Current Events September 28, 1942; AID TO SOVIETS ESSENTIAL/ JAPAN EXTRACTING OIL FROM CONQUERED OIL FIELDS:

DUNKIRK EVENING OBSERVER


DUNKIRK, N. Y., MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1942

Nazis Try to Divide Stalingrad
As Reds Rush Up Reinforcement
Russia Can Not
Be Conqured
Wendell Wilkie
But American Envoy Warns
That Second Front Es-
sential to Victory.
By HENRY SHAPIRO
United Press Staff, Correspondent
(Copyright, 1942, by United Press)
Moscow, Sept. 27—(UP)—(Delayed)—
Wendell L. Willkie told
the United Press in an exclusive
statement today that "Germany ;
w i l l never conquer Russia." I
Willkie summed up his conclusion
stems after 10 unprecedented days
of inquiry in Russia in a state
comment expressing fullest confidence ;
in the Soviet will to resist, but em-
phasizing again the urgency of im-
mediate, real and major aid to the
Russians.

JAPAN FEVERISHLY
TRYING TO EXTRACT
CONQUERED OILS
London. Sept. 28—(UP)—Brit-
ish Far Eastern economic expert
reported today that Japan
was feverishly attempting to exploit
oil facilities in conquered
territories because of the heavy
d r a i n on its oil reserves by far-
flung naval operations. : -The experts said. Japan was
now burning considerably more
oil than it was producing and
thus there was great activity aimed
at building up reserves in the
next six months from the captur-
ed oil fields in Borneo.
I In the first six months of the
war Japan used half her re-
serves, approximately 5 million
b a r r e l s of gasoline and crude oil.
the experts estimated, believing
that pre-war 'reserves might be
'exhausted' before next summer,
unless new sources and better fa-
cilities for its transportation
were developed.

FORTRESSES HIT
15,000-TON SHIP
AT RABAUL BASE
By DON CASWELL
Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters