Current Events September 21, 1942;

               Panama City News-Herald
                                                           PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1942



GERMANS REGROUP FOR NEW CHARGE

Battle of Stalingrad Goes
Into 27th Day And Russians
Drive Nazis Out Of Streets
U S. Army Flying: Fortresses Bomb And Pos-
sibly Hit Two Of The Battleships In Japanese
Capital Fleet Near Solomon Islands

By FRED VANDERSCHMIDT
Associated Press War Editor
Stalingrad still stood last (Sat.) night as an^integrated
unit of ferocious Soviet defense after a 26-day battle of unceasing-
and destructive movement. . .
as the battle went into its 27th day the Russians
announced that Soviet troops had driven the Nazis out
of several streets in the city and in one instance Had wiped
out a company of automatic riflemen. , . . . , . .
On the west of Europe there were multiplying signs
that the western allies, in their careful plans for a second
front, were neglecting no moment of the days of grace which
are offered by the prolonged and valiant Russian stand on
the Volga.
From the Pacific, the U. S. Navy revealed that a Japanese
capital fleet, including both battleships and cruisers
had approached the U. S. held Solomon Islands area
last Monday, but retreated northward after army flying
fortresses had bombed and possibly hit two of the
battleships.

     Lose Buna Fleet
Neither in the Solomons nor
in the Port Moresby area of
New Guinea was any important
ground fighting reported, but
Allied aerial action was distinctly
ascendant. One British report
said the Japs, as the result of
ferocious U. S. bomber action,
had lost almost the entire fleet
which they had put into Buna,
main base of the enemy drive
on port Moresby.