Current Events September 9, 1942;

               The Charleston Gazette

                              Charleston, West Virginia, Wednesday Morning, September 9,1942,

Strong Army Bolsters Soviet

South Flank, Churchill Says!

Foe Creeps Forward at Volga

Stalingrad Line

Gives in Center

Nazi Drives Southwest

Of City Hammered

To Standstill

Artillerymen Battle

Novorossisk Wedge

Local Successes Claimed

By Russian Defenders

West of Grozny

MOSCOW, Wednesday, Sept. 9.

—(AP)—German tanks and airplanes

have punched another

hole in Russian defenses west

of Stalingrad, but the Red army

continued to repulse Nazi onslaughts

southwest of that Imperiled

Volga river city, the Soviets

announced officially early

today.

Bright Offensive

Picture Painted

Forces in Iraq, Iran)

Strengthened to Go

To Ally's Aid

Nile Defenders Also

Greatly Augmented

Reveals Foe Lost Perhaps

AB Heavily as Allies

Did at Dieppe

LONDON, Sept. 8.—(AP)—Prime

Minister Winston Churchill gave

Britain today a heartening pic-

ture of victory by a new army ln

the Egyptian desert and real.

prospects of military support for

Russia's Imperiled Caucasian

flank.

In a tough and optimistic report

to the house of commons, he summoned

the United Nations to new

offensive action and called the Allied

attack on Dieppe "an indispensable

preliminary to full-scale

operations in western Europe.

Allies Retreat

In New Guinea

Enemy Drives Desperately

Over High Mountains

Toward Moresby

GEN. M'ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS,

Australia, Sept. 8.—

—After weeks of jungle patrol

skirmishes, the Japanese forces trying

to reach the- advanced Allied

base at Port Moresby, New Guinea

from the north have finally forced

an Allied withdrawal to new defense

positions in the Owen Stan-

ley range. Gen. MacArthur's head

quarters disclosed today.