The News Palladium
BENTON HARBOR, MICH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1942
ALLIES EXPAND PACIFIC DRIVE
DESPITE JAP COUNTER-ATTACKS
Rioting/ Strikes Increase In India
Battle Of Solomons
Mounting In Fury
U. S. Marines Beat Off Savage Nipponese
Assaults; Information On Losses Is Meager; :
May Mark Turning Point
BY ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
"We are holding our own . . ."
In five words, the United States received word today
indicating that American Marines were beating off furious
Japanese counter-attacks in the five-day-old battle of the
Solomon islands, 900 miles northeast of Australia, as allied
naval and air forces covered the long-range invasion.
Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin, announcing at
least an even break in the struggle that may mark a
turning-point of the far Pacific conflict, said allied gains
so far apparently had greatly outweighed 'losses.
At the same time, an Australian government spokesman
disclosed that shipments of supplies of the "highest
possible value" which would "rcvolutionizii1 offensive opera-
Lions in the north" had arrived in Australia.
Revolt Spreads;
Troops Aiding
Bombay Police
O u t b r e a k Between
Hindus And Moslems
Feared Momentarily
BY PRESTON GROVER
Associated Press Correspondent
BOMBAY, Aug. 11—Rioting, mill
stoppages and police volleys Into
turbulent mobs spread wider over
India- today amid indications that
dreaded communal riots between
Hindus and Moslems might break
out to heighten the crisis.
The government took Increased
measures to restore and keep order.
In some areas troops marched In
where police strength seemed inadequate,
to cope with expected outbreaks,
from Bombay on the. west coast
to Calcutta on the east coast came
reports of- demonstrations, hartals
(the closing of stores) and goondaism
(rowdyism) as the call for a
total shutdown of trade spread to
Mohandas K. Gandhi's turbulent
followers with a promise from their
leaders of victory In two months in
what they called their "final struggle"
against British rule.
Police said the ^lightest spark
might touch off rioting between the
sub-continent's opposing religious
groups. Hindus and Moslems.
Death Toll Reaches 28
Laval Fears Overthrow
Of Vichy Government
(By Associated Press)
LONDON, Aug. 11—A Reuters
dispatch from Stockholm today
quoted the' Vichy correspondent of
the newspaper Sveuska Dagbladet
as saying Pierre Laval had called up
police and troop reinforcement* to
protect the Vichy government
against a rumored coup d'etat.
BERN, Switzerland, Aug. 11—The
Germans have threatened reprisals
against every man, woman and
child in occupied France following
new anti-Nazi outbreaks for which
93 Frenchmen were executed.
The executions were announced
in Paris last night by the German
military commander who invited the
People "in their best Interest" to!
help discover those responsible for
assaults on German soldiers "or I
will be- obliged to take measures for
which the whole population will
suffer."
"Despite numerous warnings the
calm again has been broken at certain
points in occupied France," said
the announcement, signed by Brig.
Gen. Obcrg, chief of the SS (elite
guard) and police in occupied territories.
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