Show 4 V Akyali Move Gives Japs Hint of Peril t gakt Zribunr Vibe 5111t Monday Morning January URMA'SETS THE ST corris Burma of 'cloud port Road traffic ouppto SADIYA ROAD A: - n44' 4r First Of fensh g14 MAIN JAP Burmese Proves Allies Gain Strength are reported readying a forces massed here drive north into China YkKYIP4 Rubber Area Stirs Interest or Wrigley British Prepare to Battle If Rommel Shows Flofit By Hal Foust Chicago Tribune Service CHICAGO Jan 2 — Philip K Wrigley chewing gum manufacturer and a baseball club owner is also in the rubber business it Willi learned Crews which formerly scamtree3 to tap pered up them for chicle for 'Wrigley are now hacking through tropical jun gles and tapping castilla elastica trees for rubber Th activity has improved the 1943 tire outlook at least a bit "rit introduce you to a man who knows all the details" Wrigley replied to inquiries about his new venture He introduced R It Holcomb vice president in charge of production for the William Wrigley Jr company "We have between 1000 and 10000 men engaged in getting rubber from central and South America" said Holcomb wha heads a new rubber procurement division of the chewing gum company "We can't be certain of the number beare so cause communications a TENGCH14c4G Awlela led Pres Japaneae war lords earl look uneasily at arecent developments In the region The fIrst ground offensive in that area Singapore fell and the allies were whipped out of Burma has By qk' India-Burm- - DACCA Isince been recorded rt:lyvvt Communiques and dispatches do riot siuggest that General Wave 11's stab down the west coast of Burma toward Akyab is a great push Its significance lies in the fact that the united nations have taken 1 L4 4 4 r JAP Alit 1 ! 1 t ! i wise been heavily increased Word that the greatest convoy ever to land in the east had reached India is further evidence of allied intention to challenge the Japanese in the region where the allies were decisively defeated 31eAs than a yeacago Most important right now is the likely effect on China of the Burmese offensive The Saps are reported to have about 90000 men 4 a ! i t In Burma largely concentrated In the northeast close to Yunnan - province Chine Apprehensive Chinese authorities have long since been apprehensive that the Japs intended a drive from uppeg Burma into the heart of China with ICuntning (Yunnan) and Chunking the cap Ital as its major objectives WaveIrs move down the Burma once-and-for-- When the Axis is Srnashed--41That- OffINSIVE may protect Chittagong for use os metier British supply port anti divrt Japs from Chinos border Can --Gertrtaar LPSSU Italy 14 fitted ins the new world order- ? la'bat it that objez and bow will it affect you? Behind the scenes in Washington a vast progrens as being drIted The time detailed report of it comes from an outstanding Washing too correspondent Kingsbury Smith Be -sure to read The -American Plan for a Reorganized World- in the January Read or s Digest AILSO TIIIS ISSUE new book condensed A -- SiCONCI ACT may class with British moving ogainst twin tri angles blocking the three "easy" feeder lanes to Burma Road - Indo-Chin- Indo-Chin- northeast Burma Setting Stage The action in Burma Sumatra a so far is but the and setting- of a stago for later and more important moves by the alin Indo-Chin- lies It is important however as evidence that the' united nations are setting the stage to suit themselves The Japs for the first time this exciting novel shows you why Fu since Pearl Harbor have been never can be millions enslaved rope's on the ground where challenged conquered won their Seven-waThese greatest victories nerves they to test your best-sellin- Hostages tells bow underground workers avenged the murder of twenty Czechs by the Gestapo Mors than that ys simple amusing checks e re suggested by doctors Try them on yourself or at your next party The heroic story of an army nurse who went through the bell of Bataan and Corregidor Why she's sure that bar officer husband whom sh married on a battlefield who is "missing in aes - will and tiotsreturn TIN :So It's happened to Me Too el a badly wounded RAP tr pilot as he struggled from unconsciousness to escape German pursuers A tense report of aerial combat over Prance nese are only a few of 38 stimulating features is the January Reader's DlItest— me magazine that saves you time and money and brings you the worthwhile personally helpful articles you might otherwise anise At all newsstands ' Transport Center Falls Says China CHUNGKING Jan 3 (A'—The high command said Sunday-Japnese troops had captured Macheng a transport center 6Ci miles northeast of Hankow but Chinese troops were resisting bitterly in the neighborhood ake tribunetht 5alt jsupd -- t rritered morning at Hatt Lake CIO as second poNt ottle ciaoe matter unoer Act of Matrch L 187W 'Utah Idaho No $11139irription vada: Wynrona daily and Sunday month lifiwner yea r tfl advanea $12: U S daily and 1tinCial month $125 verY - - I UNGKING INDIA-C- H I AIR SUPPLY FERRY POSSIBLE BRITISH OFFENSIVES AP FaatUMS Allies Complete Destruction Jap Hundreds Of 13una Mission Enemy Die in Giropa s Tank Assaults Page (Continued from Ono) toward which they began fighting their way from Port Moresby late in September Small Holding Remains (A delayed dispatch filed Saturday from the New Guinea:front a Japanese holding of small A spokesman emphasized how- said extending a few hundred strength ever that organized resistance westward along the beach around Buna and Giropa point— yards from Giropa creek still remained the core of Japanese strength in to be eliminated this area—was definitely broken ("The Japanese are known to Meanwhile Fortresses Flying bunkers here as in every struck at large concentrations of have sector" wrote the correother Japanese shipping at Rabaul spondent William F Boni "hut Cloud cover prevented positive ob- for once have the disadvanservation but returning airmen tage of they in swampy fighting said they saw flames rising from ground" a 10000-to- n vessel which they (Boni said that 23 Japanese had believed had received two direct surrendered—making up one of the bomb hits of captives in bags single largest At Gasmata an allied unit this war — to Australians who strafed th air field the commu- erased a pocket of enemy resistnique said ance south of the mouth of Santini Another allied unit bombed the creek Allied airmen joined ground d town and air- gunners in attacks upon Japanese drome at Madang Results there who sought to swim to safety from were not disclosed but at Lae the a medium Giropa point) the final bombers destroyed victory Anticipating bomber and damaged two fighters Genera earlier anMacArthur on the ground caught nounced that his troops had "broken the back of enemy resistance" Cause No Damage and were "destroying his thatNine enemy dive bombers at- tered forces" Allied forcea-wer- e tacked the government station at moving from two sides His comTuft but caused no damage munique said to crush the JapaThe text of the communique: nese who had resisted so tena—ReconNorthwestern sector In their jungle bunkers and ciously naissance activity only Northeastern sector—New Brit- pillboxes g Tanks artillery and ain machine-gunnin- g planes fighter atRabaul: Otir heavy bombers asparticipated in the final bloody Jatacked enemy shipping and har- sault against the entrenched bor installations at dawn Cloud after wedges had bun cover prevented observation of panese driven between the enemy force results - led Australian Infantry Gaamata: An allied unit strafed Tank in from the right to overdrove field the air the Japanese strongpoint whelm On New Guinea—Buna area: Giropa point bet they the right we have completed de- around their American allies crushed struction of the enemy's' defeated and His losses were heavy the last enemy resistance at Buna forces The only remaining remnants of mission the Japanese Papuan army are Face Mors lighting confined in a narrow salient exWith the imminent clearance of tending from Sanananda point Buna sector by allied which we are preparing to en- the entire the troops only enemy force of is The enemy's position velop short of Salaany consequence now hopeless maua and Lae 120 to 160 miles bombed allied An unit Madang: d town and air- farther northwest in New Guinca the is entrenched in the Cape Sanandrome west of Buna Lae: An allied unit bombed the anda area announcement atressed that The a medium airdrome destroying two the enemy in thia sector would bomber and on damaging have to be eliminated before the the ground fighters caught be conTufi: Nine enemy dive bombers Papuan campaign could undoubtsidered This completed station attacked the government edly will call for more severe fight with no damage The allied sweep through the ing as the Japanese have con BUrla mission area announced in structed defenses in depth two a triumphant statement from Gen Miles inland from Sanananda oral Douglas MacArthur's head- point The Japanese du k in there and quarters gave the allies control of the northeast New Guinea port facing either eventual death or left in the area he occupied last une Throughout Sunday the Amernd ican Australian troops combed the occupied area for snipers who were taking occasional potshots from the treetops or foxholes in the swamps enemy-occupie- - low-flyin- rat: Iklrik-Ilr- lf BRITISH DRIVE MOULMEIN coast has found little opposition The Japs must move to counter the push Some of those forces massed on the Chinese border would be the logical troops to inThat would ease the terpose pressure on China The- offenaive also has the possibility of clearing protective ground around Chittagong and making that port a terminal for supplies to China It would shorten the route No Longer Secure a and Sumatra The air attacks serve notice on Japan that the sea lanes for supply to a Burma Malaya and are no longer secure This la a serious threat to the Nipponese for already admittedly pinched CalTheir bombings of ships cutta indicate they realize the danger of the threat Lastly the movement south carries closer to the vulnerable south- ern third of Burma every mile the column advances The deltas of g the Irrawaddy Salween and rivers offer the best approaches for a "road back" in Burma Allied success here would threaten the whole Japanese rear Armored Columns Inch Forward AroundGulf of Sine Curve as French Units Menace Axis Flank emo- - Allies--(Offici- By Aaaociated Press al) LONDON Jan 3—Bristling armored columns nudged for ward cautiously around the curve of the Gulf of Sirte in Libya Sunday and Berlin-Rom- e report3 indicated that Marshal Erwin Rommel might be ready to break off his long retreat and make 160 air line miles at least a delaying stand in the Wadi Zem-Zesoutheast of Tripoli This suggested that the British An increasing threat to in the last few days mel's southern flank however of apparent inactivity had been w a s the motorized Fighting pursuinghis usual tactics of draw-tri- g French column of Brigadier Genup an overwhelming force eral Jacques Le Clerc from the when a line of enemy resistance Lake-- Chad area A French com- is encountered munique said this force had driven Affords Natural Line "teveral hundred miles" into m Roan-command- er southern Libya and was continuing northward A Berlin report by D N B said a large number of United States troops and a complete American tank division had just arrived at the Tunisian front - 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" ' AX YAS na 1 ::r BASE the initiative at all As a portent of things to come the Akyab thrust is important In conjunction with the bold carrier based British air attack on north- ern Sumatra and the U S air raids from Chinese fields on Indo- China strongholds of the Jars It betokens greatly augmented a1lied forces in the Asiatic theater The British must be sure of sea and air superiority in the Bay of 13engal to send a carrier to Sumetre The big flat tops donl move around without ample protection There are obviously powerful British naval forces in the Bev of Bengal The U S attack on Haiphong in Indo-Chiindicates reinforced air strength in China Presumably the ground forces have like- - By Mur lin Spencer WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN NEW GUINEA Jan 1 (Delayed) i2P) -Japanese were slaughtered in droves in the New Year's day push by Australian with American troops help which took Giropa point the Japanese command post in the Buna - 1913 el Native Jungle Crewe "The chicle 'workers with the banana workers of the United Fruit company are about the only peacetime organization of jungle labor under American management They know their ways in the equitorial woods they're acclimated They are slashing troth' clearing landing fields and tapping wild rubber tress "The Rubber Reserve company of the Reconstruction Finance corporation of courses Le paying the bills and owns the crop balls of latex needed most urgently for tires The two big peacetime jungle industries are furnishing labor and field management" Holcomb's estimates of 1943 additions to the waning stockpile of crude rubber are brighter than earlier forecasts by Washington officials He predicted that approximately 45000 tons would beobtained from' the western hemisphere exclusive of Mexico In September the Baruch committee (President Roosevelt's rubber advisers headed by Bernard M Baruch) placed 1943 additions of natural rubber at 41000 tone This included imports from IkIexico At rica and Ceylon and production from the guayule bush being tivated in California and from the cryptostegia vine being cultivated in Haiti - Little Activity The Wadi Zem-Zeafforded one such natural line for it runs at right angles to the line of the between the British advance eouthern end of extensive coastal salt marsh on Montgomery's right and the highlands on his left About 75 miles to the north is Misurata and 100 miles to the west of Misurata is Tripoli While seasonal conditions in TUTLIgia were reported to be such that no large scale ground activtty might take place for another three or four weeks allied air forces continued their intense and growing offensive which was said already to have made Tunis virtually tiaeless as an axis port and to be rapidly dixorganizing other axis-hel- d coastal bases and railways Smash Crete' Targets "Large forces" of allied aircraft Including American and medium bombers and light British bombers smaahed a number of targets on the Greek isiend of Crete by daylight Saturday British and American communiquell front Cairo reported Pushing home their assault thorugh muggy aide the American and British fliers observed numerous hits on axis targets in the port of Suds Bay Timbakf airfield and Kaateti The 'attack followed in quirk euccesaion a night raid on Candia airfield on Crete in which hits were scored on runways and air plane' and on the Sicilian were balm of Palermo where fires m While the axis claimed continued advancea in Tunisia and heavy air action allied dispatches indicated there was relatively little ground activity in that mector to Rommel's rear General Sir Bernard L Montgomery's war bulletin from Cairo said British Eighth army troops were A'in contact" with the enemy in the Wadi Bei El CheribBuerat El noun area Saturday apparently a alight advance from the area of previous contacts described as west of the wadi British dispatches earlier bad the Germans digging in reported boulder-strewn In the valley of Zem-Zeabout 20 miles beyond the Wadi Bet El Chebir Claim British Repulsed Both the Berlin and Rome communiques Sunday said their forces had repulsed the British with shell fire indicating that the axis may have concenaated considerable artillery among the gulches and hillocks Rommel may not be prepared to make a prolonged stand there however for Berlin broadcasts nervously reported that Montgomery obviously was making preparation for a large attack in a started in the harbor area few days four-motor- m area Japanese lying atop cocoanut palm bunkers were mowed down by machinegun fire and others fighting from inside the bunkers ed S were flushed out and destroyed by cannon rifle fire and grenades as Australian 'veterans 'teamed up with IL tanki to take this strongly defended spot near Buns government station the ' While there was no official estimate of the enemy dead the Australiana spoke of "hundreds ilt 228 South Maim Jaimary killed" The taking of Girona point was an Australian show hut primarily the American forces gave support by keeping heavy pressure on the Japanese between the point and the government station to prevent them from withdrawing troops to reinforce the point The Giropa push was the sixth n time the General Stuart tanks had been used in the Buna 13-to- campaign Fighting opened with a heavy artillery barrage from firing at almost point-blan- k range In the early morning the tanks went into action with their cannon hammering and their treads plowing the black earth Forty-fiv- e minutes later the first tank breached the defenses and pushed through to the coast capture are the last survivors of the big enemy force which last July started moving across the towering Owen Stanley mountains toward the vital Allied bage at Port - 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