Current Events August 25,1942;

FREEPORT JOURNAL-STANDARD


Freeport, Illinois, August 25, 1942


Germans Mass Large Forces
Of Tanks On Eastern Bank Of
Don River Before Stalingrad



All-Out Drive
For Steel City

BY EDDY GILMORE

Moscow, Aug. 25.—(/P)—The Germans

massed large forces of tanks

on the eastern bank of the Don before

Stalingrad today while dive bombers

swarmed the skies and

parachutists descended In the Don

and Caucasus areas with anti-tank

guns and motorcycles to menace

further the already-precarious Red

army positions.

A front-line dispatch to Comsomol

Pravda, official paper of the Young

Communist organization, said the

Germans had been able to concentrate

large masses of men and machines

across the Don.

Big Sea And Air Battle Still

Raging Off Solomon Islands

Six Japanese
Warships Hit
By U.S. Planes

BY SANDOR S. KLEIN

United Press Staff Correspondent

Washington, Aug. 25.—(UP)—United

States planes have inflicted heavy

damage on Japanese forces in a big

sea and air battle that still was

raging off the Solomon islands today.

Strong Japanese forces were Intercepted

as they approached in an

attempt to reconquer bases wrested

from them by U. S. marines.