Current Events September 16, 1942; JAPANESE LAUNCH POWERFUL DRIVE TO RETAKE SOLOMONS/ BOREDOM & COMPLANTS SET IN/ GERMAN SMASH BY RUSSIANS IN STALINGRAD;

            The Billings Gazette


                                             BILLINGS, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1942

Reinforced Japs Try to Oust
Marines From Solomons,
Losing 21 Planes in Attempt
Washington, Sept. 15.—(AP)—




          The Montana Standard
           BUTTE, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 16, 1942

Japs Launch Powerful Drive
to Recapture Solomon Islands
Defenders Are
Countering in
Hard Fighting
Reinforcements
Landed by
Enemy Forces
PEARL HARBOR, T.
II., Sept, 15.—(UP)—A
large Japanese fleet soon
may clash — perhaps already
has clashed — with
formidable U. S. Naval
forces in the Solomons.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 15.—
(U,P) —The J a p a n e s e have
launched a powerful drive to
r e c a p t u r e Guadalcanal island—
main American position
in the Solomons—but defending
forces are countering
the blow In "heavy fighting,"
the Navy disclosed Tuesday
night.
Reinforcements have been
landed by the enemy, whose
planes and warships have intensified
their bombing and i
shelling of American-held positions.
Marines have been engaged
in "heavy fighting" with the
reinforced Jap troops since
the enemy turned loose U. S. attack
the night of September
12-13.

Peaceful Cruise
Was Ended
Scribe Tells of
Solomons Attack
By CLARK LEE
ABOARD A UNITED STATES
AIRCRAFT CARRIER IN THE
CORAL SEA -EN ROUTE TO THE
SOLOMON ISLANDS, Aug. 8.—
(Delayed)—(AP)—We are going Into
battle tomorrow as the United
States launches Its first offensive of
the Pacific war.
The date of attack—the seventh
of the month—Is exactly eight
months after Japan's assault on
Pearl Harbor,
Since this morning there has
been a sudden change In the atmosphere
aboard, .as If the ship Itself,
the planes and all the personnel
were tensing their muscles
like a fighter getting set to swing
his Sunday punch.
We have been riding around the
ocean for what seems like 30 years
and everybody aboard has reached
the complaining stage, griping
about' something.

MOSCOW, Wednesday, Sept.
16.— (AP)— The Red army defending
Stalingrad smashed
successive assaults by fresh
German troops west and
southwest of the embattled
Volga city, which already Is In
flames from steady Nazi dive-
bomber raids, it was announced
officially today.
Although the G e r m a n s
succeeded in advancing yesterday
southwest of the city,
the Russians later threw them
back in a counter-attack
which disabled seven Nazi
tanks and dispersed two infantry
companies, the midnight
communique said.