Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 23, 1943, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition 40 pages. Winnipeg free press rises. 9.14. Sun sets 18.5. Jav soon rises 20.40. Moon sets 10.18. Winnipeg saturday january 23, 1943 rises. 3.13. Sun sets. 18.7. Moon rises Moon sets. 10.45 cold on Jack is r fallen Cairo British eighth army marched into Tripoli and hoisted inc Union at 5 am today and then sent striking forces racing West of Benito Mussolini s last african capital in an attempt to encircle and annihilate Axis forces straggling into Tunisia. At least part of Rommel s battered forces estimated at approximately 63.000 troops had fled across the libyan Frontier j were reported in con in. . Jurgen von Axis army behind the Vareh line 65 inside Tunisia. M lit Ary experts said it was sex that Rommel despite the thais lion of his troops would at s Neu delaying action be gird the French built Mareth Forti Scatino is. A triple line system of emplacements and Pill extending 00 Miles Inland Iron Tarzis. On the tunisian coast a the Mamatas mountains. Advanced British army units took Ever Tripoli after a Sharp fight. Capture air base eighth army armoured forces Cap Castel Benito air base. 10 Hes South the City yesterday and closed in on Tripoli while the Jantry advancing along the re Stal Road went in from the East. As British Empire troops. Britons. South africans. New zealand ers. Australians and indians poured award the City the Allied air Force maintained a ferocious attack on last of the Axis transport mov ing toward the tunisian Border 105 Road Miles away. Communique issued announcement was made in a Middle Eastern comm Iid communique that the advanced elements of eighth army entered Tripoli Queen City of the vanished italian african Empire Early today. Yesterday our troops occupied i Castel Verdi and were closing in on Tripoli from East and the communique said. Strong enemy rear guards attempting to delay our forces were engaged and driven Back. The full weight of our lighters Iza bombers was directed against the enemy transport columns with drawing westwards along the Road British people jubilant about 8th army Triumph London Jan. 23. Bup Britain which had gone through Many anxious weeks while Rommel rolled almost up to the Gates of Alexandria today was jubilant Over the Victory at Tripoli. War minister sir Edward Grigg said the capture of the City had firmly turned the tide of War for both the this is a View of Tripoli capital of Italy s last Colony to fall to British troops. Was it targets. Smull shipping attempting to heaviest War blow crashes on italians London Jan. Heaviest blow of the War fell with deadening Sud Sci mass upon the hapless italian people today their High command informed them that the British had taken Tripoli jewel City of the now vanished italian leave the Harbor Zuara was a. Our fighter bombers and the vessels were damaged. Enemy air activity was not on a Large scale. In combats which developed our fighters shot Down three enemy fighters and damaged others. Moonlight attacks on the re treating enemy continued in Force in the night of Jan. 21-22 and the Landing ground at Ben Gardane 20 Miles inside Tunisia was also bombed. Our intruders were Active Over Sicily on the same night and much damage was caused. The attacks were repeated yesterday and f fur ther damage was inflicted on rail Road targets and storage buildings. Long Range fighters also operated yesterday and carried out a numb. Of attacks on Small ships off the coast of Tunisia. Two planes Are among the blazing Supply and arms dumps set afire by the re treating germans and italians in Empire. The italians had been told Little else and there had been no prepare _ _ Tim for today s announcement but the of. Tripoli made it drive to Tripoli russian and British armies. He paid tribute to the offensive of the eighth saying that it had advanced nearly Miles. Grigg in a broadcast speech paid tribute to the United states for the air Force and the sup plies it sent to Aid the Victory though he emphasized that the capture of Tripoli climaxing the Advance through Libya was overwhelmingly a British Empire show. We believe that the tide has now firmly turned for the and russian forces he said and added that the italian Empire in Africa covering an area times the size of the British Isles wac now gone. Today we had the news of the fall of he added. To All intents and purposes this completes the destruction of the italian Empire in Africa. The eighth army fulfilled the task originally assigned it. Egypt has been freed from fear of invasion and Italy has been stripped of the last shred of its african Empire. In 1940, that Empire was held by More than half a million italian troops since then mus Solini has sent to Libya another eight italian divisions to which Hitler added some five German divisions. From these hordes we can say that in almost a matter of hours not a Man will be left in arms on what was once italian soil. Today from the height of their achievement new horizons open out and Gen. Alexander s victorious troops turn their eyes on another enemy on the Battle ground to the Gen. Sir Harold r. L. G. Alexander is commander in chief in the Middle East and thus Superior to Gen. Sir Ber Nard Montgomery who led the higher wages seem Likely by b. T. Richardson Ottawa Jan. 23. On which the steel strike is Likely to be settled Over the week end include establishment of 55 cents an hour As Basic wage with an added provision that any reduction in the Cost of living will not mean a reduction in this represents substantial Cost of Caldwell raps wage policy Ottawa Jan. 23. J. Cold Well . Leader said in an address prepared for broadcast last night three vital steel Mills Are Idle because the arbitrary Price and wage freezing policy adopted in this country decrees that men employed in this arduous and hazardous occupation should work for a wage 8th army continued on Page 2. Column 3 Montgomery s order of Day Cairo. Jan. Days be fore his final drive started Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery in one of the orders of the Day which have his make him famous said leading units of the eighth army Are now Only about 200 Wiles from Tripoli. The enemy s Between us and that port doping to hold us off. The eighth army is going to Tripoli. Tripoli is the Only town in he italian Empire overseas still remaining in their posses Sion. Therefore we will take it Irum them. They will then have no overseas Empire. If each one of us. Whether front line Soldier or officer or Nan whose duty is performed in me other sphere puts his whole heart and Loul into this next contest then nothing can Stop us. Nothing has stopped us since the Battle of Egypt began oct. 23, 1942. Nothing will Stop us now. Some must stay Back to begin with but we will All be in the Hunt eventually. On to our families and friends in the Home country will be thrilled when they hear we have captured that perfectly Clear to them that prac Mically All of Libya had joined the rest of their Empire upon which so much Money so Many lives so much Effort had been spent in British hands and that Winston Churchill had redeemed his pledge to rip Mussolini s overseas posses Sions to tatters. Persons familiar with Italy expected italian morale to fall to its lowest Point. It was pointed out that it was a profound psychological blow to All italians since trip Oli is the last of the italian col onies and the Only one of which italians were really proud. Strike dismay it was the Only one with a Large prosperous italian population and authoritative sources in London said its loss will strike dismay in he hearts of italian people who ill see this British Victory As a prelude to an attack on their Homeland. Despatches from Berne. Switzer and revealed that italian news ape is As recently As wednesday Nade no mention of the fact that he British eighth army menaced russians take Salsa Shell Oroshi Novgrad Moscow Jan. Army artillery opened a bombardment of Oroshi Novgrad today while storm troops drove on that Rich donets Basin War Industry and mining City from lines Only 10 that is demonstrably too in his first radio address Over the National network of the Canadian broadcasting corporation since his election As . Leader last year or. Coldwell said the . Calls for the immediate establishment of a Post War planning commission truly representative of All classes in the War planning and Post War policies were two parts of the same fight for Victory and we Are in deed building the Post War world now. By the Way we organize the Canadian authorities had refused and continued to refuse the steel workers a Basic wage that would still be too Low for a decent Stan Dard of living but would at least give the workers and their families adequate subsistence he said. An estimated workers Are Idle because of strikes at the Sault Ste. Marie. Ont Plant of Algoma steel corporation and at the Sydney . And Trenton. ., steel plants of Dominion steel and Coal corporation what can these men think of a Ivar Effort that does not hesitate to hundreds of millions of dollars to assist private Industry but refuses to give 13.000 workers a couple of million dollars a year to improve their depressed and sub Standard or. Coldwell asked. Harms War Effort by this sort of policy we harm our War Effort. But we do More than that. We store up serious trouble and perpetuate injustice for the Post War period. Canada s productive capacity in wartime could provide a full life for All canadians when turned to nazis fear Allied attack in Norway by Victor Gordon Lennox London Jan. 25. Special can German anxiety lest the allies May plan a diversionary attack on Europe taking the form of a Landing in Norway is becoming note Miles away. Ripoli. The italian press had in lored the fall of Mistrata horns and tar Una and today s High com Mand announcement must have alien like a Bolt from the Blue. The fail of Tripoli in effect re Lucid Italy to the status of a Mere Continental Power shattering the dreams with which Mussolini had beguiled the italian people of a new Rome that would Rule As the ancient one did. All the lands sur funding the Mediterranean. The British had Only to take the 100 Miles of desert coastline be tween Tripoli and Tunisia to wipe out All of the italian Empire As it existed in 1940 when Mussolini took his country into the War hop inc for Quick profits at Little Cost Italy then had four colonies Lybia. Of which Tripoli is the Capi Tal Ethiopia in an unequal War in 19ri5-36 Eritrea and italian Somaliland. Ethiopia. Erit Rea and Somaliland were grouped As italian East Africa. Worthy. After Many months the germans have been taking the most stringent methods to enforce stricter discipline among their norwegian Garri on. It is evident too that the German command has ordered the nost intense pressing on All of sea fortification work and that these it Vilies Are being particularly noted along the Oslo fjord South East the capital. These various evidences coupled with the recent declaration by swedish Premier per Albin Hans son have convinced most swedes that the allies have a real intention to huge Convoy arrives London Jan. 23. Huge Allied Convoy carrying reinforce ments of men. Guns vehicles and other equipment for the Allied armies has arrived at a North an can port the daily Mirror reported today. _ its correspondent. Archer Brooks who sailed with the Convoy Saij 1 the voyage was uneventful. Of invading Norway. According reports quoted today by the Landor daily Telegraph s Stockholm Cor respondent Ossian Goulding allies Are massing shipping Eva. Sion barges and troops in Scotland and Iceland. I the swedes Are convinced thai the germans would demand the. Right of passage for their troops across swedish railways if the allies were operating in Norway. The swedes also insist that they would reject this demand and then be compelled to fight the germans. Sweden has not much air or armoured strength but she has most powerful artillery and Good in Fantry. Realistically reviewing their strategy the swedes determined to defend their neutrality if attacked calculate that they would be Able to break through enemy occupied Northern Norway to the at lactic thus ensuring Contact with Allied Supply sources. Cap badge. Co l l a badge Trona these Are the distinctive badge ram by men of the Canadian Parachute corps. The Cap bad shows the Wing for Para Chute for and the Maple leaves of Canada. The Collar badge motto sex coulis. Means out of the uniform buttons again carry the Parachute Motif with Maple leaves and the word on the Southern front the rus sians advanced on to korets on the main Rostov caucasus Railroad after taking Salsa Junction Point and greatest German air base in the entire Region 75 Miles to the North East. In the caucasus the russians were within 70 Miles of Imaikop Oil Fields Centre in the Black sea area after capturing Mikoyan Sakhar where the germans had made their deep est penetration in the mountains and freeing the towering Peak of it. Elbrus 18.471 feet Caling the germans had so proud y announced. The Moscow radio broadcast that advanced russian troops had entered the Region of kursk and a drive on the City continued with tanks crushing All opposition. The kursk administrative area extends to a Point about 60 Miles East of kursk City. A front despatch of the common St party official newspaper pravda broadcast by Moscow said that great stretches of the Voronezh Region. Lying to the East had been freed and advanced troops had crossed into the kursk area. The noon communique reported fresh gains on All major fronts. Several new towns and villages were claimed on the Oroshi Novgrad front including five taken by a Jingle unit. A number of inhabited places were taken on the Salsa front the noon communique said and dozens in the North caucasus in addition to several on the Voronezh front where the russians Are advancing on kursk. Closing in on three sides the red army reached within 10 Miles of Oroshi Novgrad on the East when it took the Railroad Junction town of Kon Krashevskaya yesterday. They were closing in also on the Northeast and North driving for a focal Point of the German defensive offensive system in Southern Russia. The russians also took novo Aidar. 31 Miles above Oroshi Novgrad and a Zug farther to the North. As they closed in on Vor Shilov Grad today the russians Defeated the one counter attack which the germans essayed routing 2.000 men supported by tanks. The Ger mans lost eight tanks. In another sector 200 germans were killed and three tanks destroyed. On the Salsa front the russians were advancing Down the Stalin peacetime uses there would be More factories More efficient machines and More highly skilled men and women to till the soil harness the Waters fell the forests and pro Duce More goods to minister to human needs. These Are the real wealth of any nation and by this measure we shall be potentially indefinitely Richer in material things than Ever we were because there had been no Over All democratic plan much of the integration brought about in War coldwell continued on Page 2. Column 6 tosses wheat on Market Washington. Jan. 23. Cap the United Stales government tossed its Stock of wheat on the Market today in a move to keep prices from advancing above the parity level. First lieutenant Clark Gable now an Aerial gunner in the . Army air Force wears a double shoulder Sling of .50 calibre machine gun bullets before taking off on a practice firing Mission. Alas no setup in cold weather temperature headings Low during night High yesterday High Jan. 23, 1942 Grad Tik Horetsky Railroad on Belaya Glina. 40 Miles Southwest of Salsa and 40 Miles Northeast of Tikhon rets. Yesterday the russians had taken on this front. Konstan Tinovsky 6 Miles East of Rostov near the con Russia continued on Page 2, column 3 Winnipeg ears now seasoned to expect the worst did not even twitch saturday when they heard the Weatherman say that the City s seven Day cold spell longest for several years is still going Strong and the week end is Likely to be decidedly cold. The Mercury fell to 33 below during the morning later picking up two Points. Forecast for Manitoba is fair and decidedly cold for today and Sun Day. Friday s High was and the Low during the was snowfall was ver Light during the night. Living bonuses. This Means an increase of cents an hour at Algoma and 2vb cents at Sydney. But the Algoma. Figure includes five cents Cost of living Bonus the Sydney figure nine cents Bonus. If future reduce on in the Cost of living would Equire reductions in Cost of living bonuses the steel workers will be exempt from such reductions. The government s latest proposals ill be submitted to steel workers meeting at the Soo and at Sydney Omorrow. Meanwhile no official announcement of the terms is being made Here. The Federal government will also implement the proposals it made ast tuesday in which steel will income a National Industry subject o the National War labor Board. The Board will also have a new chairman succeeding Hon. Humphrey Mitchell. Reclassification of All jobs in the Basic steel Industry will be one of he first Steps to be undertaken if he strike ends. Ottawa officials were obviously hopeful of the strike ending on Mon Day morning with full steel production resumed. Union leaders like Wise expected the strike to end Over the week end and sentiment among the strikers themselves was reported to have taken a turn in the last Day or so against continuing the strike. The new chairman of the National War labor Board will be announced soon and the name of or. Justice Richards of Winnipeg is mentioned As a possible selection. Official statement Ottawa Jan. 23. Offi Cial statement issued Early today said that the Way seems Clear for resumption of steel production at once in steel plants at Sault Ste. Marie. Ont Sydney. ., and Trenton. Which have been strike bound for More than a week. Statement was issued on be half of prime minister Mackenzie King and the United steelworkers of America. The statement said that details of the agreement of settlement Are being communicated to the Union locals involved in the strike by officials who attended conferences Here yesterday and Early this morn ing. The details were not made Public in the official statement. Flan is endorsed in a prepared statement issued this morning Elmer j. Maloy and John Doherty International representatives of Philip Murray u. S. W. A. President endorsed the settlement plan and said they were recommending the men should re turn to work. The statement read we the commission of the executive Board of the United steel burned to Heath Luiu Iville ont. Jan. 23. Top Thomas Dericott. 70, and his wife. 73. Were burned to death yesterday when their farm Home in Hendley six Miles East of Here was destroyed. Strike continued on Page 2, column 4 Hull says Tripoli is vital Victory Washington Jan. 23. State Secretary Cordell Hull said today that the fall of Tripoli to the British 8th army constituted one of the most overwhelming outstanding and important victories of the War. The government and the people of the United states rejoice in the achievements of the British 3th army in capturing the North african City from the Axis forces. Hull said the russians Are out flanking Rostov in a sweeping turning movement on the North breaking through German defences Between Kharkov and Ros Tov. New russian advances have brought them to Arsavir Voroshilovsk while Salsa has been taken ;