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VOL. 43. No. 111. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 1941 Par Copy 114
Warns Against Attack Burma Road
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Poorly Equipped
Nazis Routed On
Northern Front
UNDATED, Nov. 18 i(/P> — Of
ficial Soviet dispatches reported
the Germans thrown back eight
.nt'ilfi? by Red counterattacks at
Ula, 100 mi’cs south of Moscow.
The surprised Nazis ran through
the bitter cold in their under
wear in “panic stricken route.”
Clad in Women’s Furs
Coincidentally* authoritative
London quarters said many Ger
man soldiers, fighting on the
snow bound Russian front, were
“rigged out in women’s fur clo
thing -and other makeshifts.”
These sources said, very few of
the Germans were properly
equipped for fighting in the Rus
sian winter.
On the Leningrad front, the
Russians claimed further success
es against the Nazi siege armies,
cL'clarirg that Soviet troops cap
tured positions held by the Ger
mans for two months and that
they are still advancing along the
left bank of the river “N,” pre
sumably the Neva River just out
side Leningrad.
Ir. the Crimean campaign Hit
ler’s headquarters reported that
German dive bombers and com
bat planes dealt “devastating
■blows” to the fortifications and
port feci ities at Sevastopol, Rus
sia’s Black Sea naval base, while
Nazi infantrymen were reported
fighting before the city’s outer
defenses. Nazi dispatches said 60
Russian transport were sunk and
69 others damaged by aerial at
tacks on Sevastopol, Kerch, and
other Crimean ports.
On the Ukraine front, the Ger
mans said Axis armies, driving
into the Donets River basin, oc
cupied additional territory and
“the enemy thrown out of field
positions which some planes stub
bornly defended."
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KEY BATTLE POINTS IN EAST
The Russians wej-e reported driving the Germans back around
Mciicow (circled). The Germans claimed to be withiik 10 to 15
miles ofRostov in the south and that Nazis had entered Kram
atorsk. Dark arrows indicate German drives; light arrow the pos
sibility Germany might try to move troops from Crimea to the
mainland.
Foreign Secretary Eden Warns
Japan Against Any Attack On
Burma Road, China’s Lifeline
UNDATED, Nov. 19 W)— Brit
ain's Foreign Sceretary Anthony
Eden solemnly warned Japan
that any attack on the Burma
Road, lifeline for China’s war
supplies would “create a grave
situation” amid the Far East cris
is a ready verging on the explo
sion point.
Authoritative London quarters
also cited Japanese naval activ
ities in the South Pacific as in
dicating that Japan is exerting
“increased pressure on Thailand"
which adjoins British Burma.
Eden's warning was voiced in
the House of Commons and w’as
followed by reports of massing of
Japanese troops in northern
French Indo-China, stirring con
jecture that Japan may be plan
ning to invade Yunnan Province
in an attempt to cut the Burma
Road.
In Tokyo, a Diet member’s
speech, banned for publication &
described as “improper at this
session,” led to the member’s re
signation and created a sensation
in the extraordinary “crisis ses
sion” of Japan’s parliament. Nine
teen, other members of the House
| resigned.
Apparent'y censored, for it
! was without explanation what
j the member said which was
1 deemed improper. All other
| speeches were published. The cur
rent session strongly supported
the government’s military stand
against the United States and |
Britain, for the Axis, with Japan |
is tensely awaiting the result of,
the talks in Washington between
Kurusu and U. S. officials.
| Another border outbreak was
i reported in Manchukuo by Domei
who said one Russian soldier was
killed and two captured in a
clash with Manchukuo frontier
guards w'hen a Soviet detach
ment allegedly crossed the bor
der Sunday about 24 miles west
of Manchuli.
Japanese Army
Declared Ready
Any Eventuality
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UNDATED. Nov. 18 (/Pi — In
the Far East, Japan’s Premier
Tojo dec'ared ‘The Japanese
army is prepared for any even
tuality,” amid sharply strained
relations with both the United
States and Russia. Simultaneous
!y Navy Minister Shimada told
the Diet that the “Navy has com
pleted all preparations to meet
any change in the situation.
In Washington, Japanese Am
bassador Nomura expressed op
timism over the chances of a set
tlement of Japanese - American
relations, as he arrived for a
State Department conference.
When asked by newsmen “Why
papers here are all so gloomy
while we are very hopeful,” No
mura laughingly declared “You
Americans are always in a fight
ing mood.” He smiled when told
that Tokyo newspapers are not
entirely peace-minded.
Twin warnings that Japan is
clearing her decks for possible
action came as all eyes turned to
Washington for the outcome of
the discussions of the Japanese
special “peace or war” envoy Ku
rusu with President Roosevelt
and Secretary of State Hull. On
the record, both statements were
made in direct reply to questions
raised by the Japanese Diet re
garding the presence of asserted
Russian floating mines in the Sea
of Japan, but the implication was
unmistakable: that they were dir
ected at the United States as well
as Russia. Foreign minister Togo
said Japan has refused to accept
Moscow’s reply to a recent Jap
anese protest over the sinking of
the liner Kehi Maru in the Japan
Sea, allegede’.y by Soviet mines.
Togo informed the Diet that Ku
rusu “carried no new instruc
tions" to Washington but intimat
ed that the outcome of Kurusu’s
mission will determine Japan’s
policy regarding obligations un
der the Axis alliance.
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n’t pry open Pullman windows
so it air-conditioned the train.
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Some men reform; others just
| grow too old to act up.
British Officials j
At Iran Delay
M. Litvinoff
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TEHERAN, Nov. 19 flP) — Cold
shouldered by minor British of
ficials who barred him from pas
sage to Cairo on the British over
seas airway transport, Litvinoff,
Russian Ambassador to the Unit
ed States and his wife prepared
to take the Russian plane to- ,
morrow, although the British j
minister to Iran profusely apolo
gized for the action of the British
plane leaving the Russian diplo
mat at the airport. Litvinoff call
ed it an insult but appeared to!
have recovered his temper this
afternoon, however, as he board
ed the Soviet plane which
brought him from Kuibyshev.
The plane was unable to leave
when a 30-mile dust storm limit
ed visibility.
Ickes Not Fooled
By Deputy Sheriff
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. — De
puty Sheriff Jack Tinney of San
Francisco County may have let
himself in for a bunch of trouble
because he was a bit overzeal
ous in attempting to serve a sub
poena on Secretary of the Inter
ior Harold L. Ickes.
The subpoena was issued by,
the legislative committee investi
gating the California oil indus
try, of which Speaker Gordon
Garland is chairman. Ickes was j
a guest at a Nob Hill apartment. '
When Tinney appeared at the
apartment lobby, he said that he
was a federal agent with a mes
sage for the secretary.
The suspicious Ickes telephon
ed headquarters of the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and ask
ed if a G-man had been sent to
see him.
The FBI said no, but they
would send a G-man, in fact two
of them.
The federal agents found the
deputy sheriff still waiting a
chance to see Ickes, and took
him to headquarters. The cab
inet member left San Francisco
with the subpoena still unserv
ed, while the federal attorney’s
office considered whethes to file
charges of impersonating a fed
eral officer against Deputy Sher
iff Tinney.
Russians Crush Attempts Pierce
Moscow Defenses-Britain Taking
Action Against Small Axis Allies
UNDATED, Nov. 19 (/P) - Hit
ler’s command1 pictured the Ger
man armies as lunging forward
once more on the eastern front
and “executing new successful
attacks,” while the Russians de
clared they had crushed Nazi at
tempts to pierce the Sftviet lines
north and south of the 200-mile
Moscow defense arc. The Nazi
military spokesman said that Ger
man bombs raked both Moscow
and Leningrad during the night
and left spreading fires in Mos
cow.
A bulletin from Hitler’s, head
quarters reported that 10,000 Rus
sian prisoners were captured and
171 tanks destroyed in the past
three days, but gave no details
of the new push.
Soviet front line dispatches
said two German infantry regi
ments, supported by tanks and
armored cars, were driven off
with bloody losses in repeated at
tempts to storm across the upper
Volga river in the Kalinin sec
tor, 95 miles north of Moscow.
In the Crimean campaign, the
German command said Nazi
bombers violently attacked Rus
sia’s naval base at Sevastopol,
blasting docks, munitions dumps,
and ships in the harbor, but still
there was on indication of a dir
ect land assault against the
stronghold.
Meawnhile Anthony Eden
briefly and cryptically disclosed
that Britain is taking “military
and naval action” against Fin
land, Rumania and Hungary.
Nazi Gen. Udet
Killed In Testing
New Weapon
BERLIN. Nov. 18 VP)— Colonel
General Ernest Udet, German
flying ace of the World War and
Quartermaster General of the
Nazi air force in this war, was
killed in an accident yesterday
while testing “a new weapon.”
The official announcement said
Udet was hurt so gravely that
he died before reaching the hos
pital.
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