[Homer_J_Simpson]

U.S. Tokyo Target – 2-3
Marshall and Stark Present at Talk at White House – 3-4
Soviet Far Eastern Army Held Able to Meet Japan – 4
Axis Units Enter Black Sea Port – 4-5
Nazi Push Slowed – 5-6
Russian Poster to be Shown at Rally Here (photo) – 5
Capital May Shift – 6-7
Push on Moscow Gains, Nazi Says – 7-8
Battle at Crisis, is Belief of London – 9
Chinese Envoy Sees No Change in Japan – 9
Berlin Finds Tokyo Drawn Back to Axis – 9
Texts of the Day’s War Communiques – 9-10
Weygand is in Vichy for Cabinet Session – 10

[Homer_J_Simpson]

http://www.onwar.com/chrono/1941/oct41/f17oct41.htm

Taganrog falls to the Germans
Friday, October 17, 1941 www.onwar.com
On the Eastern Front... In the south, German troops capture Taganrog on the Sea of Azov.

In India... Arrangements are completed to transport Moslem pilgrims to Mecca, despite wartime shortages of transportation.