Current Events September 18, 1942; RUSSINAS LAUNCH DRIVES, STALINGRAD/ NEW GUINEA BATTLES NOW SPORADIC:

       The Lethbridge Herald

                    LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I8, 1942

REDS SMASH, TWO DRIVES, STALINGRAD

GERMAN' CHUTISTS

Shower City AsRussians Attack

Moscow Launches "Large-Scale" Attack from Tour.

Directions in the Voronezh Sector in An Effort

to Relieve Stalingrad—German Wedges

in City Wiped Out

LONDON, Sept. 18—(C.P.)—A Reuters dispatch from

Moscow said tonight that "German commando troops

were being dropped at dusk from troop-carrying planes all

over the terrain before Stalingrad and at the outskirts of

the city."

Another Reuters dispatch said that "on the northern,

flank of the southern front"—in the Voronezh sector—

"the Red army has unleashed a new offensive from four

directions with a view to relieving the Stalingrad posi-

tion." The offensive was "on a large scale."

WIPE OUT TWO DRIVES

(By^Henry C. Cassidy, Associated Press Staff Writer)

MOSCOW, Sept. 18—(A.P.)—Taking a stand, with the

precipitous banks of the "Volga at their very backs,

the defenders of Stalingrad have counter-attacked and

wiped out two enemy wedges within the city in a supreme,

last-ditch effort to save the great manufacturing centre

from the Germans, the Russians said today.

The Germans precipitated this bitter and thus far

successful Russian counter-action by rushing into the cityproper

from the northwestern outskirts, and pushing almost

to the cliffs overhanging the west bank of the Volga.

With no choice between counter-attack and surrender,

the Russians took their stand.

TERRIBLE BATTLE

        Cumberland Evening Times

                   CUMBERLAND, MD., FRIDAY, SEPT. 18, 1942

BATTLE IN NEW

GUINEA AREAS

NOW SPORADIC

Both 'Allies and Japs Are

Maneuvering For Pos-

ition During Lull In

Ground Fighting

ENEMY BASES RAIDED

Allied Fighter Planes Strike

Smashing Blows at Bun

to Ease Pressure On

Defenders

General MacARTHUR'S Headqua-

rters. Australia, Sept. I8. (AP) While

Australian troops battled Japanese

forces in the New Guinea jungles

only 32 miles air line from Port

Moresby. Allied fighter Planes

struck a smashing blow yesterday

at the enemy supply base at Buna

General MacArthur's headquarters

I announced today.

Approximately 35.000 rounds ol

cannon and machinegun fire were

loosed by the Allied raiders in a

concentrated attack, destroying or

|damaging 15 landing barges and set

tting fires in supply dumps which

were visible for 35 miles. a cum-

munique said.

Buna Pounded 45 Minutes