Current Events September 4, 1942; GERMANS IN STALINGRAD/ ROMMEL DRIVEN BACK IN EGYPT/ U.S. PILOTS HIT HARD AT JAPANESE POSITIONS IN SOLOMONS/ MERCY SHIP REFUSED ENTRY BY JAPAN:

GERMANS IN STALINGRAD

Terrific Allied Fire-Power Hurls Back Rommel

                                  The
                   Bakersfield Californian

         BAKERSFIELD, CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 1942


Air Fleet Hammers Volga City
Russ in Desperate
Spot; Hitler Uses
375,000 Men
By Associated Press
NAZI headquarters asserted
today that German troops
had fought their way to the
western suburbs of Stalingrad,
and Tass, the official Soviet
news agency, acknowledged
that fighting was in
progress on "the immediate
approaches" to the big Volga
steel city. Dispatches to Red
Star said battles "without precedent
In violence" were raging on the
northern and southern approaches
to the city as General Fcdor Von
Bock throw 25 divisions or upwards
of 175,000 troops Into a climactic
assault on the key "city of Stalin."


Clouds of AlliedPlanes Rip Nazis
Withdrawal of Air Strength From Egypt
to Russia May Be Factor in Desert War

Field MARSHAL Erwin Rommel's armored columns,
jolted by terrific allied fire-power, were reported to have
fallen back in the battle of Egypt
today under another record
breaking assault by British
and American warplanes.
A British communique said
the main axis forces had retreated
westward.

U.S. Pilots in
Pacific Hit
Japs Hard
Bomb Enemy Bases,
Troops in Big
Day Raids
By Associated Press
AMERICAN and allied war-
planes, swarming across
he far Pacific skies on a
3500-mile "front," were officially
credited today with inflicting
havoc on Japan's invasion
armies from China to the
Solomon islands in the south
seas. In the southwest Pacific, allied
bombers set big fires raging in
the Japanese base at Salamaua,
New Guinea; bombed enemy seaplanes
at Faisli, destroyed fuel
dumps at Buka and targets hit
Kieta, all in the upper Solomons;
bombed and machine-gunned Japanese
troops in the Kokoda area', New
Gulnea, and pounded sea-borne Jap-
anese forces in the lower Solomons.

Outlaw Guerrillas
Battle Irish Police
Tension Increases as I. R. 'A. Members
Blast Barracks, Engage in Gun Duel
BELFAST, Northern Ireland,

Sept. 4. (AP)—The explosion of
A time bomb outside a police barracks
at Randalstown, Northern
Ireland, and a sharp gun battle
between police and Irish Republican
guerrillas at the Northern
Ireland-Eire border heightened tension
today in this Ulster capital.
No casualties were reported from
the gun battle and the attackers
escaped. Authorities expressed belief
that the guerrillas fled back
into Eire after firing on police barracks
at Bellech, County Fermanagh.
Telephone lines in the
vicinity had been cut prior to the
attack.

Mercy Vessel
Trip Banned
by Nippos
Refuse American
Prisoners Red
Cross Relief
SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 4.

(AP)—With every foot of
space packed with supplies
for prisoners in the Orient,
the neutral relief ship Kanangora
remained at anchor
today in a west coast port. At Pacific
area headquarters of the Red
Cross here there was no official
comment on Tokyo broadcasts that
Japan had refused passage of the
Red Cross ship into oriental waters.