CAMERAMAN KILLED

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIV, Issue 302, 21 December 1943, Page 3

CAMERAMAN KILLED

PHOTOGRAPHED U.S. LANDING Rec. 1.30 p.m. SYDNEY, this day. An Australian war photographer, Harold Dick, aged 26, was killed in an air accident in Queensland on Sunday. He was returning from Arawe, New Britain, where he took pictures of the American landing last Wednesday. The pictures were published throughout Australia on Sunday. General admiration has been expressed for the way Dick covered the Arawe landing. He left a widow and a saven-weeks-old son.

The Germans had incorporated everything in their defence line. Dozens of tanks, mobile guns and armoured cars, which were knocked out during the fighting last summer, had been dug into the ground and converted into permanent pill-boxes. When the Red Army attack broke with a crashing artillery -barrage the Germans massed every man. including engineers and alpine troops, for inclusion in their forces making desperate counter-attacks. The Red Army, however, sustained its attacks over a 50-mile front and the combined effect brought Soviet success. Underlining the importance of the new Neval thrusts, Reuters correspondent in Moscow says the fall of Vitebsk would be more important than the fall of Gomel because, with big gaps torn at both ends in the Germans' "Fatherland line" in White Russia, the enemy would scarcely be able to hold the intervening sectors, I including Jlobin, Orsha and Mohilev. The correspondent adds that the Russian adva'nee on what is significantly called the "First Baltic Front" threatens to outflank Vitebsk and cut off its garrison. The Russians have smashed their way across the railway from Neval and penetrated westward between 15 and 20 miles from the railway. The enemy's defence belt protecting Vitebsk is 10 miles; deep. The Red Army's advance is continuing. According to Paris radio, the Russians are using over half a million men in the great Neval offensive. Nazis Withdraw from Kherson To-night's Soviet communique states: "The Red Army south of Neval, continuing to develop the offensive, occupied over 70 more inhabited places and in the Korosten area repelled tank and infantry attacks. Russian forces south-east of Kirovgrad repelled strong tank and infantry counter-attacks, inflicting heavy losses." The German news agency commentator, von Hammer, stated tonight that the Russians have launched a new attack east of Vitebsk. He added: "The winter campaign has now really started. The Russians are pinning their hopes on the winter. The Germans will not confine themselves to defensive strategy." Berlin radio announced that the Germans have evacuated their small bridgehead on the southern bank of the Dnieper River, opposite Kherson, near the mouth of the river. The radio said the withdrawal was made because, with the freezing of the Dnieper, the bridgehead had ' become useless,

Mr. Eden At International Meeting VITAL TASKS OF FUTURE British Official Wireless ' Rec. 1 p.m. RUGBY, Dec. 20. The Foreign Secretary, Mr. Eden, visited the conference of the International Labour Office governing body in London to-day. He said that if an international labour organisation had not existed we should . find it necessary to try to create it ■ now, "because it is the only tripartite organisation which represents government, employers and workers that can neip to give effect to social objectives. "It is good not only that this organisation exists," he continued, "but that it continues to enjoy the con- . fidence of organised workers and organised employers of freedomloving peoples all over the world." Their organisation was in a very real sense an organisation of the people. They also kept happily clear of political controversy and worked all the time in that field of social betterment where they had unrivalled expert experience and expert knowledge. "With the developments of science there must be moments when we wonder, if there were to be a third war, what could be left. It seems to me that we have just this last chance after this next victory. An immense responsibility rests on those in whose hands the power will lie in the coming years. An immense responsibility rests on your organisation."