Current Events July 28, 1942; GRAVE MOMENTS FOR RUSSIA IN THE DON RIVER VALLEY

                     The Portsmouth Times

                 Portsmouth, Ohio, Tuesday July 28. 1942

REDS STRIVE DESPERATELY

TO STEM STALINGRAD PUSH

Russia Faces Its Most Serious

Threat As Nazis Hit Deeper

Over Don; Capture Admitted

Of Rostov, Novocherkassk

By ROGER D. GREENE

Associated Press War Editor

Adolph Hitler's field headquarters asserted today that Ger-

man troops, advancing within 50 miles at Stalingrad, had

"readied or crossed the lower Don at all points'' south of Ka-

lach. And Soviet dispatches frankly conceded that it was the

gravest moment of the entire war.

NAZIS SET FIRES

IN INDUSTRY CITY

OF BIRMINGHAM

Fire Bombs Drop In Greater

London Area; 9 Raiders

Are Shot Down

By The Associated Press

LONDON, July .28—Birmingham,

big British industrial center

in the midlands, was bombed

last night in an attack which

cost the Germans eight out of 50

to 70 raiders, and incendiaries

fell in the greater London dist-

trict which had it's first night

alarm since June 3.