Current Events September 11, 1942; RUSSIANS ABANDON THREE MORE VILLAGES/ JAPANESE ADVANCES AT PORT MORESBY CHECKED:

The Galveston Daily News

GALVESTON, TEXAS. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER II. 1942.

Red Army Abandons

Three More Villages

Nazi Frontal

Assault Is

Continuing

Mechanized Masses

of Invaders Hammer

Ever Closer to Vital

Volga Stronghold

Moscow, Sept..11. (Friday).

(AP) German tanks and infant-

ry s m a s h i n g fronfally at

Stalingrad forced the red army

to abandon three more populated

places immediately west

of that i'ity in (he fourth Riis-

•lan retreat In as many days, the

•oviets V announced early today.

Over muddy battlefields soaked

by the first autumnal rains and

atrewn with wrecked tanks and

mangled bodies the nail mechanized

masses hammered even ^closer

to the Volga River stronghold.

Soviet airmen were reported ' tak-

ing an increasingly heavy toll of

the advancing German legions.

Southwest of Stalingrad, the

Russians. said. they still were hold-

Ing despite repeated Nazi attacks.

Street Fighting.

Japs Encounter

Resistance

In New Guinea

Gen. MacArthur Hints

of Possible Allied

Counterattack North

of Port Moresby Base

Ctn. NacArthur's Headquarters

Australia, Sept. 11.

(Friday). (AP) Japan's thrust

through the Owen Stanley

mountains of Naw Guinea has

been checked south of Efogi,

44 airline miles from the big

allied base of Port Moresby

and "bitter fighting continues

with casualties reported heavy

an both sides, a communique

said today.