Current Events, September 5, 1942;

                                       Oakland Tribune


OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1942



Stalingrad Rallies, Halts Germans

Rommel Repelled, Vienna Bombed



Nazis' Caucasus

Push Checked

Red Army Counter-Attacks In Central,

Eastern Sectors, Admits Enemy Advance

Only In One Area, Above Novorossisk

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By EDDY GILMORE •'[

MOSCOW, Sept. 5.—(AP)—Showing an amazing power of

recuperation, the Red Army was reported today to have

shaken off trip-hammer blows at Stalingrad and stopped the

German advance upon that Volga River industrial center.

In the Caucasus, also, military advices said, the Russians

were checking the German progress, and in the central

eastern sectors were counter

attacking.



Empire Forces

Hold Gains

In Egypt

Limited Victory' It

Claimed for Allies

In W«ek of Bottle

CAIRO, Sept. (APP—The British

Eighth Army held firmly to new won

positions on the central sector

of the El Alamein front after

smashing three heavy Axis counterattacks

and military commentators

here declared that the first week

of the renewed battle for Egypt

had ended in limited victory for

Allied arms.



Yankee Fliers

Raid France

Light and Heavy

Bombers Strike at

Nazi-Occupied Area

LONDON; Sept. '5— (AP)—American

light and heavy bombers made

two attacks on targets in occupied

France today, it was announced off-

icially. All the American bombers

returned safely but six Allied

fighters were missing.

By WILLIAM B. DICKINSON

LONDON, Sept. 3.—(U.W—Russian

planes, penetrating to the heart of

Central Europe, bombed Vienna and

Budapest last night and a force of

British 'planes estimated at 200, left

many fires raging in Germany's

port, submarine building center and

war factory area of Bremen.

Aerial warfare raged on a grand

scale, unprecedented in the war,

over an 800-mile front from London,

which had a brief resultless daylight

air raid alarm today, to the

capitals of Austria and Hungary..



JAPS SEIZE NEW ISLAND BASES

FOR INVASION OF AUSTRALIA

Lesser Sunda Group Occupied To Bolster

Forces Against Allies' Counter-Attack

By HAROLD GUARD

SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA,

Sept. 5.— (U.P)—-Japan, seeking to

strengthen its position in the zone

northwest of Australia, has occupied

several islands in the Lesser Sunda

group extending westward from

Netherlands-Portuguese Timor, it

was revealed today.