Over the wireless:

(Radio Moscow claiming the Japanese had sunk the 4,761-ton Russian freighter Angarstroi. On May 2, 1942 a Japanese radio broadcast claimed that the ship had been sunk by an American submarine. This time it was the Japanese who were telling the truth. Angarstroi was sunk in error on May 1 by USS Grenadier SS-210. All 63 men on board were rescued by the Japanese.)

(In retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the people of the village of Lezaky were rounded up. All 33 men and women were shot. 13 children were initially spared, but 11 were ultimately sent to the death camp at Chelmno and gassed in the vans mentioned above. The other two children were selected for Germanization and sent to live with German families. These two were located after the war and and returned to their families. The village was razed and never rebuilt.)

(The greatest massacre in the history of the world does not even rate a bold headline, only an eight-paragraph report, below the fold at the bottom of columns 3 and 4. This figure was probably greatly underestimated since 1942 was the deadliest year for the Jews. It is estimated that as many as 25% of all Jews murdered in the Holocaust were killed in 1942. That would put the number of Jews killed in 1942 alone at 1.5 million.

This report mentions the gas vans of Chelmno, which were specially built vans, which were sealed with the exhaust vented into the sealed chamber. Jews were loaded into the van and driven to a ditch for burial. The Germans tested the route to make sure all would be dead by the time tie van arrived at the burial site. Other Jews were forced to remove the bodies from the vans and move them to the pits. The report also mentioned starvation and disease being used to kill Jews. All of these things were true and, as you can see, were all known to the governments and the public. Nobody can say, we did not know what was going on.)

(The crew of a Russian freighter believes that they sank an enemy submarine off Australian east coast. Their belief was incorrect. The Japanese did not lose a single fleet submarine, for any reason, in June of 1942.)

(The era of the battleship being the dominant weapon at sea ended on Dec. 10, 1941 when HM battleships Prince of Wales and Repulse were caught, in open water, and sunk by aircraft only.)

(The unidentified ship was the 2,686-ton freighter Norlindo, which was sunk by U-507. Five men of the crew were lost in the ship.)

(The unidentified ship was the 7,061-ton tanker William Boyce Thompson. There were no casualties and the ship was repaired. It was sunk on July 7, 1943 by U-185.)

(A report out of Cuba claims that a private Yacht was captured by a U-boat, the women were held as hostages while the men were forced to sail to Havana and buy supplies for the U-boat. Upon their return the women were released. The report also claims that the submarine commander provided the money for the shopping spree. Where he got a supply of Cuban pesos was not explained. This sounds like a wonderful tale, but I very much doubt the veracity of the story. This is something that would be famous in U-boat circles, and I have never heard a story like this.)

(Sharp pursuit into Egypt.)