The Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 26, 1942.
BRITISH ARMY BLASTS GAPS
IN ROMMEL'S DESERT LINE
Armored Units
Move Forward
For 'Big' Test
Cairo, Oct. 26 (AP) —Pressing its attack, Britain's
army of the Nile beat off German and Italian attempts to
close the gaps driven into the El Alamein line, and moved
infantry, tanks and mobile artillery forward today under
strong aerial cover for the expected test of strength with
Field Marshal Rommel's main tank forces.
Much of the battle still was being fought in the air
where the "Black Scorpion" squadron of United States
fighters shot down four of yesterday's Allied bag of seven
Axis planes.
U. S. To Ration Coffee
To One Cup A Day
Users Get
One Pound
In 5 Weeks
Portsmouth coffee drinkers
will have to resign themselves
to one cup a day—and
maybe an extra spoonful—
starting midnight, Nov. 28.
Coffee will be rationed at
a rate of one pound a person
every five weeks for each
person over 15 years old, the
Office of Price Administration
announced today. It is
estimated that a pound contains
35 to 40 cups to the
person.
U.S. FLIERS SPILL BOMBS ON NAPPING JAPANESE
IN SMASHING HONGKONG ASSAULT, SAYS EYEWITNESS
EDITOR'S NOTE: J. Reilly
O'Sulllvan. 41, Associated Press war
correspondent who served as an air
corps lieutenant In the first World
war, went along aboard an American
bomber Sunday in the first
Allied raid on Hongkong. He tells
In this dispatch of his bombardier's
eyeview of the destruction Inflicted
yesterday upon the former
British Crown colony at Hongkong.)
With the U. S. Army Air forces
In China, Oct. 26 AP)—American
bombers cascaded explosives
on Hongkong early today for
the second time in 24 hours,
adding new fires to those started
in a devastating; Sunday assault,
and smashed again at the frequently
raided Japanese White
Cloud airdrome near Canton.
After setting the Hongkong waterfront
aflame yesterday, Lt. Gen.
Joseph W. Stilwell's headquarters
announced, today's raiders destroyed
the North Point Power station there,
planting every one of their bombs
in the target area.
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