Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 27, 1943, Winnipeg, Manitoba Final edition pages. Winnipeg free press Sun rises. 9.10 sets 18.13. Moon rises. Sets. 11.59. Winnipeg wednesday january 27, 1943. And cold. Churchill and Roosevelt meet utter defeat of Axis Trio armed at Casablanca Casablanca French Morocco Jan. 27. A master War plan for 1943 aimed at forcing the unconditional surrender of Germany j apart and Italy has been mapped in a 10-Day Confer ence by prime minister Churchill president Roosevelt and a score of top flight military and Supply leaders and today the a hied Heads had separated to put their global strategy into Active and concerted execution. President Roosevelt breaking Traditi on flew Miles for the meeting that began Jan. M and ended last sunday with a press conference on the sunny Lawn of a Villa in Casablanca s outskirts. Or. Churchill also flew to the Rendez Vous which found Gen. De Gaulle fighting French Leader and Gen. Henri Giraud. French North african High commissioner getting together for negotiations to put a French army Navy and air Force into the Field against the Axis. Working Day and night the prime minister and president were attended by nearly the entire War staffs of both countries and they reached Complete agreement on their objectives it was announced. The presence of such a Galaxy of. British and american leaders both strategists and Field commanders indicated that not Only european invasion courses had been charted but that Field commanders had been decided upon for impending operations. Those who will command and where they will strike probably will remain military secrets for some time. Here Are the highlights of the conference which or. Churchill and or. Roosevelt in a sunday summary agreed was unprecedented and will affect the course of the War 1. The leaders of Britain and the United states both military and civil Nave agreed on a War plan for 1943 designed to maintain the initiative in every theatre of the War 2. Or. Churchill and or. Roosevelt agreed that peace can come Only through unconditional surrender by Germany Italy and Japan 3. Generals Giraud and de Gaulle meeting for the first time under sponsorship of the president and prime minister Are negotiating for a United French movement designed to put French armies a Navy and an air Force again into the Field against the Axis 4. Premier Josef Stalin of Russia was kept informed of the results of the conferences. In fact or. Churchill and or Roosevelt offered to meet Stalin very much farther to the but the russian chief was unable to leave the .s.r., due to the need of his directing the present red army offensives. The president and prime minister also have been in communication with general Chiang Kai Shek and have apprised him of the measures which they Are taking to assist him in Ghina s magnificent and in relaxing struggle for the common 5. Maximum material Aid to Russia and China will be one of the prime Aims of Britain and the United states 6. Or. Roosevelt visited american troops in the Field in North Africa the first american president to visit an Active War theatre since Abraham Lincoln. The meetings were held in a closely guarded barbed wire surrounded enclosure at a hotel in Casablanca under the closest secrecy. Prime minister Churchill arrived first for the meeting. When pres ident Roosevelt arrived by plane a few hours later he despatched Harry Hopkins to the Churchill Villa and the prime minister immediately came to Start the meet Ings. Parts of Casablanca Story remain untold Washington Jan. 27. Developing evidence that the full Story of the Casablanca conference is far from completely told is catching the sensitive interest of this avar time capital today. White House Secretary Ste phen t. Early agreed during his morning press conference today that subsequent chapters undoubtedly will be written to the Story of the Casablanca three previous meetings of Churchill and Hooe Evelt Are pictured Here. Top the meeting sea in 1941. Centre Christmas and new year s visit to Washington by the prime minister at the end of 1941 while Bottom shows the second Washington meeting in 1942. The two leaders Are shown Here with the Cana Dian Leader prime minister Mackenzie King. Desperate nazis Rush ships to novo Rossik London Jan. Today was reported Rushing All available ships in the Black sea to the port of novo Rossik in a desperate attempt to evacuate her forces withdrawing from the caucasus. This port is the largest from which the germans could effect a withdrawal of troops from the Northwest caucasus Fethe Crimea if land escape through Rostov were Cut off. The russians Are now nazi regiment surrenders closing in on Rostov. The Morocco radio reported that turkish sources said All Axis ships in turkish and bulgarian ports had been ordered o proceed to novo Rossik. The German High command the first began at 7 o clock in the evening of Jan. 14 and lasted until 3 o clock the next morning. The president and the prime min ister met correspondents in the rear Garden of a Beautiful while the North african White marked simply Villa no. 2. With Churchill at his left the president told Corros Pendents Gath ered at his feet in the velvety grass of the Villa s rear Garden that the keynote of the meeting had been taken from Gen. Ulysses s. Grant. General Grant he said was known As unconditional surren Der and that was the purpose and purport of the present deliberations. He said that the meeting would be known As the unconditional sur Render conference. Protecting Allied fighter planes roared overhead As the conference was held. The Only woman present was wac Captain Louise Ander son of Denver colo., a Steno Grapher from . Dwight d. Eisenhower s Headquarters. Hopkins was among the first to arrive along with the president s flying son . Elliott Roosevelt who was wearing the distinguished flying Cross awarded him. While the president s envoy Robert Murphy flitted in the Back ground generals Giraud and de Gaulle Clad in French army uni forms appeared from the presid ent s quarters. They were closely followed by or. Roosevelt himself wearing a Light Grey suit with the Parley continued on Page 6. Column 3 Brackens in Ottawa Ottawa Jan. 27. Bracken progressive conservative Leader and mrs. Bracken reached Ottawa last night from Winnipeg both extremely tired after their trip. Mrs. Bracken declining to be interviewed gave reporters no hint of her husband s plans. Or. Bracken could not be reached at his hotel greek sabotage London Jan. 27. Patriots have blown up a Section of the main Navy Yard near Athens and the germans executed 15 hostages in reprisal greek sources said today. Prime minister Winston Churchill and president Roosevelt who flew to their historic meeting in. French North Africa Are shown on previous flights. At top Roosevelt makes history by flying to the democratic convention in 1932 to accept the nomination while below Churchill is shown when he flew from the to Bermuda after his visit to Washington. Moscow Jan. 27. Entire German 534th infantry regi ment surrendered today and part of the 609th, including staff officers. Wiped out As russian troops mercilessly attacked the rag on in cog Axis remaining on the Stalingrad front from 22 n to Lauing men. On the Voronezh front where in German and other Axis Nave been encircled group Fer group Laid Down their arms comr Nur ique reported Anc a few hours prisoners been rounded up. Obituary notice for the trap a stained remnants at Stalingrad was in a special communique Jap planes downed said that Between Jan. 10 yesterday 28.000 had been taken and More than 40.00c leaving Only the two pocket y groups one North of Stalingrad other near the Centre of the to be disposed of. Equal importance was act that the russians had now three great Railroad sys a leading from Stalingrad to Moscow in the North to Lik Haythe Rostov Moscow to the West o Salsa and Tik Horetsky to the its communique today claimed German movements in the Kuban area in the Western caucasus where the nazi armies Are with drawing were continued entirely according to plan. Undiminished Force the communique added that the great Winter Battle on the Eastern russian front is raging with undiminished Force and spreading to new areas. At the same time the trolled Vichy radio quoting the official German dub news Agency said that German droops Southern seat an Duttar major fighting was to Progress on the Northern front in the Leningrad Veliki Luki Rah eve and Schluess Elberg areas where the russians were attacking with enormous forces. Timoshenko Post shortly after it was announced from Moscow that marshal Semyon Tir Roshenko. Former commander in chief on the Southern front has been appointed commander of the Northwestern front. Washing ton Jan. 27. American aircraft on a reconnaissance Mission Over japanese held Wake Island Are believed to have shot Down two of eight intercept time out for Roosevelt Casablanca French Morocco Jan 27. Roosevelt took time out from his 10-Day conference with prime minister Churchill to decorate . William h. Wilbur personally with the con ing Zero fighters the Navy announced returned . Planes the highe St United states Gressional medal of Honor see action soon for Canada s army abroad by b. T. Richardson Ottawa Jan. 27. Special supreme military decisions regarding 1943 operations just completed in conferences at Casablanca will involve the Send ing of Canada s overseas army into action it is Learned Here. As in connection with previous major decisions reached by Churchill and Roosevelt the Cana Dian " Overn rent is understood to be informed of developments. Prime Jim for Riis part in the Landing on ister King will make a statement in the House of commons this afternoon before the old session prorogued. The Prospect exists it is indicated that the role followed by the Cana Dian overseas army in going into action shortly will not be precisely within the terms of . A. G. L. Mcnaughton s famous phrase of a Dagger pointed at the heart of Berlin. In other words the Cana Dian army May be assigned a sector on the Periphery of occupied Europe not precisely anticipated in official discussion so far of the action stations of Mcnaughton s. The fact that . Forces arriving late in the european theatre have gone into major action in North Africa ahead of Canadian forces has been a sore Point with officers and men of the overseas army it is known Here. For the present official information on what Casablanca decisions will mean to Canada is confined to what has already been said notably by or. Kins in his new year s eve broadcast when he said for Canada the coming year will see All our armed forces in action. We shall need to Muster All our courage As Well As All our strength. We May be called upon to pass through the greatest ordeal in our country s history the position of the Canadian overseas army is that is at the Dis position of the United nations com Mand to the extent that such a command is operative through the combined chiefs of staff committee in Washington and of the British High command in London which in practice Means the chief of Gen eral Imperial staff. But the Cana Dian government on the right to be informed and would normally informed of any sizeable opera Ion to which canadians were assigned. If a major political decision were involved such As moving the Cana Dian overseas army from us Long iced Post in the defences of the United kingdom to an offensive station elsewhere the Canadian government would claim sole right of decision. The Canadian overseas army though still lacking Battle experience is relatively one of the major armies at the disposal of the allies in planning 1043 operations. It is larger in numbers than either he first army in Tunisia or the sight army in Libya it is More heavily armoured than any other orce of its size in the world. On the sector of the Eastern front had begun an orderly re temperature headings Low during the night High yesterday High Jan. 27, 1942 4 meeting of Churchill and Roosevelt took place. Meeting. But he added that the Story s Complete so far As it can be told at the present time. But indications grew that the announcement of the War conference m the Sun drenched african coast Eft Many dramatic events and important decisions unrevealed. Strategic decisions it was certain would not be revealed until their reality is brought Home to the Axis the crunch of bombs the blast of shells and the scramble of land no troops on the european Conti nent anywhere from Norway to Italy or the Balkans. However suggestions appeared in despatches of British United press correspondents from North Africa that diplomatic manoeuvres of in revealed scope May have accompanied the military discussions. No authoritative basis there was no authoritative basis for these suggestions and there was no statement from Allied quarters touching on the possibility of moves designed to wean Axis Satel Lites or sympathizers away from Hitler. Finland was hinted As one pos sible subject of an Allied get out of the War while the getting is Good drive. Italy was another and there were rumours As to Eye opening and cards on the table manoeuvres involving Spain tur key and Sweden. There was Quick enthusiasm Here for the fact that president Roose velt and prime minister Winston Churchill had met in North Africa. There was More than a touch of disappointment that Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek and Premier Joseph Stalin had not been there too. There is speculation How they May be More closely associated with tile Casablanca announcement. Washington s judgment coincided with London s that the president and prime minister had agreed on an Early invasion of Europe where British and american troops will slug it out with Germany on the ground. There is growing Confidence that the invasion timetable has been fixed. But the All inclusive global scope of the Casablanca communique and of the statements suggest that some definite and satisfactory Means must have been agreed upon to embrace China and soviet Russia More firmly in the statement of policy. Frustrated fears some of the newspapermen who covered the conference Are begin announcement continued on Page a column 5 supplies dropped Montreal Jan. 27. Eup food and other supplies was dropped to Day to . Al Chiesman and two other . Fliers marooned beside their wrecked plane just South of Sandwich Bay. Labrador. The supplies were dropped from a Low flying Royal air Force ferry command Liberator . Headquarters Here announced. The plane was unable to land and then returned to its base. Giraud and de Gaulle Accord being sought London Jan. 27. And american leaders will make another attempt to bring together Gen. Charles de Gaulle fighting French Leader and Gen. Henri Honore Giraud chief of the French North african regime who faced to agree on major political issues at Casablanca Well informed sources said today. A fighting French spokesman disclosed however that economic military and missions would be exchanged soon Between de Gaulle and Giraud. The spokesman said de Gaulle and Giraud each would be informed of the other s military manoeuvres although there would be no fusion of their forces. The economic consultations would include trading Between North Africa and those de Gaulle continued on Page 6, column 1 Moscow Jan. 27. Ier Stalin it was revealed today met with Admiral William d. Standley. . Ambassador and h. L. Haggai Lay. Counsellor of the British embassy last night. It appeared probable that the British and american diplomats May have met with Stalin to pre sent to him the results of the Casa Blanca conference of president Roosevelt and prime minister Winston Churchill ;