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Withdrawn; Nazis Say 169,198 Prisoners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RUSSIAN troops have withdrawn from the Kerch peninsula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,