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VOL. 44. No. 34. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAR. 20, 1942. Per c°py W
Offensive Against Japan Ordered
Hiller Recoils Ousted German
Officers to Plan Spring Drive
UNDATED, March 19 (AP) — Climaxing three
months of bloody retreat, Hitler abandoned his lone
wolf role of guiding the destiny of the German armies
and called back his generals to help plan a Nazi spring
offensive. The Berlin correspondent of the Basil Na
tional Zeitung, said Hitler summoned nearly all Ger
man officers, including Field Marshal von Brauchitsch,
who were ousted or resigned, after the drive against
Moscow failed last December. Hitler then announced
that his intuition led him to take over the supreme
command of the German armies. The Zeitung corres
pondent said the Nazi spring offensive might be ex
pected soon, as Hitler and his generals are now map
ping the strategy.
The question of throwing Russia’s steamroller into
reverse still remained unsolved as todays German
comrnuniqe admitted that the Red Armies are attack
ing relentlessly and “heavy defensive fighting is in
progress.” A bulletin from Hitler’s headquarters noted
continuing Russian pressure on Kerch Peninsula in
the Crimea, as well as a Soviet thrust in the Donets
River sector of the Ukraine where the Russians are
battering at the gates of Kharkov.
In dispatches, it was reported that Russian guerilla
forces regained control of 6,000 square miles of terri
tory behind the German siege lines around Leningrad
and it was declared they were so strong the Germans
couldn’t enter the region. The section may be part of
the Baltic state of Estonia.
All Men Aged 45 To 61 To
__ Register For Service April 27
WASHINGTON, March 19 (AP) — The govern
ment ordered all men from 45 to 64 inclusive to reg
ister for draft in possible non-combatant service, on
April 27. The new announcement leaves only the lb
and 19-year-old unrecorded.
Officials predicted that the April 27 registration
will total 15,000,000 as compared to 17,000,000 in the
first draft registration; 750,000 last July; and 9,000,000
on February 16th.
23 Vessels of Jap Invasion Force
Near New Guinea Smashed by Allies
WASHINGTON, March 18 (AP) — The Navy an
nounced that a Japanese invasion force concentrated
near Salamau Lae, New Guinea, was smashed by the
American and Australian air forces, sinking or damag
ing 23 Japanese vessels, including 12 warships. A com
munique said “heavy losses were inflicted on the en
emy by combined American and Australian forces,
and was accomplished with the loss of one plane.
The same communique, reporting activities in other
areas, disclosed that the American sub Shark, is over
due in the western Pacifiic for more than a month “and
must be presumed lost.” The next of kin to those
aboard the Shark, including Lieut. Commander Louis
Shane, Jr., of Tacoma, were notified of the loss of the
vessel.
In the American-Australian raid on Jap forces, the
Navy reported the ships “sunk or probably sunk”
were two heavy cruisers, one light cruiser, five trans
ports or cargo ships, one gunboat, one destroyer, one
minesweeper: a total of 11, consisting of six warships
and five other ships, in addition to two destroyers list
ed as “possibly sunk.”
Ships damaged were listed as: one cruiser, one large
destroyer, two transports which suffered direct bomb
hits, one troop ship, three transports, one aircraft
carrier, one gunboat: a total of 10, consisting of four
warships and six others.
FRITZ VON PAPEN
ENROUTE TO RE
PORT TO HITLER
Ankara, Mar. 19 (AP) —
German ambassador Franz
von Pa pen, disregarding i
doctors’ orders, departed
to report to Hitler’s east
ern headquarters. Papen
still is suffering from the
effects of a bomb which ex
ploded near him some
weeks ago.
Nazis Prepare to
Leave Kharkov
London, March 19 (AP)—
A Stockholm dispatch said
German troops in Kharkov
arc exploding o 1 and other
equipment “apparently re
alizing that their occupa
ton is at an end.”
The dispatches said great
fires are raging and “tanks,
guns, and ammunition de
pots are being dynamited,
the Germans destroying
what they and hordes of
forced labor have recreat
ed during six months of
precarious occupation.”
Australian Made
Member Cabinet
London, March 19 (AP)—
Britain smashed all prece
dent in choosing Richard
Casey, Australian minister
to Washington as minister
of state to represent the
i war cabinet in the Middle
East. For the first time in
the empire’s history, a dom
! inion statesman has be
: come a member of the
; home government and en
trusted with a vital post.
The announcement was
made by Churchill in the
House of Commons but
he gave no explanation but
sections of the British
press expressed alarm over
Australia’s recent tenden
cy to carry her troubles to
Washington rather than to
London.
Mac Arthur’s Party Left
Bataan In Torpedo Boats
New York, March 19 (AP)
— Small but fast motor tor
pedo boats carried Gen.
MacArthur, his wife and
child and a small group of
aides on the perilous first
leg of the journey to Aus
tralia.
A Melbourne dispatch
published in the New York
Herald-Tribune said its cor
respondent, Allen Ray
mond, learned that MacAr
thur’s party left Bataan on
the night of March 11 and
travelled south along the
island’s coast for 2 nights,
hiding in bayous during
the daylight hours to reach
a rendezvous with the big
planes which carried the
group to Australia.
26 Jap Planes Are
Destroyed In Burma
New Delhi, Mar. 19, (AP)
—The American Volunteer
Group and British pilots
possibly destroyed 25 en
emy planes in attacks on
Japanese - held airdromes
in southern Burma yester
day, a communique report
ed.
Asks Seventeen
Billion More
For War Dept.
Washington, Mar. 18 (AP)
—President Roosevelt ask
ed Congress to appropriate
817,579,000,000 more for
the War Dept., $8,515,000,
000, going to the Army Air
Corps. The President made
recommendations to make
available any War Dept,
money and putting in oper
a'ion “any law which may
he enacted, for the estab
lishment of a women’s
army auxiliary corps for
service with the army.”
The House passed such a
bill yesterday and sent it
to the Senate.
Russia Renews
Fisheries Agree
ment with Japan
London, March 20 (AP)
— An Exchange Telegraph
Agency dispatch from Kui
byshev said tonight that
the Russian-Japanese fish
eries agreement which ex
pired on December 31 was
renewed for one year.
| The negotiation in ques
tion, permitting the Japan
ese to fish in Russian terri
torial waters off Siberia, is
regarded as a guage to Rus
sian-Japanese relations. A
fiat refusal by Russia to re
new the agreement would
have been a severe blow to
Japan.
Advance Toward
Port Moresby
Rabaul, New Britain, Mar.
19 (AP) — A dispatch to
the Sydney Sun from its
Port Moresby correspond
ent said that a considerable
force of Japanese were ad
vancing overland toward
Port Moresby over diffii
cult terrain from Lae to
the north. The correspond
ent said the Japanese goal
was the flat country just
north of Port Moresby, at
which place the enemy
might establish air bases.
41st Ship Is Attacked
Off U. S. Coasts
Undated, March 19 (AP)
— The Navy announce
ment that a medium sized
merchantman was sunk off
the Atlantic coast with a
j loss of nine lives, raised to
41, the total of ships offic
ially announced attacked
off the United States coast.
Thirty eight were rescued
in the latest sinking.
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MacArthur to Organize American
Offensive With Primary Objective
. To Relieve The Philippine Is.
UNDATED, March 20 (AP)—Gen. MacArthur dis
closed that President Roosevelt ordered him to organ
ize and American offensive against Japan, with the
primary purpose of relieving the Philippines, while
on the action front, opening shots were fired in the
battle for lower New Guinea.
jap Navy Squawks ‘‘No Fair"
Reacting 10 tne sung or /viiied counterblows some
Oi wmcn may not oe mentioned tor reasons oi mili
tary secrecy, tile Japanese navy Oitteny accused the
unueu anu umam oi waging "extreme warfare
oaseu un letauation anu natreu, and declared Japan
j wni reciprocate, /v iuxvo uioaucast said tne /vines
1 are employing tacucs m uisiemaiu or international law
anu consequently me Japanese navy "is revising its
, Wdiicne iemulations, out no ueiaus were given, while
Japan muo suawt'u sue is begriming to ieei me bite oi
I me ulined iNatiuns siowiy gauienng onensive lorce,
j me war i/epartment announced in wasmngion tnat
two u. o. rviiny oomoers scuieu direct hits on a large
Japanese cruiser at nauaui un new uritain, tne ls'iand
nui tneast or rvusuaua. riesumauiy tins is tne same
attacK reported yesterday by tne ivoyai Australian Air
’ mi ce.
A nritish broadcast said Allied bombers again blast
ed Japanese-occupied Dutcn Timor island, one of the
mam bases for tne Japanese-threatened invasion of
Australia.
Australians Sniping Japs In New Guinea
Few details were available regarding the develop
ing conflict on N«w Guinea island. Dispatches said
Australian forces have begun sniping at Jap columns
driving down toward Port Moresby, only 300 miles
from tiie Australian mainland. Jap warplanes twice
raided Port Moresby again today, but were driven otf
after strafing the airdrome.
I
MacARTHUR AND FIELD COMMANDER
a ■ 'am,.
At a field headquarters where he was supervising the
training of the combined U. S. and commonwealth
armies in the Philippines, Gen. Mac Arthur (right)
confers with Maj. Gen. Jonathan Wainwright, his
ranking field commander. This official U. S. Army
I Signal Corps photograph was made shortly* before
| the Japanese attack.
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