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JANUARY 1, 1943. PART CogAttaclcg crimes FRIDAY MORNING. RUSSIAN MACHINE GUNNERS SWEEP OVER AXIS FORCES Absolute Victory Held Nazis Lose 312,650 in Stalingrad Trap Great Red Offensive Achieves Objective; 22 Axis Divisions Destroyed or Captured Essential to Real Peace Resolution Against Negotiated Truce Urged as Allies Start Year Holding Initiative BY MAJ. GEORGE FIELDING ELIOT ij. sar '1 "i enemy still was standing.

Inside Year's resolution a3 this year of opportunity begins. There will be sacrifices to ba made. Our foes are on the defensive but they are still dangerous. They are stubborn, resolute and increasingly desperate opponents. We Americans may say we have done well in 1942 because NEW YORK, Dec.

31. We are looking forward on this New Year's to a year which is full of hope. It is a year in which we and our allies will have the assurance of definite accomplishment, a year which will see the United Nations in full possession of the strategic initiative. Hereafter we shall be the ar- a circle around Millerovo on the Rostov-Moscow railway an were resisting strongly at other Continued From First Pag Volga and Don. The Russians were flanking the Germans in the mid-Caucasus southeast of Nalchik.

Many observers believe the German peril in the Central Caucasus is so great that the enemy will be forced to withdraw some 200 miles to the we have made ready to do bet- chitects of our own fortunes anditer jn and because in the points. On the central front, yesterday's communique said several enemy strongpoints fell and 300 Germans were killed. One Soviet unit was counterattacked ten northwest to the Kuban plains, times west of Rzhev but stood firm, killing 500 of the foe. The capture of Semlchnaya on the Stalingrad-North Caucasus railway placed Red army 15 noi ine mere recipients oi Hostile blows. We and we should rejoice that all this is so but we should temper our rejoicing with sober reflection.

ASSET TO BE EXPLOITED The mere possession of the initiative is not of itself an assurance of victory. It is an advantage to be exploited with skill, with wisdom, with prudence Russian advances continued on the central front opposite Moscow. (The Germans admitted Veliki Luki, -260 miles north- a miles beyond Kotelnikovski and liberated a string of villages, meanwhile we have been able to give some aid to our allies. We have mobilized our fighting pow-er. we have etruck initial blows and we have kept open our vast lines of communication.

Meanwhile our allies have carried on their own struggles with the foe: not one of them has been defeated and the year ends with all of them delivering heavy counterstrokes against the enemy. It is a record of which we may well be proud we and all of our associates in this great struggle. NO TIME TO WASTE But we have little time to waste in rejoicing. The major part of our task lies ahead of WSl OI Aiuscuw, was ouuuuiiu- ed, saying the Russians were attacking from all sides.) VAST BOOTY LISTED where prudence is necessary and The offensive spread along the west fide of the railway where the village of Ternovaya, eight miles northeast of Kotelnikovski boldness where boldness is re During me six mun ui quired, with confidence in oar- was captured. Continued successes in that iV ir gi0- ill area sealed tighter the pocket selves and in our allies and in the justice of our cause and with unshakable resolution to prosecute this war against the forces of evil to a final and complete decision.

in which 22 German divisions of fighting the Russians said they captured the following equipment: 512 planes, 2064 tanks, 4451 guns, 2734 mortars, Slfil machine guns, 15.954 automatic rifles, 3703 anti tank rifles, rifles, more than 5,000,000 KhPlls. more than 50.000,000 an origiml strength of about 300,000 men are traped before Stalingrad, between the Don and year tne unitea Such a decision in amh a war as tfiis can he reached Volga rounds of ammunition, 2120 rail Pravda reported heavy battles STALINGRAD FIGHT Soviet soldiers ore pictured advancing across snow-covered ground northwest of Stalin- grdd, according to Russian caption on this photo from Moscow. Mortar fire covered advance of the troops. (flt Wiwhoto by radio from Moscow at the western end of the Cau- way trucks, 46 locomotives, 4.fe ammunition dumps, 15,300 casus front northeast of the Black trucks. 15.783 horses, 3221 motor- Sea nort of Despite foul i rf i weather, the Russians were said to have killed 3000 Germans in Germans to Shift Minister to Sweden States "will bear the chief burden of the war.

Our allies hava held the ring while we mada ready. We are ready now. We and our allies have been: almost miraculously preserved from the greatest danger that has ever threatened the cause of liberty and justice on this planet; it is now for us to show ourselves worthy of the favor of heaven, to bear ourselves liks men, to make the armed power of the American people a thing the last few days in fights among Russia Convoys on Timetable only in one way by a peace imposed by armed might npon an ntterly- dcfeirrWl foe, a foe who has taken the sword and must perish by the sword. There must be left no doubt in the mind of any German or any Japanese of this generation or of generations to come that the business of world conquest and the idea of a master race are utterly bankrupt and lead only to inevitable disaster. Every sacrifice for a dictated peace but not one thought to a Zanuck Describes Nazi Attack as He Films African Invasion WASHINGTON, Dec.

31. (IP) been evacuated and a couple KWnini? in an "undertaker's unexploded 500-pound bombs mountain peaks hidden by fog and along roads washed away by STOCKHOLM, Dec. 31. VP) The Stockholm newspaper Sven rain. VICTORY REVIEWED ska Dagbladet said today that were there.

Dr. Hans Thomsen, former counselor of the German Embassy In its review of the victory at Stalingrad the Russians said that dise" and photographing the war "The entire area had been evac British Declare Runs Made Despite All Efforts of Germans with a tommy gun in one hand of dread to tyrants and would-be tyrants for generations to uated the day before. I had spent in Washington, soon will replace the present German Minister xo and a camera crank in the other some 213 populated places were liberated northwest and southwest of the city, where the army advanced from 43 to 93 miles. the night in an undertaker negotiated peace that should be come. Sweden.

first and foremost New1 our Copyright. 1942, New York Tribune, In The Russians declared that in the first stage of the Stalingrad cycles ana a large qudmuj other war materials. Destroyed in the same period were 1249 German planes, 1187 tanks, 1459 guns, 755 mortavsy 2708 machine guns, 5113 trucks and other material. THREATEN ROSTOV Other armies were pressing mightily ahead southwest and west of the city, in the middle Don sector threatening Rostov, in the Central Ukraine below Nalchik and on the central front opposite Moscow. Southwest of Stalingrad three columns sweeping along the Stalingrad-North Caucasus railway and in tLe bleak Kalmyck steppes were within 10 miles of Elista, capital of the Kalmyck republic.

Elista was threatened from three sides. The drive, moreover, flanked the Germans in the Central Caucasus near Nalchik, where the Russians said they had crossed the Terek River. CLAIM RAIL TOWN" were all part of the thrills and chills encountered in filming the African invasion. Col. Darryl F.

Zanuck, Signal Corps, reports in his log made public today by the War Department. The former Hollywood pro- offensive, three German tank di LONDON, Jan. 1 (Friday.) (P) Convoys to Russia an running on a "regular despite all German efforts and Nazi capital ships have bepn contained visions, three motorized divisions. 11 infantry divisions, the 20th Rumanian Infantry Division, and remnants of the 44th, 378th VvL- iv. 4 i onnnt rir tr harmlessly during the jear, t.ie, th and 384th German infantry di visions were surrounded.

royal nfciT review for 1042 today. German formations trapped; ord of the African operations as photographed by his unit. Zanuck was aboard a plane with Lieut, Gen. Mark Clark, second in command to Gen. Eisenhower in Africa, and Lieut.

Gen. Kenneth A. Anderson, commanding the British lit Army, in the landing at Algiers. were listed as the 14th, 16th and 24th tank divisions; the 3rd, 29th and 60th motorized divisions; and the 71st, 76th, 75th, 94th, 100th, 113th, 297th, 295th, 305th, 371st and 389th infantry The bitterest con.o -occurred on the North and Malta runs, out the navy proudly declared: "In effect, we have said: 'We are going to run this convoy West of Stalingrad in the greru through and be damned to you FLAMES SWEEP BY elbow of the Don, the Russians; SECOND STAGE TOLD His log relates that as the plane anti-air- claimed the capture of tne im- Xumerous artillerv, The Royal Navy's review wrsI approaches the city, "all appears calm and peaceful," but suddenly in matter-of-fact language. It was a renort filled with confidence flames sweep by it and ack-ack and with stories of Intense air; LV "JZ, "'A I fire flashes all around it riZ.

th seas bv dawns on me that our shs Flrslf 1" "6 S6' 6n 5633 by i (in the harbor) are being bombed craft and sapper regiments and battalions likewise were trapped. "Such are the results of the first stage of the offensive on the approaches to Stalingrad," the special communique said. The second stage of the offensive began in the middle Don area, the Russians said. "Having achieved the encirclement of the German Fascist from the air. Ma (now lu portant rail town of Oblivskaya.

90 miles west of Stal.ngrad and 100 miles southeast of surrounded Millerovo, It is on the Chir River, a tributary of the Don. "Big booty was captured, among it an echelon of aircraft," a special communique said. The Russians also announced the capture of the district centers of Nizhne Chirskaya and Priutnaya. The first is about. 63 miles southwest of Stalingrad on the west bank of the Don near its junction with the Chir River.

tenant colonel) Kirk r.f troops before Stalingrad and hav year "have sunk or probably sunk 106 supply ships. 15 warships and damaged 39 supply ships and nine warships," the British said. "Of these, 35 have been sunk or probably sunk and 20 have been damaged in the Mediterranean during the last three months." The Royal Navy noted that ing successfully achieved the task set up by the supreme com mand, the Red army between Dec. 12 and Dec. 30 inflicted a fresh blow on the enemy in the Omaha, has been asieep through it all.

I awaker. The plane no sooner ha; landed, he continues, than "Ml hell has suddenly broken fc'ose on every 3s rill the air and anfi-aircraft g-jns blaze all around. Bombs land 50 yard3 away, but "no one is hurt." FLATTENS OUT "A Nazi plane is diving on the field. I duck under the vug of our Fortress and flatten cut alongside the huge rubber wr.se!. A rather silly gesture.

What fools we are watching an air attack from the very airport that i3 be area of the middle Don. German capital ship, particularly RED ARMY OBJECTIVE "Soviet troops waging offen sive engagements in the middle Don were given the task by the the battleship Tirpitz, which has remained in Norwegian waters since January, and the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, which escaped from Brest to the Baltic Sea, have been "contained with superior forces." "They were prevented from supreme command of the Red army to break through the line of enemy defenses in the area of Novaya Kalitva Monastrvisch china and to come out into tne disputing our control in the home ing attacked." Describing the filming of a "gigantic battle royal right over our rear of the German Fascist army waters, on the Russian convoy iheads and not more than 3000 or operating in the greater bend of route and in the Atlantic," the the Don so as to prevent the review declared, enemy troops surrounded before PERIL ENTIRE LIXE The victory at Stalingrad and the continued sweeps to the southwest and west imperiled further the entire structure in all Southern Another Russian offensive was reported to have moved north across the Terek River and routed the Germans in a flanking attack. Some Russian opinion was that the enemy position in the Terek River region of the Central Caucasus was already so endangered that the Germans might be forced to shorten their lines and retire to the Kuban River line, 200 miles northwest of Nalchik. Elista is about 200 miles north of Nalchik. ADMIT ENCIRCLEMENT (The Germans, in admitting that Velikie Luki on the central front was surrounded, also reported Russian attacks in the Terek and Don sectors were repelled.

Russian attacks in the Lake llmen and Volkhov fronts near Leningrad also were acknowledged.) German lines southwest of Sta Stalingrad from getting away and from receiving help from the outside." In this phase, 13 German, Ital 1000 feet up," Zanuck said. "We had four or five cameras in action all the time. I stood by with a tommy gun expecting a Nazi plane to unload its crew in our laps at any time." USING TOMMY GUN "One stuka dived so close," he said, "you could see every detail of the craft," but the cameraman "was so near to it he could not ian and Rumanian divisions were declared routed in advances of 93 to 125 miles which liberated 1216 populated places. LIST ROUTED DIVISIONS The routed German divisions hold the entire plane in the aper ture." were the 62nd, 294th, 298th, 306th and 385th Infantry and the 11th Tank Division. The Italian divi Dutch Spy of Nazis Executed in Britain LONDON, Dec.

31. (U.R)-Jo-hannes Marines Dronkers, a Dutchman sent to Britain by the German secret service to get information on the strength of American and Canadian forces, was executed today. The Home Office said Dronkers was the 12th spy put to death in Britain since the war began. Dronkers entered Britain last May 18 by getting himself picked up at sea as a Dutch refugee who had escaped from the All the time, Zanuck said, he was using his tommy gun. "I fired three clips in all, and while I knew some of my load lingrad were reported crumbling hit home, I probably did no dam so rapidly tnat an early attack on Salsk appeared probaWe.

Salsk is 130 miles west of Elista ageyet there was always the chance that some lucky shot might hit a vital spot." sions routed were the 2nd, 3rd, 5th; 9th and 52nd. The 77th and 11th Rumanian divisions a 1 were chased. In these engagements the Russians said they killed 59,000 men and captured 60,050, as well as vast quantities of booty including 368 planes, 168 tanks, 1929 7414 trucks. Destroyed were 117 planes, 172 tanks, 268 guns and over 1000 trucks. "Such are the results of en and 110 miles southwest of Kotelnikovski and on a vital rail Describing how he entered a "deserted" hotel one night, he said he discovered upon waking the next morning that the place way supplying the Germans deep in the Caucasus from Rostov.

POUR IN RESERVES The Nazis poured thousands of reserves into the middle Don battle, where the Russians are less than 100 miles from Rostov, gagements in the second stage of Fortresses Fight Off Nazis After Bombing on Continent and were developing a stubborn resistance. Red Star said the Every day more and more people are making this pleasant discovery. All of them near or far, can reach us with a minimum of time and ef fort because Magnln's Is strategically situated on two main transportation arteries: WEIshlre Boulevard and Vermont Avenue. Wilshlre busses from Santa Monica, West Los Angeles and Beverly Hills bring you right to our doer. Vermont streetcars make our store easily accessible from San Fernando Valley, Glendale and Hollywood on the north, from West Adams, leimert Park and the many districts on the south.

WhethoV you have an or gas-ration book whether you live around the corner, over the hills, or down by the It's easy to get to AtagnfnV tne offensive of our troops on the approaches to Stalingrad," the communique said. BATTLE'S THIRD STAGE er of Bailey, N.C., waist gunner in a bomber piloted by Capt. Syd ney Smith of Santa Barbara, Nazis Repeat Lidice Action was credited with destroying one of the Focke-Wulfs. It was seen to dive into the sea. The third stage of the offensive was the operations south of Stalingrad.

"The German command, having brought its troops to an impasse before and faced with catastrophe, launched desperate attempts to liberate its troops surrounded before Stalingrad by the Red army," the communique Sergt. E. L. Bates of Tule Lake, NEW YORK, Dec. 31.

(ff) The British radio, quoting- "a report gunner in a Fortress, pilot ed by First Lieutenant D. Daniel of Eagle Butte, S.D., plant from the German frontier," to day declared the Germans had committed a new Lidice in 'PO' ed one burst of machine-gun fire squarely into the belly of another Focke-Wulf as it flew. in to the LONDON, Dec. 31. P) Atmospheric conditions during the flight of American heavy bombers back from their attack yesterday on the Nazi U-boat pens at Lorient forced such a roundabout route that "for a while 1 thought we were going back to the States for New Year's," Sergt.

Lowell R. Lewis of Richmond, Utah, said today. The weather was good, 'however, over the target, where brisk air fighting occurred. Three bombers were lost and an undetermined number of enemy fighters were reported destroyed'. Lewis, gunner on one of the Flying Fortresses, said German Focke-Wulf fighters "followed us out of France, apparently looking for cripple." Technical Sergeant B.

Farm land, shooting the entire male attack, and P. P. Kanab- population of a Lublin Province village and sending all the rocki of Nanticoke, saw it women and children to conceh crash in the spa. Capt. E.

Trihbett of Thorn NfW.SIASON CtOTHES AND ACCESSORIES AMIVING FBIENDIY STAM TO HEIP YOU UNO WHAT YOU IN TH! SHORTEST POSSIBti TIME town, brought a damaged said. With this aim in view the enemy concentrated in the area to the north of Kotelnikovski a large group of troops and began offensive operations Dec. 12 against our troops." The Russians said this German army -was smashed and thrown back to the "south, "depriving them of their last chance to clear the way for their divisions surrounded befora Stalingrad." I Fortress to- an emergency land' ine miles from its home base aft tratlon camps. The broadcast, recorded in New York' by C.B.S., said "the Ger. mans are trying to justify this fiction by saying that the women objected to an order to evacuate the village." er messaging his headquarters: "Bombed target Ship shot ASK FOR A MAP FOLDER showing the most direct but and strwttar routes for you..