WAR ITEMS

Grey River Argus, 27 January 1943, Page 6

WAR ITEMS

NEW YOKK, Jan. 24.

The “New York Times’s” correspondent states: The Nazis yesterday launched an extensive bitter attack supported by tanks and the .Luftwaffe, against General Mikhailovitch, with the avowed purpose “to clean up the insubordinate regions south of Zagreb.” A plan to extend wartime collaboration to peacetime development of a million square miles of territory in Alaska, northern British Columbia' and the Yukon, is announced by a joint Canadian-American economic committee’s report on the region’s resources, improving living standards, increasing the areas of population, which is now one hundred thousand. RUGBY. Jan. 25.

An Icelandic pilot, believed to be the only one of his nationality in the R.A.F., is flying with a tighter squadron in North Africa. He is Flight Sergeant Tony Jonsson, who joined the R.A.F. in May 1940, and has destroyed three enemy aircraft. Malta celebrated the fall of Tripoli with processions through the streets says a Cairo message. Tripoli’s fall apparently has done the Maltese more good than anything, since the furious attack on the island was broken last year. According to reports from Milan, the Italian Press referred to the Eighth Army’s march into Tripoli as the blackest day in the history of. the Italian Empire. All the newspapers console their readers by saying the loss of Tripolitania is only temporary. ,as already the Axis is preparing' a counter-offensive from Tunisia.