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VOL. 42. No. 66. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday. MAY 29, 1940 Per c°Py 1W
Belgian Army Surrenders To Nazis
Allies Apparently Forced Withdraw To Channel
New Rates Allowed But Increases to be Impounded
* King Leopold Surrendered To
Germany Against the Unanimous
Adviee of Ministers—Is Deposed
Belgian Army Capitulates
PARIS, May 27 (/P) —Premier
Reynaud announced the capitula
tion of the Belgian army to the
Germans.
Will Coijlinue To Resist
PARIS. May 28 (/P) —Premier
Renaud said King Leopold made
the decision against the unani
mous advise of his ministers. He
said the French and English had
been fighting alone since four a.
m. Tuesday European time. Ren
and made the announcement in a
nationwide radio broadcast and
said the surrender was uncondi
tional and made without consult
ing the British and French gov
ernments which “went to the aid
of Belgium.”
The announcement was made
only a few hours after the Bel
gium Premier Hubert Pierlot
stated that the Belgian govern
ment decided to continue the
war. Pierlot called on all Bel
gians to continue to resist in con
fidence of victory sooner or lat
er. Reynaud said the Belgian
government, in opposition to the
King’s order, would continue to
function and “raise a new army.”
Britain Hints
Allies Withdraw
From Belgiub
UNDATED, May 28 (A*)— Leo
pold’s order that the army of ap
proximately 300,000 men surrend
er today was promptly “disown
ed” by his own refugee govern
ment in Paris. Prime minister
Churchill told the House of Com
mons that the Allied generals
■were ordered to continue their
campaigns. The action of the re
fugee Belgian government means
in effect that the King is deposed.
Despite Premier Pierlots promise
that attempts will be made to
raise new Belgian forces, it ap
peared that only minor units or
new levies will be raised from
among the refugees in Paris that
are available. Frenchmen in the
streets of Paris cried “treason.”
Winston Churchill said the Al
lies will carry on with all vigor
and was wildly cheered when he
said “nothing which may happen
to us in this battle can in any
way relieve us of our duty to de
fend the world cause to which we
have bound ourselves.”
The German high command de
dared that the Allied armies
pocketed in Flanders were doom
ed.
The British naval spokesman
hinted that the expeditionary
force was preparing to withdraw
from the battle in Belgium but it
was not immediately indicated
whether the withdrawal would
be from the continent or Belgium
or merely a shifting of forces to
the south to aid France. The na
val spokesman said they would
face teriffic obstacles in attempt
ing to cross the channel. The
Royal air force and fleet would
have to hold off the Nazi air
force.
The Germans said a new series
of smashing successes by median
ized columns broke through
the strong French border forti
fications on a broad front and
captured numerous towns and
villages.
In a giant squeeze movement
in Flanders the Nazis said it was
estimated that 700,000 Allied sol
dieos were trapped in an area
scarcely bigger than a good sized
western cattle ranch. Into this
dqowdedi area, waves of dive
bombers unloaded lethal cargoes
of bombs and machine gun bul
lets.
“SOURDOUGH”
STATIONERY
At Nugget Office
Germans In Three Mighty
Drives Force Allies lo Channel
And Seek Means of Escape
UNDATED. May 29 UP) — In ’
three pulverizing smashes, the
Nazi legions stormed Ypres, the,
famed World War battle field and !
captured the manufacturing city
of Lille and the strategic chan
nel port of Ostend.
The high command announced
the tightening of the steel-jawed
trap on five hundred thousand A1
lied troops encircled in Flanders.
On the strength of these reports
it is apparent that the Allies are
new retiring to the English chan
nel, seeking that means of escape
rather than to try to break thru
the German salient to the south
of Osend, one of their main bas
es of supplies. The Nazis said des
perate French counter-attacks
were beaten off “with bloodiest
losses.”
The British admiralty announc
ed the capture of Narvik where
the German garrison has been
under seige for more than six
weeks.
The German capture of Os
tenri narrowed the “back door"
outlet of the trapped forces to
a Width of about forty miles.
Wave after wave of Nazi bomb
ing planes roared over the
Frei \ ana British forces, which
are falling back to the sea. Fight
ing i'i the streets of Dunkerque,
one of the main supply bases of
the Allied armies was reported
by Berlin sources who intimated
that the swastika flag might be
hoisted there at any moment.
A Paris communique announc
ed new successes along the Som
me and Aisn.es Rivers and said
the last German forces on the
south side of the Somme were
driven back across the river and
that the situation was “highly fa
vorable.”
Italian civilians started taking
over the jdbs of the men called
to the colors.
Japanese Bomb
Falls Near G. S.
Gunboat in China
CHUNKING. May 28 (JP) — At
least three hundred Chinese civ
ilians were believed killed by a
heavy bomb which fell within a
•hhndred yards of the United
States gumbo at Tutuila. The gun
boat suffered no damage.
The foreign quarter of the new
residential district was severely
bombed by Japanese planes in
the first aerial attack since last
August. More than 150 bombs
mere dropped and forty one bod
ies were recovered and at least
200 hundred were wounded.
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The warring nations of Europe looked upon the eastern Mediterranean as a possible new theater
of war as a British-French fleet concentrated at Alexandria (1) .while Italy massed armed forces
in the Dodocanese Islands (2). Greece and Turkey stepped up their defense preparations. South of
the German border (b) Yugoslavia showed signs of increasing anxiety. In Rome (5) an authoritat
ive writer predicted a German ivasion of British territory. v ^
Doubles Air
Corps Personnel
On West ( oast
SAN FRANCISCO, May 28 (A*)
Uncle Sam has doubled the Army
Air Corps personnel on the West
Coast and boosted that of the
ninth corps area by forty percent
to thirty three thousand five hun
dred seventy three. Since the
start of the war it is estimated
that half of the 5500 planes au
thorized are now in use and oth
ers are ordered. A hundred coast
guardsmen were also added to
the new base with five planes to
be ready at the airport here in
August.
Two Children
Found Dead
In Icebox
ROSEVILLE, Calif.. May 28 (£>)
— The bodies of Richard Payne,
aged eight, and Bcbby Richmond
aged four, were found in an ice
box in a shed. Chief of Police Lou
Allen said it was possible that
they were locked in by play
mates. They had been dead for
several hours when found. Le
gionnaires and townspeople put
on a big search.
HONORARY DEGREE
FOR A. KARNES
TOPEKA, May 26 — Washburn
College will confer an Honorary
LLD degree at commencement on
June 3 upon Anthony Karnes,
Class of 1911. Mr. Karnes is Com
missioner of Education in Alaska.
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Maritime Com. Allows Alaska
Rate Schedules But Companies
Must Impound The Increases
WASHINGTON, May 23 i
The Maritime Commission condi
tionally allowed the Alaska
Steamship Company and the
Nor.bland Transportation Com
pany increase their freight rates
from four to fifty per cent be
tween Seattle and Tacoma and
Alaska ports. The Alaska Trans
portation freight rate increases
were from three to sixty three
per cent.
The companies agreed to im
pound the increases until the fin
al determination of the case. The
Bay Commission is to keep an
accurate record and refund the in
creases to the shippers if the fin
al decision goes against the com
panies. The commission suspend
ed the scheduled increases which
;he companies announced for
May 20 but the companies filed a
petition asking they be allowed
■o go into effect on the condition,
that they impound the amount of
the increases.
The Commission said the sched
ules covered such a large part of
the total freight to be transport
ed as to make the rate inquiry,
primarily a revenue case altho
the reasonableness of the rates
specified and the commodities are
not necessarily excluded from,
the scope of the investigation.
No date was fixed for the hear
ings on the increases.
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Six Are Killed
In Crash Of
Douglas Bomber
MARCH FIELD, California,
May 28 (iP) —Two officers and
the crew of four of a Douglas
bomber were killed last night
army officials announced when
the plane crashed near the Mo
jave Desert. Sergeant John Ste
wart of Midway, Alabama, sur
vived but was seriously injured.
The plane was on a night bomb
ing mission, took oil from here
at 7 p.m. and crashed at about
10 p.m. on Muroc Dry Lake
I
which is the army’s bombing
range in the Mojave Desert.
The dead are Second Lieuten
ant Jess Smith, aged 32, Lieuten
ant Charles Nisbett, aged 25, and
Sergeant Thurman Owens, all of
Riverside, California; and Pri
vates Wayne Kaufman of Burling
ton, Iowa; Doyle Bean of Kirby
ville. Texas; and Eugene Schultz
of Twin Falls, Idaho.
NOTICE TO DOG OWNERS
City Ordinance requires all
dogs to be kept tied. Owners are
notified to kep their dogs tied
or be liable to punishment pro
vided by the ordinance.
W. W. Laws,
Chief of Police
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The German garrison at Narvik taken by the British after a six
weeks seige is shown on the map at (1). White lines are bomber*
distances from Sylt to British objectives; black lines show distances
from New German air bases in Norway.