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.