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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23804, 25 November 1942, Page 1

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TOKYO REPORTS NAVAL BATTLE The Tokyo radio has reported that a battle is in progress be;wecn the American and Japaninavies oil the Solomons. — w York, November 2c. RUSSIAN ADVANCE Russian troops nonh-west of Stalingrad captured a huge -womy supply column, .'■■ ays the .Moscow radio, “Although General von Hoth is hastily regrouping his battered forces in . an attempt to fight bis way from Stalingrad,” says Reuter’s Moscow correspondent, "the Germans appear to be hopelessly trapped” The Moscow correspondent of the National Broadcasting Corporation says: "The word ‘demoralisation’ might be ' applied without exaggeration to ' the Germans in the Stalingrad area. The Russians, under Gen- i eral Romanenko and General _ ; Batov, are steadily closing the' ; 40-mile gap, chiefly comprising ; open steppe, between the Don 1 and the Volga. The advancing ' Red Army la continually meeting hall-finished and hastily constructed enemy fortifications.”—London, November 24. CAMPAIGN IN TUNISIA According to the Brazzaville rr-dio, British and American ; aces continue to move up west ' Tunis. Hie Gafsa area remains in French hands.—London,, j November 24. ( i i \