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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23739, 10 September 1942, Page 1

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—* — RESISTANCE AT ' STALINGRAD A'special dispatch to the 8.8.C. from Moscow says that in the last 12 hours the German frontal assault has made no appreciable progress. Though savage attacks with tanks and infantry havef been hurled against the city, at no point has there been a break-through.—London, September 9. JAPANESE.PLANS IN PACIFIC The Japanese are believed to b& preparing a desperate thrust to regain the advantage in the Pacific. The correspondent of the Washington “Star" says: “The Japanese are massing in the mandated islands north-west of New Guinea for a real showdown. A sea armada is being prepared to hit Allied lines of communication. Concern is also felt here over reports that the Allied lines to New Guinea are insufficiently protected, and that the Japanese infiltration tactics are still not sufliciently understood. Americans returning from the Pacific say the Japanese are likely to continue sending out small forces to lie low until, hundreds are built into thousands for a vigorous all-out attack."— Washington. September 8.