Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Current Events August 10, 1942; SOLOMON ISLANDS BATTLE RAGES ON/ RUSSIA LINES SAGGING IN CAUCUSES:



            The Portsmouth Times
                       PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, MONDAY, AUGUST 10, 1942

BIG U. S. ATTACK IN PACIFIC RAGES ON
by C. YATES MaCDANIEL Associated Press Staff Writer
MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Aug.
10, Powerfull bomber formations of the Allied southwest Pacific
command rained sledge hammer blows on enemy bases in
the New Guinea-New Britain area, it was reported today, in
air and sea forces locked in battle with the Japanese for the
mountinous Solomon Islands and their strategic waters.
Official reports from Allied headquarters were meager and
extremely cautious at the end of the fourth day of the first
United Nations attempt to wrest the initiative from the Japanese
in the southwest Pacific.
While eagerly awaiting news of the outcome of the struggle
for jungle-covered islands under the equatorial «ky 600 mile*
distant from this continent, Australian headquarters were
heartened by reports from advanced bases, describing the vigor
with which day-and-night air attacks were being pretjd
home against the bases on which the Japanese depend for re
inforcements.
Rabaul, New Britain, a crossroads for Japanese forces arriving
from their mandated islands and fanning out to the
southwest Pacific, Gasmata on the south coast of New Britain,
and Lae and Salamaua on the northeast coast o£ New Guinea
were bearing the full brunt of these aerial onslaughts.
RED LINES SAG IN CAUCASUS SECTOR
WELLS IN MAIKOP
OIL FIELDS BLOWN UP
Defenses Stiffen Around Stalingrad;
Russians Go On Attack In Area
Near Voronezh, Claim Gains
By EDDY GILMORE
Associated Press Staff Writer
MOSCOW, Aug. 10—Driven back by relentless thrusts of
German motorized troops and Alpinists, Red nrmy defenses
before the oil fields of Maikop and in spurs of the Caucasian
foothills appeared to be cracking today.
Front-line dispatches telling of tremendous explosions roar-
ing over a broad area seemed to indicate the Russians were
currying out the scorched earth policy in the first oil regions
the Germans have been able to penetrate in their Caucasian
thrust.

Strikes Break Out In Defiant India
BULLETIN
NEW DELHI, Aug. 10—Police At New Delhi have
turned back a small crowd of anti-British demonstrators
who managed to get through in obstruction to
the foot of the hill on which the house of Viceroy
Lord Llnlithgow is situated, Reuters reported today.
By The Associated
BOMBAY, Aug. 10—The All-India Congress
By The Associated Press
BOMBAY, Aug. 10—The All-India Congress party's
campaign of mass civil disobedience gained
momentum today as workers left their jobs in 18
mills and rioting flared anew in Bombay, where police
fired into a large and turbulent crowd which
refused to disperse.
Violent disorders broke out in various parts of the
city, with demonstrators stoning suburban trains in
one area and burning a government grain shop in
another.

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