Current Events September 30, 1942; RUSSIANS BEAT OFF NAZI BLOWS/ ALLIS RECAPTURE RIDGE IN NEW GUINEA:

          The Portsmouth Times
                      PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, WENSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1942

BATTLE INSIDE STALINGRAD
STILL TENSE; CRISIS NEARS

DETAILS MEAGER
OK PROGRESS OF
GREAT STRUGGLE
Russians Keep Pecking At.
Other Points In Effort To
Relieve Pressure
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated Press War Editor
Soviet headquarters reported
today that the Red armies, surging
down on the German left
flank, had defeated two Nazi divisions
along the flaming 40-mile
corridor between' the Don and
Volga rivers, while inside Stalingrad
the crisis remained acute.

JAPS BATTERED
FROM RIDGE BY
ALLIED ADVANCE

Offensive Seeks To Erase
Threat To Port Moresby;
Stiff Frghting Rages
By The Associated Press
MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, Sept. 30
—Allied mountain troops, sifting
through the difficult jungle and
mountain country of .the Owen
Stanley range, have captured the
first objective of their New
Guinea offensive and sent the
Japanese into a hurried northward
retreat, a communique said
today.
Consolidating their positions on
Ioribaiwa ridge, which was retaken
from the enemy, the Allied
troops are pushing the Japanese
toward Nauro, 10 miles north of
the ridge, where the Japanese
have established new defense po-
sitions
With the conquest of loribaiwa
ridge, which the Japanese had
prepared for defense with barricades
and field trenches, the Allies
have started successfully the
difficult task of driving the enemy
back over the 88-mile trail
to Buna and erase his threat to
the Allied advance base at Port Moresby



                   The Billings Gazette
                            BILLINGS, MONTANA, WEDNESDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 30, 1942

Red Army Beats Off Main
Nazi Blows at Stalingrad

By EUOY GILMOKE
Moscow, Wednesday, Sept. 30.—
(UP') — The red army, killing more
than 2,201) Germans, beat off all of
the main nazi blows at Stalingrad
Tuesday, the Soviet high command
announced Wednesday in the thir-
ty-seventh day of siege.
Every nazi attack in the northwest
sector was repulsed during the
day, The midnight communique said,
and "particularly heavy losses" were
suffered by the Germans in an
attempt to take a hill site in that
critical corner of Stalingrad where
the Germans had penetrated Monday.
It is against the northwestern
sector of the city that the Germans
are making their major assault.

Allied Troops Recapture
Ridge, Continue Advance
In New Guinea Offensive

By MURLIN SPENCER
(AP) General MacArthurs Headquarters
Writer Tells of Terrific
Battle Marines Put Up as
Japs Thrust at Solomons
The navy department an-
nounced at Washington Tuesday,
September 15, that the Japanese
were making a large scale effort
to recapture Guadalcanal and
other islands of the Solomon
group taken from them by United
States marines in early August.
The communique, which said
details wore lacking, reported
that "heavy fighting" had been in
progress by land, sea and air since
the previous Saturday night.
The following day, Wednesday,
a second communique announced
the intensity of the fighting, on
Guadalcanal "has decreased and
the marines are still holding their
positions." The Japanese had
been repulsed and withdrew.
Tom Yarbrough, A s s o c i a t e d
Press war correspondent who has
seen service in England, with the
Pacific fleet and in the southwest
Pacific since war started, was on
the ground at Guadalcanal when
the enemy made its big counterattack.
His eyewitness account,
delayed two weeks, vividly amplifies
the navy's official report of
the three-day action.