BOMBERS HURL
4,000 TONS ON
ON NAZI AREAS
LONDON, Nov. 29.—(AP>—At
least a thousand RAF heavy
bombers, in pre-dawn raids,
hurled some 4,000 tons of explos
ives at Neuss and Freiberg in
Gemran supply centers, which
are just back of the western
front, it was reported today.
The 72-hour assault on the
Nazi front line rail supply cen
ters continued at Freibiug, which
lies behind Mulhouse in the Kol
mar sector, where the French
First Army and the American
Seventh Army are pressing up
to the western bank of the
Rhine.
American heavy bombers at
tacked the German rail move
ments in north Freiburg yester
day.
Mosquitoes raided Berlin last
night and went as far north as
Neuss in the Dusseldorf area.
This is a junction point on the
rail line from Aachen, Cologne
and Gladbach, where the Brit
ish Second Army and the U. S.
First and Ninth Armies are en
gaged.
American fighters downed 98
German planes yesterday in what
may prove to be the greatest of
all fighter air battles of the war.
They also destroyed four planes
on the ground, bringing the total
for 24 hours to 212 planes down
ed.
Thirteen American fighters
and one bomber were missing in
yesterday’s operations in this
{fighter plane battle which in
volved some 500 Mustangs against
more than 400 German Focke
wolfs and Messerschmitts.
TOKYO TELLS
OF U. S. RAIDS
ON CAPITAL
UNDATED — A radio report
from Tokyo said that American
bombers again flew over the cap
ital at 8:30 a. m. today.
The following message was re
corded by the FCC:
“A minor formation for enemy
planes penetrated Tokyo and
surrounding area before noon on
November 29th. Intercepting
Japanese planes are now giving
them a hot reception.”
AIRWAYS
Alaska Airlines
Captain MacKenzie is due in
this afternoon.
Wisn Alaska Airlines
Pilot Peterson made a trip to
Shishmaref Monday and return
ed with Miss Sorell.
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FIVE-YEAR WAR!
REPORT READ
TO PARLIAMENT
LONDON, Nov. 29.—(AP>—
Britain today disclosed her story
of the five years of war, show
ing these years had cost her 733,
i 000 casualties, including 136,000
civilians and most of the treas
ures of their grandfathers.
A six-page report gave Parlia
ment the statistical story of Eng
land’s conversion of factory and
fortress, and also her production.
It announced one out of every
three homes in Britain were des
troyed or damaged.
Another startling fact was that
more than a third of all British
men between 15 and 64 are in
the armed forces and nearly half
the women between 14 and 59
were in uniform or industry by
the end of last year. i
Britain lost 11% million gross
tons of shipping, which was two
thirds of their total tonnage
when the war broke out in 1939.
Civilian casualties through last
September included 57,298 killed.
DISTURBANCES
BY DRAFTEES
IN CANADA
OTTAWA, Can., Nov. 29.—(AP)
—Disturbances among the Canad
ian home service draftees who
are facing assignment on the
Western front, broke out in far
western Canada today, as Parlia
ment met in secret session over
the conscription.
The conference dragged far
into the night and adjourned at
11:00 p. m.
Meanwhile, the spokesman for
the Pacific Army in command at
Vancouver, is quoted as saying
the situation at Terrace, in Brit-1
ish Columbia, appeared to be
easier at that post.
Home defence troops of a
French-Canadian regiment, it is
said prevented the departure of
an overseas unit drafted from
the English speaking Saskatche
wan unit.
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