The Galveston Daily News
GALVESTON, TEXAS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1942.
Hard-Pressed Russians Slay Over
9500 Attacking Nazis in One Day
Defenders Are Now
Scant 138 Miles
From Maikop Field
Soviet Communique Tells 'of
No Single Enemy Gain/During
Intense Battles of Monday
Associated Press War Editor
The hard-pressed Russians defending the Western-Caucasus
a scant 138 miles from-the Maikop oil fields and the: approaches
of Stalingrad. On the Volga stood firmly today. (Tuesday) -in.
their. lines "around Kletskaya, Tsimlyansk, Salsk and -Kushche;
sky fighting with such vigor that more than 9.500-attacking Germans
died in a day.
British Merchant
SHIP, U. S, TUG
Reported Sunk
Brings Total of Ship
Sinkings to 410 ,
Since Pearl-Harbor
By Associated press
The sinkings of a British mer-
chant ship and a small United
States tug, announced yesterday ..
(Monday) by the navy brought the
Associated Press total of' ship
sinking announcements in the
Western Atlantic since Pearl Har-
bor. to 410.
Enemy Pacific
Threat Nears
Australia
Japanese Creep Closer
in Mountain Jungles
of New Guinea, Extend
Chain of Isle Bases
W i t h Gen. MacArthur's
Headquarters in Australia
Aug..3. AP The past fortnight's
intensified effort in the Southwest
Pacific has brought the
menace of a Japanese invasion
of the' Australian Continent
only a few miles nearer. The
enemy has crept n little closer
in the mountain jungles of New
Guinea.
But increased pressure by the
Japanese, and a l l i e d counter pressure,
have revealed that the
Japanese,. after a period of comparative
inactivity, are again at
work strengthening and lengthening
their Island chain of bases extending
along and just under the
equator from Sumatra, 4000 miles
eastward into the Pacific.
Few observers believed that {he
Japanese resumption of initiative
necessarily was a prelude to an attempt
to invade Australia. But a
glance at the map was sufficient
to demonstrate 'that each new link
forged in the island chain gave the
Japanese another potential starting
point, should Tokyo decide to
order its war machine to resume
rolling southward,
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