Current Events October 14, 1942; U.S. TAKES HEAVY TOLL IN SOLOMONS/ U.S. IN EGYPT WIN MAJOR VICTORIES ;

                               THE LOCKHAVEN EXPRESS
                            LOCK HAVEN, PA., Wednesday, OCTOBER 14, 1942

U.S. Takes Heavy Toll Of Jap Ships
U.S. Airmen In Egypt
Win Major Victory; Reds
Push Out At Stalingrad
Jap Ships Sunk
Or Damaged-48;
U. S. Sunk-10
WASHINGTON, W) — Here
is a box score summary of
danute inflfllcted on Japanese
naval forces in the Solomon
Islands campaicn as compared
with American losses.
The figures are based entirely
on reports issued by the Navy
at Washington.
Japanese losses:
Sunk—One heavy cruiser,
six destroyers, one transport.
Probably sunk—Two destroyers,
one transport.
Damaged—Two aircraft carriers,
one battleship, three
heavy cruisers, six destroyers,
three plane tenders, four
transports, two cargo ships,
four miscellaneous ships; total,
37.
Total Jap ships . sunk and
damaged to date—48.
American:
Sunk—Three cruisers, three
destroyers, four transports.
American ships have also
suffered some damage in recent
naval action in the Solomons,
but the particular ships
and extent of damage have not
been officially reported, except
that the Navy described it as
"minor to moderate.''

RAF Attacks Kiel;
Berlin Complains
Of Terror Tactics;
Malta Busy
(By The Associated Press)
Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's
Red armies were reported
to have driven two new
wedges into the 40-mile German
barrier northwest of
Stalingrad, while inside the
city the defenders recaptured
a street yielded to the Nazis!
on Monday.
It was Stalingrad's 51st day
of siege.
On the Egyptian front U. S.
Army planes were officially
credited with scoring their
first major victory of the
Middle East campaign yesterday
when 12 American fliers
battled 20 German Messerschmitts
over the Nazi lines
and forced them to disperse.
United States headquarters

Enemy Forces At
Kiska, New Guinea
And Solomons Hit
Hard This Week
WASHINGTON, (If) — The
navy announced that United
States submarines in the
Western Pacific had sunk a
Japanese heavy cruiser and
four other vessels, probably
sunk another, and damaged
two.