The Charleston Gazette
Charleston, West Virginia, Sunday Morning, May 31, 1942.
British Check Rommel, Take
Initiative in Some Sectors
Nazis' Kharkov Loss 90,000
Drive Thwarts
Rostov Attack
Timoshenko's Push Hailed
As Brilliant Success
In Averting Blow
By Germans
Soviets Lose 75,000,
Say Battle End Near
Hitler Legions Continue
Assaults Below City,
Are Repulsed
MOSCOW, Sunday, May 31.—
(AP)—Marshal Timoshenko's Soviet
armies in the Ukraine have
scored a brilliant success in
thwarting a Nazi-planned drive
upon Rostov, gateway to the
Caucasus, the Russians announced.
in a special communique
today declaring that the
battle of Kharkov is drawing to
a close after 19 days of violent
fighting in which the Germans
have lost more than 90,000 killed
or captured.
U.S. Weapons
Play Big Role
Main Struggle of Tanks
Southwest of Tobruk
Continues Raging,
Cairo Reports
No Decisive Turn
Noted by English
American Planes, Deadly
New Spitfires Thrown
Into Wide Fight
CAIRO, May 30.—(INS)—The
British defenders of east Libya,
hurling more and more American-
made tanks and planes into
a series of mighty counter-offensive
actions, were hitting
back hard tonight at the Axis
drive toward Egypt.
Inflicting heavy losses on German-
Italian mechanized and motorized
forces by land and air, the
British appeared to have checked
the enemy push, then to have wrested
the initiative from the Axis in
some important sectors.
Tributes Paid
To War Dead
Great Plants Hum Busily
As Veterans Parade For
Memorial
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