| Show Week feck of War Wa Reds Gaining In Day At At Stalingrad t By FREDERICK United Press Central European Manager This day of ot fighting at Stalingrad brought a general Improvement improvement im im- Im- Im provement of ot the Russian position Improvement meant a betterment betterment better better- ment in the crucial situation caused by new out all-out nazi offensives offen often elves Ives in the preceding four days leading to their admitted penetration penetration penetration pene pene- in considerable force torce of the northwestern sector of ot the city I Nazi Drive Pushed Marshal counteroffensive counter- counter offensive of ot the Germans' Germans northern flank designed to relieve pressure on the city had reached a point points s some me 75 15 miles from Stalingrad and apparently was causing the deflection deflection deflection tion of ot Increasingly numerous nazi forces The Russians also were pushing hard on a pressure-point pressure below the city on the nazi southern flank lank where Rumanian troops were reported to have been sent scurrying in retreat The rue new weight and fury of ot the ther nazi attack followed a personal pledge by Adolf Adolt Hitler that the city would be taken The speech In which on Wednes Wednesday day he uttered this pledge was a high point of ot the weeks week's news Bombers lilt Japs The united nations position Inthe in inthe inthe the Pacific was satisfactorily maintained during the week where it was not actually improved American bomber and fighter raids continued to punish Japanese bases and shipping On New Guinea land forces pressed Japanese forces back along trails in the Owen Stanley mountains In Egypt the British attacked on the nazis' nazis southern flank lank outside outside out out- side Alexandria for the purpose of ot Improving their own line The action day by day On Sunday the Russians yielded slightly in to house-to-house fighting at Stalingrad On Monday the situation at StalIngrad Stalingrad Sta Sta- changed relatively little There was good news from the southwest Pacific where it was announced that United States army navy and marine corps planes operating from Guadalcanal Guadalcanal Guadal Guadal- Guadalcanal canal island had sunk 42 enemy aircraft without loss to them them- selves Allied progress was reported reported reported re re- re- re ported on New Guinea American and Canadian air units attacked I Japanese shore installations and I ships hips at Kiska in the Aleutians On Tuesday the Russians reported report report- ed d that severe nazi drives in the northwestern outskirts of ot Stalingrad Stalingrad Stalin Stalin- grad had been ed Speaking b before fore the house Prime Minister Churchill sharply discouraged publIc public pub pub- lic ic speculation or assertions about the time and place of ot future offensive offen often sive operations meaning the second second sec sec- ond front Wednesday b brought r rough 0 U g h t Hitler's speech in Berlin the first he had I made in five months Among other othes things he indicated that his 1942 objectives were subs substantially t tan a n t i ally a 11 P achieved with cutting off Russian I traffic on the Volga Moscow admitted ad ad- that the Germans had re resumed resumed re- re their slow advance in the thc northwestern part of Stalingrad Churchill again appearing in commons commons com corn mons disclosed that the Dieppe Diepp raid had caused a total loss of ot 5 50 per cent of ot forces engaged Th The t navy department at Washington a announced the loss in August in inthe inthe inthe the Solomon islands of ot two naval transports I IOn On Thursday as a direct or in indirect indirect indirect in- in direct result of ot Hitler's pledging his personal prestige on the outcome outcome out out- outcome come of ot Stalingrad German at- at ackers gained some ground in the city though the Russians regained a locality to the south British forces breaking a lull in the desert warfare opened what appeared to tobe be a line straightening operation against Rommel's troops In the southwest Pacific allied troops still stUl were advancing in the Owen Stanley range in New Guinea No Japanese opposition was tei Frida Friday brought a rallying by the Russian defenders at Stalingrad inflicting terrific losses on the nazis and the destruction of ot many tanks American raids on the theS the'S w If Aleutians were continued and the thea I v S a navy department revealed new U successes against Japanese shipping ship ship- I ping in which five vessels were q sunk two others probably sunk and C one damaged No contact had yet yett yeta t a been established with the Japanese troops withdrawing from their theira a advance on Port Moresby After S almost a month of ot inactivity American bombers In strong formation formation for- for formation mation attacked in northern 4 France shooting down clown 13 of a total totalS a S of ot 18 nazi planes lost The raids followed a a. heavy British night aso assault assault as- as o sault on the Baltic port of ot Flensburg Flens- Flens t a burg which had cost the R RAF A F 17 11 bombers |
