Current Events September 6, 1942;

     The Portsmouth Times


PORTSMOUTH, OHIO, SUNDAY, SKPTMMBER 6, 1942



ROMMEL'S TANKS


POUNDED BACK;


STALINGRAD FIRM

Masses Of Nazi Tanks And Troops Fail
To Push Russians Out Of Defense
Lines; Allies Plaster Axis Forces
In Egypt

Special To The Times
Unyielding resistance held the axis tide in check
today at both Stalingrad, the great city on the Volga
where the Russians are making a .stand reminiscent
of Verdun, and in the sandy wastes of Egypt, where
Nazi Marshal Erwin Rommel has been trying for a
week to find a week spot,in the Allied lines.
The Russians, estimating the size of the German legions as-
sailing Stalingrad at around 500,000 men, said the Nazis were
suffering such appalling casualties in their determination to
overwhelm the city that Marshal Fedor von Buck was forced
to assemble his last forces from other sectors and fronts. Even
the German wounded wore pressed into the attack, the Russian
army newspaper, red Star, declared.
It became apparent that the battle for Stalingrad — Hitler's
No. 1 objective in his 1 1942 campaign - is perhaps the bloodiest
of the war. 1 The resoluteness of the Russian defenders recalled
the heroic stands in front of Moscow and Leningrad last winter.



JAPS POUNDED
ON NEWGUINEA

Allies Blast Away At Buna,
Operating Base; Busy
Over Milne Bay
By MURLIN SPENCER
Associated Press Staff Writer

MacARTHUR'S IIEADQUAR-
TERS IN 'AUSTRALIA, Sept. 6
—(Sunday)-Allied air f o r c e s
smashed at Japanese bases in New
Guinea yesterday with three destructive
raids on Buna, in which
numerous landing barges, boats
and other equipment were de-
destroyed and with other attacks
on Japanese ground forces at
Kokoda to the west and Milne
bay to the south, a communique
said today.