian and Hun- the Mediterranean and Russian fronts. People ofaxl sate\llte na­ Of Path to Rome day (AP)-A 195-ton bombing Saturday, Adm, Chesler W. Nirrl­ In a minor attempt at retalia­ that the il'eater pa.rt of the support garian political leaders "still' are tlODS were given a chance to enter the fold of the democracle b raid on Gloucester, rai ine to ap- ilz announced yesterday. It Is giving to Yu,oslav iighting of Ihe ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, ~ firm in their belief in the sincerity actively worklnl' to take theIr countries out of t.'Ie war araln t the proximately 1,300 tons the explo- The American forces. com- tion, It was di clo ed, Nipponese :8 said, of Turkey's foreign policy." allies. This map gives the picture of coming event_, teUlte nation • ive weight to hit Invasion-men- manded by Rear Adm. harl phmes made nuisance raids on forces Is going to those ot the :. H, L. giers (AP)-American and British Swedish DIIl/aieh Indicated by small wastlkas. Amel ican-held Makin and Ta­ Communist-supported par II san troops of the Fifth army in Italy aced western New Britain In two A. Pownall, then beat orf vlr­ a col. In' Stockholm the newspaper -- -- weeks, was rel>orled by headqu r- orou,. and prolon,ed attacks by rawa In the Glib rl island, to 'the leader, Gen. Joslp BroI (Tiw) zed by slashed down the western slopes Allehanda in a dispatch from Is­ south of the Marshalls, Monday of Mt. Maggiore and Mt. Camino ters today along with ground enemy torpedo and bombing rather than to lhose of Gen. Druia lie ad. tanbul said there was great ner­ I'UCCCSl s on New Guinea and in plane . One unidentified Amer­ night. One plane dropped four .Iar, an into the stra tegic valley of the vousness 'in Sofia and that many the Solomon.. lean hlp ustajlled minor dam­ bombs on Makin but all struck Mlhallovic, mlnbiter Of war in lriend. upper Garigliano .\liver yesterday persons there expect Bulgaria to Mosl Vilal German Rail Line harmlessly In the lagoon. An un­ King Peter's exile ,government, on aner , wresting tue summits of While Cape Gloucesler's anti- are and ther were "111M" a1r­ 1 great break , with the Germans. aircruft positions were being de- craft los es; :pacified number of enemy planes the ground that the partisans are to the (bose peaks from the Germans and on unday night dropped eight capturing the strongly !ortUied Tlie dispalch said that it there "troyed ond supply dumps ex- the communique. ISliued simul­ doing most ot the /lghttD, agalnst Ice and is pn inv.asion of the Balkans bomb near Bcllo Islet, of the Ta­ villages of Camino, AcquapendQla In Dnieper Bend Cut by ds ploded by Clghter-cticorted Liber- taneously here Dnd in Wo 'hinglon, the Germans. Bulgarians generally want to be ator and Mitchells. Australlan sol- thus broke. the silence that ~or two rawa atoll. ! home and COCOuruzza south west of Mlg- Quettlonod abou& the most nano, on the allied side. dler!i, 80 miles to the southeost, days had followed the terse an­ " "Pro­ The tense situation in Sofia, the MOSCOW (AP)-The German ' ~ Large 1'0DC'entralions of Gcrman extended by more than two miles nouncement that our [0 r c 8, lIPectacular Internal dlllensloD ne as a Tbou(h the steady, lIaval'e most imporlont Une of communi- mcn and mntcrial on the we"t bonk along the Huon peninsula on New quickly following up the conqu t Ihnuts of Lieut. Gen. Mark W. dispatch related, was heightened In the enUre allied camp, MiD­ lproxl. by the. ,fact Bulgarian ministers cations inside lhe DnIeper bcnd- ot lhe lower Dnicp .r were Ihus Guinea the coaslal holding ' from of the GilberL I. land. , had carried a man Clull's fil'hters had , cleared the liter of State ' Richard K. Law to Berlin, Mo~cow and Ankara the railway running from Zna- threatened with encirclement. which New Britain may be in- the weight of the new central Fa· Senale Slices Nul.s from the last important told commons that "our poUcy highest are aU home lor. conferences and menka south to the port of Niko- vaded. cltic oHen ive to the Marshall was a htlcbts In this sector of tJlelr laev-wlls cut yesterday by a local The GermolU continued their Perimeter Extended chain. Is to support .1\ forcel In l.'DI'o- pewerful wh'~r line, inoludin&, that a Russian military missio'l First Red army offensive. counter-attacks r a l' l her north, On Ule weL-central coast of Beside the 72 enemy planes de- lavl. which are re iltlnl' the bIeqcIy MOilastery ridge, the is visiting the Bulgarian capitaL levoted In · Cairo Field Marshal Jan The Russian push southwest of pu. hing northeast of Ch rnyakhov, Bougainvllle, w h c r e American stroyed In aerial,combat, an unde­ New Tax Bill German.. " and he added: mathe· enemy .1111 was re,l!tinr fiercely "As thinas are, w are support­ from many 5caUeJ;'td strollr­ Christian Smuts said yesterday Kremenchug also severed the side- but their heavy losses In that ec- forces hold a beuchhead In the termined number of bombers were tty and the grea test news of the three line of this railway running to tor and the Ru ian maneuver on nbrthern Solomons 260 mil e s demolished or damaaed in the in.: the partisan forces, giving ~d. He pe!nls. them more suppOrt than we are Last reports placed British ad­ historic conferences has yet 10 Krivol Rog. 'outheast oC the New Britain strafing or runways and airdrome. erating unfold. A$Sertlng -that hat-the th:.-emiltr~re>igiOhV!tiTfl1tti8~nkimiiliintd''bIC;oallte!fld1ifllh''l!e~0... !--ti~lr(lnlJhOld 01 Rabllul, lnvadin~ Various ground Install lions were To Two Billion givlng Gencral Mihallovlc lor the n civic v~.