THE RACINE JOURNAL-TIMES
RACINE, WIS., THURSDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 18, 1942.
Axis Tanks Near Tobruk,
Threaten Drive on Egypt
Rommel Captures
Two Defense Points
CAIRO, June 18.—(U.P) — Col.
Gen. Erwin Rommel's axis armored
columns today seized the vital
British anchor points of El Adem
and Sidi Rezegh in Libya, placed
the siege, city of Tobruk in grave
peril and threatened to drive eastward
toward the Egyptian frontier.
(London sources said the British
withdrawals may compel Lieut.
Gen. Neil M'. Ritchie to retreat as
far as the Egyptian frontier. This
area, they said, would return the
British to their old defense positions,
which now offer their only
favorable positions for halting
Rommel's advance).
Axis pressure was reported
steadily increasing.
Jap Setbacks
Reduce Menace
To West Coast
Stimson Promises
To Reveal Details
About Aleutians
WASHINGTON, June 18.—(AP)
—Secretary of War Stimson said
today the losses inflicted on t he
Japanese in the Pacific had temporarily
but substantially reduced
the threat of an attack on the Pacific
coast which he has repeatedly
said might be expected.
War and navy department information
is, he said, that the Japanese
thus far had made only a
"very small landing" in the Aleutian
islands off Alaska but he
stressed that fog and unfavorable
weather obscured developments in
the north Pacific.
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