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.