Friday, July 23, 2010

Current Events JULY 23, 1942: JAPANESE FORCES ON PAPUAN COAST:


                                               Joplin Globe
     JOPLIN, MISSOURI, THURSDAY MORNING, JULY 23, 1942.—
REDS BRACE FOR FINISH FIGHT
TAKE STAND
AT ROSTOV'S
OUTER FORTS
Deep Wedge Driven by Huge
German Army Half Way
Between Vital City and
Stalingrad.
EXTENT OF RUSSIAN
RETREAT IN DOUBT
Hour of Utmost Gravity Arrives
for Defenders—Moscow
Summons All Its
Strength to Front.
BULLETIN.
Moscow, J u l y 23.—(Thursday)
(AP)—The Moscow radio rep-
o r t e d today the G e r m a n s had
lost 6,000 killed in bitter fight-
ing for a town
south of Voronezh,
on the upper Don front.
By EDDY GILMORE.
Moscow, July 23—(Thurs-
day) — (AP) — The million
man German army pounding
at the Caucasus and the
Volga has driven a deep
wedge roughly half way be-
tween Rostov and Stalingrad
and the sorely-pressed Rus-
sians have fallen back on the
outer defenses of Rostov for
a finish fight, the Russians
indicated officially early to-
day.

BRITISH ATTACK ROMMELS ARMY ALL ALONG FRONT
_Onslaught Is First Launched
Against Axis in Center,
North and South at
Same Time.
SEE-SAW FIGHTING
RAGES DURING DAY
Allied Planes, Ruling Air
Without Challenge, Blast
at Objectives Near
and Far.
By EDWARD KENNEDY.
Cairo, Egypt, J u l y 22.—(AP)—Under
cover of Allied planes ruling
the airal most without challenge,
British i m p e r i a l s a t t a c k e d t h e A x is
, forces all a l o n g the 40-mile desert
front west a n d s o u t h of Alamein
tonight in an o n s l a u g h t t h a t began
l a s t night and r a g e d inconclusively
t h r o u g h today.
While it still w a s t o o e a r l y t o s e e
d e f i n i t e results, t h e B r i t i s h under
the leadership of General Sir
C l a u d e Auchinleck reported progr-
ess.
The imperials on t h e n o r t h e r n
c o a s t a l sector occupied all of Tel
El Eisa (Hill of Jesus) ridge, which
has changed hands repeatedly.

Bodies of 29 U-Boat Crew
Members Buried in Virginia
Germans Were Killed When Destroyer on Patrol Duty Sunk
Their Submarine in Atlantic—Victims Are Paid Full Military
Honors—Navy Declines to Give Details of Action in
Which Nazis Lost Lives.
Norfolk, Va., J u l y 22.—(AP)—The
bodies of 29 c r e w m e n of a German
s u b m a r i n e sunk by a d e s t r o y e r on
A t l a n t i c patrol—the first enemy
dead to be landed on American
s h o r e s in t h i s war—were brought
h e r e a n d b u r i e d w i t h full m i l i t a ry
h o n o r s in n e a r b y Hampton.
The bodies a n d a few em p t y life
j a c k e t s were all t h a t remained
a f l o a t after t h e U-boat was sunk.
The n a v y declined to give further
d e t a i l s i n a n o u n c i n g t h e a c t i o n to
night

10,000 GERMANS REPORTED
KILLED IN COLOGNE RAID
London, J u l y 22.—(AP)—The Briti-
sh P r e s s Association, quoting a
r e l i a b l e foreign source, said today
that 10,000 Germans were
k i l l ed in t h e R. A. F . ' s t h o u s a n d -
p l a n e r a i d on Cologne May 30 and
were  b u r i e d   in communal graves.
T h i s  source  w a s  q u o t e d  as say-
ing the G e r m a n s moved 140,000
persons from t h e city, t h a t houses
by  t h e  h u n d r e d s  were  r u i n e d  beyond
repair a n d  t h a t  at  l e a s t  16
f a c t o r i e s , I n c l u d i n g   r a i l w a y  workshops,
were destroyed.

Japs Land on Papuan Coast
Under Heavy Bombardment

G e n e r a l M a c A r t h u r ' s Headquart-
e r s , A u s t r a l i a , July 23.—(Thurs-
day )— (/P) — J a p a n e s e forces have
l a n d e d on t h e n o r t h coast of Papua
at Gona Mission, where no Allied
t r o o p s w e r e s t a t i o n e d , General Mac-
A r t h u r ' s h e a d q u a r t e r s r e p o r t e d today.
Allied planes heavily attacked
t h e d e b a r k i n g J a p a n e s e troops, the
c o m m u n i q u e said. One l a r g e t r a n s p
o r t a n d one b a r g e were sunk.
H e a v y casualties were inflicted
on t h e l a n d i n g troops.
One enemy seaplane was shot
down in f i g h t i n g with Allied F l i e r s.
Two Allied planes were reported
l o s t .
T h e l a n d i n g point was described
a s in t h e v i c i n i t y of Buna, on the
n o r t h e r n P a p u a n coast below Salam-
aua , which t h e J a p a n e s e h a d occ-
u p i e d as a c o a s t a l base.
The first hint of a possible land-
ing a t t e m p t came y e s t e r d a y , when
Allied fliers bombed a convoy edg-
ing s o u t h w a r d along t h e c o a s t . One
h i t w a s s c o r e d on a t r a n s p o r t then,
a communique reported.
B u n a is l o c a t e d directly across
t h e P a p u a n peninsula, about 100
m i l e s from t h e Allied b a s e a t P o rt
Moresby.

Axis Sub Fires
on Boatload of
Ship Survivors
By Associated Press
The captain of a large Norwegian
merchant ship sunk in the Atlantic
was machine-gunned because he refused
to give the U-boat commander
the name, of his vessel, the navy
reported today.
Torpedoing of a United States
cargo ship and a British merchant-,
man also were announced, bringing
i 396 the unofficial Associated Press
tabulation of allied and neutral
losses in the Western Atlantic
since Pearl Harbor. The toll in the
three sinkings was 35. dead and 89
rescued.
Capt. Finn Ager Madsen, 42, of '
Conaburg, Norway, said at a gulf
coast port.-that the submarine fired
on a dinghy carrying himself and -
three .crewmen from the sinking
ship.' the captain was hit in the
arm but the other three were unhurt.
Thirty five other men in the crew
rowed away in two lifeboats and
reached Devil's Island, ' French
Guiana. Rather than face internment
there, they escaped and
pushed on to Paramaribo, Dutch
Guiana.^

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