Current Events July 5, 1942: RUSSIAN LINES BUCKLE AT KURSK:

            The Charleston Daily Mail

CHARLESTON. WEST Virginia, SUNDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1942

Russians Buckle on Kursk Front;

Surging Nazis Ignore Heavy Toll

Reds Admit

Falling Back

In One Area

Soviets Giving

Stubborn Battle

To Nazi Hordes

MOSCOW, July 5 (Sunday)

(UP).—The Russians acknowledged

a new retreat in one sector

of the 150-mile Kursk front

today where heavy battles raged

as masses of German tanks and

infantry pressed forward despite

losses of thousands of dead

and 550 tanks.

Violent fighting raged throughout

yesterday on the .Kursk front

north of Kharkov, a communique

said. "In one sector in this direction

our troops retreated and

occupied new positions.

The Russians also were continu-

ing to give stubborn battle in the

Volchansc and Belgorod sectors

northeast of Kharkov but there

were no changes on the rest of the

vast front

Yank Flyers Wreak

Havoc on 3 German

Airfields in Holland

Two American

Plane Crews

Lost in Foray

LONDON, July 4 (UP).—

United States army bombers i

flying 300 miles an hour in day-1

light over the tree-tops of Hol-l

land ' b l a s t e d administration

buildings, personnel and grounded

airplanes at three German;

airdromes on this Fourth of

July morning in what was offi-

cially called the "beginning of

an attack that will make Ger-

many rue the day she plunged

the world into war.