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QIC ety Sports Editorial Page Daily Cartoon ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Want Ads PART TWO ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 7, 1943 PAGES 1 12B i i i ii ii ii vi News for U. S. Troops in New Guinea The Silent War AMERICANS STORM JAPANESE PILLBOXES.

SWEEP FOE FROM STRONGHOLD AT BUNA MISSION WALTER LIPPMANN TODAY AND TOMORROW CALLING BILLY MITCHELL By BARNET NOVER Mr-- it AST year, a total of 8,090,000 tons of merchant shipping were 1 produced in American yards. aircraft manufacturers and the I Today, we are producing ships at only there had been another Billy Mitchell to make us as conscious of submarine power commercial airlines, and there is no large body of enthusiasts lika the rate of 14,400,000 tons a year the young flying men, to preach the gospel of submarine power. There have been no Billy Mitch Enemy Marines Fight to Death Against U. S. Grenades and Tommy Guns About 40 Swim to Reef Offshore, Only to Be Killed by Allied Artillery Fire.

and, according to Rear Admiral Emory S. Land, Chairman of the Maritime Commission, the production goal of 16,000,000 tons set for 1943 will be reached and exceeded. These figures are enormously en as now at last we are conscious of air power, we should have a much better prospect of hastening the day when otir enemies know that their position is hopeless. For we now have the power to crush ells, no Severskys and Ziffs and Al Williamses, no Rickenbackers and Lindberghs to make the country conscious of the deadly con couraging. But it must not be as them.

What we lack are the ships sumed that, because we have built; move our full power to the flict under the surface of the sea. The Navy has a monopoly, and th fighting fronts. and are building more ships and more tons of shipping than have if we still had the ships we have lost, we could double the power of our offensives both in ever been built by any nation in any comparable period of time in the past, the vital battle of the sea lanes has finally been won by the South Pacific and in North Africa, and in addition we could multiply several times over the Navy has brought forward no submarine fighters like Arnold, Spaatz, Eaker, Echols, DoolitUe, Chennault, Kenney and George. Submarine Autonomy. THE remedy for our backwardness in this critical element of the new warfare is to do something similar to that which have done to release the individual our side.

That, unfortunately, Is not the case. forces that are building up for the By GEORGE WELLER Til Chieaco Dailv News Post-Dippatch Special Ratlio. Copyright. 1943. WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN NEW GUINEA, Jan.

2 (Delayed). IN a series of attacks under the eye of the American Commanding General, American troops swept from their hard-won beachhead today, splitting the Japanese forces in Buna Mission and at Giropa Point. Under a plan carefully drawn up by Maj. Edmund R. Schroeder cf Okoko, who led one company into the teeth of the Japanese fire and stormed the pillboxes with grenades and tommy guns, American infantrymen avenged their comrades' losses in one tremendous storming that swept the battered mission grounds clear of Japs.

About 40 Japs, still armed, swam to an offshore reef where they met their end under American artillery fire, low-strafing planes and snapshooting from the shore. Others, hiding among their fellows bodies, continued to cast grenades and return fire until clip after We have, apparently, licked the U-boat in the Western Atlantic reconquest of Burma and the reopening of the Chinese front. Yet measured by its importance, our conduct of the submarine war is where during the first half of 1942 hundreds of American ships were sent to the bottom, but where there the most backward and most prim tive. the least inspired and the I s-iAAt' 4 ciy ifnff1- ii irrrrtwfti(irri4'inifi i mMui iffru iriBrihaf iiiw nolfc Ti i uui ii i ihTT'i mnii Mia iBMii i ii i (m iff iiWhfwiiiMH(iiiriiY 1 1 -ntn "fhrrtwirrfiTn nwftKr firftrw riirrrfiffii i -rn-w have been practically no ship sink ings since September. most lethargic, the least planned and the most unorganized cam genius and concerted energy and organization that are makinjr American air power.

We should realize that to master a new art there must be men who have freedom and the incentive to use it. U-boat depredations in the wa paign we are fighting. ters arouna tne sritisn isles are also being kept in check. It was U-Boat Fleet Growing. We have gotten that in the air by giving the Army Air Corps a high Associated Press Wirephoto.

American soldiers who had a chance to relax a bit listening to a news report on a radio turned to a United States station. They are part of the force that later took part in the Buna fighting in New Guinea. THE best brains of the German Navy are dedicated to the sub recently disclosed in London that there is now a greater volume of coastwise traffic around those clip" of tommy gun fire was poured into them. degree of autonomy and of equality of status with the other serv marine, and the bulk of German resources available to naval war the top behind Maj. Schroeder with two Chicagoans at his side.

This is the same group of men who islands than there was in peace time. And despite the massing of ices. We should approach submarine large numbers of German sub made the original break-through fare, and a tremendous concentration of German scientific energy. As a result, Germany has a very power in the same essential way- marines off Africa last November, Interpreting the War Nevs PERIL OF NAZIS IN CAUCASUS INCREASES to the sea on Christmas day which made this sweep to the mission the Anglo-American convoy to Mo large and continually growing rocco and Algeria got through submarine navy. German subma possible.

At that time, trapped by entrusting it to a special corps within the Navy, commanded by a submarine Admiral (not merely aa Admiral who has served with sub with remarkably few losses. rines are progressively faster and Japanese machine gun fire coming from three sides, with the beach at their back, they were cut off for stronger, more maneuverable and Far From Bright. ed to get out of the Caucasus alto of greater range. German sub marines) and with a civilian head of its own an Assistant Secretary rp HE over-all situation in the bat marine tactics are continually im By MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT (Copyright, 1943.) proving.

I tie of the sea lanes is, nonethe- loco fir t-n Vtfln-Vii less, far from bright. gether and are going to try to pull back behind the lower Don at Rostov, or whether-they will make a stand in the western part of the or me XNavy lor Submarines. Th corps should have its own centers of research and development and We, on the other hand, have In all, 143 Japanese bodies were counted. Fourteen coolies came out of one dugout. Surveying the battlefield after it had settled down to desultory sniping and all but two machine guns had been silenced, I saw these emaciated creatures join 20 others foul with sores and make their way to an aid station, where they received their first treatment of their wounds by American physicians.

Heavy Mortar -Fire. Mortar fire that covered the whole front with the right flank on the narrow black sand beach etrewn with torn palm fronds was directed from concealed advanced observation posts by Lieut. Clark Bailey, 28-year-old round-faced and sturdy reservist from Chieaco. Lieut. Bailey, a University of Illinois graduate, has gone through the campaign not only The United Nations are still los treated the submarine, as the bat A GENERAL uerman witn-drawal from the Eastern PnnniiQiia annnarQ in Yiavi be tleship admirals and infantry gen ing snipping at the rate of ap procurement, like Wright and Langley fields.

North Caucasus, in an endeavor to hold on to the Maikop oil fields earthern bunkers. They had machine guns. But they failed to fire. I think this bunker was out of ammunition. They threw grenades, but our grenades got them.

Their heads stopped peeking at us. They just disappeared." Tough, Tricky Foe. Near where one American was using a rising sun flag, with the names of dead Japanese marines scribbled on it, as barber linen while giving a haircut to another former milk truck driver, Corp. Edward Schmidt of Chicago said: "Just don't let anyone tell you the Japs are anything but tough, tricky fighters. Wounded, they sometimes fight until death and until you've put a whoel clip into them you cannot be sure they're finished.

They specialize In getting around behind your lines and these marines cut our communication lines several times when we proximately a million tons a month erals used to treat the airplane Without violating the princide of gun. I pointed out the danger to This is less than we are actually as a side show, as an auxiliary, and the port of Novorossisk. From the map it would appear possible the Nazi forces in the Caucasus as long ago as Nov. 27, and on Dec. 21 I wrote: "There are prob- that they might try to supply and and not what in fact it is as a new weapon operating in a new dimension as different from the unity of command in combined operations, the corps should be given the kind of autonomy which, has helped to make the Marine reinforce their troops in this re producing.

But then our shipping needs are also growing as we open new fronts and step up the pace of activity on old fronts. At the same time, the Germans appear to be two full days and nights from food and even telephone communication with Maj. Schroeder's advance post at the rear of the coconut grove. As Duke said: "By the time they reached us through that sniper fire we were figuring which grass roots were the most nourishing and whether ants would be easier to catch than lizards. But by being marooned out there we got to know that whole beach and that helped in our attack against the system of trenches and dugouts, barricades and the undersupports of shacks." Death for 4 Japs.

Duke's Chicagoans were Edward Rye and Sergt. John Polachanin. bly far-seeing Generals in Ber- gion through the Crimea and surface of the sea as the air is different from the land. We are across the Kerch Strait. There who are in favor of giving up an elite among our fighting men- autonomy in recruiting and trairw should be a certain amount of lci building more submarines than are not really conscious of submarine Stalingrad, abandoning the North Caucasian area and even Rostov in the strait by this time, but being sunk and these submarines power, and therefore In research and development and production whether this will be sufficient to nd withdrawing to the old winter as Admiral Land points out, "are ing men, in advancing officers, lit the use of money and facilities, io enlisting scientists and technologists its own insignia, and that sense of a special mission which lne of Kursk-Kharkov-laganrog better, faster, stronger and with Fcratchless.

but in conspicuously and tactics and strategy, the Ger permit the passage of troops with heavy equipment is questionable. while yet there is time to do so." greater cruising radius than ever mans are setting the pace and Perhaps the greatest danger before hold the initiative. Such sober but prudent counsels It appears, in fact, that U-boat were trying to hold that first By tremendous effort we have would come from the Russian force at Tuapse, which would Vie free to carries men beyond and abova their ordinary selves. production has been given priority appear at last to have prevailed even with the megalomaniac mind of Adolf Hitler. It remains to be beachhead." strike northward against the Ger The fury of their charge carried over all other weapons of war i Polachanin told how, with Pe managed for the last few months to build more ships than they have sunk which means that the the Reich, including airplanes, and The Proven Way.

seen whether a decision which, if ter Schaefer of Moune, anu Robert Stiles of Rockford, 111., he man communications. Indeed, the more one examines this great Soviet counteroffensive as it devel the recruitment of U-boat crew taken on Nov. 27 or even on Dec equivalent of all that our ship THIS is the proven way in which a new phase in the art of war yards have produced is at the bot has been given priority over all other man power needs. 21, might have saved the Caucasus army, will be in time to do so now. ops, the more one is compelled tc tom of the sea.

And some months had grenaded one bunker after another under constant sniper fire from trees while pushing through Realizing that they have been hence we hope to have enough es The immediate object of the re admire the almost mathematical precision with which every contingency has been foreseen and outdistanced in the production race, good health. He told me on the "Although we could see our fire fall only on Jap dugouts 100 yards away from our hideout, I had arranged during the night to work cmt our farther fire and flanking fire all through the Mission fortifications. Thus, although we coi'ld see only the shells falling nearest to us, I knew how we wanted our whole curtain of fire to swing in an arc from the beach and get the Jars' heads down or inside the pillboxes through the whole big grove." The Americans' antagonists were licked Japanese marines. But naked to the waist, shoeless and unkempt, their contorted bodies strewn on layers of torn yellow to the Buna beach line which led tirement is probably to save the cort vessels and patrol aircraft to deal with the kind of submarine to today's attack against the mis easternmost echelon of the Ger with which every part of the Rus sion. Communications Sergt.

Paul the Germans were using last year them up to the first deep pillbox. This was the dugout from which the coolies later emerged. A Jap came out followed by three others and Duke, and the two Chicagoans, Tommy-gunned all of them. Crawling on, they received suddenly rifle fire from ahead. They returned it with grenades.

Grenades came back and burst dangerously nea r. Then, above a hummock of rice sacks, they saw a Jap lift his head. They threw in a grenade and nailed this marine while the coolies emerged, gibbering, from the dug man forces which has been fight- sian arrangements fits smoothly Pitzen of McHenry, 111., who has ng for some weeks along the whether they will be good enough to deal with this year's German the Nazis are now concentrating on preventing the mounting output from our factories from ever reaching the fighting fronts. U-Boat in Last War. ft ONTRARY to popular belief.

into the general scheme. For every possible Nazi move, the Rus had nearly nothing of the forward Terek River on the outskirts of submarines remains to be seen quagmires, was the first to bring sians seem to have provided an is mastered and brought to its fullest development The men concerned with it must be given their head, and they must be led by men who, like the airmen and now the armored forces and the paratroopers, and always the have their advocates in the highest councils of war, and their zealots and fanatics, and are in a position to make themselves a nuisance to those who do not pay attentioa to them. The fact, for example, that Admiral King has served with sub-maries and that he is a naval air the Grozny oil fields. This army has given up all of its advanced And though a vast amount of re wires up to the advanced post. udequate counter move.

search and Invention is being de On the whole it seems very un Lieut. Relo Drews of Oshkosh, likened the day's drive to a positions and is retiring along the Rostov -Baku railway toward likely that any of the German voted to other methods of dealing with submarines, if the story were told of their reception and adop rabbit hunt, saying: troops now beyond the Don can ex Georgievsk. It is being pressed from the rear by Russian forces Once the men got started they tricate themselves from their pres tion in the Navy Department it which are probably using equip ent predicaments unless they re all went at a run." American Snipers. would not be the most inspiring ment brought in through the Per out behind them. "Fifty yards in this mud is equal to 10 miles anywhere else," said Stanley Panek, a 24-year-old printer, from Chicago.

Panek, who, un story of the war. Frank I. Prellwitz of Endicott, 1 the U-boat menace never wholly disappeared in the last war. It is true that never again were Allied and neutral shipping losses as serious as they were in the spring months of 1917, when more than two million tons were sent to the bottom. Yet losses in the third quarter of 1918, when the Kaiser's armies were already in retreat on the Western front, were well over 90,000 tons.

And the sian Gulf and from the Russian depots in the Trans-Caucasian area. Some of these supplies have man is all to the good in his high capacity as the supreme general History Repeats Itself. had a narrow escape when a Japanese bullet creased his shirt der the command of Capt. Augie Kastner of Okauchee, hustled HE reasons for this state of affairs are essentially the and exploded cartridges in the clip officer. But this does not compensate for the fact that the subma probably also been used to bolster the Soviet forces defending Tuapse ceive powerful help.

This help most likely would be applied in the form of a Nazi offensive coming from the general direction of Kharkov and striking against the western flank of the Russian forces of the middle Don. This would be the classic German rejoinder, but it is one to which the Reds may well be ready to pro in his- belt. Prellwitz and Sergt, rations through the bullet-swept aisles of coconut palms, worked and the approaches to Batum at Calvin Lomblo and Corp. Glen rine war is only one, and not the main one, of his many heavy burdens, that it is not his single daily the western end of the Caucasus same reasons which for so long a time hindered the development of airpower. The airmen were kept way down under layers and layers from near Buna village.

Sell, both of Fond Du Lac, palm leaves, sprawled on the iu-foot-wide black beach, and bobbing bloated in the water, they were a sorrv remnant of the crack force that landed about a month aco, and to whom Emperor Iliro-hlto supposedly sent a personal message to hold out till death. One who had evaded the Ameri-cars all dav, shooting persistently, euddenlv arrayed himself and walked forth across the deep communication trench dug by the Americans. With a rain poncho over his arm. he invited the death which, according to Japanese belief, made him a god. But most of the deaths were ignominous.

1 saw four forms of marines lying hri a hich-pooped Japanese range. German submarine fleet in 1917-18 Walter Luba of Chicago was a William G. Haacke of Swarara, Otto Wall of Saline, The northern flank of this re interest, or his life's work. He has to keep a global war of many arms treating German army is doubly and Eldon Shaw of Davenport, la. member of the party which the Japanese had trapped when crossing Senemi Creek on Rustic of surface admirals and ground generals and of earthbound bureau chiefs and staff officers, and inevitably this suffocated their ini posted themselves as snipers in in perspective.

But to develop special arm there must be men for threatened, first, by the mobile Russian column striking down vide an answer. The Russians still hold the crossings of the upper Don in the Voronezh area and here are believed to have assembled additional reserves which trees and got seevral Japs in Japa whom that arm is everything. Bridge. Withholding all except deceptive sniper fire until the across the Kalmyck steppe through nese fashion. tiative.

Those men will not appear, they Elista, and, second and more dan In a thunderstorm Prellwitz saw whole platoon, loaded with packs Though the submarine, like the gerously, by the Russian army will remain suppressed and hidden, working at half-throttle, unless. might be launched southwestward against the flank of any such Ger airplane, is an American inven was in midstream, they opened up with everything. Luba, unscathed. was much smaller than it is today, and had far fewer bases from which to operate. On the other hand, Allied sea power was not scattered over the seven seas as is the case today.

The conquest of the U-boat in the last war was the product of two related efforts. The first was the offensive measures taken directly against the undersea marauders. But these alone could not have done the trick. Altogether, only 199 German submarines were by lightning flash another Jap rising from a heap of dead and brought him down at the water's tion, it has never held and does moving southeastward along the railroad from Kotelnikovski. The communications, and therefore the conscious of what submarine power really means, the country insists then came through again today when this unit won its way under and edge with a single shot.

on bringing them out from under barge stranded on the shore ia)c, fmind the Chicagoans not now hold a big place in the orthodox doctrine of the United States Navy. The dominating naval doctrine has been that we who fire to the sagging bullet-ridden striking power, of this latter force have been much improved by the Russian capture of Morozovska Sergt. Donald Hopherr of Marl nette. and Sam Allen of Ty warehouses on stilts like boat- ler. recovered the mission the deadweight of officers preoccupied with what may be more important but are certainly different affairs.

houses, called Bunting's store had accounted for them. Everywhere were thick, luxurious, white i.n Wankets on which the ma and Tsimlyansk. Also, a direct should have to fight only one war man movement should it be attempted. It is still possible that the Germans may find a way out of the trap, but with every day that passes the Russian prospects seem to grow a little brighter. It seems altogether probable that Hitler will have reason to wish he had listened to the more sober minded of his Generals about 30 days sooner.

bell on which they rang the Japs where the Japs were entrenched in threat to Rostov apparently has knell for my benefit. the shadows. Luba's crowd gained destroyed during the 51 months of (Copyright. 1943. the war against a a and that it would be decided by a great battle of the surface fleets.

The full revenge for their losses in war and at the time of the armis- developed along the north bank of the Don from Tsimlyansk. A point which is not yet clear is whether the Germans have decid At least one Jap swam nearly five miles along the coast line to Sanananda beachhead, being seen event has shown, even though war 1 1 ice Germany actually had many more U-boats in commission than an earlier Japanese trap. St. Louisan in Attack. with Germany had been in pros she had in 1914 or even in 1917.

pect since the spring of 1940, that to reach shore there by a pilot who machine-gunned him with but What beat the U-bont the last the Navy Department had scarce time was that in addition to the doubtful success. ly imagined what the German sub Carl Touvell of Aurora, 111., who marine attack would be like, and offensive measures taken by the Allies against that weapon ship threw many grenades at the Japa Luba's platoon, led by Sergt. Kenneth Virch Milwaukee, met Japanese snipers who used silencer-equipped rifles using fire-rocket as well as ordinary bullets. This Japanese carbine makes only a faint sound like a "whisk" while it uses either spatting or silent was almost altogether unprepared (D Current Kate on SAYINGS ft Open with any amount add as you nese, previously had saved the construction by the spring of 1918 to meet it. lives of George Donaldson of De- began rapidly to forge ahead of Moreover, we have been in a sinkings.

Even then we never had rines lav in their parlmetto-covered dugouts" while 81-mm. mortar shells, directed by Lieut. Dailey, pounded their roof. Tell of Attack. Twentv-two-year-old Frances A.

Meisl of Chicago, a lean, dark-haired chap who used to work for Armour with Corp. Newman Rader of Levy, assaulted a Japanese pillbox with his rifle. "Then I threw in grenades and let those behind finish off," he recounted. Meisl fired at seven swimming Japs then reached the landing barge mentioned above. After two Japs fired from inside, Meisl and Rader locked both in the stern compartments.

When the tide came the Japs "emf-rged and were shot. ihA fii-htinc was like was worse position on the submarine troit, Lester Szabados of Youngs-town, Ohio, and Herschel Meadows much shipping to spare, than we were in the air. There of Little Rock, Ark. The three are no great private interests like sleeping in the same slit trench were attacked by a Japanese of ficer who, after discharging one bullet from his American-type re insurance to $5000. Start now.

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4733 caught him with a Tommy-gu blast. The Jap appeared dead but and Australian air attack. In the ordinary course of events, the heavy rainy season commences with the new moon. The last heavy Japanese bombings on Christmas Eve were made by full moon and the Buna victory comes in the dark of the moon before the regular rainy season opens. In this sodden, mud-slogged country, weather Is everything and it is one element that modern warfare has left unchanged.

Tanks Turned Tide. The 13-ton Gen. Stuarts, Australian-manned, were what turned the campaign from a discouraging deadlock to our favor. The extent of the burden on them may be judged by the fact that a single pillbox, which at this moment contains the bodies of more than 100 dead Japs, resisted for one hour and 10 minutes against the combined assault of three tanks, which delivered 150 shells at point-blank range. How costly might have been infantry assaults without tanks may be judged from this stiff session when the three turned their heads, he started to rise to fight again when Touvell nailed him with a rifle shot.

i-y who "Wrrihei shortly afterward Smith (if AltUS, toward the end of the campaign's second, or Buna phase, and that was snipers. It is evident that both the Americans and Australians underestimated the urgency of this Japanese method. From dummy snipers, manipulated on cords, to double-sniper systems, principally in tree-tops, this practice has proved of value. Granted that artillery fire from Australian 25-pounders kept the Japanese within the pillboxes before several attacks, our mortars may be said to have carried off the honors as an offensive weapon. Their high, close-lobbing projectiles, beautifully controlled from forward command posts, gave slowly at first confidence to the troops, whom even our best-organized war games had never accustomed to seeing high explosives from their own lines fall sometimes less than 30 yards away.

Mortar Crews Cool. In the jungles where it is commonplace for patrols to approach within 20 yards of each other's lines, the mortar becomes more and more the ace which is played close to the fighter's belt sometimes so close that it is somewhat terrifying. Mortar crews unlike artillery, being themselves often (xposed to enemy counter-fire ana ammunition, depending on whether the desire is to terrify or merely to kill. "We were lying out there, keeping low, when about 3 o'clock we got the word, 'Go ahead and take So we did." That's how Robert Fowler of Dresden, and little Herman J. May of St.

Louis described their role. Edmund Nownk of Chicago told of a charge on the left flank while the Chicagoans mentioned above were hitting the center and right with their comrades. "It was a big bunker with loopholes facing us," he said. "After the mortar fire, we saw the Japs, expecting an attack, trying to sneak out and get around this flank away from the beach with the idea of getting into our rear. We opened fire and drove them hack into their dugout.

When we got near enough we threw in sev Lessons of Campaign. Even as Old Glory rose over the handful of smoking shacks New Shipping Not Enough. THE fact that our production of new shipping has now reached record dimensions is no reason for undue jubilation. It is hopeful, but not enough, to build more ships than the U-boats can sink. In ad-tion, we must sink more U-boats than the Germans can build or In other ways cut down the size of the enemy's submarine fleet.

The latter is obviously a problem which requires the co-ordinated efforts of all the Allies and of all the fighting services. It involves going after theW-boats at sea, destroying their bases on the coast and pounding away at the factories where they are being produced. Such efforts are now being made. This week's raid on St. Na-zaire a raid in which seven of our heavy bombers were lost is a case in point.

But a vast deal still remains to be done before we can sit back and congratulate ourselves on having won a decisive victory in the battle of the sea lanes. That victory, unfortunately is still far off. that had been Buna Mission and tried to pull in a wounded comrade, was fired on by a Jap, thre.w a grenade in return and was gren-adf-d' back. The Japanese determination to make their deaths costly was by one case where an American and a Jap were wrestling on even terms for possession of a Tommy gun and another Jap deliberately threw a grenade between snipers who had slipped through our lines in a desperate effort to escape were tumbling from their tree-tops to the rattle of Tommy guns, the lessons of this bitter prolonged campaign were being discussed by the Americans and eral grenades but without getting GAS RATIONING In addition to rubber saving, it has produced substantial savings in the cost of Automobile Casualty Insurance on renewals and new contracts. Consult us without any obligation.

VV. H. MARK HAM CO. 16th FLOOR, RAILWAY EXCHANGE CEntral 0100 them to come out. Finally, we left them to the moppers-up behind us and pushed on." "Our Christmas present was get TA Continued on Page 5, Column 7.

ting ourselves cut off for two days (A Autralians in many foxholes and on the hard steel seat of many a Peep as it bounced over the xylophone, corduroy trails. Papua cannot be claimed as ours until the hundreds of Japanese known to be dug in along the Sanananda trail are uprooted by the same combination of air attacks, tanks and heavy weapons as eventually broke Bujpa, the eastern flank of this triple front. The same goes for Ambogo, Man-bare and other places between here and Lae and Salamaua, where the Japanese have opened the door to further delaying action by landing under American them. Meisl. on the body of one officer, who- tried 10 kill him, found a tidal chart of Buna Beach with notes of daily high and low water up to the morning of Jan.

2, also a Colt automatic pistol. These marines came from Sumatra. On the beach was found a three-foot pair of very high-powered lenses with a spike stand where the Japanese watched for help, also their blinker signal equipment, all expensive navy stuff. Sergt. Woodrow Duke, a husky, 24-year-year-old construction worker from Phoenix, went over and nights under constant fire," said Donald Thomas of Danville, with the palmetto logged shelters, with their concave underpinnings.

It was literally necessary for the tanks to bore their way through the logs by concentrating all their fire on a single spot. From this campaign the conclusion is inescapable that if the natural waste of men due to climatic diseases is not to be accentuated by losses afoot the use of armored force is necessary. With tanks, which the Japanese first introduced into tropical warfare successfully against armored cars in Malaya, now part of the Allied hitting weapons, another striking tool came Into greater use 111. "But as soon as the New Year got going, we fought our way Pi straight into those dugouts." BUY YOUR STOKER NOW IMMEDIATE INSTALLATION FREE SURVEY NO DOWN PAYMENT 36 Months fo Pay on F. H.

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Sergt. John Lehmann, 23-year-old Chicago mechanic, who charged with the center detachment, said: "After the barrage stopped, some Japs stuck their heads from the -Vail.