LATEST WAR NEWS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXXII, Issue 13430, 18 April 1944, Page 5

LATEST WAR NEWS

The following is a summary of ihe latest war news: THE AIK WAR The Allied round-the-clock air blitz against Hitler’s southern front was kept at a high pitch yesterday by attacks on two Balkan capitals—Sofia, in Bulgaria and Belgrade in Yngoslava. The attacks were made by American heavy bombers from Italy in strength. They were out for the third day running. Once regain the bombs they sent down had a twofold role—to cripple the German communication lines running across to the eastern front and to hitter still more of the enemy’s widely-dispersed aircraft factories. Yesterday’s main targets of the tost type were railway installations at Sofia and Belgrade. Both, of them are on the main arterial lines carrying German supplies to ihe Balkans, and tire big airfield wear Belgrade, used as a stepping 'tone by German transport planes on their way east and back again, ho two main aircraft targets yeslerday were plants near Belgrade fanning part of the vast Messer-' , jnitt building- network. Sunday y’ s instalment of the present hied blitz on the Balkans was out by the Royal Air Force ! n( * k teU on the third capital, m-apest, in Hungary. Heavy Blockbusters and thousands of in- ' paries went down on the rail in d ' L ? wer ( l°wn the Danube Rumania, Russian bombers on 27 night attacked the river u 1 ,ln( l railway Junction Galatz. inr!'' aJl,nounce s tliat long‘bombers made a concenlow vi ‘? ttack an, l many fires, fol- >) T could be Cr ‘ , Rte flames soon spread Z ' he neater part of the railJunction, where many trains "as Z’l t 0 . be blazin S* Shipping 'tean‘iers l ’? lb€d and in two rivcl * BWs * there were violent e\h tbe Russian aircraft ' back to their base. hI’SSLAX ADVANCE ■ v . sarab i ll Rod Army troops Soviet U P their pressure. The •cmiimmUqTC says that overtenemy resistance and 4tii,r a ! ta^ ks ’ tl *ey have been ,*day to widen their hart h- lr a( s ovei * the Dniester and “"Prove,! ttah- position. ‘it tllP have d,qh Unea th e Soviet forces ihe Gem 6 SOod progress against '°niered an , and Rumanian troops 11 ebas t°pol. The enemy Hce i ‘ Pntting up a stiff resist!hip the Russians, fighting a ) 1 tor ward, have captured k thtfvp Pteees. One of them ! wwn nop th-east of the hst tiw! e avva Y to the southtoast f,J )S advan cing along the thiv,,?*i a hu have forced a fo flaboSt! th , o ‘ hills in s P ite of built •° bs tacle.s the enemy ln the woods avid nioun-

U * l f ei ,o<) k place last jS? Z G(J nera| Vatutin, the l .Wia n fouler of the First ’7 from '\., ont ‘ -^ n order of the Jf’ty' anti ‘,‘ U^ia f t.Salin said the 'Von]a e ,. ni * Vv ot the Soviet th e „ nffi their colours be,7 best ]„ , n in honour of one of !Nw eW of the R( ‘d Army. V, mns Slowly firod a last

J|” fte's . FR< WTIER i> a ,, e frontier Allied * ol Ui Kav,- avin >f more success hlma * They are clear-

ing the Japanese oft the load tha leads to the Assam railway. T > have captured more imp oi taut positions here and they have indicted very heavy casualties on the Japanese. Onr situation s also improving in the lulls nor ieast of Imphal and the advance ot the American mid Chinese co - minis in the north of Bm-nui• » continuhig down the Mo oaung 0 aung Valley. SYDNEY NEWSPAPER BAN In Canberra an urgent meeting of the Australian Cabinet has been called for to-day to discuss the censorship ban on Sydney news--1K ‘The'Sydney High Court yesterday granted an injunction to the proprietors of the Sydney Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Tel trapl. restraining Australian ceilsorship oflicials from suppressing. statement which had appeared m the banned week-end editions. ITALIAN CABINET An Italian Press Minister m Naples issued a semi-official stateraent yesterday sayang that Ma shal Badoglio had handed the rc situation of Ids Ministers to Km*. S Emmanuel. ™ •Uhls that the King asked Mai shal Badoglio to form a new cabinet on a broader basis.