Current Events May 17, 1942: NAZI FORCES IN INDUSTRIAL AREA OF KHARKOV:

LONG BEACH INDEPENDENT

Long Beach, California Sunday May 17, 1942

U. S. IN BLUNT SNUB TO LAVAL PROTEST

Timoshenko Throws Full Weight Into

Fight Against Nazis in Ukraine Sector

MOSCOW. May 16.—(TP)—Fighting reportedly is under

way tonight in the suburbs of the industrial city of Kharkov,

with Soviet Marshal Timoshenko throwing the full weight of his

army of the Ukraine against the Nazi forces in the city.

Dispatches from the southern"

f i o n t to Moscow reported that the

Germans were losing heavily in

men killed and taken prisoner,

while the battlefields before

Kharkov were said to be littered

w i t h broken and blasted German

war equipment.

Diplomats Unaware of Protest, Deal

Directly With Martinique Commissioner

VICHY MAY 16—(TP)— PIERE

LAVAL announced tonight his coalition

Vichy regime his rejected

all United States proposals

for the French island of

Martinique.