Current Events May 15' 1942: JAPANESE INCEASE LAND BASED AIR STRENGTH:

             Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1942

Hitler Pleads for Jap Aid

As Russians Enter Kharkov

Attack Siberia, Tokyo Is Urged

LONDON, May 15. — (AP) — Sweeping across the Donets

River on a 50-mile front, Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's

mechanized Red Army was reported tonight to have crashed

through the inner defenses of Kharkov in at least two places,

driving the Germans before them.

(United Press Moscow dispatches reported a "heavy German

defeat" on the Kharkov sector. Hundreds of dead were

left by the retreating army.)

Diplomatic sources in London said they had heard that

Adolf Hitler was so taken aback by the unexpected power of

the Soviet attack that he had instructed his ambassador

to Tokyo to increase pressure on Japan for an attack on Russia. -

The argument to Japan was said to be that Russia had

concentrated so much on the European front that she could

offer little resistance to an attack against Siberia.

By HENRY C. CASSIDY -

MOSCOW, May 15.— (AP)— The Red Army drove ahead

against Kharkov today, recapturing a number of near-by

communities and forcing the Germans into retreat after

brushing aside counter-attacks

in which the Nazis vainly

threw in their reserves, front line

dispatches reported.

Despite bad weather which

hampered tank and aerial operations,

the Russians deepened their

penetration of the Nazi positions.

Japs Increase, Air Attacks

Allies Reply With

Destructive Raids

On Two Island Bases

By VERN HAUGLAND

ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia,

May 15.—(AP)—A notable increase

in Japanese land-based air

strength on New Guinea and New

Britain w,is indicated today with

disclosure that 35 planes participated

in one of two raids on Port Moresby

yesterday and that Allied attacks

on the Japanese bases were meeting

considerably stronger opposition.

SUBMARINE SAVES GOLD TREASURE

FROM PHILIPPINES

WASHINGTON, May 15.—(AP)—A

submarine which carried ammunition

to the embattled fortress of

Corregidor was revealed officially

today as the vessel which brought

out a vast amount of gold, silver

and securities from the Philippine

islands last February.

The Story was told today by the

Navy, but the value of the wealth

thus saved from the Japanese invaders

was not disclosed in the official

release, the Navy saying

merely that "it represented a large _

part of the negotiable wealth of the

islands