Current Events September 3, 1942; STALINGRAD IN DESPERATE PERIL/ GERMAN BLITZ FAILS IN EGYPT/ ALLIED PLANES BOMB BASES IN NEW GUINEA:

Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND TRIBUNE, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1942

RUSS Battle for Life at Stalingrad Gates;

Rommel's Tanks Are Forced to Retreat

Soviet City in Desperate Peril;

Caucasus Army Falls Back

Again Before Enemy Onslaught

By EDDY GILMORE

MOSCOW. Sept. 3. — (AP) — The German assault against

Stalingrad from the northwest stood checked at the very

approaches to the Volga city today, but to the southwest

the Red Army again recoiled before the massed tanks which

drove a menacing wedge into the most stubbornly defended

Both themselves a communique and field dispatches

".announced a further retreat in

this vital sector, while 400

miles to the southwest a similar

retreat was made by the Soviet forces

Soviet forces defending the

Black Sea naval base of Novorossisk.

British 'Pour It on' as Nazis

Move Up for Thrust at Nile;

Blitz Fails to Materialize

WITH THE ALLIED FORCES IN EGYPT'S WESTERN

DESERT. Sept. o.—(AP)—German tank columns withdrew this

morning front part of thp stovepipe-shaped area into which

they had been pushing since dawn Monday.

WITH THE BRITISH NAVY AIR FORCE IN THE EGYP-

TIAN DESERT. Sept. 3.--(.4P)—Crack bomber pilots of the

Of tons of bombs on Axis lines.

have inflicted heavy casualties

on Nazi troops and have

smashed motor transport columns

in raids lasting through last night to

early today. The naval airmen

dropped high explosives principally

in the zone south of El Alamein. Returning

fliers said enemy troops and

transports were so thick they could

not miss, and besides destroying

many motorized vehicles they killed

large numbers of troops.

The naval commander in charge

of these air operations said the

bomber? had "scored practically 100

per cent hits" in the three nights

since the Nazis attacked.

ALLIED PLANES BOMB JAP

BASES AT KOKODA AND BUKA

G E N E R A L M a e A E THUR'S;

HEADQXJARTERS, Sept 3— (AP)~

Allied planes bombed and strafed!

four times yesterday, while Allied

ground forces rested, and a Japanese

Japanese troops m the Kokoda area

destroyer and airdromes at both Lae

and Buka were the targets of other

areal raids a communique said.

Milne Bay operations at the southeastern

tip of New Guinea WPT

summarized with a declaration that

the Australians "continued to round

isolated enemy detachments in

the jungle.