Current Events July 21, 1942; AMERICAN/BRITISH PROPOSE SECOND FRONT:

                The Portsmouth Times

                             PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1942

ALLIED DIVERSION ATTACKS STUDIED

LIMITED INVASION

TO RELIEVE REDS

AIRED IN LONDON

Possibility Of Small-Scale Second Front

Talked By High U. S. And British

Staff Officers As Germans Claim

Farther Advance Toward Caucasus

By The Associated Press

As the Russians fell back fighting from at least one

thrust of Germany's Caucasus offensive and attempted,

to smash its Voronezh flank, United States find

British staff officers were reported today to be studying

the possibility of an immediate limited diversion

on the continent. A London informant said that the

problem is to give prompt, diversionary assistance it'

the situation in southern Russia, already grave, deteriorates

further.

Since a full-fledged invasion of the continent seems

unlikely this summer, it appears that the American

and British strategists, in continuing "second front"

conferences, are mapping a small-scale action which

would pull German forces out of Russia and at the

same time safeguard communications with Russia.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who initiated

the second front talks in Washington in December,

1941, and continued them there during his June

again met with high British and American officers.

CATS' NIP AT JAPS IN ALEUTIANS

Big Flying Boots Bear

Brunt Of U. S. Raids

On Task Force Put

In at Kiska And Attu

BOATS WITH WINGS, these dozen giant PBY Catalina flying

boats of the United States navy flying along gracefully on

patrol duty arc the craft used in the brave and stubborn fight

to dislodge the invading Japanese band, from their bases on barren

Kiska and Attu islands of the Aleutian chain. Giving a firsthand

account of the forays, Keith Wheeler of the Chicago Times

has revealed that losses of the Cats have been heavy, for although

they are strong and far ranging they are big and lumbering

and make easy targets for the Jap Zero fighters and

ack-ack.

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This is another

of a series of stories by

Keith Wheeler, the Chicago Times'

correspondent In the Aleutian

islands Mr. Wheeler was the first

accredited correspondent to reach

Alaska. Attached to the U. S.

fleet, he arrived there shortly after

the Japanese attack on Dutch

Harbor June 3.)

By KEITH WHEELER

(Copyright, 1942, Chicago Times, Inc.)

AT SEA WITH P A C I F I C

FLEET, June 18 — (Delayed)

Someday when the Japs are driven

out of Kiska and the Aleutians

are blocked as a road to

conquest, the people concerned

with such things will find time

to hang medals on the 'men flying

and fighting this command's

Catalina flying boats.