Oakland Tribune (Newspaper) - November 28, 1942, Oakland, California OAKLAND NOVEMBER 28, 1942 8 l J i 1 ALLIED PORTS HOLD GUI HANDS TO Russ Close ANY ESCAPED NAVAL UNITS Trap on Foe FRENCH SHIPS IN Admiral Darlan Appeals AFRICA EXPECTED TO JOIN ALLIES To Ships to Flee to Africa Soviet Troops Around Besiegers JAP AIR ATTACK SMASHED AS STRENGTHENS GUADALCANAL UNITS Sky Block With Torpedo Protected by Zero But Men and Supplies Are Put Ashore Without Loss from Page 1 Continued from 1 definite lift for the and a severe for Germany fleet put up a desperate Although all information six-hour to keep I'm off their that down film all German and Italian troops who said Axis columns reached dock where the battleship Strasbourg was moored and an storming party tried to board the but was repelled machine-gun They while the ship was blown Jean de com- Manding the hastily moned a group of trusted young Officers to pass the word along to out Plan was for every commander to try to with his own ship and if he to blow it vessels tried to get up were attacked by German the Spanish advices FEARED KILLED Ihe muni ui tar udU were Madrid re- with the result that it was Relieved most of the men aboard feme According to these lix hours the Italians and tried again and again to storm Various but and by yesterday sll that remained W a proud fleet was the few masts one turret the battleship controlled there was little in London to question the accounts of the Ob- servers said that Allied sance planes probably already had brought back pictures of the harbor and that the Germans would know there would be swift tion of a hoax This morning members of the Fighting French Navy and the Ad- staff here in London marched to the French Admiralty courtyard and observed a in tribute to the French ors who died at Flags at Fighting French headquarters and the Admiralty were at half FLAGS Gen. De Gaulle and Adm. of the Fighting French ordered all flags on Fighting Pate 1 took 'the Germans tried to terrific beating today attempting French ships divisions converging raid the harbor between r large town of Sta Guadalcanal md little Florida of a one-minute silence at 10 a m in memory of the who died their naval W A. expressed the belief that the Germans would not even attempt to salvage the estimated tons of It would take the better part of two years to float and refit he It was generally agreed that the elimination of the Toulon fleet as a possible hostile force ended a jor Allied anxiety that the warships might be with the Italian Fleet in the where reinforcements of ican soldiers and Marges were the which stuck up from dispatches agreed with his said the fighting through Toulon in tanks and attacked the port With guns and headed for the ships while German roared Swiss dispatches indicated two submarines at least got but said a third that tried to was blown up by a magnetic which German planes had FIGHTING The dispatches quoted Havas Agency as reporting that many were killed in street which largely the Havas Agency and thus were received here with v indicated that not a single ship re- in all shore naW lion and fuel dumps and depots Vichy communique IQT the radio 27 new mourning day tor the think French One without emotion of tin proud ships of our now defenseless wrecks It is all the more painful for Frenchmen be- cause this is the result of lack of dignity by certain leaders who be- trayed their country and broke their Many French in African me expected soon io be sailing with French crews in Allied Dodecanese Islands And Sicily Raided from 1 Turkish 375 miles north of a communique reft hits tlc docks ships were at the communique in Allied Forces Drive Hard Toward Tunis early accounts ot the stirring drama at lapsed into periods of unaccountable The Vichy broadcaster said nil the ships had been sunk and coastal batteries de- ai the German moved in to occupy the port on Adolf SMOKE STILL RISING said a saber tack blocked the and being hacked to pieces i OJ theie was a fierce en- By NORMAN LODGE Nov. down by fighters and 11 additional planes by anti-aircraft and based American and oce pilot is known to be That is par for any course Nary a one of the unloading ships U.S. Bombers Raid Hankow Jap Military Areas Gunboat And Steamer Hit By J. REILLY O'SULLIVAN WITH AMERICAN FORCES IN In quick succession five others j followed the Nip into flared up and then Nov. beneath the calm making their first One torpedo plane fell into assault on sea close by a transport ship The j Japanese China set the Yangtze his left leg hanging in j dock area aflame at Hankow and jng along with huge as not one of the the starboard beam hits on a gunboat and big in the hills west of the city when the Germans made an attempted stand but after a night and day of fighting the Nazis were reported forced anew their closely pursued Unlike the Armistice Pay raid in which our losses were about half the today saw a force of torpedo protected by come across the over Henderson Field and toward by Soviet the channel to attack the landin newspaper Red Star Anti-aircraft fire opened up on WIPED The Army said that not a single German was left on the west bank of the Don The Vichy after giving in the battle sector west of frm after suffering under by and The approach of decisive combat within Tunisia had been indicated by the Berlin radio yesterday with the announcement of a clash at on the coastal railway 25 miles south of and 40 miles northwest of the A DNB dispatch broadcast from Berlin today Allied forces in the Tunisian highlands had been strengthened several more but declared they apparently waiting for more weapons and greater air support before It said German planes repeatedly raided Allied tank and supply col- and shot down 12 British Hard fighting has been forecast by Allied commentators in the final phases of the efforts to shut the vise upon Hitler's last North African Tank troops and air forces make up a large part of Ihe Axis estimated as high as hastily moved in to take over major fortifications ot the French Anderson's Legion is likewise strong in planes and armored units rt for action against fixed Some slackening in the pace of Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery's British Eighth Army in the pursuit of Marshal Rommel's battered forces acroM the vast stretches of Libya has been indicated by Cairo com- this U.S. Secretary of War Stimson said yesterday that the Germans were expected to make R determined stand before the El cor- reports put Allied air losses in Africa yesterday at and said others were on the The Germans claimed 20 Allied planes were shot Still Nothing Told Of Rommel Pursuit Nov. 28. For the second day in British Middle East headquarters an- today there was from Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery's Eighth which s pursuing Marshal Rommel's forces within Successful bombardment of the Airdrome of Sicily and Cay of the Dodecanese Islands reported among Allied serial night that clouds of smoke are still rising from the aie heard from time to time from the ammunition of the scuttled it The Swiss radio told of long lines of French sailors being led through the streets of Toulon as Axis The German occupation of lon and the radio reports of the scuttling were expected to stimulate French resistance to the Germans both in now completely un- der the rule of German Field shal Karl Rudolf Gerd von and in The French newspaper published in must salute the heroic ture of these officers and not having been able to take their ships out to fight because of the detestable policy of pre- ferred destruction and death to dis- The German which gave the scuttling far more prominence than has been given the recent events in Africa and said that civilians had been cleared from coastal areas at Toulon and Estimating the armistice army maintained by the Vichy ment at the Berlin dio that of them would return to their homes within the next few The diplomatic correspondent of Transocean said the German Reich rt always bren with defeated mental and intentions of mun policy toward 1he French ple have not been changed by the events nf grad and further advances were claimed northwest and southwest of the city despite German ments and ft heavy snow that Northeast of Tuapse on the Black Sea the Russians claimed the cap- ture of an important Before Stalingrad the Russians were to have taken four more M a r i n o v k and In the northern part of the city a Soviet unit was credited with a 450-yard casualties in and captured rose past the level during the Extent of Germ on oss To Be Known in Few Days Nov. 28. The gravity of the blow to the Germans at Stalingrad should be clear within the next three or four a Brit- ish military commentator caid The who must re- main said a large Axis army undoubtedly was surrounded in a pocket south of He that their destruction was not necessarily im- plied and that two alternatives were open to the try to fight his way out or to try to bring reinforcements in from Russ Attack Says German Command BERLIN German Nov. 28. Russian at- tacks between the Volga and the Don and in the great Don bend in the Stalingrad area have been re- with great force but have been the German high said Heavy fighting it continuing southwest of Kalinin and in the about 240 miles northwest of Moscow and from the Latvian the com- Russian attacks in the western Caucasus also were reported land and the fighter planes cled for land-based heavy cannon ripped holes in the filled and when it was all over here was the box score every American can be proud Japanese torpedo planes and five Zeros shot among the huge landing party was injured The action was delightful to The alert shortly after 2 Suddenly shore ners shouted and put up a terrific Torpedo barely skimming the top of the swooped in from the east. The sky was black with these and small clouds of anti- aircraft smoke interspersed with red From a formation a job nosed right down into the sea and the sergeant gunner reached across the cannon and marked one white chalk ne wjb jrner steamer out with boat hooks and Medium bombers followed up this ashore and That's more by a few hours with punishing the Japs do with our boys under like which fortunately are not The supposedly a tion umbrella for the torpedo remained at a high Our planes which had been circling for altitude suddenly darted into the and quick as the eye could spot five Zeros became just The raid was over within 20 but as the rumble of anti- aircraft fire huge clouds of green-black smoke were seen on the attacks on Japanese military con- centrations at and in the Yangtze bend southwest of Hankow on the Here great damage was in- and many Japanese were be- These destructive forays into the enemy's Central China made a total of eight attacks within 77 hours upon the enemy from Hankow to in of miles to the AH of the raiders returned although some had been shot up by anti-aircraft 5 Several Hurt In Bomb Plant Blast La Nov. were killed and several others injured in an explosion in i bomb line at the Louisiana nance plant here The four raid that Trip Noi o I 1 n n d. deaths and wounded many bul it that only slight age was Allied medium bombers hit hangars and other buildings in night raid on the airdrome in an cement fishier planes shot mld down n bomber and damaged another be- tween and and fighter planes down two en- emy of in limited activity over the battle communique to from the land forcey in it that Gen Sn Bangkok Civilians Ml 7one on ihr Gulf of John Howaid W. Bossier James Arthur B. 85. Willie Eugene 39, Robert D. 53, Seriously injured was Clement 21, Shreveport 4he Flying Fortresses Part Raid 2K Told to Flee City I BERLIN i from German tion of Thailand capital wps requested by radio Saturday to j evacuate thr town voluntarily be- the city n rind an on be H dispatch oi H i Italian hit Chilli side US from Thailand said today air in India re- Thc effect of tnc on the ported this a raid on facilities were refinery at for 25 communique said Civilians Evacuated From Dutch Coast Nov. on England j Nov. German plane low sprayed a building with cannon and on the England One woman was for of interior before 30 Indies news Mid that people the pushing taxied with their mott 1111 Hats Off to East Bay Real Estate Brokers and Their Job Is Essential to the war Have you ever stopped to think of the vital war work being done by the 2212 real estate brokers and salesmen of the East Bay? 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