DUMP IN RUINS

New Zealand Herald, Volume 80, Issue 24748, 23 November 1943, Page 3

DUMP IN RUINS

ALLIED PACIFIC EAIDS ENEMY SHIP LEFT ABLAZE SUPPORT FOR LAND FORCES (Reed. 6.45 p.m.) SYDNEY, Nov. '2l Liberator bombers from General Mac Arthur's South - west Pacific Command at the week-end unloaded 138 tons of bombs on a big Japanese supply dump area at Ring Ring plantation, near Gasmata, New Britain. Apart from the Rabaul raids, it was the heaviest attack to date on an enemy base in New Britain. The bombers left the entire dump area in smoking ruins. An enemy cargo ship of 10.000 tons was left in flames and when last observed was being abandoned by the crew after an attack by a United States Navy Catalina in St. George Channel, New Britain, on Friday night. The vessel was part of a convoy, which also included two destroyers and two medium-sized tankers. The convoy was attacked about 45 miles north-west of B a bail I. The air forces attacking Satelberg, Xew Guinea, continue to increase their pressure on the enemy. The Japanese entrenched around the township are still being pounded by our tanks and artillerv.

Allied fighter patrols minimised enemy nir opposition to the Australian advance by dispersing 27 raiders and shooting down one. Low-flying Mitchell medium bombers and speedy Thunderbolt fighters made sweeps along (he northern New Guinea coast in the Hansa Bay area. The Japanese failed to put up any air interception, hut antiaircraft fire cost us one plane. Seven enemy barges and a lugger were destroyed.

150 U-BOATS SUNK

TALLY FOR SIX MONTHS

HUNDREDS STILL REMAIN (Reed. 0.50 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Nov. 21 "Between May 1 and October 31 the Allies sank 150 U-boats," said RearAdmiral Law, assistant chief of naval anti-submarine operations, in a broadcast.

"Allied shipping losses in the Atlantic in the same period," he added, "remained less than one-half of ] per cent. Germany still has hundreds of submarines, hut the damage they are inflicting on Allied shipping does not justify their existence." The' Associated Press quotes Admiral Low as saying that the United States Xavv was taking counter-measures against the German acoustic torpedo. PLANES DROP LEAFLETS HITLER KNOWS WAR LOST LONDON, Nov. 21 It is reported from Stockholm that the Royal Air Force dropped leaflets over Berlin on Thursday night headed "German Has Lost the War: We Know It: Hitler Knows It." The text of the leaflets read: "Hitler carries on a hopeless war although he knows that the end of the war means his end. He wants for that reason to persuade the Germans that they must hold out with him or go under. "But Hitler's end does not mean tiie end of the German people. Responsible Allied statesmen say that, apart from the enemy leaders, nobody in Axis countries need fear unconditional capitulation. They can be assured that unconditional capitulation does not mean that they must exchange wretchedness for tvrannv."

CALL TO GERMANS POSSIBLE ALLIED PROJECT LONDON, Nov. 21 A dramatic call to the German people over the heads of their rulers to surrender or take the consequences may be one result of the projected meeting between .Mr. Churchill, Mr. Roosevelt and Marshal Stalin, says the military correspondent of the Sunday Kxpress. "It is believed." he adds, "that in the view of these three leaders the political and economic situation inside Germany has now reached the point where such a call might produce most startling results. Special means will be used to ensure that the Allied leaders' words actually reach the German man in the street. Such means exist. They must, however, naturally be kept secret. The object of the warning will be to give the Germans 'their last chance to overthrow the Nazi Government and surrender unconditionally to the Allies. "The Germans are likely to he told that refusal to respond to the call will only prolong the war and add to German losses and sufferings, without the slightest chance of altering the final phase of the war, and with the certainty that, refusal will he counted against the whole German nation in the final settlement." RADIO TALK ON RETAIN (Reed. 05.20 p.m.) LONDON. Nov. 22 The Vichy radio last night gave a quarter of an hour's dramatised review of Marshal Petain's career.