Current Events 'MEMORIAL DAY' May 31, 1942: KARKOV LOSSES HEAVY ON BOTH SIDES:

The Charleston Gazette

Charleston, West Virginia, Sunday Morning, May 31, 1942.

British Check Rommel, Take

Initiative in Some Sectors

Nazis' Kharkov Loss 90,000

Drive Thwarts

Rostov Attack

Timoshenko's Push Hailed

As Brilliant Success

In Averting Blow

By Germans

Soviets Lose 75,000,

Say Battle End Near

Hitler Legions Continue

Assaults Below City,

Are Repulsed

MOSCOW, Sunday, May 31.—

(AP)—Marshal Timoshenko's Soviet

armies in the Ukraine have

scored a brilliant success in

thwarting a Nazi-planned drive

upon Rostov, gateway to the

Caucasus, the Russians announced.

in a special communique

today declaring that the

battle of Kharkov is drawing to

a close after 19 days of violent

fighting in which the Germans

have lost more than 90,000 killed

or captured.

U.S. Weapons

Play Big Role

Main Struggle of Tanks

Southwest of Tobruk

Continues Raging,

Cairo Reports

No Decisive Turn

Noted by English

American Planes, Deadly

New Spitfires Thrown

Into Wide Fight

CAIRO, May 30.—(INS)—The

British defenders of east Libya,

hurling more and more American-

made tanks and planes into

a series of mighty counter-offensive

actions, were hitting

back hard tonight at the Axis

drive toward Egypt.

Inflicting heavy losses on German-

Italian mechanized and motorized

forces by land and air, the

British appeared to have checked

the enemy push, then to have wrested

the initiative from the Axis in

some important sectors.

Tributes Paid

To War Dead

Great Plants Hum Busily

As Veterans Parade For

Memorial

Current Events May 30. 1942: SOVIETS AND GERMANS CLAIM VICTORY AT KHARKOV:

                      Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, MAY 30, 1942

Soviet and Nazis

Claim Victories

Berlin Says 240,000 Prisoners Taken

On Kharkov Front; Moscow Reports

2000 Germans Killed, 54 Tanks Smashed

Russian and German claims of victory in the battle for

Kharkov are again contradictory today. Berlin says 1249

tanks and 240,000 prisoners have' been taken, while three

Russian armies were "annihilated." Moscow asserts 2000

Germans were killed, other thousands wounded and 54 Axis

tanks smashed in the llth day of the epic battle, with Soviet

forces pressing forward everywhere.

Germany

BERLIN (From German Broadcasts),

May 30.—(AP)—Germany officially

announced today the great

battle of Kharkov has ended in the

"annihilation" of several enemy armies

and declared t h a t Russian

forces encircled on the C e n t r a l

Front (West of Moscow) are being crushed.

Russia

MOSCOW, May 30.—(AP)—The Russians

announced today Soviet forces

had knocked out 54 German tanks

and slain about 2000 German in

new engagements still apparently

dominated by the Izyum-Barvenkova

sector fighting below Kharkova.

Current Events May 29, 1942: HEAVY LOSSES CONTINUE ON COASTAL SHIPPING:

THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES

RACINE, WIS., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 29, 1942.

Brazilians Man U. S. Planes

To Swoop Down on Axis Subs;

Strong Reprisals Expected

Brazil Fighting Without Formal War Declaration

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 29—(U.P)

—Brazilian pilots, flying United

States-made planes, stalked- German

and Italian submarines far out

at sea today.

Brazil was virtually at war with

the axis, and diplomatic quarters

believed that the axis would not

be long in attempting to make

stronger reprisals than sinking unarmed

Brazilian ships.

U. S. Gaining

In Atlantic

WASHINGTON, May 29.—(AP)—

Despite heavy losses inflicted on

American coastal shipping by nazi

submarines, naval experts said today

that the United States was

slowly winning the main campaign

in the battle of the Atlantic. They

emphasized, however, that only

steadily increasing production of

both war and merchant ships could

clinch the ultimate victory.

The greatest present need, it

was said, is for more defensive

craft—subchasers, blimps and patrol

bombers—manned by experienced

personnel.

Current Events May 29, 1942: BRAZIL ENTERS FRAY

THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES

RACINE, WIS., FRIDAY AFTERNOON, MAY 29, 1942.

Brazilians Man U. S. Planes

To Swoop Down on Axis Subs;

Strong Reprisals Expected

Brazil Fighting Without Formal War Declaration

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 29—(U.P)

—Brazilian pilots, flying United

States-made planes, stalked- German

and Italian submarines far out

at sea today.

Brazil was virtually at war with

the axis, and diplomatic quarters

believed that the axis would not

be long in attempting to make

stronger reprisals than sinking unarmed

Brazilian ships.

U. S. Gaining

In Atlantic

WASHINGTON, May 29.—(AP)—

Despite heavy losses inflicted on

American coastal shipping by nazi

submarines, naval experts said today

that the United States was

slowly winning the main campaign

in the battle of the Atlantic. They

emphasized, however, that only

steadily increasing production of

both war and merchant ships could

clinch the ultimate victory.

The greatest present need, it

was said, is for more defensive

craft—subchasers, blimps and patrol

bombers—manned by experienced

personnel.

Current Events May 28, 1942: ROMMEL OPENS HEAVY OFFENSIVE IN IRAQ;

              The Charleston Gazette

                      Charleston, West Virginia, Thursday Morning, May 28,1942

Rommel Opens Heavy Offensive, Which

May Portend Iraq Drive;

Timoshenko Bests Foe in North

Armored Units

Clash in Libya

Strong Axis Tank Columns i

Unleashed Toward Suez; 1

Fierce Battle Rages j

In Desert Heat i

U. S.-Made Weapons i

Help British Troops

Allied Position Generally

Better Than It Was

Last Fall

CAIRO,.Egypt, May 27 (AP)-.

Strong Axis tank columns

thrown forward in an effort to

flank the southernmost point of

the British Libyan triangle

based on Tobruk and Ain el

Gazala were engaged tonight by

British armored forces in action

so heavy as to indicate that

Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

may have opened a major offensive.

China Troops

Decimate Jap

Coastal Sally

Enemy Army of 100,000,

Driving Off Seaboard,

Suffers 15,300

Casualties

CHUNGKING. May 27.—(AP)-The

Japanese- army of 100,000 which

launched the offensive in seaboard

Chekiang province has been decimated,

having lost 15,300 in casualties,

at least 10,000 of them dead,

and still has not been able to take

Kinhwa, the provincial capital, the

Chinese reported tonight.

current Events May 27 1942: BRITISH CLAIM ADVANCES IN LIBYA

                Evening Capital

ANNAPOLIS, MD., WEDNESDAY, MAY 27, 1942.

Report Russian Break Through

Nazi Wedge In Flanking Move

BRITISH TANKS COUNTER NAZIS

WHO DRIVE FORWARD IN LIBYA

London Dispatch Declares Russians Break Into

German Wedge On Flank Below Kharkov—

Attempt Made On Life Of Reinhard Heydrich, No.

2 German Gestapo Leader—Chinese Announced

4,500 Japanese Killed At Kinwha—General

Somervell In London—British Bomb Messina-

Italians Claim U. S. Cruiser Torpedoed

Soviet front-line dispatches reported today that Marshal Semeon

Timoshenko's armies had smothered part of the German offensive 80

miles below Kharkov, while the German high command asserted

That the resistance of Russian troops "encircled" in the same sector

has been broken."

A Reuters news dispatch to London reported the Russians have

broken through the flank of the German wedge into the Izyum-Bar-

vencova front, were advancing in an important sector" and that the

counter-attack had stopped the main German offensive.

Berlin said that the Russians, which the Nazis claim are encircled

n the Izyum-Barvenkova sector, had been broken "after fresh and

fruitless attempts to break out."

The Chinese high command announced renewed Japanese assaults

oh Kinwha, provisional capital of Chekiang province, had been thrown

back and that 4,500 Japanese soldiers had died in a single day's fighting

for the strategic city. The Chinese position along the Burma road

was reported greatly Improved as American Flying Tigers blasted

Japanese bases repeatedly without meeting opposition and the Chinese

troops continued to push the Invaders back from the Salween river.

Current Events, May 26. 1942: VICHY SQUEEZE TO ACQUIRE FRENCH FLFLEET

                              The Charleston Daily Mail

                C H A R L E S TO N , WEST V I R G I N I A , MONDAY E V E N I N G , MAY 26, 1942

300,000 Italians Threaten Vichy in Axis Squeeze;

Mighty U. S. Air Armada Poised to Leap From Britain

Totalitarian Chiefs Seek Soil or Navy,

Mussolini Note To Laval Asks Corsica, Nice

By The United Press

An Axis plot to squeeze the

utmost war co-operation out of

Vichy France and to block any

threat that the French fleet

might go over to the United

Nations was reported today in

private advices to the United

Press.

Italian Premier Benito Mussolini

took the leading active role in the

Axis strategy, reportedly massing

300,000 Fascist troops on the

French frontier and sending a second

note to Vichy demanding Corsica

and Nice and calling for greater

Italian privileges at Tunisia.

Army, Navy Flight Staffs Visit London

Air Blow Seen

Merely Paving

Way for Yanks

By Edward W. Beattie

LONDON, May 26 (UP).—A

mighty air armada born on the

| assembly lines of America is

ready to strike directly at the

Axis, Great Britain was assured

today as two ranking United

States aerial commanders joined

British strategists in framing

plans for an offensive in western

Europe.

Mexico Set For Combat

Mexican War Declaration

Expected on Thursday

Brazil Reaction Eyed

RIO DE JANEIRO, May 26

Chile Action Urged

SANTIAGO, Chile, May 26 (AP).—

Current Events May 25, 1942; 10 CORREGIDOR NURSES SAVED:

London Hears Position Of Soviet Army Around Kharkov Is Critical

The Port Arthur News

PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS, MONDAY, MAY 25. 1942.

WPA BUDGET NEEDS CUT 187 MILLION

SHORTAGE OF LABOR IS CITED BY PRESIDENT

Organized Migration Looms

In Some War Work

Still Are Many Unable To

Get Private Jobs

WASHINGTON, May 25' .

(AP) Slashing approximately

$185,000,000 from the total

Because war conditions permit

, President Roosevelt asked

congress to appropriate $280,000,000

for work relief in the year starting

July 1 plus $2,767,000 for administrative

expenses.

JAP AIR LOSSES ESTIMATED

Nipponese Production Is Set

At 80p Per: Month

LONDON, May 25 (INS).—Japanese

aerial losses since the sneak

-attack on Pearl Harbor last Dec

7 have reached the high figure of

5400 planes, high British circles

said today.

This figure b based on a study

of United Nations communiques

which placed Jap losses at 1350.

Authoritative quarters say twice

that figure would be a conservative

total.

10 CORREGIDOR

NURSES SAVED

Flown Out By Navy Prior To Fort's Fall

By Frank Hewlett

. MELBOURNE, May 25 (UP).—

Ten. American army nurses, rescued

by plane from Corregidor, at a

formidable dinner here today,

had their hair done and went to see

Walt Disney's movie, "Fantasia."

They were offered "Dive Bomber"

alternative entertainment but

declined unanimously.

Flee 5OOO Miles

Rescued by daring American

navy aviators seven days before

the fall of the island fortress In

Manila bay, the nurses came 5000

miles through Japanese infested

territory in a crowded navy patrol

bomber to join Gen. Douglas Mac-

Arthur's forces.

Current Events May 24, 1942; ALL CRIMEA FALLS TO GERMANS;

THE CAPITAL TIMES

MADISON, WIS., SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1942

All of Crimea, Except

Sevastopol Garrison.,

Now in German Hands

Reds Claim Troops and Equipment Are

Withdrawn; Nazis Say 169,198 Prisoners

and War Booty Seized

By RICHARD McMCRRAT

(Associated Press War Editor)

RUSSIAN troops have withdrawn from the Kerch peninsula

in the Eastern Crimea after fighting bravely for days

against the crushing weight of the Germans, Moscow announced

Saturday, and on the Kharkov front a million men

continued a bloody battle for the initiative, the Germans

throwing strong tank forces into the fray.

A Russian communique said the withdrawal had been accomplished

"in full order" and that both troops and equip-

ment were evacuated. With their occupation of the peninsula,

the Germans were separated from the Caucasian lands

which they covet only by the narrow straits of Kerch

Japs force

A Landing on

Chuanshih Is.

Once Repulsed, Enemy

Now Threatens China's

Eastern Seaboard

BY SPENCER MOOSA

CHUNGKING—(AP>— The Japanese

have occupied Chuanshih island at

the mouth of the Min river below

Foochow, in Fukien province, after

the Chinese once chased them tack

to their ships and wiped out more

than half their landing force, the

Chinese-announced Saturday night.

''The Japanese thus increased their

threat to all China's eastern seaboard

contending armies were locked

in a bloody struggle along a 45-mile

front In Chekiang province, adjoining

Fukien in the north,

Current Events may 23, 1942; MEXICO JOINS ALLIES AGAINST AXIS

61 LOST AS 3 SHIPS ATTACKED IN GULF

The Portsmouth Herald

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1942.

Mexico Ready To Join Allies

Congress Assent Certain; Acts Against Aliens

Nation

Prohibits

Export Of

U.S. Money

Mexico City, May 23 (AP)

—Mexico, lacked only the formality

of apparently certain

congressional approval today

to become a full-fledged ally

in the war against the Axis.

Mexico's decision was

made rapidly last night as a

wave of public fury swept the

country over the news that

Axis submarines had sunk

the second Mexican merchant

ship within eight days.

Even while awaiting President

Manuel Avila Camacho's formal

proclamation of war, the first in

Mexico's history, the republic put

precautionary measures against Axis

aliens quietly into force and took

its first military steps.

Nazis Halt Reds By Counter-Attack In Kharkov Area

(By The Associated Press)

German Field Marshal Fedor von Bock was reported

throwing masses of air-borne troops into the bloody 12-day

battle of Kharkov today, and for the first time the Russians

acknowledged reverses on the southern flank despite a toll

of 15,000 Germans killed there in three days.

Current Events May 31, 1942: MEXICO JOINS ALLYS AGAINST THE AXIS;

    The Portsmouth Herald

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1942.

Mexico Ready To Join Allies

Congress Assent Certain; Acts Against Aliens

Nation

Prohibits

Export Of

U.S. Money

Mexico City, May 23 (AP)

—Mexico, lacked only the formality

of apparently certain

congressional approval today

to become a full-fledged ally

in the war against the Axis.

Mexico's decision was

made rapidly last night as a

wave of public fury swept the

country over the news that

Axis submarines had sunk

the second Mexican merchant

ship within eight days.

Even while awaiting President

Manuel Avila Camacho's formal

proclamation of war, the first in

Mexico's history, the republic put

precautionary measures against Axis

aliens quietly into force and took

its first military steps.

Nazis Halt Reds By Counter-Attack In Kharkov Area

(By The Associated Press)

German Field Marshal Fedor von Bock was reported

throwing masses of air-borne troops into the bloody 12-day

battle of Kharkov today, and for the first time the Russians

acknowledged reverses on the southern flank despite a toll

of 15,000 Germans killed there in three days.

Current Events May 22, 1942; GERMAN FORTIFICATIONS SHATTERED OUTSIDE KHARKOV:

      THE GETTYSBURG TIMES

GETTYSBURG, PA_ FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1942

Reds Repulse New Nazi Thrusts

GERMAN LOSSES

HEAVY IN MEN AND MATERIAL

Moscow, May 22 (AP) — The Ger-

mans once more have hurled strong

tank forces into counter-attacks in

the raging battle for Kharkov.

The Charleston Gazette

Charleston, West Virginia Friday Morning, May 22, 1942.

40-Minute Soviet Onslaught

Shatters Kharkov Stronghold;

Nazis' Flank Thrust Repelled

Russians Still

Fight at Kerch

German Troops Deserting

In Increasing Numbers,

Captured Order

Reveals

Reds Are Said Astride

Vital Crimean Railway

Tempo of Muscovy Hordes

Accelerated as Air

Control Holds

MOSCOW, May 21.—(INS)—

The main German defense fortifications

outside Kharkov left

shattered behind them, the Soviet

armies of Marshal Semyon

Timoshenko tonight fought their

way into the heart of the Nazi

lines guarding the p i v o t a l

Ukrainian metropolis.

Jap Unleashes

Menacing Push

From Foochow

80,000 Men Launch Blow

On Chekiang Advancing

80 Miles—Stilwell

Smashes Enemy

New Campaign Would

Shut China From Sea

Full-Scale Offense Seen;

Invaders Thrown Back

In Yunnan Province

CHUNGKING, May 21.—

Chinese troops under command of

U. S. Lt Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell

pushed back the Japanese invaders

of western Yunnan province tonight,

but the Japs appeared to have

launched a full-scale offensive

against Chekiang province, south of

Shanghai.

Hull Reaffirms U. S. to Return French Islands

Couples Pledge With News

Further Progress Being

Made in Negotiations

At Martinique

WASHINGTON, May 21.—(INS)—

Secretary of State Hull today renewed

American pledges for the

post-war return to France of all

territories, whose occupation has been

or may become necessary to

speed a United Nations' victory over

Germany, Italy and Japan.

Hull coupled his words of reassurance

to the French people with

a press conference announcement

that negotiations between American

emissaries and Martinique's High

Commissioner Georges Robert, directed

toward the peaceful wartime

"freezing" of France's Caribbean

sea possessions, have made further

satisfactory progress.

Warship Talks Over Soon

Land Sees Gulf

As Sub Target

FDR Limits Ship Sailings;

Promotion of Admiral

Halted in Senate

WASHINGTON. May 21.—(INS) —

Admiral Emory S. Land, war shipping

administrator, disclosed today

that Axis submarines are now concentrating

their attacks on American

shipping in the Gulf of Mexico

and the Caribbean sea.

He told members of the senate

commerce committee that these are

the most dangerous areas for merchant

ships.