Current Events August 9, 1942; OFFENSIVE BEGINS IN SOLOMON ISLANDS:

                     Oakland Tribune

                  OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SUNDAY, AUGUST 9, 1942

U.S.NAVY SMASHES AT JAPS IN PACIFIC;

GANDHI, AIDES PLACED UNDER ARREST

Offensive in Solomon Islands

Progressing Favorably': Nimitz

Sea and Air Attacks on Kiska

In Aleutians Is Timed With

Blow on Australian Front

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8.—(AP)—Striking suddenly and savagely

at the north and south wings of Japan's advance into

the Pacific Ocean, the United States Navy is hammering at

enemy nests in the Solomon Islands off Australia and has

assaulted Nipponese invaders of Kiska Island in the Aleutians,

it was officially announced today.

Turning Point in War Seen;

Joint Action Hints Big

Offensive in Southern Seas

PEARL HARBOR, T.H., Aug. 8.—(AP)—United States

forces in the Southwest Pacific have launched offensive operations

in the Tulgia area of the Solomon Islands, which are

progressing favorably, a communique by Admiral Chester

W. Nimitz, Commander-in-chief of the United States Pacific

fleet, said today.

The communique, which indicated the possibility of a

turning point in the Pacific

war, also told of a United

States fleet task force attack

on the Japanese at Kiska, in

the Aleutian Islands.

Admiral N i m i t z communique

said:

HIGH INDIA

OFFICIALS

ARE SEIZED

BOMBAY, Aug. 9. (Sunday)—(

A.PJ—Mohandas K.

Gandhi and other Indian Nationalist

leaders were arrested

today,

LONDON, Aug. 9. (Sunday)

—(AP)—Reuters, British news

agency, said today that a

broadcast, which it said apparently

was from New Delhi,

India, reported that Mohandas

K. Gandhi, Pundit Jawaharlal

Nehru, and Maulana

Abul Kalan Azad, president of

the All-India Congress party,

had been arrested in. Bombay.