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ABILENE, TEXAS, FRIDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 30, 1342-EIGHTEEN PAGES
Marines Lose Lives to Learn of Jap White-Flag Treachery
(The following account of action in the Solomons was written by
Sgt. Richard T. Wright, Marine Ccrps combat, correspondent at the
scene, and distributed by the Associated Press).
SOMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC, Sept. 21-(Delayed)-AP-
Stories of Jap treachery, one telling how as out of 30 Marines paid with
Their lives for honoring a Jap flag of truce were reported today by
Solomons Island casualties evacuated to the Navy Mobile base hospital
base.
Pvt. Raymond Paul Nunley. of Lancaster, O., nursing a leg wound received
In the early Solomons fighting, told of the massacre of the Marine
truce mission.
"A Jap officer carrying a white flag came riding into a Marine camp
one day," Nunley said, "and told the commanding officer a bunch of
Japs across a nearby inlet were belated and wanted to surrender. Our
C. O. took him at his word and 30 Marine officers and men piled into
a tank fighter and crossed about five miles of water to the point where
the Japs were located.
""Only two of those Marines are alive today. As the tank fighter
approached the beach, a few Japs were observed, and sure enough,
one of them was waving a white flag. As the boat scraped onto the
beach, the Marines let down the ramp and started to go ashore.
Without warning they were met by a terrific burst from several ma-
gunners hidden in the underbrush. They were mowed down like
stalks of corn, except for the two who escaped and swam to safely."
Another time. Private Nunley said, two men of his company on patrol
duty saw a Jap on horseback moving along the fringe of the Jungle, waving
a white, flag. The sergeant in charge walked out lo make the Jap a
prisoner. "He got within five feet of the Jap and was shot and killed,"
Nunley said. "This sergeant was a mighty popular guy and later that day
several ol his pals went out to avenge him. How many japs they killed with
their bayonets I don't know. They wouldn't talk about It when they
returned."
YANKS HURL JAPS BACK
Yield Once, Then
Regain Positions
By FRED VANBERSCHMIDT
Associated Press War Correspondent
Counter-attacking the Japanese assault army which twice
had penetrated since Sunday, American Marines
and soldiers have won back their original positions around
the narrow rectangle of U. S. defenses on Guadalcanal Island,
an official Navy account disclosed Thursday night.
' At last reports, then, American aircraft still were flying
from Guadalcanal airdrome in attacks both near and distant,
and from the surrounding expanse of sea,, there was nothing
to indicate that big Japanese warfteet had struck again or
had tried to land additional enemy invasion forces.
And events chronicled in this latest Na.vy communique occurred
Tuesday, Guadalcanal timer-which' means many of them happened Monday,
Eastern War Time. .
Yards Gauge
German Gain
In Stalingrad
MOSCOW, Friday, Oct. 30 (AP) The
Germans hurled an entire infantry
division and dozens of tanks
against Russian lines in a factory
district of northern Stalingrad yesterday
to gain another 50 to 100
yards at a cost of 1,500 dead and
11 tanks and 33 planes destroyed.
The midnight Soviet communique
indicated most of the Red army
positions held fast despite attacks
from several directions.
"Only in one sector at the expense
of very heavy casualties the
enemy succeeded in advancing 50
to 100 yards-penetrated to the edge
of one factory's grounds," It
said. "About 1,500 were wiped out.
Eleven tanks Including three heavy
ones were burned out. Soviet gunners,
guards and mortar batteries
accounted. for about a regiment of
enemy infantry, and 33 planes were
shot down."
BATTLE IN BLJZZARD
Far south of the besieged
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