Current Events October 16, 1942; SOUTHWEST PACIFIC'S FATE AT STAKE/ STALINGRADS DEFENSE FALLS BACK:

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PULASKI, VIRGINIA. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1942

SOUTHWEST PACIFIC'S FATE AT STAKE

STALINGRAD DEFENDERS FALL BACK

Kiska Is Bombed
By Yank Force
During Day

BULLETIN
WASHINGTON. (AP) — The
Japanese have landed large reinforcements
with- equipment,
including artillery, on Guadalcanal
island and are now shelling
American positions on the!
island, the navy reported
day.
A large concentration of
enemy ships also has been discovered
near Shortland island
about 259 miles northwest of
Guadalcanal, a navy communique
said, in addition to the
enemy naval units in the
Southeastern Solomon islands.
Presence of American motor
torpedo boats in the Solomons
area was disclosed in a report
that enemy warships shelling
American0 positions on Guadalcanal
the night of October 14-
15 were attacked by these torpedo
boats, which reported a
probable torpedo hit on a Jap-
anese cruiser.
By ROGER D. GREENE
Associated press War Editor
American and Japanese forces.
were believed locked in a series
of deadly hide-and-seek battles on
land, at sea and in the air in
the lower Solomon islands today
with the fate of perhaps the
whole Southwest Pacific hanging
in the balance.
Meanwhile, the Alaska defense
command disclosed that American.
troops, extending their hold on
the Aleutians, had taken over another
island in the Andreanoff
group, within easy bombing range
of the last remaining Japanese
base at Kiska.