The Portsmouth Times
PORTSMOUTH, Ohio, SUNDAY, AUGUST I6, 1942
NAZIS AIM AT STALINGRAD;
YANKS CAPTURE JAP BASES
TANKS, PLANES,
TROOPSHURLED
AT DEFENDERS
Towns In Path Of Pincers
Movement Bear Brunt Of
Full O f f e n s i v e At
Volga City
By EDDIE Gilmore
Associated Press Staff Writer
MOSCOW, Aug. 10 — (Sun,
day) — Apparently launching
a full offensive against Stalingrad
after securing strongholds
in the north Caucasus, the
Germans hurled masses of infantrymen,
tanks and planes
today against Russian positions
on the Kletskaya and Kotclnikovski
fronts before, the
important Volga city.
MARINES WIN IN
FIRST PHASE OF
PACIFIC BATTLE
'Shore Positions' Reported
Consolidated; Enemy Attempts
To Push New Guinea Advance
By C. YATES McDANIEL
Associated Press Staff Writer
MacART H URS'S HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA,
Aug. 15 — Fighting Leathernecks
of the United States marines
were believed tonight to
nave captured important coastal
bases in the Solomon Islands
in triumphant conclusion
of the first phase of that great
battle still raging in the southwest
Pacific.
The f a i l u r e of Japanese
quarters to make any but a negative
reference to their land
forces, coupled with a Washington
announcement that the
marines are consolidating sliore
positions in the Tulalgi area,
led to the belief the Nipponese
have been dislodged from the.
bases.
A Rock Bottom View:
Allies Face Black
Picture; Sacrifice
To Grow At Home
Offensive Against Japs In Solomon Islands Only
Bright Spot In War Where Russia, India
And Home Front Look Clouded
By JOHN GROVER
Wide World Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 — Add it up any way you choose,
political and military developments of the last two weeks
present the blackest picture since Dunkerque.
As a result, war's effect on the average American—scarcely more
than an inconvenience to date—really is going to come home" with a
bang. The situation is mighty serious.
Russia has her back to the Caucasus wall. Correspondents report
the Russian people are "suspicious" of the U. S. and Britain for failure
t" open a second iront. In India, Gandhi's "independence or else"
^ovc is an extremely grave development, particularly his admitted
willingness to negotiate with Japan. The Nipponese armies are on
Iht move again in New Guinea, perhaps in an attempt tg clean up
the Australian flank before moving on India.
ANY one of the three carries the seeds of catastrophe, could
lengthen the war by years. The only silver lining in these
clouds is the Allied naval offensive at Jap-held Solomon Islands
with accompanying air assaults on New Guinea bases.
To meet this major crisis, there'l be many change in our way of
life There are definite indications the period of political compromise
and sugar coating the pills we've got to take to win the war are definitely
over.
National gas rationing is back in the picture. Oil state senators
tilled it, but it's the only sure way to save vital rubber now jn public
hands. That's necessary, and necessities aren't being brushed off to
boost the political feelings any more.
i By late fall, there won't be any of the nonessential goods on the
shelves. Those available now are from stocks already manufactured.
Stuff like radios, refrigerators and a thousand other items will disjppear.
There won't be any relaxing of the rules to permit limited
manufacture, either.
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