Current Events October 24, 1942; JAPANESE FLEET TAKING IT''S TOLL/ REDS BEAT OFF BLOWS/ R A F BOMBS ITALY/ ARIEL BATTLES WAGED OVER EGYPT:

        The Charleston Gazette

    Charleston, West Virginia, Saturday Morning, October 24, 1942.

10 Jap Vessels Including

Cruiser, Destroyer Sunk

Or Damaged by Bombers

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Blow Dealt Foe's Fleet

In Low Level Attack

At Rabaul

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Definitely Destroyed

8 Transports or Cargo

Craft Badly Hit, Says

Communique

GEN. M'ARTHUR-S HEAD

QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA,

Oct. 24.—(Saturday).—(INS)— .

Flying Fortresses under Gen.

Douglas MacArthur's command'

were announced today to have

probably sunk one heavy Jap

anese cruiser, an enemy destroyer,

and two large Jap merchantmen

in one of the most destruc-.

tlve raids thus far in the southwest

Pacific war theater.

Attack Repulsed

On Guadalcanal

12 Rising Sun Planes

Shot Down as U. S.

Forces Lose 2

Yank Bombers Raid

Foe on Russell Isle

This Is First Revelation

Nipponese Had Landed

On Small Island

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—

(INS)—American defenders of

Guadalcanal have driven off the

second Jap land attack in as

many days, the navy announced

today, while U. S. airmen and

anti-aircraft gunners destroyec

another 12 enemy planes and

damaged two more in the air.

Concurrently, Douglas "Dauntless"

dive-bombers attacked enemy

positions on Russell island, about

30 miles northwest of Guadalcanal

to continue the devastating air raids

on enemy concentrations throughout

the islands.

The navy also announced that a

Jap ship, believed to be a submarine

has again shelled American

positions on Espiritu Santo island

in the New Hebrides.

U. S. Air Forces Supreme

Reds Beat Off

Factory Blow

In Stalingrad

But German Radio Claims

Overrunning of 'Red

October' Bastion

By Surprise

MOSCOW, Saturday, Oct. 24.—

— Thousands of German

troops supported by heavy tanks

artillery and planes struck yes

terday at a Russian-held factory

in northern Stalingrad, but th

Soviets announced early today

that "our units are beating of

the Hitlerite attacks and inflicting

heavy losses.

RAF Bombs Italy;

Genoa Left Ablaze

'Strong Force' Strikes

Embarking Point

For Africa

LONDON, Oct. 23.—(INS)—While

great fires still blazed in Genoa

after the heaviest air assault thus

far against that Italian naval base,

RAF bombers and fighters this afternoon

carried out daylight attacks

against objectives in Germany, occupied

Holland and northern

France.

Aerial Battles

Waged in Egypt

Allies Keep Air Initiative

Land Blows on Bases,

Supply Lines

CAIRO, Oct. 23.—(AP)—The aerial

battle for Egypt crackled on today

with United Nations airmen holding

the initiative and landing solid

blows on Axis air bases and supply

lines.

Two straight weeks of almost uninterrupted

raiding were completed

yesterday when United States desert

fighters and medium bombers raked

enemy landing fields while the RAF

and Australians reported a "very

successful" raid on an enemy air

base at Maleme, Crete.