The Portsmouth Herald
Portsmouth, N. H. Monday Evening August 3, 1942
Russians Claim Nazis Repulsed In
All Key Sectors Except one
Cossacks Stem
Germans With
Savage Blows
Moscow, Aug. 3 (AP)—Aided by dive bombers which
hammered crawling columns of fresh thousands of German
men and vehicles, the Red army declared today that it had
repulsed the Germans in all the vital sectors except south
of Rostov where "severe defensive" battles were being
waged.
Even there, said the Soviet Information bureau, Don
and Kuban Cossacks from the Red Army of the Caucasus
were savagely counter-attacking to stem the German advance.
More than 6000 Germans were
killed and at least 25 tanks were de-
stroyed in a single day along the
curving 300-mile Don front, the
Russians declared.
Gambling high for Caucasian oil,
the Germans threw reserves by the
thousands across their Rostov
bridgeheads They were employing
every kind of motorized conveyance
—fast motorcycles, speedy troopcarrying
trucks, tanks bearing au-
tomatic riflemen, and small tanks
which rushed the Russians from
the Russian flanks.
But the reinforced Russian
air force strafed and bombed
these columns continuously as
they coiled southward.
About 2,000 Germans were
left dead on the field in a fierce
struggle near Kletskaya, northwest
of Stalingrad in the Don
bend, where the invaders were
repulsed, the communique said.
(E.T.'s Note: Honoring heroes of this war takes different forms. Seven months of the U. S. participation into the war, we begin to recognize the contributions of the leaders of the campaigns.
Mrs. Gen. MacArthur'
Arrives At Tilton Farm
The boys at the Golden Rule
Farm in Tilton are celebrating
the arrival today of "Mrs. General
MacArthur"—a black and
white heifer calf.
General MacArthur, a brown
calf born during the seige of
Corrigedor, was named in honor
of the hero of Bataan.
The boys 'are now looking
forward to the arrival of "Jimmy
Doolittle," who is expected
within a few days.
Gandhi Backs Independence Bid
With Threat Of Welcome For Japs
Bombay, Aug. 3 (AP)—The
political situation in India took
an ominous turn today as Mohandas
K. Ganhdi warned that
British failure to heed Indian
demands for independence
would cause discontent elements
to welcome a Japanese
invasion.
The little nationalist leader, writ-
ing in his newspaper Harljan, expressed
the personal opinion that
such a development would be a
calamity of the first magnitude"
which he said the British government
should avoid by giving in at
once.
(The British Broadcasting corporation
reported that Sir Rarmiswami
Mudaliar, Indian representative
in the Imperial war cabinet,
would leave shortly for London to
take his place in the councils of
the United Nations.)
Firm In Passive Opposition'
Gandhi added that the "chorus of
indignation" from Britain and the
United States would not deter his
own projected campaign of nonviolent
opposition to British rule,
in which the All-India Congress
party is expected to reach a final
decision Friday.
He emphasized that while
India was demanding political
freedom she was not insisting
on the withdrawal of British
troops from the country nor
seeking to impede the war effort
of the United Nations.
However, he warned, India's
"suspicion and resistance" will
be stiffened if the Allies ignore
"the sincerity of the fierce opposition
which is being organized
with ominous unanimity."
Political observers have little
doubt that the Congress will endorse
Gandhi's program, which already
has been approved by the
party's working committee, although
Balkrishma Sharma, a provincial
leader, said he planned to
offer a resolution asking that the
opposition movement be called off.
(The Japanese continued their
efforts to stir up trouble in India
by broadcasting from Bangkok, a
speech by Rash Behari Bose, exiled
Indian Nationalist, in which he declared
that the time was ripe for
the people to rise and win their
independence. Bose said that Japanese
troops already were on the
eastern border of India but were
postponing action to see whether
the Indian people would throw off
British rule "of their own accord."
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