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War News In Brief From North Africa To Pacific Fronts
The American report lists Japanese naval losses in the Solomons as one battleship five cruisers six destroyers and twelve transports sunk with a battleship and six destroyers damaged. Japanese ground losses are put at 20 000 to 40 000. Allied forces close on Buna New Guinea as a Japanese air raid from Lae is repelled. In Tunisia paratroops seize aerodromes while Allied drives press from Algeria toward Gabes. Dakar shows signs of resistance to Allied propaganda. Roosevelt defends the Darlan accord as saving lives and expediting Tunis offensive. British and American convoys in the Med face U boat concentrations but landings succeed. Near Benghazi Libyan advance continues and German claims of a Axis push near Bizerta are noted. New York Herald Tribune forum quotes Roosevelt calling turning point in North Africa. Russians prepare a major offensive near Moscow and Leningrad with fighting near Volkhov. Local council notes and inspector reports on vandalism, shop occupiers removing verandah blinds, rubbish cleanup, river seepage, and bananas destruction at a Treatment Works site.