Edwardsville Intelligencer
EDWARDSVILLE, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1942.
Germans Make Four Fierce Invasion Thrusts Far Into Russia
REDS SAY FIELDS,
DON RIVER FILLED WITH DEAD NAZIS
Germans Are Driven Back In
Attack on British Who Arc
Anchored on Hill of Jesus.
DUST STORMS ADD
TO EXTREME HEAT
Japs Hold Futou For Two
Days But Chinese Recapture
It, Foochow Battle
Is Slowed Up.
Moscow, July 13- The German
high command today exploded a
fierce new thrust against the north
of Moscow front, threw hundreds
of tanks against the corpse littered
approaches of Vorone
and pushed two drives southeastward
into the Don river bend
against withering blasts of Russian
artillery.
Two fresh divisions of German
troops and several hundred tanks
crossed the Don river and reinfore-
ed the two or three enemy divisions
already pounding at the out
skirts of Voronezh, but late dispatches
from the front said that
the four-day onslaught had failed
to penetrate the city's defenses.
The Gallup Independent
GALLUP, N. M., MONDAY, JULY 13, 1942
BRITISH SHIPS BLAST MATRUH BASE
Destroy Vital Supplies For
Axis Egyptian Forces. With
Both Sea, Air Power Assault
BULLETIN
ALEXANDRIA, July 13 (AP)—British warships hurled
hundreds of rounds of high explosive shells into the vital
axis supply base at Matruh at dawn Sunday, causing great
destruction of materiel dumps supplying the Egyptian battlefield.
Naval aircraft bombed western Egypt seaport installations
while scores of projectiles from warships silenced
shore batteries and beat much of the port into smoking
ruins.
This surprise bombardment caught a mass of small
supply ships and torpedo boats at anchor in the harbor.
The warships pumped shells into Matruh for nearly a
half-hour. The first round blasted heavy anti-aircraft guns
into rubble and set huge blazes.
Returning British aviators said the surprise raid
"knocked the hell out of the town."
Word-Picture Of What Russia Now
Faces In Battle For Oil Control
Major Role Being
Played In Europe
War By Red Army
(By Wide World)
The German army's latest, thrust
into the Dan basin brings it to within
500 .miles of one of its major goals,
Soviet Russia's rich Caucasus oil
fields.
This is the distance from Boguehar,
where the Germans are now
reported, to Baku, the great oil center
On the lower Caspian sea.
But the Germans would have to
advance only 375 miles to reach the
Caspian farther north at Astrakhan,
|cutting off the Caucasus from the
rest of Russia. It seems logical to
{assume that this is their immediate
goal.
They are about the same distance
from Astrakhan as they were last
November when they reached Rostov.
but they were halted then by
the winter and forced to withdraw.
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