Current Events, September 10, 1942; RUSSIANS RETREATING/ U. S. ON THE MOVE IN THE SOLOMONS/ EVENTS IN INDIA IMPROVING:

             The Charleston Gazette


           Charleston, West Virginia, Thursday Morning, September 10, 1942.

Reds, Opposing Tanks
With Rifles, Retreat
Closer to Stalingrad
Frontal Assault
Winning For Foe
Courageous Soviet Men
Try For 'Red Verdun'

At Volga Center
Russians Admit Third
Withdrawal in 3 Days
Outskirts of Novorossislc
Entered by Nazi Army,
Moscow Concedes
MOSCOW. Thursday, Sept. 10.
— (AP)German tanks
and infantry, smashing In a
frontal assault toward the western
gates of Stalingrad, forced
the Red army to give up two
more populated places in the
third Russian retreat in as many
days, an official announcement
said early today.
German troops also "broke into
the northwestern outskirts" of
Novorossisk, Soviet Black sea naval
base in the Caucasus which the
Germans claimed capturing Sunday,
despite "tremendous losses in men
and material," the communique
acknowledged.

73 Divisions Rested
U. S. Begins Move Toward
Other Bases in Solomons

WASHINGTON, Sept. 9.—(INS)—A new aerial offensive against
Japanese bases in the central Solomon islands, nearly 250 air
miles northwest of the American-held airfield at Guadalcanal, was
announced by the Navy Department tonight.
U. S. aircraft, a communique said,® '
last Saturday (United States date) '
bombed and machine-gunned enemy
installations at Gizo island in
the New Georgia group of the Solomons.
News of this attack indicated that
the American occupation forces,
now well established and daily
growing stronger in the Guadalcanal-
Tulagi area, have launched
the second phase of the operations
aimed at expelling the Japanese
from the entire 900-mile Solomons
archipelago.
Big Flying Boat Destroyed


SYRACUSE HERALD – JOURNAL
       SYRACUSE, N. Y., THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1042

Churchill
Blames Japs
In India Riots
Fifth Column Activity
Described in Talk to
Commons
London. Sept, 10 (AP).—Prime
Minister Churchill charged today
that widespread Japanese fifth column
activity may have been behind
the All-India-Congress Party's
drive for Immediate Independence,
but he told the House of Com-
moms that the course of events In
India had been Improving and
is, on the whole, reassuring.
The Prime Minister's review of
the Indian situation, laid special
emphasis on the turbulent events
of the last two months and their
bearing on the United Nations' war
effort.
The War Today
Scales Balanced Delicately
In Fighting for Stalingrad
by Dewitt MACKENZIE
The battle of Stalingrad Is
rushing towards its climax under a
weight of arms probably never before involved In the siege of a single
city and with a ferocity which marks it as one of the bloodiest combats
of all time.
The denouement of this great
drama must come soon. Today's reports
from Moscow give a picture
of Nazi attack and Red counterattack
which sway the. lines violently
but have left the overnight
position without great change.
Nazi Field Marshal von Bock Is
lashing his million-man Army on
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for a quick kill, as the fall rains al-
ready mud the battlefield and
warn of the approach of winter.
One of the most efficient but cold blooded
of Hitler's generals, the
marshal Is pouring men into the
bottomless pit with the abandon he
would display in flipping beans off
his thumb.
Similarly, though on n smaller
scale, the Reds again are counterattacking
at Novorossisk against
Hitlerite forces which had driven
into the very defenses Of this im-
portant. Black sea naval. base—the
last big port left to the Russions
here. Control of that great inland
water is the stake for which Hitler
is playing.
Can the Bolshevists withstand
this terrific onslaught against the
Caucasus? W. Averel Harriman,
who was President Roosevelt's
representative at the recent conference
in Moscow between Premier
Stalin and British Prime
Minister Churchill, summed the
position up well at a Russian relief
dinner in New York last night.
"I cannot predict where the line
of the front will be this winter,"
he said, "but I can assure you there
will be tough fighting—tough for
the Germans and their satellite
allies.
No man be he military expert
or soothsayer, can see into the
future further than that it isn't
a forgone conclusion that Hitler
will capture Stalingrad or Novorossisk,
or drive farther down the Caucasus.
But neither Is there any
certainty that he wont. That's
how delicately the scales are
balanced.
Middle East, not only in Persia,
Iraq. Syria and Palestine, but In
Egypt, was highly significant of
the importance which the Allies
attach to this theater. The strategic
value of this great zone has
been repeatedly emphasized in this
column ever since the Kusso-German
war began, and I have ventured
the view that this might In
due course become a new front in
which Britain and the United States
would be supporting Russia.
It's absolutely vital that Hitler
be kept out of the Middle East,
for this is one of the keystones
of the Allied structure. Naturally
the great hope is that the
Russians can hold him north of
the Baku oil fields which lie at
the southern end of the Caucasus.
That still Is quite possible, and
if it is done it's probable that the
Nazi fuehrer's gains In the northern
Caucasus won't avail him
much. As I remarked yesterday,
he isn't likely to be able to cash
in on the potential supplies during
the winter, and by spring America
and Britain should be able to swing
into the offensive on a big scale,
on one front or anoter.