Lawrence Daily Journal- World
LAWRENCE, KANSAS, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7,1942
CHRISTMAS LIGHTING
IN WAR BLACKOUT
Washington, Nov. 7. UP—The
War Production Board today requested
civic officials, businessmen,
and the general public to dispense
this year with outdoor Christmas
lighting.
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U.S. Troops Have Advanced to
The East on Guadalcanal Island
Washington, Nov. 7. UP^-The navy reported today that American
troops had advanced to the eastward of their positions on Guadalcanal
island in the Solomons in what appeared to be a maneuver, to isolate
a threatened Japanese beachhead in the vicinity of Koli point.
The advance was carried out*-
against only light enemy resist-
ance, a communique said, while .on
the western flank of the American
defense area in Guadalcanal, marines
again repulsed enemy counter-
attacks.
The communique also reported
that for the first time since October
29, enemy bombers had struck
at Guadalcanal but had failed to
do any damage altho clouds prevented
American fighters from engaffing
them.
More Than Two Thirds of
Rommel's Forces Reported
Out of Battle
6 DIVISIONS CUT . OFF
Pursuit By-Passes Italian
Units Waiting to
Surrender
**^ '(By the Associated Press)
.Britain's victorious Egyptian
armies were reported to
have captured or trapped 100,-
000 German and Italian troops
today, crushed a desperate
axis attempt to rally and
swept 100 miles across the
desert nearly halfway to the
Libyan frontier.
More than two-thirds of the total
axis forces of 140.000 troops
were said to have been eliminated
from the battle, with the British
in swift pursuit of the broken enemy.
A
British communique said 20,-
. 000 axis troops ' had already been
captured; along with 350 tanks and
400 guns. Six Italian divisions were
reported cut off, without food or
water, meekly waiting to surrender.
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