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THE STARS AND STRIPESFriday, Jan. 14, 1944,Rocket Guns?An Allied Dream, BerlinHints; Swiss WriterDebunks IcfeaThe German rocket gun, which the press has hinted is t.he main target of Allied raids on the Pas de Calais coast of France recently, was pooh-poohed by both the German propaganda machine and a Swiss explosives expert, according to press dispatches.Said a military commentator in Berlin; “Rumors about a German secret weapon, such as new types of rockets, lack in all probability ali ! foundation.”The Swiss scientist, Dr. Alfred Stettbacher, writing in a Bernenewspaper, callcd secret weapons and rocket shells nothing but a nerve war to scare credulous laymen.”No rocket gun, he said, could fire 120 miles or could use 12-ton shells.“Rocket shells have been used by the Germans, but against Allied bomber formations only. And then their explosive charge weighed a paltry 221b., and their shooting distance hardly exceeded a mile and a quarter,” he wrote.”“It is surprising how even trained scientists should fall for such fairy tale's as uranium bombs, which are to destroy all living beings within an area of 200 miles,”The End of a Jap Sniper—Planet Photo.An American marine, sheltering in a shell hole during the fierce fighting in which the Yanks captured the Jap base at Tarawa in the South Pacific, takes aim at an enemy sniper amid the shattered beach defenses- Arrow points to the object which may bethe Jap sniper.News From HomeArmv MnsiValIndictment Charges Chase Bank With Plot In Sales Of DiamondsNEW YORK. Jan. 14 — Winthroo [ : n TAldrich* chairman of the Board of | LrCTtt'OCFtS LjOSC iVlQYglttAir Base Shifts Op en Jap Troop Lines To AttackEnemy Forced To Leave Section Of Coastline On New GuineaAIJL.IED HQ., New Guinea, Jan l4 CAP)—Moving swiftly in the wake of the Allied land advance in the Southwest Pacific. Gen, Mac Arthur has shifted his air .bases forward, and...J . 1mw*.-v-- J “h 1•J . \• 1 * • \■ \ yis now hitting the Japanese vital supply and troop lines-Within Air Force at enemycoast offrom newaion*the last week the Fifth has struck 24 heavy blows bases along the northeast New Guinea, operating bases north of the towering Owen Stanley mountains*The intensity of these .attacks has apparently convinced the Jaoanese that their hold tn this sector is.* doomed, for they are evacuating from the coastal area between Sio and Said or in New Guinea, where Australian and American around forces are closing the gap in a squeeze pLay,At the same time Army bombers and fighters of the 13th Air Force, operating from new airfjelds on Bougainville, have continued their relentless hammering of Jap bases in eastern New Britain and on New Ireland,U.S, aircraft carriers, prowling waters north- of the Solomons, also moved 500 miles dee'per into Jat« territory with strategic attacks onM m i r T 1 rv r.l* * ^ — wiY ‘ \%lt;i■ ■■■ ? J ,■ f. ♦• si • - * ■i■‘.s■ t.A
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