Current Events, September 8, 1942; NAZIS ANNOUNCE GAINS AT NOVOROSSISK/ NAZIS REPULSED AT STALINGRAD/ MINE FIELDS CLEARED AT EL ALAMEIN/:

             The Charleston Gazette


Charleston, West Virginia, Monday Morning, September 7, 1942.

Novorossisk Claimed by Nazis
But Stalingrad Repulses Foe;
Rommel Handed Stiff Reverse

Nazi Volga Line
Heavily Piled Up;
Soviet Communique Sees
Enemy Failing 3rd
Straight Day
Foe Asserts Smashing
Gains Along Black Sea
Grozny More Endangered;
70 Luftwaffe Planes
Hit at Moscow

MOSCOW, Monday, Sept. 7—
(AP)---- A reinforced Red army
rolled back German line* northwest
of Stalingrad and continued
to hold firm southwest of
the beleaguered Volga river city;;
but made "a fighting retreat to
new positions" around the Black
sea port of Novorossisk, the Sorlet
midnight communique t*U
today.


El Alamein Mine
Field Is Cleared
Axis General Back Where
He Started on Drive;
Allies Hopeful
Enemy Said Rocked
On All-Out Assault
Sudden Blows by British
And U. S. Break Off
Reich Spearhead.

CAIRO, Egypt, Sept. 6.—AP—

Strong and continuing pressure
of the British Eighth army had
forced the Axis back west of the
El Alamein mine fields today to
their starting point, greatly
weakened after a futile weeklong
effort to find a soft spot in
a stovepipe-shaped alley leading
into the British defenses.
There was no doubt in the mind
either of officers or observers here
that Marshal Erwin Rommel threw
everything he had in this drive and
that he has been unhorsed from a
full-scale offensive that was meanf
to take him to the Nile.
"We'll Be In Cairo"

Defeated Japs
At Milne Held
Only Fugitives
Tree-to-Tree Search Being
Made by U. S. Victors;
Kokoda Is Attacked
By Allies
MELBOURNE, Australia, Sept. 6.

—(AP)—Allied fighters and Australians
trained in jungle warfare, today
were making what was -virtually
a tree-to-tree search for the remnants
of the Japanese forces which
escaped last week's big ambush at
Milne bay. New Guinea, reports
from that front said.
It appeared likely, observers here
said, that the Japanese would shortly
be running out of food and ammunition
since apparently no attempt
has. Been made to send, them
supplies.
Planes Help Hunt

No Quarters Password
In Ruthless Jap Fighting

WASHINGTON, Sept. 6.—(INS) —
Under Secretary of the Navy James
V. Forrestal, fresh from an inspection
trip in the southwest Pacific
war theater, disclosed for the first
time today some of the bitter and
ruthless realities which confronted
U. S. marines in taking the southeastern
Solomon islands from the
Japanese.
As examples of what the American
forces have been up against
in the Solomon islands during the
past month, Forrestal revealed:

1. Japanese soldiers, after pretending
to surrender, have shot
U. S. marines in the back.
2. American doctors, endeavoring
to care for Japanese wounded,
have been "killed in cold
blood."
3 Japanese civilian workmen,
engaged in building fortifications
In the Solomons, were killed by
Japanese troops to keep them
from falling into American
hands.