Current Events August 30, 1942;

COMPLETE PAGE OF WIREPHOTOS ON SOLOMONS FIGHT, PAGE 12


                                               Oakland Tribune

                        OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA. SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 1942

Marines Annihilate Japs In Solomons;


Navy Gives First Full Story Of Capture





All Enemy


Landing Units


Wiped Out


71 Nippon Planes


Shot Down; Three


Warships Blasted

By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER '

WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.—

(AP)—United States Marine!

are now holding six islands in

the vital Guadalcanal Tulagi

area^of the Southeastern Solo-

mons, the Navy announced to-

night, and have smashed all

Japanese attempts to land

troops in an effort to drive

them out.

Enemy units sent into the island

sines the Marines landed early

August 7 with strong American

Naval and Air Forces in support

have been either completely annihilated

or captured, it was dis-

closed in a communique summarizing

the results to date of the first

American offensive of the war.

Another communique today reported

successful aerial attacks

against a squadron of four Japanese

destroyers in the Jap-held territory

north of the Guadalcanal Tulagi sector.

One large destroyer was sunk,

another was badly damaged 'and

probably sunk, and the third, a

small destroyer was damaged and

left burning.




New Guinea


Japs Are


Reinforced


Heavy Fighting Rages


For Milne Bay as


Allies Pound Bases

By MURLIN SPENCER

GENERAL MacARTHUR'S

HEADQUARTERS, AUSTRALIA,

Aug. 30 (Sunday)—(4";—Japanese

reinforcements were reported today

to have reached Milne Bay, where

a heavy battle between Australians

and invading Japanese soldiers

roared into its fifth day, while up

the coast fresh fighting broke out

in the Kokoda area and in the Lae-

Salamaua sector of New Guinea.

(This was the first report in some

time of land fighting in the Lae-

Salamaua area, which is 180 miles

north of Milne Bay )



Stalingrad


May Be a


'New Verdun'


Defense Gaining in


Strength, German


Assaults Repulsed

By EDDY GILMORE

MOSCOW, Aug. 29— (AP)—The

Russians held hopes of turning Stalingrad

into a Verdun tonight as the

Red Army pressed llth-hour counter

attacks from their unyielding

lines, while on the central front the

massive Soviet offensive was reported

to have overrun the Bzhev

Airport.

Everywhere from the bogs of

Bzhev, 13O miles northwest of Moscow,

to. the vineyards of Mozdok

deep in the Caucasus and dangerously

near the Grozny oil fields, the

Russian Army was showing new

strength and beating off the Ger-

mans.