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VOL. 43. No. 27. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, MAY 7, 1941. , Copy
Ask Immediate Use Navy for Britian
Aerial Battle for Britain Over Channel Is Renewed
British Retake Vital Mosul Oil Line to Mediterranen
CHURCHILL WINS SMASHING
VOTE OF CONFIDENCE AND
PREDICTS VICTORY IN AFRICA
UNDATED, May 7 (JP)— Chur
chill won a smashing vote of con- j
fidence for his conduct of the war {
aft -r predicting in the House of]
Commons that Britain will be
successful in holding the Egypt- j
ian Valley of the Nile, the Suez
Canal and Malta. The vote was
440 to 73.
Captain Hudson, Civil Lord of .
the Admiralty, drew thunderous
1 cheers from the House, wh n he]
declared, “We have every reason j
to 'be encouraged by the recent
r.suits” achieved by Britain in
the struggle against the German
sub campaign.
Even as Churchill spoke, Nazi
daylight raiders jabbed anew at I
Britain. British Spitfires and j
German Messerschmitts fought a
spectacular battle over the Eng
lish Char.n 1, after a night of
atrial fury in which Hitler’s
Luftwaffe again pounded British
shipyards, and ports of arrival
for U. S. war materials. The air
ministry announced that 19 Ger
man planes were downed in 24
hours of bitter air fighting, and
acknowledged that seven British
fight r planes were lost.
RAJ' night raiders attacked the
north German port of Hamburg
and docks at Le Havre, then by
daylight, bombers, escorted by
fighters, roared across the Strait
of Dover to the French coast on
a new mission.
Waves of Nazi bombers smash
ed overnight at the big Clyde
side shipyards at Glasgow and at
tacked Liverpool for the sixth
straight night. They bombed nor
thern Ireland for the third night
in a row.
A British communique admit
ted the raid on Glasgow was on [
a fairly heavy scale and inflicting
j considerable damage and a num
ber of casualties. The Germans
j said they also bombed Durr,bar
! yon and Newcastle harbors and
I Plymouth and Ipswich.
Germany Feels
Made In England
Air Blitz
UNDATED, May 6 (JP) — Ger
man Rhineland felt the scourge
of a “made in England” bli’z in a
j series of raids by RAF bombers,
i Attacks were reported on Frank
fort, Ammain, Mannerheim, and
other Rhine industrial centers as
well as the Nazi-held Fr.nch
coast.
A Berlin announcement said
the RAF bombed the ancient Ger
man university town of Heidel
berg, known for its student duels
and hit academic ho;pital build
ings.
The British, omitting any men
tion of the assault on Heidelberg,
said “a great weight” of high ex
plosive bombs were rained on
Mannheim while other RAF raid
ers attack d the channel ports of
Boulogne and Cherbourg.
Hitler’s Luftwaffe countered
with equally violent raids on the
British Isles, striking again at
Belfast, while 79 deaths were re
ported in the Sunday night raid,
and fiercely attacking Scotland’s
vast Clyde River shipyards which
stretch from Glasgow to the sea.
Liverpool’s Merseyside docks
were raked with bombs for the
fifth consecutive night.
RECEIVES FINAL GROOMING FOR ARMY DEBUT
First product of the Chrysler tank arsenal in Detroit, this 28-ton pilot model of the M-3 medium
tank is receiving its final grooming before formal presentation to the army. Mass production will
start this summer. The gun at the left is a 75-mm cannon and above the center is a 37-mm cannon.
Machine guns fire from the topmost turret.
STIMSON URGES IMMEDIATE
USE AMERICAN NAVY INSURE
ARRIVAL OF AID TO BRITAIN
WASHINGTON, May 6 UP) —
Secrc of War Stimson, in a
nation-wide broadcast, after con
sulaifon v h Pr sident R-osevelt
urged ' 'no immediate use of the
Am m vy to guarantee safe
delivery of wjar goods to the
Erin ' ■ id Germany’s law
less ..in the Atlantic were
in p. . . England’s life line
and ii th power of the British
navy 1- st, the American navy
will b come secondary. He de
clared that American s- curity is
depen. m upon Britain’s win
ning of the war.
“After providing for billions
of doll: worth of munitions to
carry - the ilefer.se of our free
dom, while w e hold in our hands
the instrument, ready and able to
make all these steps effective,
hall we now flinch and permit
,h> ?e munitions to be sunk in the
I Atlantic? Our entire history
[shews no pr:cedent to make such
a -apposition crcdibl . Neither
h government nor the people
I of ; ■ United States has ever giv
; asion to make anyone ba
. ve such an act of irresponsibil
y and indecision be possible. If
hnuld allow the present strat
■ moment to pass until the
. w r of the British navy is gone
ur power will be gone,” Stim
s n asserted.
The speech was one of the
-trongest statements for the use
of thg Navy y.t made by a mem
ber of President Roosevelt's ’ of
ficial family.
AXIS POWERS OCCUPYING
GREEK ISLANDS
UNDATED, May 6 (A1) — As an
aftermath of the battle of the Bal
kans, the Axis powers began tak
ing over the Greek islands. Hit
ler’s command announced the oc
cupation of Lesbos and Chios Is
lands in the Aeg an Sea, only 10
miles from the Turkish mainland.
A British stat-mcnt acknowledg
ed that the Germans inflicted
much damage and the toll of
dead and wounded is expected to
be high. A singe direct hit on a
Belfast shelter claim d 12 lives.
A daylight formation of Messer
schmidts flashed across the chan
nel and spattered machine gun
bullets into the streets of Do
ver and stabbed at the town’s;
balloon barrage sending three
down in flames.
I
Pepper Says
Its Time For
Us To Get Tough
WASHINGTON, May 6 {&) —
Declaring “it is time for us to
get tough,” Senator Pepper urg
ed this nation to cooperation with
Britain to occupy Greenland, Ice
land, the Azores, Cape Verde and
Canary Islands, Singapore, and
Dakar in west Africa.
Pepper’s program also carried
these recommendations: United
States and British navies to join
openly in th; Pacific and shut up
the Japanese fleet; and long
range bombers manned by Am
erican pilots, enlisting voluntar
ily, to be made available to
China. He commented: “A few
bomb rs flown by American pi
lots wouldn’t leave enough of
Tokyo to build a bonfire with.”
He submitted the program in a
speech he prepared for Senate
delivery.
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ME,_ D F MOMEN T—Trading handshakes at a New York
banquet given for the British envoy by the English Speaking
l .lion are \ iscount Halifax. Britain’s ambassador to U.S., and
J. B. >Ir financier and personal friend of Britain's rulers.
!
BRITISH REPORTED EJECTED
IRAQ TROOPS AND REGAIN
CONTROL OF MOSUL OIL LINE
*
UNDATED, May 7 UP)— In the
near east, British general head
quarters reported that British
troops ejected Iraq soldiers from
positions overlooking the British
airdrome at Habbaniyah, 60 mil
es west of Baghdad, under siege
since Friday. Dispatches from
Iraq said the fighting had still
not taken on the character of
real war.
The Iraq radio was described
as using a calmer tone in the
past 24 hours.
The British command announc
ed that imperial troops regained
control of the vital Mosul-Haifa
oil pipeline which flows from
Iraq to supply Britain’s Mediter
ranean fleet.
S*resi. Boosts
Heavy Bomber
Production
—
WASHINGTON, May G —1
President Roosevelt made a big
boost for heavy bomber produc
tion, an urgent objective. Ho in
structed Secretary Stimson to get
tho job done with “all possible
speed” and gave him a secret pro
duction figure mark to be attain
ed. Authoritative reports said
that Roosevelt called for five hun
dred long range heavy bombers
a month, an output at bast ten
times greater than at present.
Heavy bombers, airmen said,
were an offensive weapon that
the Axis couldn’t meet.
The President made the call
for the “substantial” production
increases last night in a letter to
Secretary of War Stimson, direct
ing him to “take whatever action
needed” to attain the production
rate set. In a privat; memo, he
wrote: “The command of the air
by democracies must and can be
achieved.”
I
Britain, Iraq
Reject Offer
Of Mediation
UNDATED, May 6 (VP) — A de-;
eisive battle for control of Iraq's |
rich oil reservoirs appeared inevi
table, after both Britain and Iraq
reject d a Turkish oiler of me-1
diation and an Egyptian appeal
for a peaceful Settlement.
The British middle east head
quarters said fighting in the oil
kingdom spread with RAF planes
blasting Iraq military positions
at Diwaniya and motor trans
ports at Falluja.
Report British
Stopped at Tobruk
—
UNDATED, May 6 (VP)— Musso
lini’s command said a new Brit
ish attempt to break through the
Axis forces in the month-old
siege of Tobruk was repulsed,
“thanks to the prompt action of
the valorous Italian and German
troops which inflicted great loss
es on the enemy.’’
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