Current Events August 28, 1942;

               Winnipeg Free Press

                    WINNIPEG, FRIDAY, AUGUST 28,. 1942

KASSEL SHATTERED BY R.A.F. RAID

_

Thousand Planes Indicated

London, Aug. 28. — British'

bombing planes in their biggest

attack in four weeks pounded

on the great German war industry

centre of Kassel during

the night.

An admitted loss of 30

bombers in a concentrated attack

on the gigantic locomotive,

airplane and aircraft and automobile

motor factories there indicated

that the raiding force

consisted of far more-than 600

planes and .might even prove to

have approached a 1,000-plane

level.

The British planes, including

four-motored Sterlings and Lancasters

with their eight-ton bomb

load, rained thousands of incendiary

and hundreds of explosive demount

bombs, believed to include

many two-ton block busters, on their

targets by the light of a bright

bomber's moon.

TELLS OF LIFE IN A JAP PRISON __A veteran sailor of the China seas, Canadian-born Capt.

W. H. Thomas, 67, port captain for an American steamship line

in Hong Kong, who was confined for six months in the Jap

prison, of Stanley Camp and who arrived in Winnipeg Friday,p, and who arrived in Winnipeg _paid paid tribute to the defenders of the Crown Colony, who included the Winnipeg Grenadiers.e defenders of the Crown Colony, who included

"The Canadian troops did their best, they surely did," he

said, "but the surrender was due to lack of three things—airplanes,

water and light." With enough fighter planes and more

troops, it could have been held, in-his opinion.._ ___

BATTERED JAP NAVY DASHES FOR SHELTER_ ___London, Aug. 28. .(BUP}—The Evening Star reported, from

Sydney today that Japanese naval forces are racing away from

Solomon islands seeking shelter in the Japanese-mandated

islands to the north after suffering estimated loss of nearly of

nearly 50 ships sunk or damaged.

New Naval Battle. Rages

Auckland, N.Z.,.Aug. 28.—A great new American-Japanese

naval battle was reported today to. be raging in the Solomons

area, a struggle which may determine the present control of

the waters of that great strategic . area. It is apparently a

desperate enemy attempt to wipe out the most powerful Allied

naval concentration the Japanese have yet met.

Some quarters here believed

that the turning point of the present

phase of the Pacific war may

hinge on the outcome of the events

now in progress.

It was said that the next few

hours may tell the story.