Current Events October 11, 1942; REDS GAIN ABOVE STALINGRAD/ BLAZING RUINS IN RABAUL/ NAZI AIRFIELDS IN EGYPT HIT:

            The Charleston Gazette


               Charleston, West Virginia, Sunday Morning, October 11, 1942.

Reds Gain Above Stalingrad,
Siege Seen To Be Crumbling;
Jap Sea Push Costs 3 Ships

Flank Blow Foils
Ruse of Invaded
Soviet Women, Children
Driven Before Army
Are Rescued
Positions Improved
Northwest of Volga
Foe Launches New1 Drive
Before Moscow. Maybe
To Shift Emphasis
MOSCOW, Oct. 11.—(Sunday?;
—(INS)—The German siege assault
on Stalingrad appeared, today
to be crumbling rapidly as
the frantic Nazis were disclosed
to have resorted In. one instance
to the desperate measure- of
driving Russian women and
children ahead of their, -attacking
tanks and infantry



Blazing Ruins of Rabaul
Halt Japanese Offensive

U. S. Fortresses Dealing Heavy Blows in S. Pacific;
Foe's Main New Britain Base 'City of Ashes;'
Port Moresby Defenders Pushing On
GEN. DOUGLAS M'ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA,
Oct. 10.—(INS)—Allied air forces tonight were developing
a mounting offensive over all southwest Pacific sectors after U. S
Flying Fortresses dealt a shattering blow to Rabaul that may delay
any Japanese counter-drive in this area for at least a month.

Nazi Airfields
In Egypt Hit
34 Enemy Planes Destroyed
Or Damaged in Bombings
By Yanks. RAF
CAIRO. Oct. 10.- -AP—United
States air forces and the RAF destroyed
or damaged 34 enemy planes
In hard and repealed blows
throughout yesterday and last night
at Axis airdromes and supply bases
for the Egyptian battlefield.
"Extremely successful" was the
accolade of a RAF spokesman today
to the operations that extended far
behind the front to Bengasi in Libya
and to Suda bay in Crete, which
heavy U. S. bombers plastered
again. The Allies lost 12 planes.
(The Italians and Germans said
54 Allied planes were shot down
in "bitter air combats.")
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