Current Events November 2, 1942: JAPANESE CARRIERS BOMBED / BRITAIN HOLDS GAIN IN EGYPT / CHIANG URGES ATTACK IN CHINA:

        The Charleston Gazette

     Charleston, West Virginia, Monday Morning, November 2, 1942.

U. S. Bombed 2 Japanese Carriers,

Damaged 2 Battleships, 3 Cruisers,

Downed 100 Aircraft on Oct. 26^th

^{Halsey Makes}

Detail Report

Of Sea Battle

Navy Claiming No Sinkings,

But Survey Indicates

One Jap Carrier

Out of Action

WASHINGTON, Nov. I.—(AP)—

The golden-winged, filers of the

navy struck a smashing blow at

a Japanese fleet in the Oct. 28

battle which cost the United

States an aircraft carrier and

destroyer, the navy announced

tonight, pouring bombs or torpedoes

on two enemy carriers,

two battleships and three cruisers.

And after this action in waters

some 260 miles northeast of Guadalcanal

island in the Solomons, American

warships returned to the fray

Friday off Guadalcanal itself

'whence Japanese ships have withdrawn.

Britain's Army

Holds Its Gain,

Pushes Onward

Supreme Allied Air Support

Sustains Drive in Egypt;

Dazed Nazis, Italians

Rounded Up

CAIRO, Egypt, Nov. I.—(AP)—

Britain's 8th army, continuing its

methodical, sledgehammer offensive,

has jolted the Axis loose from

another section of tenaciously-held

positions in the flinty corridor between

the sea and Qattara depression.

Moreover it is holding its gains

in the face of violent counter-attacks

by Marshal Erwin Rommel's

forces, it was announced today.

With hundreds of roaring guns

and a supreme Allied air umbrella

still playing the dominant roles,

British infantry executed another

of its night attacks Friday after

a withering barrage reduced enemy

strong points.

Chiang Hails

Treaty's End,

Urges Attack

CHUNGKING, China, Nov. 1.—

(INS)—Generalissimo Chiang Kai-

Shek today called on China to

prepare for an all-out offensive

against the Japanese even as the

invaders were reported massing

troops for a new assault along the

Peiping-Hankow railroad.

Reds Capture

Strong Points

In Stalingrad

But Germans Again Forge

Ahead With Attempt

To Gain Georgian

Highway

MOSCOW, Monday, Nov. 2.—

Russian troops, switching to the

attack in the big battle of Stalin

grad, made advances both in the

northern and southern parts of the

city Sunday, but the Germans again

forged ahead in their offensive

on the plains of Nalchik at the

foot of the Caucasus mountains, the

Soviet midnight communique said

today.