Thursday, May 27, 2010

current Events May 27 1942: BRITISH CLAIM ADVANCES IN LIBYA


                Evening Capital
ANNAPOLIS, MD., WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1942.

Report Russian Break Through
Nazi Wedge In Flanking Move


BRITISH TANKS COUNTER NAZIS
WHO DRIVE FORWARD IN LIBYA
London Dispatch Declares Russians Break Into
German Wedge On Flank Below Kharkov—
Attempt Made On Life Of Reinhard Heydrich, No.
2 German Gestapo Leader—Chinese Announced
4,500 Japanese Killed At Kinwha—General
Somervell In London—British Bomb Messina-
Italians Claim U. S. Cruiser Torpedoed
Soviet front-line dispatches reported today that Marshal Semeon
Timoshenko's armies had smothered part of the German offensive 80
miles below Kharkov, while the German high command asserted
That the resistance of Russian troops "encircled" in the same sector
has been broken."
A Reuters news dispatch to London reported the Russians have
broken through the flank of the German wedge into the Izyum-Bar-
vencova front, were advancing in an important sector" and that the
counter-attack had stopped the main German offensive.
Berlin said that the Russians, which the Nazis claim are encircled
n the Izyum-Barvenkova sector, had been broken "after fresh and
fruitless attempts to break out."

The Chinese high command announced renewed Japanese assaults
oh Kinwha, provisional capital of Chekiang province, had been thrown
back and that 4,500 Japanese soldiers had died in a single day's fighting
for the strategic city. The Chinese position along the Burma road
was reported greatly Improved as American Flying Tigers blasted
Japanese bases repeatedly without meeting opposition and the Chinese
troops continued to push the Invaders back from the Salween river.

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