LATEST WAR NEWS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13427, 14 April 1944, Page 5

LATEST WAR NEWS

The following is a summary of the latest war news: —

the RUSSIAN OFFENSIVES The Russians yesterday won Pnit new victories in the Crimea. They captured three of the bigtowns as well as 600 other P aces and have taken more than •31,000 prisoners. About threequarters of the peninsula has now vleared of the enemy. Three special orders of the day pied last night by Marshal Sta"ithin two hours announced ' e 5 a Pture of Feodosiya on the pth-east coast, Simferpol the „pi al, in the centre, and Eupadia on the west coast. Feodosiya ® Jp en by the men of the army Pen* S "' e l >t through the Kerch a ip lasu a . and these troops have a .V driven 15 miles beyond it Pim * ." sst * Simferopol and Pa^*i° na to the troops of the i* ■ Ukrainian Army who are tfiu-n S )' eep * n S in a double thrust Spi. . (s U»e naval fortress of Pivay * ess than 40 miles fnemv' n ?' v a l ) Pa» , ent that the W p ' ® fences in the Crimea res, of ® l>letel y collapsed and the vast f r 16 l )en tnsula has become a t rooiK a * )> German and Rmuanian bef 0r „ f re everywhere retreating ierijjj, ijf Re(l Army forces, sufu*Pmeiu r!°^ es in men and enernv ,• U ‘ RlB stated that the Q a figj u s not Putting up much of Vi ,fle ir < iut- USSians ,iave also kept up fflast of m Ce i b lon S’ the Black Sea Sight’s a, f Ukraine and last Ports th» ° Sco " 'communique re°ver «o ®fP ture of a place just mUes south-west of Odes-

f foin ''Jr 1 was reported St. V !Secto, ‘ s of the Russian

T he uon IR OFFENSIVE Geiw, * * ol> Allied ail* offensive 0 tt 'l blast ? 8 Europe went on at the sixth day Ffa, *ce ana ”s®S ai T» Germany, o 'tßtriec „ Belgium were the Sbloads ' v J licll yesterday’s ound their targets. 5* heavy backed by Amerifrom Italy. s were escorted by

fighters and aircraft factories and airfields near Budapest, the capital, wex*e attacked. Only two hours before R.A.P. Wellingtons from Italy had dropped some of their two-tonners on the railway yards at Budapest.

The aircraft factories at Augsburg and the ball-bearing works at Schweinfurt were also bombed. There are no details yet of these attacks.

Enemy railway targets, too, had their fan* share of attention yesterday. Marauders attacked railway yards in Belgium. An airfield in Belgium and targets in northern F,ranee were also hit.

K.A.F. mediums were also out. They attacked military targets on the coast of northern France including one near Dieppe. ANOTHER ATTACK ON THE KURILES American Navy and Army aircraft have again bombed Japanese positions in the Kurile Islands. north-east of Japan. They struck at targets ou Faramushiio, the largest island of the group and two other islands, including Shashikotan which lies about 1100 miles from Tokio. JAPANESE EVACUATING 'BOGADJIM

In the South-west Pacific there are signs that the Japanese in New Guinea are withdrawing from Bogadjim with the object ot concentrating at Madang. Enemy positions covering the motor road between these places are being attacked and the Allied forces are closing in on Bogadjim. INDO-BURMA BORDER On the Indo-Burma border the Japanese thrusting towards Tmphal have been driven from a hill position overlooking the plain. Farther north the situation round Kohima has improved and our troops have cleared the enemj from another stretch of the road Joining the Assam railway. The United States War Secretary, Mr Henry Stimson, told a Washington press conference that both Imphal and Kohima were strongly defended. He said the British had considerable air superiority and their commanders were experienced in Jungle fighting.