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THE BOSTON DAILY GLOBE FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 27. 1C42 us, still locked in a deathlike embrace and swayed, thundering and shuddering backward and Japs Unable to Depress Big Guns When U. S. Warships Moved in Close Allies Face Bitter Fight to Win Gona-Buna Zone De Gaulle Will Appeal to U.

S. to Drop Parian Disgruntled Over Eden's Refusal to Permit Debate Continued jrom the First Page or our drive and they have made the most of h. It may take a long time to dislodge them but we will doit." By 'MURLIX; SPENCER WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA, Nov. 25 (Delayed) (AP) Fanatical Japanese resistance and "beautifully placed defense positions" are confronting American troops in their drive to up root the Japanese from the rainj soaked jungle defenses guarding; the approaches to Buna, but thei Americans are determined they will drive out the Japanese in the end. It is becoming increasingly apparent that the task of knocking out the Japanese on the Papuan peninsula strongholds of Buna and Gona is more difficult than the observers anticipated at the start.

The Allied advance- has been tortuously slow, measured in feet and yards, not miles. "Whoever said the Japanese can't fight defensively are crazy," said Maj. C. M. Beaver, of Yankton, S.

D. "I've seen the Japanese defensive positions and they are beautifully placed. "The Japanese are in there to stay until we kill them. They have had a long time to prepare) The sea train formed consisted of eight transports, one an NYK liner which is the biggest the Japs have. The other seven ranged downward to 18,000 tons.

Accompanying these troopships were four cargo vessels of about 12,000 tons, carrying the raiment of the Emperor's divisions; while screening the array were at least four battleships, plus a complement of cruisers and destroyers. On Friday, the 1 3th, this, force, making up the bulk if not all of Japan's South Pacific fleet, moved toward the arena and wrested the initiative from us. This transformed the character of the dispute into a replica, only more so, of all the previous Solomons battles a skillful, tenacious, heedlessly bloody attempt to reduce permanently our Guadalcanal salient by wiping out its sea armor and obliterating its garrisons, planes and men. LONDON, Nov. 26 (AP) Disgruntled atr the British Government's refusal to permit.debate over Admiral Jean Darlan's position as civil administrator of North Africa, Gen.

Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Fighting French, is expected in local political circles to make a "strong personal appeal" to the United States to change Darlan's status. Foreign Minister Anthony Eden flatly refused a demand by minority members of Commons today for time to debate a motion disapproving the Darlan deal, which President Roosevelt said was motivated by wartime expediency. De Gaulle's Fighting French are opposed to dealing with Darlan at all, or recognizing him even temporarily as civil administrator. Yesterday they discontinued their broadcast appeals to the people of Occupied France. Eden said today that it was through no action of the government that the broadcasts had been discontinued, and said he was doing everything he could to have them resumed.

Vichy Regime to Cut December Fat Ration, Children's Chocolate BERN. Switzerland, Nov. 26 (AP) Reflecting a worsening food situation in France, dispatches from Vichy today said the December fat ration would be cut from 450 to 310 grams. Some of children no longer will be allowed chocolate. Palestine Jews Rend Clothes to Mourn Hitler Victims mons both sides were abused by Savage Fighting for Cape Ou air force has been performing heroic work in covering our troops but.

operating fronv "a base some distance from, the battle lines, they are unable to be there all- the time and the Japanese Zeros and bombers are taking advantage of the lapses to strafe and Australian artillery, is attempting to blast the Japanese out of Cape Endaidere. where the Japanese are resisting the advance of the American unit I have followed. The front is not, more than 200 yards wide here, but the savagery of the fighting is shown by the long lines of American wounded coming back. The cape juts into the Pacific. It is heavy jungle up to the 300-yard tip.

which has a shoulder of high vegetation where the Japanese have constructed machine gun nests, hidden by undergrowth. So well entrenched are the Japanese that it is necessary to take the gun positions one by one. I came from the front lines today after 15 days in the jungle. I was forced to walk over the Owen Stanley mountains to Port Moresby. meeting of the Jewish National Assembly would be convoked on Mount Scopus, to which members of the foreign diplomatic corps would be invited.

Through Tel Aviv streets spontaneous demonstrations marched yesterday, carrying black banners and crying out: "Our brethren are being killed, save our brethren, death to the Germans." Many of the demonstrators rent their garments in Biblical mourning fashion. 4 V18 lit V. mm- Japs Crawl Ont of But Landing Was Made After 30 minutes the Japs crawled out of the harbor without having dropped a single wheel on Guadalcanal, but in the morning 20 new Jap landing boats were on their portion of the beach. So a landing must have been made under covr of the battle. The exact composition of th force probably will remain unknown until we break open Tokio's archives after the war.

From the beach 26 Jap silhouettes were-counted, but they were shifting shapes illuminated fitfully and duplication in count ing, was possible. Our force was composed of eight destroyers, two heavy cruisers and three light cruis ers, but there not a man living who could remain a statistician before so gruesome and incalculably costly a spectacle. i The Japs had at least one battleship of the Kongo class. That is certain, for it figured all the next day in one of the most fantastic episodes of this war "the episode of the unsinkable battleship." There likely was another battleship sunk. Several of our destroyers' survivors recall seeing the whole bridge of a battleship leap into, the air, but when daylight came the "unsinkable battleship" was seen to have its bridge undamaged.

Also, flames from one of our burning destroyers illuminated a ship which was upside down with only the hull showing above water. The hull was huge, but the Navy refuses to concede it was a battleship un less concrete evidence is produced, which is impossible in the deep water where the ship sank. It is certain that few Jap ships could remain unhit in that avalanche of fire, or they would not have broken off action against a force stripped down to the bone, and with that bone broken in several places. Scott Killed Minute After Battle Started Admiral Norman Scott was killed a minute and 10 seconds after the battle started. His glasses were still glued on the enemy.

Admiral Callaghan and Capt. Cassin Young, commanding his ship, were killed about 20 seconds later, leaving Lieut. Commander Bruce McCandless A tor lip If 4, 1 American Forces Literally Fighting for Their Lives At 1:40 on Friday morning, United States forces here began fighting not for some future offensive with the Japs, but for their lives. The result of this desperate, completely reckless fight for life by the Americans was 28 Jap ships sunk, including two battleships, plus 10 damaged. This reporter, being less conservative than the United States Navy and more willing to trust the evidence to his own eyes, personally scores more than half of the 10 "damaged" as being sunk.

Our cos was seven destroyers and two light cruisers. This unprecedented battle had many curious features which ro doubt will be debated in naval academies for many years. Naval vessels fought in the night, airplanes fought in the day, both in the same arena. 'To climax the battle, on the afternoon of Nov. 14 Jap warships fled from the transport and.

cargo vessels they were supposed to guard, and left the Emperor's three divisions naked to the assaults of our planes which were based 20 minutes away. These were all very novel tactics but even more novel, at least from the point of view of this eyewitness whose life was one of those immediately being fought tne weatner. in a zo-miie range I noted five kinds of weather, ranging from blue all ablaze with sun to a black thunderhead sittin? on the sea and stretching up as far as tne eye could see. At 9:30 on Armistice day morning nine Jap dive-bombers guarded by 12 Zeros dropped from the gray scud along the edge of a sauall on our transports. Their stroke split the eyes of the spectators on the beach like lighting, and was over long before the shock and glare of it subsided.

A new Marine squadron sent up to sharpen their spurs on the Japs suffered as must all beginners in the art of war. They lost six planes, but two pilots were saved, coming down on the water with rescue boats waiting under them. Another was seen parachuting down behind the Jap lines where they couldn't get him to safety. As new as they were, these boys gave more than they took they got one dive-bomber and four Zeroas certainly, and one more bomber and two Zeros-probably. But what is more important, they achieved the major objective of so chivvying and badgering the Jap assault that it failed in its obiective.

One light bomb warped the hatch oi a nearly unioadea freighter and a near-miss damaged the electric wir. ing on the stern of a second, but that is all the Japs achieved that time. 49 Japs Seen Fighting For Lives in Clouds A little past 11 o'clock of the By CORALNIK (Copyright. 1942. by the Boston Globe and Overseas News Agency.

Inc.) JERUSALEM, Nov. 26 (ONA Extraordinary actions were taken by Jewisrf leaders in Palestine today, as the entire country mourned and demonstrated at news of Hitler's program to annihilate all European Jews before the year is out. It was announced that a special mmmm IS That Man Again Peace Envoy Kurusu Says Hostilities Are All Our Fault TOKIO (From Japanese Broadcasts), Nov. 26 (AP) Japanese newspapers devoted their entire front pages today to a report to the Empire by Saburo Kurusu, special envoy to Washington, and banner lines said that Kurusu put "the full responsibility for the war in the Pacific on the United States. senior officer aboard the cruiser flagship.

Lieut. McCandless was unable to inform the remainder of the force of Admiral Callaghan's death, so he took command of the flagship. In the next few moments five high explosive shells landed, one at a time, exactly where he had been standing only seconds before, and earned for him promotion and recommendation for the Medal of Honor. Four of our destroyers and at least two Jap destroyers and this "what-zit" which most of us call a battleship but which the Navy called "heavy cruiser or battleship" sank within 30 minutes. One of- our mortally-hit light cruisers remained on the scene with a crippled heavy cruiser fumbling and floundering for such Jap ships that were unable to withdraw.

They found one cruiser at dawn, and the heavy cruiser shot it to its death, turning it bottomside up with the first salvo. 'Decisive Period in History of Humanity Pope Broadcasts VATICAN CITY (from Vatican Broadcast), Nov. 26 (AP) Pope Pius XII. broadcasting in Spanish to the first National Eucharistic Congress in El Salvador, today prayed that peace may come among men, and emphasized "this decisive period in the history of humanity." Today as always, he said, the way to salvation lies in a return to the Christian way of living, in purity of public and private customs, in respect for divinity and honor of the family, in Christian education, in the dignity of the church and in high esteem for her priests. if BUY U.

machinery these vital That that is a between Of Eastman, breakdown railroads that view of for, was the fact that all the major the civilized actions of the battle took piefe? same morning, the time the civilized within clear view of the naked be the heaviest Jap force yet The spectators on the beach fired everything they could reach, including revolvers. Six Jap ships were seen to blow up. the debris showering the beach. On ha Jap, seeing the death of his com rades, lost heart and circled helplessly, seeking a way to escape until a Grumman Wildcat ended his misery. Cruiser San Fracisco, Dodging Torpedo, Is Hit The cruiser, San Franciscododg-ing a torpedo, got a bomber which blew up over the deck, killing 18 men and burning several others.

Our fighters ran around the ack-ack fire, picked the Japs up on the other side and chopped down on them from so close above that it looked like knives hacking at a butcher's block. Only three of about 100 highly-trained Japs survived the attack, and two of these are now wounded prisoners. A rescue boat threw them a rope, but when they reached for it a Jap officer with them slapped down their hands. A high-squealing argument started and the rope was thrown again, and again the Jap officer slapped down their hands and turned his back on their protests disdainfully. They shot the officer in the back of the head and caught the rope the third time it was thrown.

The intensity of the action was typified by the case of Capt. Joe Foss, a Marine ace from South Dakota, who raised his score to 29 planes in the course of the day. Once he shot down a Zero at 29.000 feet, dove down to less than 300 feet and chopped down two torpedo bombers. He dove so rapidly that the wind stripped the glass shelter from the hatch of his plane and all his rubber pads, and he was working on his third victim before the first completed its fall into the The whole show lasted less than 10 minutes, and small boats spent until dark combing the wrecitage nf millions of dollars spent in Jap production and looking for 94 Jap bodies. Admira Callaghan Moves His Transports to Safety As nigh i fell, the planes departed from the stage, and the ships with their big guns entered.

Search planes had been watching the Japs all day long and their next move was expected. Admiral Callaghan's force shepherded transports to safety. The Japs apparently watched them, but lost them in the darkness, for they came stepping breezily to deliver what might have been the decisive blow of the battle. The land forces here girded themselves for a repetition of the October 13th bombardment. Men hud dled silently in foxholes, and asked each other silently with embittered faces.

"Where's our wavy: ana wnn HprpH what would be left to stop the Jap transports. Those seven hours of darkness, with each momen as silent as held breath, were the blackest our troops have faced since Bataan, bat at the end of them our Navy was there, incredibly, like a Tom Mix of old, like the hero of some antique melodrama. It turned the tide of the whole battle by throwing its steel and 11V.U11 V- www- flesh into the breach against wnat eneaeed bv surface ships in Ihe war. the beach had a front-Tow seat for the devastating action. Ad- miral Cal'ighan's force steaming irto line dove headlong into a vastly more powerful Jap fleet which was swinging around tiny Savo Island with guns set for pointblank blasting of Guadalcanal, and loaded with high-explosive shells instead of armor -piercing shells.

Matching cruisers and destroyers against battleships is like putting a good bantamweight against a good heavy nos down around their ankles. They could have stayed out of range and ocked out our ships with impunity, and then finished us on the ground. We Opened Fire First; Jap Ships All Over Us We opened fire first. The Jap ships, steaming full speed were onj us, and all around us in tne nrst minute. Torpedoes need several hundred feet in order to arm them selves with their propellers.

Our! destroyers discharged torpedoes from such close range that they i could not wind up enough to ex-j plode. The range was so close thatj the Japs could not depress their guns enough to fire at the water- line, which is why so many hits: landed on the bridge and two or our Admirals were killed. The actfon was illuminated in brief, blinding flashes by Jap searchlights which were shot out as soon as they were turned on, by muzzle flashes from big guns, by fantastic stream tracers, and by a huge range of colored explosives as two Jap, destroyers and one of our destroyers blew up within seconds of one another. Two Jap planes which were overhead intending to drop flares on the target were caught like sparrows in a badminton game and blown to bits. In the glare of three exploding ships the two naval forces could be seen laboring and wallowing in their recoils, throwing up waves in the ordinarliy lakelike harbor which hit like rocks against the beach.

The sands of the beach were shuddering so much from gunfire that they made the men standing there quiver and tingle from head to foot. Like a Door Opening And Closing Repeatedly From the beach it seemed like a door opening and closing and open ing and closing, over and over again. The unholy show took place in the area immediately this side of Savo Island. Our ships, in a line of about 3000 yards, steamed into a circle of Jap ships which opened at the eastern end like a mouth gaping with surprise. They ran, dodged and reversed their field, twisted, lurched and lunged, but progressed generally along the inside of the lip of the Japs.

Since the Jap circle was much bigger than our 'line, the Jap ships first at one end and then the other, fired across the empty space into one another. It took about 30 minutes for our ships to complete the tour of the circle and by the end of the tour the Jap ships had ceased to exist as an effective force. The whole thing was like a huge ring around a thin finger with the finger trying to burst through the ring and the ring trying to break every bone in the finger. Then the battling ring and the embattled finger seemed to crawl slowly toward rrl- IZ me tempo of the action. They eye This is the first battle in sent in 25 heavy bombers with Zero history of modern war that could escort The Japs stayed up higher 1 than 25,000 feet and clung tenaciously to formation while our erppn fighters, learning fast and learning the hard way.

stung and bit at their metallic sides, and could be seen landing there as delicately as mosquitoes on gleaming flesh. Bombs fell among newly withdrawn Marines near the beach, kill ing one and wounding a few. Before the clouds swallowed up the show, 4S Japs, enshrouded in seven bomb-j weight, but the Japs unquestion-ers, could be seen strueelin? for Um if wpre nanisht with thAir trimn. De viewed its entirety bv a single man standing still. The holocaust was unfolded to this reporter's front row seat like a classic oriental drama where the spectators know each move of the actors in advance through having seen ie show several times before, and merely await the acts of execution with passionate and terrible anticipation.

Thousands of land-bound Marines, Army and Navy men had seats so ciose to the ilrama that the actors literally "Jed from the stage into their laps. Then the spectators joined in the action savagely. First Notes of Great Drama Heard on Wednesday, the 11th The first fiddling notes of the drama a Irinrl nf nuortiiro umra i lt i if it At: i 1 Jt-Z jr heard on Wednesday the 11th, whenL The, Plane started to streak toward a force of 15 Zeros and bombers me clouds, but they had no friends recoinnoitered over the airport and t(? on- Men trying to harbor. Apparently the Japs knewslancn the blood of the wounded something was cooking which waslnea.r me, Ilfted their eyes from their more than most here knew. The Japs 1S an? watched the lonely struggle flew high and fast and stayed far P1 ttle JaPs for life.

A minute went away. Through a bomber's shrewd then another a long time tactics it made our pilots take the 10 watching and then tail their Jives. One bomber fell like a silver spear from the top of the sky. One of our fighters followed him a little way down, spitting into his wounds with machine guns, then seemed to think that enough is enough, and turned back to set him self another. But not more than 200 leet above the water these seven Japs managed to level off.

and it seemed like a suddenlv haltpd wnich a suicide leap halts 1.n midair, smc-ise Diew out of the Jap as sud denly as a easD. All cheered and were still cheering when the bomber came out of the clouds and nosed centlv toward the hyater to become a funeral pyre for me crew of seven. Ye iosi one ngnter in that brawl, Wlil uu in uie ciuuns pnr cover, bombers, left one more and one Zero smoking, and again prevented the Japs from even pinking their objective. It was our Armistice Day overwhelmingly. More of Our Transports Arrive Nov.

12 Under Convoy On Nov. 12 more of our transports arrived under convoy There was Vvf! proceeding on Army blankets on the beach while awaiting the Japs, but photographers refused to wander from their, cameras, which were set and focussed, and gunners refused to turn from their loaded guns. All ate their noon chow on the spot. The morning's only excitement came when a Jap six-inch land gun, manned by a crew with more cour weie age than brains, fired a single shot missing a transport by 500 yards. Admiral Callaghan's cruisers and destroyers and Gen.

Vandergrift's land guns fell on the Jap smother -ingly, and they never even squeaked again. At 2:20 in the afternoon the Japs attacked with torpedo bombers with Zero escort. Nobody is sure how many bombers, but it was somewhere between 20 and 25. It is known that the total Jap force numbered 33 planes. One Zem pv9Mh our fire and in destroying the 32 others we did not lose a single plane pilot.

The torpedo bombers launched themselves from a huge bank of black clouds into pointblank fire from our ships and enfilading fire from the beach. Only four torpedoes were seen to drop, but not one hit anything except empty The Japs raced toward the ships so! low and so close to the beach thatj it seemed possible to reach out and knock them down with your fists. to divert shipments en route are essential to control the flow of war materials to the docks. ships have not had to wait for cargoes ports have not become congested tribute to the cooperation that exists the government and the railroads. railroad performance, Joseph B.

Director, Office of Defense Transportation, has said: "There, has been no and no serious congestion. The have done promptly and well all they have been called upon to do. In all of the conditions, it has been a remarkable record." Remarkable as this achievement it must be remembered that there are physical limits to the carrying capacity of any giver amount of equipment. The coming months will make even sterner demands on American railroad capacity demands which can be fully met only with additional locomotives and cars. But meanwhile railroad; men are united in their determination to make every available locomotive and car yield the last ounce of performance feeding the convoys which carry the hope of the world.

defeive around probable targets i and linger there, so the Japs did not hit until the tailend of their force was scampering over the horizen. one Zero being snipped off. At dawn on Armistice Day the first wave of our reinforcements steamed into the harbor, and D.chnrfl lrrtour fate wftro nn trlA firp. I Then it happened that the Marines' and Army's hearts became the first to break of all the hundreds of thousands broken these last four days. Our troops who had been advancing westward steadily since Inov.

scooping the Japs out of the jungle, ravines and caves now could ad-j Vance no further, but had to hold tX-V? expeCtedi Jap thrust from the sea. Some of our men were about to thnso litro a iittlfi IntlSPr n(i the puzzled, exhausted and ttle-soiled men furnished an emotional problem for the officers. Exasperation came to a boiling Point when Jap shelling killed five officers with a single shot. Surviving officers had to plead with their men to store up their anger for a more propitious day. Japs Begin to Reply to Our Reinforcing Move In the meantime the Japs began to reply to our reinforcing move.

As in the fourth Battle of the Solo- Avoid ihe Rush Help Us Out Order Your Sunday Globe Advertisements Today Nm Placed a Ragular Order for Your Daily and Sandiy Glob? Wast Must Ba Savad a or A HUGE TANK swings upward through the darkness. Winches creak and derricks groan. Under the shaded flares men's backs are sweaty. In an hour the convoy sails. And every second in that hour is packed with dynamite.

For ships at anchor win no wars. Rail transportation to the ports is a vital key to the life-and-death shuttle race of the Atlantic. And this involves more than keeping the trains rolling. The grim, unrelenting activity of the Nazi wolf pack makes it impossible to determine accurately the time of arrival of ships in port frequently makes it necessary to divert convoys to ports far distant from those originally scheduled. But no matter where or when the ships come in, there must be waiting balanced cargoes ready for immediate loading.

And there must be no congestion no immobilized rolling stock. Careful planning, accurate timing, the mil teuta "OAfF OFJMEC4'S RAIROADS till AfOBflFSO FOR IVI S. WAR BONDS, AND STAMPS.