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DENTON, TEXAS, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, SEPTEMBER 1. INI
Chinese Rout
Jap Forces in
Drive on Kinhwa
Nazi Army Attacked
Vigorously From
Air, by Artillery
By MI RLING SPENCER
GEN MacARTHURB HEAD-
Start Tin Can
Collection Here
To jo Takes Over
Jap Togo’s Job
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Board,
not lx
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can achieve an offen-
Mtt Bhrope
■’ "'’■■’fl ■r
*- VW
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J span ms have
strong a*** *‘
front of
talnous no-man's-land
TOKYb irrem
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OS'
tense as the hour appfoacned for
the scheduled hanging tomorrow
of Thomas J. Williams, 19-year-oid
IRA member, for the slaying of a
policeman last Easter morning. Se-
curity forces were on guard against
any disorder
j said the
soldiers wm in
r smoke rising
tai haad-
ivy fight-
fch«
ory
crippling of soviet notes
i, tMtofall of StsJtngfte'And
id. would
to recon-
men wet
week. M
Tuesday.
• WOO ware men
with a recent oonU
turned here on 14
Hard on Two Fro
to oomplate final
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annor-
t north
FROUND
ABOUT
TOWN
DENTON
Wealliei'
Rqy Moore's office has a
a or bus tire, which was
found by the force recently on hlgh-
practically new and is
noney to anybody. The
owner can get
it at the Sher-
RD-CH
The Court House and the lawn Is
minus one of its fixture*, cor to '
these days, as J. D. Gentry left Mon-
day for Oklahoma City, where he
teD r„*' _ __ - - - •
setting back to his'tad line of
work -structural iron. He said that
for the present, at least, his family
would remain here, but it may be
they'll move there later. But, still
tharell ba a Gentry on the the
job hero, as his brother. Tom, will
take charge of the Court House and
grounds.
Iowa.
American fighter pilots were in
service with South African squad-
rons flying American-made planes
bearing the red, white and yellow
insignia of the RAF
Allied fighters Intercepted two
big formations of Stuka dive-bomb-
Axis Opens New
African Assault
and fire ‘i
J at the New Jersey
_ Company today, tilling at
iMb^ttwoe pareona^anfl Injuring an
5 '' ■ ’
Pullet Takes Egg
Plea Seriously
MEMPHIS. Tenn . Sept 1 —
(A*)—Mayor Walter Chandler,
urging higher egg production
In a speech at the country 4-H
poultry show, was suddenly in-
terrupted by a loud noise.
Out strutted a cackling pul-
let. to report an immediate in-
creased volume. The owner said
it was the pullet's first egg.
j
«s #3
recently
*Larg£
CHIC,
product!
est in 1
more
in
caj
HMTVUHd Sept
tn view of ,the
way M. B's r------
worth real money t
stee M 980-90. The
announced at noon:
"During the night of Aug- >1*8apL
. no significant changes took place
at the front."
BHWtefag Heat
Blistering heat, so intense that
candles melted tn dugouts at night,
beat down on the sun-parched
steppes, and dispatches
only relief found by s ‘ “
the shadows cast by
from the battlefield
m quest of water. Russian and
German troops wore reported fight-
ing bitterly for a well located ih
met began his offensive earlier
than expected because the British
'»■**■ yrtmfgToemea*. &ML bronT
^Mtar than his own despite the
* aattWmore summery weather ar-
rived here Monday afternoon and
judging from the humidity Tues-
day morning, it would seem that
mmo aafito ML _____J__
ua. Yesterday s low was down to
78 and in the afternoon the ther-
mometer went up to 91. A year ago
tt wm cooler and hotter, with a
low of 75 and a high of 98
■ * -
CMta).
eggn I -
reoignad amt his "office he* been
taken over tar Premier General W-
dekl Tojo. the Tbkyo radio* an-
nounced today.
Tojo, a former emhesmita.- to
both Berlin end Moacovr, gave up
Bportfolio for ovenm affairs -
last Dec. 9, tee than a week before
----Harbor, but retained control
» Foreign Minutry. y
He had been ‘ 1 “ -----
uUnMar in me
Prosper te of checking Rom-
and counter-attacking in force ap-
MmX...... .-*■■■ r4 ' \ —
None of the dove hunters had re-
ported at this hour on their luck
on tM opening day of the season,
bat Us understood that quite a few
of the beys hit the trail at an ear-
ly tear. Well know soon as to the
quantity of the birds, or probably
ths ability of the shooters. But, boys
If there are any restaurants, drug
stores, boarding houses or hotels
which T ■
for Sep
era. shooting down at least three
of these enemy craft. Not a single
U s bomber or Allied fighter craft
was lost in the day's operations.
T ransportation
Clinic Tomorrow
Persons Interested in the new
f<*deral truck regulstions are to
meet in the municipal building
Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock to
hear a discussion of the rules. Ar-
rangements for the meeting here
are being mr.de through the Cham-
ber of Commerr-.
B. J. Cole, field manager of the
Office of Defense Transportation,
to to speak at the meeting, espe-
cially relating to recent amend-
ments to the riles.
Under the piovtotons of a new
order, the sems general conserva-
tion requirements are made for
common carriers under a recent re-
vised order, and in addition they
must reduce mileage at least M
per cent under the same month
last year, eliminate jpecial ueliv-
w' alongside the
the"Axis. It was not
the U. 8. soldiers
oqps. repair crews of
j«h some American
A U . H navel plane ,
of four men. one of them
cited for hto part in an a
an enemy tetearini. waa
by naval authorKtoe test
m^a8*nk teMk.
The missing meh includ
toon POot. Amt fJlase, J
last March.
("but we missed having
Cole's hounds with us
ly fifty-five or so now.
Bne way, the chase was a
’ as the dogs caught the
thing that hunters don't
;, M they want another chase
the fox. We eaught this one
i by Bmcpt's spur."
WIST TEXAS: Oenttmed gefoe
eeel thta aHerwssu and tonight.
BAST TEXAS: Uttle tampefu-
tare change this afternoon and 4a-
nfrte; a few wMehremMerod ttnm-
wkat equally raadiUsm with ttam-
derataMM on epper eeast today.
OKLAHOMA! OWMbiate JMSBI
widely eealtered UraMtaeterme
worn and oeMh this aftekwoM er
easty SMteHT :• ~~
This was the beginning of the battle of the Solomon Islands. This kte
Island after the attacking American carrier baaed planes hit. Jap gw
batteries were hit Gavutu Island, another point attacked, lies just w
photo from NBA—Passed by Navy censors in Washington)
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further devefopmenta which might
indicate a now trend in JepaneM
tag bitterly for a
No-Man's Land
In BWypt, British
quarters reported that
■S’
) Iyad a fine fox-chase
night in a way,'* said
•Hein'before beginning
service in the ormy. *”«
Georgs Rickerich saw where Fred
Cxmningham wanted to 'swap' mus-
tang grapes for his subscription to
the Record-Chronicle. George said,
"Well. 1 don't think you should be
partial to those sandy land fel-
lows by trading out with them for
grapes; you ought to let us black
land fellows in. as we can swap you
a lot of Johnson grass." Maybe you
newsmen can learn to eat Johnson
grass*'
MMwZ'’ .
view of fire swept Tanaubogoso
employements and antiaircraft
nd the causeway. (U. 8. Navy
ited foreign
----cabinet
It. 1M1, a tMr weeks after sur-
rendering to YbshitowRi Takakawa
the Japanese embassy in Ute Rus-
sian capital. >
WREBRffS
WABHINQTOH. Sept 1 -(jp»
—The Senate Ptnanee Com-
mittee rejected today a trees
ury proposal for the eibataa-
tion qf percentage <* .* \
lowancM now granted petrol-
eum and mining enterprises tn
their tax bills.
LONDON. Sept, l^-u
on
Guinea, moun-
Japa^MMM7*Buna as* the
Allted advanced bam at Port
plans far
an smphib
trol nt' th
the fourth
of great oi
mate vlctoi
Should the ABtas hold tn the
deaert and the Red Army keep the
Germans in check until spring, and
draw enough strength from Allied
factories to mount an offensive in
---- -----tf)e a furcees-
____the continent are
regarded M extremely good
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through.
Baku, these aour
force the WWbH
eider plana for such an invasion
and lengthen th* war considerab-
ly
"■ in compariaon with
- - - i, mi.
growing
tank crews have previously wpbrted
in "test” actions
The German-Italian offensive,
which started at dawn yaetarttay.
wm reported unofficially to have
driven eight miles through Bridals
minefield in the initial phases of
the assault.
As the war ended Its
Indications arose
were slowly turpihg^he
Hitler himscD, who 1
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MWMWMnammiaaawuawaaanteammM
COMPETITION KEEN FOR FBW
♦ CARTnwmURG*!™!, Bept. ♦ |
♦ 1—ur>—The girls in this town ♦ I
♦ of 810 population are finding ♦
♦ tKre aS^ foSringte’S ♦
♦ in town and they're awaiting ♦
♦ calls from drafHmtes. Twen- ♦
♦ ty-two oartenburg men al- ♦
♦ ready are in tj^ >rmed foroaa. ♦
IIH8M98M88 W888MM
UNCOVER PLOTN
' PITTHBURGH. Sept. 1—(P> .
-A rash of strikes involving
truck driver a timbermen.-
cranemen and various shop-
workers threatened today to
interfere with th»-production
of steel in thia industrial work-
atop of the United Nationa.
flmmOKINO, Bept 1.-4*)
—Vtottod Stetoa planes attack- .
ad tte A------- -----------
M<kylna
' J«W D8BAH, 8oyC ^-4te“
RAP Planes bombed and ma-
< hinegunned the JapanaM baM
of Kalawa. on the CMndwtn
River in Burma, scoring hits
on buildings and river boato
Aug. 88. • British communique
In northern Burma
■ |L for the aogond day
In xuccMision, p communique
from Ueut Gan. Joseph W.
Stilwell's headquarters an-
nounced today.
Camp Wolteri
‘ — p of M botetm Ctoante
t to Camp Wolters this
leaving Monday and two
who had left
ynt, and re-
■
Plane With Four ;
prelude to a series of offensive ob-
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man naval pa
to raid the We
but said ma
CHUNGKING. China, Hept 1.—
Oto—CMnem tome storming across
Chekiang have intercepted . and
routed reinfotaMhenta ruaned up by
the Japanam in a frantic effort
to halt Generalissimo Chiang Xal-
Shek’a forces approaching Kinhwb.
ana of the last enemy-held air
baeM in the coastal province, the
high command announced today.
These JapanaM ware ambushed
Mlhey moved up a branch railway
line running between Kinhwa and
Lanchl while another CftingM 001-
unfo made further program in a
(Mw along the mall rail line from
Tkngkl toward Kinhwa
TMB8B 8IIAID 2I MIW
JEB8KT PLANT P>BB-
HT>-
l/Vauy Planes Strike First Blow
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WirrfffiirwTiur' Hui m . m
Associated Fraas I was I Wire
ive not filed applications
mber-October sugar allof-
epe should be taken Un-
to file with the Ration
if such applications have
filed by September 8. a
penalty will be made against the
’Middle East Bridge’ as Conflict Goes
• AJi.
metal parade Friday morning. One
J wuUM not know otherwise that
raabaatlon of for What the scrap is
ultimately to be ueed. Among the
100 er MOTO motorised vehketes WM
a itaht wagon drawn by two Shet
toe and would you guess
in tt. Will WUHarna. and
a f-ffranddaughtor, Kay
WUliaaM to chairman of
rationing board in Den-
dy. •«* to doing hia part
U rubber tires are used m
xnaible during the present
ended its third year,
rose W the Allies
--—
mwvr nuiwvu, wiw has repeat-
edly promised "fin*!” victory, told .
the German people they must make 1
"the hlgheet of sacrifices'' in the <x„5*.
coming winter months while Mtato
troops "batUs unitor soaroaly taws*
inable deprivations " >
Soviet dispstetos said ths Ger-
mans were moving up tremsndaua
new forces of men and machines to
bolster Oen. Fedor von Bock's twer
months-old onslaught against Btal-
But tbs Lcyd your God we shall
fear; and He khall deliver you out
of the hand of all your enemies —2
Kings fr-»
In man's most dark extremity
Oft succor dawns from Heaven
Scott
Many Denton County people have
gotten into the gathering of scrap-
metal tn the past few weeks, as is
evidenaed by the four large stacks
of metal around the square, and
many people are still bringing in
metal and placing It on the piles in
one of the enclosures. Arthur Fer-
rell of Justin has been a mighty
busy man in getting up old scrap
metaL M he has some two hun-
dred and fifty thousand pounds of
it to hie credit.
Mitchell who was retired from the
U 8 Army years ago for expres-
sing the very ideas about the im-
portance of air strength that this
desert war Is proving daily.
U. 8. Cemmanders
In command of U. 8 Air Force
Mitchells in the desert is Col. C. G.
Goodrich of Augusta. Ga. Com- I
* te A 49 1 — ^8— .
went Into action yesterday, is Maj. '
Umlt at any one time to only ten
birds.
three German attac
the key Volga ind
deepened a 'wedge -
grad from ths southwest. <
The Russian command said at
least 48 German tanka were ds- «
stroyed and 9jM0 Nsata kilted. |
tetbl
dared f
hired th
near ths
ths Orts
Egypt Rommel hurled armored col- • x
"*ht *" Allied Planes
! Strafe Stragglers | DRIVE IN ELiYPT
In Milne Jungles
IjHi
• -r', ' '
• dktevr..^Mko-. • ««. ,
Collection of tin cans tn Denton
began Tuesday morning, the sec-
ond such monthly pickup in co-
operation with the nationwide sal-
vage drive. The collection probab-
ly will be continued for several
days. Ben IWy, salvage committee
chairman, said.
K Housewives have been urged to
Such a development might be the remember that the first Tuesday of
- - • each month 1s “tin can day" tn
Dsnton, and they should put at
the curb in a container tin cans
which they have saved since
last collection.
I dive-bomber formations
Armored i j *
141000 Axis troops between D Ala- his previous victories.
mein and Bengasi were said to be The danger to Alexandria is ad-
k
I.
H
dellvertes to one g.ftay Other pro-
visions include limitation Of speed
to 40 tniles per hour and trucks
to be loaded to capacity on going
or returning trips. .
Much Interest in
Resignation of
Japan Minister
WASKmariQS.
RM>cnatt0D ?'
Minister flhikenort 1
oentratlon qf more
quantities of material In one spot,
50 dead enemy troops were found. I
TYie belief was expressed that the I
Japanese who fled by warship Sat-
urday night had been hard pressed,
because the enemy seldom leaves
bodlesj for religious reasons, and
because valuable notebooks, papers
and maps often are found on the
corpses.
Difficult communications hid the
exact strength of the remaining
enemy units.
Will be reduced for the two
Of September and Octo-
BELFA8T. Sept. 1-<AV-Unlted
States troops have been ordered
to stay off the streets of Belfast I
tomorrow, it waa announced offi-
cially today as tension mounted
with a report that the outlawed i
Irish Republican army was plan-
---nlcm attack* on American and
Britisti troops in northern Ireland
There was no explanation of the
announcement of the order but
presumably it was issued to lessen
any chance of incidents among
American forces and pro-I.R. A.
element* tn Belfast. Neither wm
there any indication how long the
order would remain tn effect.
Earlier in the day police reported
that s great cache of arms and
explosives captured near here Sun-
day night was to have been used 1
by the I. R A. in attacks on the
American and British forces.
A police statement said the spe-
cial manifesto issued by tse IRA
calling the presence of United
States forces in northern Ireland
an act of aggression made It clear 1
that “This illegal organisation has ’
been preparing for attacks on
members of the armed forces of the
crown, police and United States
forces stationed in northern Ire- 1
land."
Police said 17 persona had been
detailed for questioning as all 1
available officers concentrated on
investigation of a plot which, they
i said, had reached a point where
the organization was able to amass
explosives enough to wreck half
| thia Ulster capital.
One man armed with a tommy-
gun' waa killed when the arsenal
was uncovered yesterday In a raid
on a farm five mites from this city *
said they suspected
that he waa an important member
of the outlawed Irish Republican
GERMANS MAKE EIGHT-MILE
U. S. AIR
FORCES BOMBARD TRANSPORTS
I .zxsmcM. ‘-'em Russia
Began Drive Early
It was the view of well-informed
British military sources that Rom- AuthorttiM
Alexandria, aftgs Naato Ptold Mar-
shal Erwin Rommel sent "strong
columns” into the attack.
A Reuters dispatch from Cairo
said Axis colignns knifing Into
the southern Bl Alameln-Qattara
line had advanced about eight mites
through British minefields.
An attack on the British center
WM contained, however."---:
Advices reaching London said
Rommel had perhaps HljOM com-
bat troops to throw into hto new
onslaught toward the Sues Canal
and the Green Valley of tike
Nile .
Informed London quarters declar-
ed theer wm no doubt the German
leader had opened a big-scale of-
fensive, synchronised with
great battles of Southern Russia
and aimed at an eventual junction
of Axis forces in the Middle Emt.
"An enemy stack in the early
morning tn the Central sector was
repulsed,” a British communique
said.
Italian field headquarters, issuing ffn Kf /1a Aa
its shortest communique in months. W men IrO IO
asserted that Axis troops had taken
"many prisoners” in fighting be-
tween advanced forces.
Alltod bomb srs swarmed <arer the
desert battlefield during the night,
dispatches said, pounding Axis mo-
tortoed concentrations in "heavy
and successful raids.”
Front-line dispatches said the
thunder of tank, artillery and in-
fantry fighting roltod eerom C_
sand* as Marshal Roaunelb armor-
ed columns struck cwt just north
of the desolate qattara depression.
Egypt’s “death valley." near the joo
foot Bl Himotmat peak.
U» Mining at Sea
engaged by our light torero and NEWPORT. R. L. Sept.
fighting is proceeding," th* British a u. 8. navgl ptam Mb I
command announced.
New American tanks with Ameri-
can repair crews stood ready to
combat the new drive, and United
States bombers helped suppert Gen.
sir Harold Alexander** def erne arm-
_ ^DispatcMlk tram Cairo said the
ertes 'and call-backs md restrict newts U. 6. medium'borabere to ar-
rive to the Mediterranean War the-
I star- twin engined R-25-s. need by
i Brig.-Gen James DooUttte in the
April raid on Tokyo—already had
gone tn tn action Wlvn compicrr
American Air Force crews. -J
The bombare infltetad iksavy <
age on Axis forces tn tly M
mein sector before dsrk yesta
it wm announced, end *
airtransport movtni
On the Soviet tM
Semeon Timoabenko'i
became tangled in minefields Then
they were taken on by our forces.
, Mediterranean near El Alameln — —
KM dayeTwataiMro iw
mor and many of his best troops
might of Allied air forces in west-
ern EXirope. Africa. India. China
and the southwest Pacific.
Officials say there Is nothing to
indicate the swift collapse of Ger-
, many or Japan, through military
defeat or internal revolt, and both
(are conceded to be capable of tre-
mendous offensive drives.
But tt is considered obvious that
the power of the Axis hM pesseri
its maxtauroi.
General Wladyslaw Sikorski,
premier of the polish government-
in-exite, in a statement marking
the anniversary of the Invasion at
Poland, said be thought a "period
of gradual exhaustion” had started
for the Germans that would "pre-
pare the way tar final triumph."
The attention accorded the Mid-
dle East does not dim the Knport-
anro of the great battle foe. oou-
trol of maritime communications
The industrial output the
United States and Great Britain
wtn be the basic factor in the event-
ual defeat of the enemy.
But the Axis in operations by
eea and air bM drastically limit-
ed distribution.
Unless maritime communications
with Russia are improved,
en find it difficult to a
th* Bovtote i-----
sive in Eastern Europe-
A union of German force* from
AfrlcH and Russia in Iraq or Tran
would almost completely isolate
Russia and India and would fore-
shadow a Junction of the Japanero
and GOrmans tn a vast military
structure.
«Kg0 ^VB^roB wlBn BTOU1G OF BDI© IO
teoMfer at toast IM divtrione to
Western Europe.
LONDON. Sept. 1—(Ab- Three
years after Hitler hurled hte war
machine against Poland and sow-
ed the seed of Global war, a key to
Allied strategy lay today in the
great middle east land bridge from
the Egyptian desert to the Cauca-
sus
Fighting rages at both ends of
the bridge on the sands west of
the rich Nile Delta, where Field
Marshal Rommel hM opened a now
campaign, and a round Stalingrad,
where the Ruariana are fighting to
save their arsenal city of the lower1
Volga.
That bridge must be held, in the
opinion of qualified but unofficial
and unidentified observers. If the
United Nations—tn the midst of
invasion of Europe and
rious campaign for oon-
fc Pacific—are to make
'Year of the war a year
ffenrives leading to ultl-
Sept l.-(P>- fenders of I
idbob F’orrifln —.aw
Toga and con-
J, power In the
hands of the War Premier Hideki
Tojo aroused keenest interest in of-
ficial and diplomatic quarters in
Washington today- - -
Official comment wm lacking, but
experts cm Par BMtem afft
craliv agreed the move was
rt Wood end Stone, wore
extract corner. A ptotto
I by. Wood turned to
» turned to Wood. TW ..
I to rubber and the girl u
• a hat ihop " *
like those which ■ untenable,
—went Into their
t , . .
Ronunel Begins Drive in Egypt and Hordes
Surge Ahead in Rusaia; Tremendous Forces
Move on Stalingrad. •»
By ROGBR D. OIIEENB : . - . '
Associated Pram War Editor
United States land fams and planes were reported in
action in the new battle of Egypt today as Adolf Hitler's in-
vasion armies started the fourth year of World War I! by
punching outUn a major offensive toward the Nile and by
hurling maaaea of reinforcements into the bloody atruggia
for Stalingrad.
For the first time,, dispatches
from the Western Egyptian desert
mentioned both American land and
air forces fighting
British against f* *
stated whether
were combat trc
"About the beat pecans I have
seen are on the trees in the Court
House yard," remarked one of the
, riiadysiders. "and I guess the rea-
l eon is that there has been so much
hot air going up from under those
I trees that the Insect* have been
kilted. But, In recent days, these
I trees are shedding pretty badly and
the nuts are falling to the ground."
The “leans" may be leaner, but It
is a cinch that the "fat**' won’t be
’ any fatter after that game of base-
ball between the "teans” and the
"teto" Wednesday (tomorrow)
> night at 8:18 at the City Park
grounds Their other game was a
1 "tie” and this un U being play-
ed for vengeance, which both teams
I say they want The same lineups
are expected to play as In the last
game, but there will be a differ-
ence in the "empiring" this time,
as the banana peddler, Claude Lln-
L vUte, Will be against Ol' Smilin' Doc
i Pttaef, who, in the last game made
I • it mighty hard on the Jimmy All-
red players, but Of Doc aays "pol-
| itics’ wont play any part tn this
I « game, m the election la over.
i Sheriff
Me truck
■ "v-' ;■ ■ .
which started at 4 a. m | ‘ ‘ -
The RAF also was active during the Allied ambush at Milne Bay
the night and as day broke an were pushed back Into a narrow
a 4 * a aW a Waa — A__. A1 — H »•***» *b»A a*. ~~
air began with American medium long reconnaissance flights failed
bombers and fighters participating to uncover any evidence of Japa-
Amertcan B-25's—the same kind
of bombers used in the raid on beyond in the thick Jungle The t «
Tokyo—went Into action with for- j pilots, however, saw three damaged a s"trug'gie for mastery 'of the NHe circles believe” Oenerai***2r Harold
of i.mrnnied .by barges and three tanks bogged in ( valley. Suez and the whole middle Alexander, Britain's middle east
south Africans, three times .hurling j the muck and mud. all ^niute ^evi- , an(j near east. | commander, is capable not only of
* *r_: *_ “• Although there was no official stopping the Axis drive but of ad-
word here that the new assault was , ministering a sharp defeat
the opening of a new German of- “ ‘
bombers fenstve. there was no doubt in well- '
on t
Lae airdrome, leaving it smoking Marshal Erwin _Rommel had begun ' enemy out of North America and
B-17
The newest American
By EDWARD KENNEDY
WITH ALLIED FORCES
IN EGYPT’S WESTERN
DESERT, Sept. 1—(A?)—
__ A new battle of the western
FMk^ta a war project He te i desert, with the United States
. *. . _« jorceg among Britain’s allies
both on land and in the air.
opened at dawn yesterday by
Nazi Marshal Erwin Rom-
mel’0 Afrika Corps just
north of the Qattara depres-
sion.
(This dispatch, which passed
through Allied censorship, made no
reference to the size or type of the
American land forces involved.)
Prepared for the attack was an
Allied defending force Imbued with
the spirit of grim determination
expressed by Prime Minister
Churchill to hold Egypt at all cost.
Their new commanders were Gen
Sir Harold Alexander and Lieut.
Gen. Bernard Law Montgomery
Into this renewed battle for
Egypt Ronunel hurled armored col-
B . -...
■r-:’ . _
U. S. Forces Aid British in Aii*
Land Battle of Western {Desert
enemy. Against another German thruat. *
A severe night attack was made evidently seeking a soft spot kn the i
on the Japanese air base at Lae. I center, the British •
400 miles to the northwest, and have held firmly.
I skirmishes on 1—J ■*—'—"* “* “
| nearby I
Other
desert the base
front.
The German army was attacked
vigorously from the air and by ar-
tillery as tt pushed toward the Al-
lied lines
Rommel's 90th light Infantry, to ,
the north, was shelled heJNrtly by i
British artillery as the Germans j qen Mac ARTHUR'S
QUARTERS AUSTRALIA. Sept 1
| _________
strafing any Japanese remnants yir r0
Iroft toas ttoro -4---»---4--l-‘y^ W—8 a-
J troops’ who were mopping wp The Sptng"major bstTfe. ”
and moved them by night some
14 mllea from their bases to get in 1
position for the attack in the •
south.
Bostons manned by j barges and three tanks bogged In | valley, Suez and the whole middle Alexander,
■ t H rroro timroro kinrlino munb »»*r4 mud nil ntiilo * 1 .. \
high explosive bombs upon German j denct of the stoutness of the Aus-
armor and exacting a considerable tralian land forces.
toll I Ton* nt Bombs
The British call the B-25’s Mit- Gen MacArthur's
chell’s after the late General Billy ' dropped tons of explosives
arlA.L^II _ *n*4«sn*8 8 M w —« y » - - o S*
and battered.
United States B-17 and B-26
bombers delivered the attack on
Lae, starting fires visible for 30
miles and damaging a number of
grounded planes. Ttie enemy was j
caught by surprise because no I
planes rose to intercept and only I
I auauMVto, MJCIC wroo UVUWV Ul ww piniUVBD MW • gCUCD U1 UUCIMMVi
‘•hp Informed circles that German Field ! eration* aimed at throwing
UUff XAarKhal TTrwin Qnmmrol KroH Hroxyiin *namv rwi# rtf Klr\WH Ammrina
naaranai isrwin Kommei n&a oegun enemy out or Norm America ana
a large-scale offensive, synchroniz- owning the way to overseas open-
ed wtth the great battles In south- ( Uons by Allied forces.
War Rages at Both Ends of Lengthy
..’11“ i "^r*S2i.?2^£rs<X j ‘Middle East Bridge’ as Conflict Goes
TrtMTA fiiiantltirok nf mrofjarlal Tn nrta <rmt Into Fourth Year; Allies Seek to Hold
LONDON. Sept 1— UP) - An
' eight-mile German drive into the
minefields of the southern flank
- of the El Alamein line in Blgypt.
| —Allied fighter* planes roared rimming the Qattara depression.
. «... . ... reported today In a Reuters
dispatch 'from UalftTM new UHNdfi
, rev* em ua* rouy UMproiMKrt. ivuunwiw t States air forcaa went into MttotJ
Againut another German thrust.
were said to | &
Rommel's supply line however
i been constantly harried by air
‘tack. He is believed to have re-
; solved to attack before further Al-
medium lied reinforcements made an as-
sharp bombers on the north African sault impossible and his position
the towering Owen ' bombed" Tokyo
Half xarav I ha tnnaf __a__aa____a*
fnlloai* by artillery tonkin I #*hy-------------------------- C*n *Ur crew’ ,n a bombardment of pear good although British official
,,.'tI^owr]_i_JaP,n^!’*'wiis1urv,^ng porting American fighter pilot* dis-
n_., unusually large German maneuver. L
.- . , .Ai r-.---- .. . .a a — mi ry for great flanking movements,
intensive counter-attack from the peninsula north of the bay Day > Armored vanguards of perhaps which played so large a part in
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mein and Bengasi were said to be
locked wtth light British force*, in mitted here but there is an indi-
what may be the opening phase of cation that well-tnformed British
Britain's middle
( skirmishes on land developed at
I'.esvy Bombing i nearby Salamaua.
Preceding the assault were, heavy fighting was reported at Kokoda at front—B-25's
Axis bombings of Allied desert, the base of U ‘ ~ —w„.. ,
camps. These began as a half moon Stanley range half way to the most' nrst action with complete^Arneri-
roae above the horizon and were advanced Allied base at Port Mor- ' can a;r crews in a bombardment of
Axis transport column* while sup- i comment is guarded
■ I In this battle Rommel, master of
is denied space neces-
roret flrenirinre mnv*m*nis '
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