Crete Troops
Fly to Egypt
50,000 Axis Soldiers
Massed on Island,
Say Turkish Reports
LONDON, July 16.—(AP)—British
sources said today that a German
light infantry regiment flown to
North Africa from Crete had been
put into the Egyptian line to reinforce
Nazi Field Marshal Erwin
Rommel's forces.
Frederick Post
FREDERICK, MD., FRIDAY MORNING JULY 17, 1942.
Russians Wrest Offensive
From Nazis On Voronezh
Front In Bitter Fighting
900,000 German Casualties
In Two Months Of Warfare,
Reds Declare
DEFENDERS WITHDRAW
TO OTHER POSITIONS
BY EDDY GILMORE
Moscow, (Friday,) July 17 (AP)—Soviet Armies have now
taken the initiative from the Germans on some sectors of the
Voronezh front and are stoutly resisting in the south in terrific
campaigns which have cost the invaders 900,000 men
and the Russians 339,000 in two months, the Soviets announced
early today.
A The Russians said that the Germans had been thrown
back on the defensive at Voronezh, an important railroad
city east of the Don River which the Germans have besieged
for days with waves of men, tanks and planes.
"In some sectors of the Voronezh front, the initiative
has passed into Soviet hands," the midnight Russian communique
said. "The Germans are on the defensive."
The communique said there were no essential changes
on other fronts, but acknowledged that the Red Army had
withdrawn to new positions southeast of Millerovo, where
the Germans are pounding furiously toward the Caucasus
and the Volga
18 SHIPS SUNK
BY SUBMARINES
Total Since America Entered
War Is Now Placed
At 376 Vessels
Lisbon, Friday, July 17 (JP)—Unconfirmed
reports were received
here early today that the 2,991-
ton Argentine freighter Argentino
had been torpedoed and sunk off the
Portuguese Coast, with an Ar-
gentine diplomat among its three
passengers and 39 crew members.
By The Associated Press
The destruction of 18 merchant
vessels by enemy submarines prey-
waters has been disclosed in of-
ficial announcements so far this
week
The latest victims of U-boat attacks
— two medium-sized United
States cargo ships and a small Norwegian
merchantman, announced
yesterday by the Navy and included
in the week's toll—raised
to 376 the unofficial Associated
Press count of Allied and neutral
ship losses in the Atlantic area
since America's entry into the war.
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