The Portsmouth Herald
PORTSMOUTH, N. H., WEDNESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER 2, 1942
Reds Hold Despite Nazi Tank Wedge In Stalingrad
U.S. Fliers Brave Dust Storms
To Spear Nazis In Desert War
In Greatest
Numbers' Our
Tanks Aid
Britishers
(By The Associated Press)
U. S. Army tanks fighting alongside the British helped
bar the path of Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's new three day
offensive in Western Egypt today while American
fliers shuttled through one of the worst dust storms of the
war to blast Axis supply depots and break up German dive bomber
formations over the desert battlefield.
A bulletin from British G, H. Q. said British forces
were locked heavily in battle with Axis armored columns
all day yesterday in the southern sector of the narrow
front. x
U. S. Army planes engaged in extensive operations
over the entire area, the communique said.
Reds See
No Break
In City
Moscow, Sept.- 2 (AP)—
The Russians fought hard today
for Stalingrad against
hordes of German tanks that
had struck deep into the defense
system and nowhere
was there a sign of Soviet
weakening which might lead
to a major German breakthrough.
On this, the seventh day of the
battle for the great Industrial city
on the Volga, Marshall Fedor Von
Bock threw waves of tanks against
the city's outer fortifications while
his air farce continued almost ceaseless
bombings of the Red army and
the city.
Counter-Attack Erases Spearhead
Belfast Mob
Jeers At U. S.
Doughboys
Belfast, Northern Ireland, Sept. 1
(AP)—The appearance of two United
States soldiers on Belfast streets
touched off the first disorders today
soon after Thomas J. Williams, 18-
year-old member of the outlawed
Irish Republican army, was hanged
in a heavily guarded Jail for killing
of a policeman.
When police sought to disperse a
crowd of about 300 persons, angrily
shouting at the Americans, "Why
don't you stay at home?" Two demonstrators
hurled missiles.
The police charged with drawn
batons and the crowd quickly scattered.
Other throngs had collected
outside the jail where Williams was
hanged, but, save for a mild street
demonstration, there had been no
other outbreaks.
Japs Mask
War Moves
On Siberia
(By The Associated Press)
Japan attempted to allay sus-
picion today that she might be pre-
paring an attack on Russia's "back
door" as Chinese reports said that
100,000 Japanese troops had been
moved north toward Siberia in the
past month and that a big Japanese
fleet was massed off North Japan
Presumably, one of the first targets
of a Japanese invasion of Siberia
would be an attack on the
vital port of Vladivostok, 650 miles
across the sea of Japan from Tokyo
In an apparent attempt to
mask the Tokyo war cabinet's
real intentions, a Dome! broadcast
quoted Premier Gen.
Hideac Tojo as declaring that
his assumption of the foreign
ministry "will not result In any
way in an alteration of Japan's
foreign policy.
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