Additional U.S. Troops Arrive in North Ireland By the Associated Press A powerful new contingent of U. S. troops, thousands strong has arrived in northern Ircland to help | carry out the urgent task of creating a new front in Europe in 1942 it was disclosed Saturday as the pitch of battle in Russia and North Africa rose ever higher. An official announcement said U. S. warships escorted the AEF transports across the Atlantic without incident. American doughboys brought with them tank-destroyer forces and more armored units needed for an offensive. On the North African front British headquarters acknowledged a. dangerous new Axis thrust as General Erwin Rommel's armored columns advanced upon Acroma only 10 miles west of Tobruk. The British declared, however, "all of our positions are intact"' and reported an Axis lunge against El Adem, 15 miles south of Tobruk had been repulsed. An Italinn communique reported RAF bombers heavily damaged Piracus, the port of Axis occupied Athens, Greece. On the Russians front Soviet dispatches reported that the Red army counter attacked to stem Marshal Von Back's new offensive around Kharkov and inflicted losses on the Germans in the siege of Sevastopol. Hiller's field headquarters asserted German troops attacking heavily had captured numerous dugouts and fortifications in the Sevastopol defense system. Russian headquarters said tremendous losses in the new cam• paign had led the Germans to make increasingly. use of "Rumanian cannon fodder." About 200 Rumanians were killed Friday alone in four. futile attacks. Meanwhile Czechoslovakia's vicepremier Jan Masaryk urged the United Nations to destroy several German villages by air bombardment in retaliation for the brutal destruction of the whole town of Lidice by German vengeance squads. | at at | | | a
