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VOL. 43. No. 52. NOME, ALASKA, Saturday, JtJLY 5, 1941. Per Copy 1*
Report Nazis Stopped Berezina R.
Japan Considers Halting U. S. Supplies To Russia
Asks U.S. Soldiers Be Sent Out Western Hemisphere
japan Considers Extending Limits
Territorial Waters Prevent U S.
Supplies Reaching Vladivostok
• TOKYO, July 4 ,(/P) — The Jap
anese government is giving ser
ious consideration to the possib
ility that the United States may
send aid to Russia via Vladi
vostok, the official spokesman in
dicated at a press conference. In
discussion of the Vladivostok sit
uation, Koh Ishii, cabinet spokes
man, said the government is dis
cussing the question of the exfen
sion of the limits of Japan's terri
torial waters beyond the inter
nationally recognized three-mile
zone.
Press discussions on this ques
tion, recently, indicated that Jap
an might take some action to
close two narrow straits between
Japanese islands, through which
ships in the Pacific normally
reach Vladivostok. The discus
sion centered on Soya Strait, be
tween Hokkaida and Sakhalin,
or.Iy 25 miles wide and still nar
rower Tsugaru Strait between
Hokkaido and Hondo, main Jap
anese island.
Ishii said Japan regards the
possible stationing of U. S. plan
es at Vladivostock as an “un
friendly act” as she already re
gards the sending of U. S.-made
planes to the British, Singapore,
Batavia and Chungking.
Report Japs
Prepare Take
Port of Saigon
SHANGHAI, July 4 -UP) —Un
confirmed reports, circulated in
Shanghai that the Japanese army
and navy is preparing to move
within a fortnight against south
err. French Indo-China to occupy
Saigon, chief port of the metrop
olis. This was one of several re
ports concerning Japan’s next
move, none of which could be
confirmed and all of which were
either denied or discounted by
the Japanese spokesman here.
Non-Japanese officials recalled in
the past that intimations of im
pending Japanese action which
leaked out were similarly den
ied.
All Japanese
Merchantmen Are
Ordered Home
MANILA. July 3 (JP) — The
Tabacalera Company of Manila
was notified that the Kobe, Japan
ese merchantman Kyusyu Maru,
carrying cargo to the Philippines
and the United States, was re
quisitioned by the Japanese gov
ernment and ordered not to pro
ceed to its destination.
Manila shipping quarters ex
pressed the opinion that the Jap
anese government might be pre
paring to requisition all Japan
ese ships operating between the
Philippines, Japan and the Unit
ed States.
Reports are circulating that re
liable Manila quarters said Jap
an’s government ordered all
ships in Philippine waters to re
turn immediately to their home
ports. The Japanese consul gen-i
eral said he heard the reports,:
but received no official confirma
tion of them.
Call for Condition
National Banks
WASHINGTON, July 3 <(JP) —
The Comptroller of Currency is
sued a call for a statement on
the condition of all national
banks at the close of business,
Monday, June 30.
BOTH NIGHT AND DA Y—During the short winter days when the sun hangs close to the
horizon and an arctic haze dims the air, street lights must burn throughout the day at Fairbanks.
Alaska (above), the town which would'be one terminus of a road to be built from Seattle, Wash., if
legislation now before Congress is passed. Juneau is the capital of Alaska.
Gen. Marshal, Chief of Staff,
Asks Removal Restrictions Confine
Armed Forces W. Hemisphere
WASHINGTON, July 3 i<P) —
General Marshal, Army Chief of
Staff, urged that draftees, reserve
officers and National Guardsmen
be kept in service longer than
one year. He asked for the re
moval of the restrictions which
confined the United States armed
forces to the Western Hemis
phere. In his biennial report to
Secretary of War Stimson, Mar
shall said events of the “past
few days are ever more forcible
indications of the suddeness with
which armed conflict spreads to
areas hitherto considered free
from attack. There are legal re
strictions on the use of our arm
ed forces, which should be re
moved without delay.”
General Marshall also strongly
urged immediate congressional
action on legislation already be
fore Congress designed to vitaize
army leadersip. He said the pur
pose of the legislation is to re
move from active duty a ‘‘few
officers who slow down the devel
ppment of our emergency army
through the lack of the qualities
of vigor and intelligent, aggres
sive leadership.”
RAF Carries
Out Biggest
Raids Yet
UNDATED. July 5 >(7P) — A
mightly force RAF bombers, per
haps the biggest yet, in daylight
attacks slashed back across north
ern France after last night. The
bombers, for the 24th time in 26
nights, battered Nazi targets
from industrial Rhineland to re
fuge ports harboring some of the
biggest German warships. They
repeatedly attacked the fleet and
bomb explosions straddled the
battleships Scharnhorst, Gnei
senau and the Cruiser Plrrnz
Eugen, were scored in last night’s
raid on Brest.
British Cut Off
Part of Syria
VICHY, July 5 i(/P) — Reports
were heard here that British
troops reached the Syrian-Turk
ish frontier in the push along the
railway from Mosul, cutting off
the northeast corner of Syria.
French City
Of Lille Bombed
LONDON, July 5 t(/P) — Day
light bombers struck the French
factory city of Lille and scored
direct hits on important steel fmd
engineering works, authoritative
sources said. The bombers had a
strong fighter escort.
British May In
vade Continent
Before Aug. 1
LONDON. July 3 OP) — The
magazine “Aeroplane” hinted
that the RAF's daylight sweeps
and nightly poundings on the
French coast may be a prelude to
an invasion of the continent be
fore August 1. The magazine said
the Germans have been persuad
ed that “no combined offensive
by British arms will be under
taken for several months. The
RAF has been busy for nearly 3
weeks casting doubts on that as
sumption. Before this month is
out there may be developments
which would cause more doubts
and hearten all people over
whose lands the struggle must
be renewed.”
Adds Items To
Export Control
WASHINGTON, July 5 >(£>) —
President Roosevelt met with
high defense and foreign policy
advisers for the first time in
more than two weeks. On return
ing from a ten-day stay at Hyde
Park he called a conference and
issued a proclamation adding cer
tain vegetable products and
chemicals to the long list of ar
ticles now under export license
control.
ITALY REPORTS AIR TOR
PEDOES SINK BRITISH SHIP
ROME, July 5 l(/P) — Two air
launched torpedoes hit a British
auxiliary cruiser of 7,000 tons at
Famagusta Bay, Cyprus. The
ship was considered sunk. The
high command said other raid
ing planes bombed port facilities
and ships in the harbor.
Russians Assert Berezina Watery
Death Trap For Gormans Estimate
Losses 2-week Struggle at 750,000
UNDATED, July 5 '(/P) — Bere
zina river, the point of the deep
est German penetration into Rus
sia, turned into a watehy death
trap for the invaders, Moscow re
ported, and that thousands of
Germans there are among the
nearly 750,00+) losses, the estimat
ed price of the two-week-old in
vasion. The Red Army said a
stand along the Berezina and Bru
ja waterways rolled back terrific
German assaults. The Germans
caught a destructive hail of ar
tillery and machine gun fire and
the water itself carried the
wounded and dying downstream.
A contradictory report by the
German high command said Hit
ler’s legions had driven across
Berezina and raced to the shore
of the Dnepr river, 110 miles east
of Minsk, in the region of Rus
sia’s strongest defenses. A broad
outline, without detail, pictured
the Red Army folded back on the
entire front from Finland to Bess
arabia.
Berezina, Scene
Of Napolean’s
Defeat In 1812
UNDATED, July 4 iWP) — Rus
sia’s command reported the vast
slaughter of German troops in
the second day of fighting along
the bloody Berezina river, 400
miles west of Moscow. “Thou
sands of German dead, blazing
tanks and enemy aircraft” are
littering the battlefield, the Red
Army declared, as three main
German offensives in Russia
were checked by a defensive
blitzkrieg. In one sector M50 Nazi
tanks were destroyed.
In the Minsk area, on the cen
tral front, the Berlin radio re-1
ported that Soviet troops failed
in an attempt to smash through
the Nazi encirclement, and 20,000
Russians were captured.
Countering the official German
claims that the backbone of the'
Red Army was broken, a Soviet
communique declared also that I
the Nazi invasion forces suffered!
a heavy defeat last night in the!
Bobrusk sector 100 miles south
east of Minsk,
Hitler’s headquarters asserted
that the pursuit of the Red Army
is proceeding relentlessly along
the whole eastern front. The
Nazi command declared that Ger
man forces driving on Moscow,
crossed the Berezina river, grave
yard of Napoleon’s ill-fated ven
ture on imperial Russia and it
is evident that another great bat
tie is raging and heavy losses in
flicted- on the Russians. A Nazi
bulletin said the pursuit is con
tinuing despite difficult road con
ditions.
Concerning the capitulation of
the 12-day battle of Rialystok
which • ended earlier this week,
DNB asserted that “hundreds of
thousands of Russian corpses”
are strewn in the forest battle
field. Between four and five hun
dred thousand Red Army troops
were said engaged in the battle
in which the Germans claimed
hundreds of thousands of prison
ers were taken. Previously the
German command said, due to
the violence of the fighting, the
Russian casualties exceeded the
number of prisoners taken.
Hitler s Command
Asserts Russian
Resistance Broken
UNDATED, July 3 -UP) — Hit
ler's command declared the re
sistance of the Red Army appear
ed to be smashed along the en
tire 2,000 mile front from the
Arctic to the Black Sea and “un
imaginable chaos” has broken
over the Soviet armies. While
the Nazi command pictured a de
cisive turn in the 12-day strug
gle, a communique asserted that
the main German thrust at Mos
cow was blocked by Russian
troops and located the Germans
in a vast new battle on the road
to Moscow.
The German command, announ
cing Nazi & Rumanian troopsi
crossed the Prut River toward
Dnester yesterday, said “Our
united armies on the entire front
between the Black Sea and the
Arctic started the attack. It now
appears that the resistance of the
Soviet army is broken as back
ward movements of the nemy
have become apparent on the en
tire front.”
The Prut River forms the boun
dary between Rumania and Rus
sian-held Bessarabia. Amid these
assertions from Hitler’s head
quarters, the Russian command
declared that the vanguard of
Moscow-bound Nazi forces were
hurled back after repeated at
tempts to cross the Berezina Riv
er, whose waters were reddened
with the blood of Napoleon’s
troops in the bitter retreat from
Moscow in 1812. The Red Army
is also reported to have halted
and inflicted a heavy defeat on
the German mechanized column
driving on Shepetovka, 20 miles
inside of the old border of Uk
raine on the road to Kiev, the
capital.
Joe Louis Says
“I’se Slipped” But
Not Know How Far
DETROIT, July 5 f/P) — Joe
Louis, between rounds of golf,
told reporters “I guess I’se slip
ped pretty far. Won’t know how
far until my next fight with Lou
Nova in September.” He spoke
with dead-pan seriousness, then
without batting an eye said: “If
I find then I’se slipped too fair,
I’ll give it all up.”
He said of Conn: “Why, I had
him in the third round and again ’
in the fifth, but I can’t finnidh
him.”