Current Events August 7, 1942; HUGE DEVELOPMENTS OCCURING IN INDIA:

            The Portsmouth Herald

                 PORTSMOUTH, N. H., FRIDAY EVENING, AUGUST 7, 1942

REDS HOLD FIRM ON DON

Front Still

Critical In

N. Caucasus

Moscow, Aug. 7 (AP)—Newly reinforced, the Red

Army reported today that its counter-attacks had rolled

the Germans back in the big Don bend and said its

heightened defense was holding firm against Axis assault

southwest of Stalingrad, and south of Kushchevka in the

Northwestern Caucasus

The situation still was critical,

however, particularly along the

north Caucasus battlefront where

dive-bombers were attacking in

waves in an attempt to batter openings

for mass Nazi mechanized

columns.

Nazis Credit Reds

(The German high command took

significant cognizance of the arrival

of Red army reserves in the battle,

mentioned large-scale Russian use

of tanks in the Caucasus for the

first time and said the bolstered Soviet

forces were counter-attacking

against German and Rumanian

troops between the Sal and Don

rivers, in the Don bend, and in the

Rzhev salient, northwest of Moscow.

(The Germans said they had

thrown large air forces into a heavy

defense in the Rzhev area, indicating

that the scale of the Russian

attacks there was considerable.

(The Berlin communique said

Axis forces had penetrated deeper

into the Caucasus, driving

across the Kuban river to a

point 30 miles northeast of the

Maikop oil fields which produce

seven per cent of Russia's oil.)

The Russian communique gave

this account of operations at key

points on the battlefront:

"South of Kletskaya (80 mile:

northwest of Stalingrad) our troop

launched a number -of counter-at

tacks and pressed the enemy back

"In the Kotelnikovski area (9

miles southwest of Stalingrad) th

Germans are sending in large num

bers of tanks in an attempt to smas

our defenses. Our troops have re-

pelled these attacks.

This Day

And Time

W. H. F.

India Development

"THE WAR FRONTS must not be

forgotten, even for a minute,

by the people of the United Nations.

But today is a day on which

one of the greatest single developments

of the war — perhaps

one of the greatest developments

in centuries—will take place on

a non-belligerent- front.

It will take place in India, when

the All-India Congress party convenes

to take a step which may

easily do much to help the- enemies

of the United Nations, or

by the same token may do much

to help the cause of the United

Nations.

India wants her freedom and

wants it now. The price of Indian

participation in the war on

the side of Britain has been put

at immediate freedom. The alternative

to the granting of this!

freedom is a mass program of civi1

disobedience. A nation-wide

sit-down strike, as it were