Salamana airfield.
27 barges were destroyed or damaged
around New Guinea.
Over the Solomons 36 Japanese fighters
were shot down.
W.W. Jacobs, the author died in his 80th
year in London yesterday. He wrote
a.o. "Many Cargoes" published in 1896
2/9/1943 2.= pm. Dutch time Rich Wessel
The Russian armies continue to converge on
Smolensk. In the North East they have reached
and no doubt passed Dorogobuzh.
More progress is expected from Donets-,
Zefsk [?]- and Kharkiv -sectors.
In the defeat at Taganrog 8 German divisions
were recorded including one panzer- and
one airborne division.
According to communique from Allied
Headquarters in North Africa light bombers have
Tuesday night attacked military camps in
S. Italy. Airfields near Tarente an Aversa
9 miles north of Naples were also attacked.
Mass arrests are taking place in
Denmark more than 50 people were
killed in Copenhagen and some 100 wounded.
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