ALBUQUERQUE JOURNAL
Thursday Morning, August 13, 1942
Marines Dig In On 3 Islands
Four Jap Ships Bombed
As Fierce Fight Rages
For Solomons Bases
Naval Forces Battle for Control of Vital
Tulagi Waters; Chungking Reports FORMOSA
Important Japanese Base, Is Bombed
By the Associated Press
U. S; Marines are holding and digging into positions
oh three of the Solomon Islands while American and Allied
naval forces fight a bitter .battle for control of the
waters about Tulagi.
The Navy, disclosed that much Wednesday night the
first definite. word in two days of our first offensive of the
war iii the Pacific.
The terse communique gave some hint of the, scope
importance of the task which has been tackled, by.
American land, sea and air forces, when it indicated that
the attackers found a Japanese base in the Tulagi area
well under way.
This included landing fields for shore-based aircraft,
which still are under attack by U. S. and Australian
bombers.
General MacArthur's .headquarters
in Australia,. e a r l y
Thursday said Allied bombers
dealt a smashing blow against
four Japanese ships at Rabaul,
the strong Japanese New Britain
base whence, supplies have
been ferried to the Solomons.
Nazis Punch Hole
In Red Lines on
Caucasian Front
Russians Holding Firmly
On the Approaches
To Stalingrad
NEW U-BOAT FRONT
By the Associated Preii
German troops • have
punched another hole in
Russian positions astride the
Rostov-Baku railroad in the
Cherkessk area, but the Red
army is holding firmly on the approaches
to Stalingrad, the Soviets
announced early Thursday.
U. S. Troops Keep
Hands Off India
Internal Affairs
Under Orders Not to
Aid in Suppression
Of Violent Revolt
RIOTS DIMINISH
British Office Says
Situation Controlled,
After Bloodshed
WASHINGTON, Aug. 12
(AP)—The Slate Department
made it clear Wednesday
night that. American
armed forces in India would
not participate in the suppression
of internal disorders there.
They have, on the contrary,
been ordered to "exercise scrupulous
care to avoid the slightest
participation in' India's internal
political problems, or even the
appearance of so doing."
Purpose To Fight Axis
Their sole purpose in India,
Department said, is to prosecute
the war against the Axis powers,
and their primary aim in that
area is to help China.
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