Current Events June 16, 1942: JAPANESE NAVY ROUTED IN PACIFIC:

                    Oakland Tribune

                            OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1942 

U.S. Fires 2 Italian Battleships, Sinks Cruiser;

Jap Fleet Staggers Under Aleutian Air Pounding

Americans Help Blast Duce's Fleet

CAIRO, June 16.—WO—The United

States Army Air Force and the

RA.F,, operating together for the

first time in the Mediterranean,

have set fire to two Italian battlel

ships. sunk a 10,000 ton Italian

cruiser of the Trenton class, and

scored hits on a smaller cruiser and

a destroyer in four days of heavy

fighting, the R.A.F. announced late

today in a special communique.

In addition, the RA.F. and the

Royal Navy's fleet air arm set fire

to another Italian cruiser and probably

hit a destroyer in a second

Italian naval force during the same

period, the communique said.

Bombs Shatter Eight Ships of Invading Fleet

WASHINGTON. June 16 – (AP)

|Tne Japanese Navy appeared today

to be reeling under the third smash-

ing attack it has suffered at the

hands of the American air forces

as many operational areas of

Following up the Coral Sea and

Midway Island victories, in the

southwestern and middle Pacific

arenas, respectively, the Navy Department

reported late yesterday

that American fliers were pounding

a Japanese invasion force in

the north off the Aleutian Islands.

Nazis Stopped

Cold: Moscow

Three- Day Offensive

At Kharkov Balked,

MOSCOW, June 16.—(UP.)—The

Red Army has halted the Germans

dead in their tracks around Kharkov

and Sevastopol, official Soviet

advices said today.

By HENRY C. CASSIDY

MOSCOW. June 16.—(AP)—A three day

German assault in an attempt

to cross an important river in the

Kharkov sector has been balked by

Russian hill-top defenses, and the

Nazis now have been forced back

to the defensive, front-line Soviet

dispatches declared today.