THE MORNING HERALD
HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND. SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 1942
U. S. WINNING FIRM GRIP ON ISLANDS
Germans BreakThrough Positions Qf Russians
PROGRESS IS MADE
IN ISLAND ATTACKS
COMMUNIQUE SAYS
Allied Shore-Based Aircraft Continuing to Attack Air
Bases and Ship Concentrations—Fortresses
Batter Convoys
By RICHARD L. TURNER
Washington, Aug. 14 (/P).—American fighting men,
though still in the thick of heavy combat, tonight had obviously
taken a firm and perhaps winning grip upon .the Solo- .
nion Islands.
The Navy, given to reticence and understatement, announced
that the "task of consolidating" the beachheads seized
and held by the Marines was "progressing satisfactorily."
Naval units, it said, were protecting the communication
lines, and escorting supply vessels to the forces of occupation.
"United States Army and Allied shore-based aircraft,"
it added, "are continuing to attack Japanese air bases and ship
concentrations in enemy held harbors."
There were additional indications that American and Ailed
forces held the important advantage of superiority in
the air.
Flying fortresses and fast attack bombers of General
Douglas MacArthur's Australian command were reported to
be keeping up an incessant attack upon Japanese bases from
which reinforcements might be sent to the Solomons. At
MacArthur's headquarters, it was said that these planes were
battering a Japanese naval convoy bound for the scene of the
fighting.
REDS ADMIT
ENEMY GAINS
ON ONE FRONT
Forces Driving Toward
Stalingrad Gain
Ground
SERIOUS TURN IN
STALINGRAD FIGHT
Elsewhere Russians Indicate
Lines Are
Holding
Moscow, Saturday, Aug. 15
(AP).—German troops driving
toward Stalingrad have brok-
en through Russian positions
south of Kletskaya in the Don
river bend, the Soviets announced
officially early today.
Kletskaya is only a short distance
from the Don river at the
northern end of the loop, and Is 75
miles northwest of Stalingrad.
Elsewhere the Russians Indicated
their lines were holding on a front
extending more than 1,500 miles
from the Caucasian mountains to
Leningrad In the north.
TWO BRITISH
SHIPS LOST IN
AXIS ATTACK
Italian Claims That 27
Ships Sunk Called
Exaggeration
CONVOY AT MALTA
DESPITE_ATTACKS
to Substantiation of Firing
of U. S. Carrier
Wasp
London, Aug. 14 (AP).— A
British convoy defied swarms
of Axis warplanes, submarines
and torpedo boats and
fought its way through bomb-
splashed seas to deliver supplies
to the embattled mid-
Mediterranean fortress of
Malta at the cost of the cruiser
Manchester and the air-
craft carrier Eagle, the Admiralty
announced today.
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