THE CAPITAL TIMES
MADISON, WIS., MONDAY, JULY 27, 1942
Germans Hurl Weight
Of Reinforcements In
Battle for Caucasus
Fierce Tank, Plane
Blows Landed
on Reds
BY EDDY GILMORE
MOSCOW— (/P) —The Germans
hurled into battle
today the great weight of
reinforcements t h e y h a v e
massed for the campaigns
against the north Caucasus
and Stalingrad on the Volga,
sending tanks and planes in
a furious assault in an effort
to widen their footholds south
of the Don river near Tsimlyansk.
The Russian air force, using
some United States bombers and
fighters, pounded the moving columns
of German men and guns by
daylight and under the nearly full
moon by night.
The whole steppe land was eerie
with flames. Bombs burst over
great areas of the gentle, grassy
slopes and the plains waist-high
with grain.
The Russians reported they were
holding their positions against the
tremendous onslaught.
The Stalingrad-Tikhoretsk railway,
last rail link with the Caucasus,
undoubtedly has undergone
heavy bombings. There were, however,
no reports, suggesting, that
German land farces had reached
this line, which runs south of the
Don barely 50 miles from Tslmlyansk.
British Raid
Tobruk; Set
Many Fires
Ship in Harbor Hit, Is
Claim; Desert Fight
Still in Lull
CAIRO—(AP)—A heavy force of
bombers blasted the Axis supply
port of Tobruk again Sunday night,
touching off fires and explosions
and scoring a direct hit on an enemy
ship, British headquarters announced
today.
The attack was the second in
two nights, following a heavy assault
Saturday in which United
States heavy bombers took a prom
inent part.
• American airmen reported a big
area of Tobruk lit up by blazing
gasoline after the Saturday night
raid. They called this their most
successful operation of the African
campaign although thick layers of
cloud often prevented them from
seeing the target.
Lieut. Ernest Duckworth of
Providence, R. I., bombardier and
navigator of one of -the American
planes, said he dropped a string
of nine heavy bombs which touched
off fires along a pipe-line carrying
fuel from tankers to fuel
dumps.
600 RAF Planes Bomb
Hamburg; 29 Are Lost
U Boat Shipyards Are
Target of Largest
Raid in Month
LONDON—(AP)—A very heavy
force oft British bombers attacked
the German port of Hamburg Sunday
night, it was announced today.
•Twenty-nine planes were reported
lost in the raid.
In addition to high explosives,
the RAF dropped more than
175,000 incendiary bombs, and Air
Chief Marshal Sir Arthur T. Harris,
chief of the bomber command,
called the raid "one of the outstangingly
successful attacks of the
whole war." the air ministry news
service reported.
Within 35 minutes "much of the
old town was on Alert," the service
said. There were fires burning
around Aussen Laster lake and
many in the dock area.
(On the basis of losses of slightly
under 5 per cent, which the
British have reported as the cost
of similar recent heavy raids, this
would suggest a striking force of
at least 600 planes.
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