Oakland Tribune
OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 1942
Million Germans Smash Forward;
China Will Get Full Allied Aid
Soviet Admits New Rostov, Stalingrad Peril;
Press Raises Cry of Deadly Danger as
Germans Claim Resistance Has Collapsed
MOSCOW, July 22.—(AP)—Stalingrad and Rostov both were
imperiled gravely by fresh German advances today as the
million men of Marshal Fedor von Bock pressed relentlessly
south and east against bitterly fighting but outnumbered
Russian forces.
Hope Star
HOPE, ARKANSAS, TUESDAY, JULY 21, 1942
British Ships Shell Matruh
50 Axis Planes
Destroyed on
Ground in Raid
—Africa---
Cairo, July 21 —(AP)— The
third and heaviest .naval bom-
bardment of the Axis-held fort
of Matruh in three nights, and
two aerial assaults which de-
stroyed more than 50 A x i s
planes on the ground In a single
day were reported by the
British today, all part of a de-
termined campaign to destroy
the enemy's African air force
and ruin his reinforcement efforts.
2 U.S. Seamen
Taken Aboard
German Sub
An East Coast Port, July 21 —
(AP)—Two young seamen were safe
in the United Stales today after
ft being rescued and kept aboard a
German submarine for several
hours, then set free in a well provisioned
lifeboat.
The sailors told a story of how
the English-speaking sub captain
fed them during their stay on the
vessel, and even crush dived with
them still aboard when naval
planes arrived overhead.
Their vessel a small United
States cargo ship, was sunk in the
Caribbean June 3, and 15 of the
crew of 45 are missing and believed
dead, the Navy said in announcing
the sinking. Other survivors
were landed at a gulf port
The story of the adventure came
from Cornelius F. O'Connor, 19
of Norfolk, Va., and Raymond
Smithson, 24, of Galveston, Texas
Aboard the submarine, O'connor
said he and Smithson were a "reg
ular sideshow" for the German
crew, three of whom spoke to then
in English.
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