Current Events june 24, 1942: GERMAN U-BOATS TAKE TOLL IN THE ATLANTIC

                                       The Portsmouth Times
                              PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1942

      AXIS POISED TO HIT EGYPT;
                       SEVASTOPOL LASHED HARD

NAZIS UNLEASH FIERCE PUSH ON BLACK SEA PORT
Red Armies Admit Retreat After Violent Attack in Kharkov Area
By ROGER D. GREENE Associated Press War Editor A violent all-night bombardment by axis artillery indicated that the battle of Egypt may have started already today as the British reported that"very strong" enemy columns of tanks and motorized infantry were facing along the coast toward the Egyptian-Libyan frontier. While definite word was lacking that Field Marshal Erwin Rommel had launched his big offensive, m i l i t a r y observers pointed out that a heavy artillery barrage usually signals an imminent land attack. Throughout the night, dispatches said, big axis field guns shelled the British defense lines and enemy patrols stabbed repeatedly for "soft spots".Meanwhile, the far – outnumbered defenders of besieged Sevastopol in the Crimea were conceded by the Russians to be struggling against a Nazi assault of intense fury.

Death And Destruction Mount From Atlantic Sub Activities
Casualties Climb High As Ship Toll Reaches 309 For Wartime
By The Associated Press Wholesale death and destruction,the like of which the Spanish main never saw in pirate days,has been wrought recently by enemy submarines, which over a 12-day period sent 13 United Nations merchantmen to the bottom of the Caribbean. This was disclosed by the navy yesterday on the blackest day of its announcements of ship sinkings since the war began. The announcement of two more vessel sin the Atlantic swelled to 309 the war total of western Atlantic sinkings. Casualties run high, with 48 known dead and 87 missing in the Caribbean sinkings occurring between June 3rd and 14th; three dead and 85 missing in the June15 sinking of a medium-sized U.S. merchant vessel off the New England coast, and five dead in the torpedoing of a British freighter.