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VOL. 42. No. 123. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, OCT. 9, 1940. Pnce per copy m
Britain Is To Open Burma Road
American Citizens Far East Asked Return Home
Conjecture Aroused U.S. Collaboration with Russia
Britain Notifies Japan Decision
Reopen Burma Road, Lifeline Of
War Supplies To Chinese Army
UNDATED, Oct. 8 (/P)— Britain
formally notified Japan she has
decided to reopen the Burma
Road, lifeline of war supplies to,
China, thereby setting the stage
for a possible violent explosion
in the Orient. So grave is the
situation that all United States
r consulates in the Japanese em
pire, Manchukuo, China, French
Indo-China and Honk Kong re
ceived instruction from the State
Department to advise American
citizens to return home as soon
as possible. There are approxi
mately 9,000 white Americans
residing in the affected areas.
At the same time the Japanese
navy reported it landed troops
on Liu Kung Island, off the Shan
tung Peninsula, summer base of
the British Navy, and Chinese
garrison. Only a short time ago,
the Chinese government of Gen.
Chiang Kai Shek granted Britain
a renewal of a ten-year lease on
the disputed island but the Jap
anese-controlled Nanking regime
declared the lease terminaed.
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Errors in Attack On Dakar Subject
Disciplinary Action-Casualties Air
Raids 8,500 Dead. 13.000 Wounded
LONDON. Oct. 8 (TP) — Prime
Minister Churchill told the!
House of Commons that the Bur-'
* rna Road opens October 17th at
the expiration of Britain’s agree
ment with Japan. He also declar
ed the “errors in the attack on
Dakar were made subject to dis
ciplinary action.” As he spoke,
the distant battle-noise of a Ger
man air attack on London echoed
faintly thru the historic House.
He flung out a warning to Jap
an, nearly allied with Italy and
Germany in a new military alli
ance declaring: “As long as there;
is a British fleet on the seas, Japj
an has no hope to help her new
allies.
The British supported attempt
on September 23rd. of General!
de Gaulle’s Free French forces,
to take over Dakar, he went on,
resulted in “a series of accidents
and some errors which have been
made the subject of disciplinary
action or now are subject to for
mal inquiries. Neither the First
Sea Lord nor the inner war cab
inet, he said, was informed of
the approach of the French war
ships, which sailed unmolested
through the Strait of Gibraltar,
until they were too late to stop.
The casualties of the incessant
German massed air attacks on
Britain, are diminishing week by
week, he said, since September
27. However, bombing and ma
chine gunning attacks have cost
Britain 8500 lives and 13,000
wounded he said.
The premier declared flatly
that the three-way axis pact
"binds Japan to attack the Unit
ed States if it comes into the
war.” He hinted that it contain
ed secret c’auses, then cried de
fiantly “neither branches of the
English-speaking race is accus
tomed to react to threats of vio
lence by submission. Certainly
the reception of this strange ill
balanced declaration in the Unit
ed States has not been at all en
couraging to its authors.”
Government Advises American
Citizens In Far East Consider
Return Home Soon As Possible
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 (IP) —
The Government advised Ameri
^ can citizens in the far east, es
pecially women and children, to
consider the advisability of re
turning to the United States be
cause of the disturbed conditions
in that area. State department
officials said that American con
suls in Japan. China, and other
parts of the Orient were notified
to suggest American citizens ut
ilize transportation faciilties now
available.
EMBARGO CLAMPED
ON IRON AND STEEL
WASHINGTON — President
Roosevelt in effect clamped an
embargo on shipments of scrap
iron and steel to Japan, effective
October 17, but left open the
way to export to nations in the
j Western Hemisphere and Great
Britain.
This action came within 24
hours after the Export and Im
port Bank announced a new $25,
000,000 loan to China, whose
stubborn resistance is chief ob
stacle to Japanese expansion in
the Far East.
The White House statement
did not explain why it continued
shipments to be permitted to go
to Britain, but this exception is
in line with the administration’s
policy of aiding the British.
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Opening of Burma Road May
Provoke Japan to Drastic Action
Involving the United States
UNDATED, Oct. 8 </P)— Great
Britain prepared to follow the
example of the United States by
advising British subjects to leave
the far east. Despite official Jap
anese efforts to discount the pos
sibility of an explosive crisis in
the Orient, authoritative quar
ters in London said the warning
will apply to the Britons. They
I said “There is no urgent reason
for remaining."
Inside Slant Far East Crisis
! An inside siant on the peril of
I the situation came from Rear Ad
| miral Harry Yarnell. retired com
mander of the Asiatic fleet, who
i sat in on the Monday conference
! between Secretary of the Navy
Knox and Admiral Richardson.
Yarnell warned that Britain’s for
mally announced intention of re
openig the Burma Road, China’s
| lifeline of war supplies may pro
voke Japan to “drastic action"
involving the United States. He
declared Washington was not go
ing headlong into war—it was
trying hard to avoid war, but the
new triple-alliance bewteen Ger-1
many. Italy and Japan is aimed
directly at the United States and
we may better be prepared for a
-hovvdown with Japan now while!
;he is bogged down in China, !
than six years from now “when
the two-ocean American navy is
completed.
Buima Road Opens October 17
The Burma Road is scheduled
to open October 17th, the day
after the United States embargo
on scrap iron to Japan becomes
effective. The Japanese press,
usually flaming in its attacks on
“outside interference" adopted a
surprisingly mild tone over the
Burma Road crisis.
Surpised at U. S. Action
Yakichiro Suma, foreign office
spokesman expressed astonish- i
ment at the U. S. action advising
Americans to return home. He
said “Japan has no intention of
advising her citizens to quit the
United States.”
Score Direct Hit Bomb Shelter
On the European front, Berlin
reported that German raiders un
loaded 300 tons of bombs on Lon
don in a night of terror which
the British conceded as the most
destructive assault of the war.
Rain hampered the Nazi raiders
who returned to attack in day
light.
Rescue crews worked to clear
away the debris of a bom-smash
ed air raid shelter where 160 per
sons had taken refuge. Three
wings of a hospital, housing 108 !
patients and 8 bodies where tak
en from the demolished shelter
in the bombed hospital. It was
feared not a single person escap
ed death or injury. Nazis in Ber
lin said the attack “was twenty
fold revenge” fo rthe British raid
on Berlin Monday night.
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Dutch East
Indies Ready
For Japanese
—
HONOLULU. —Publisher Paul
Patterson of the Baltimore Sun
says that the Dutch East Indies
are fully prepared to meet any
Japanese threat. He believes the
Dutch are more than a match for
the Japanese.
Patterson arrived in Honolulu
with a party of newspapermen
when have been touring the Far
East by Pan American Clipper.
The publisher further declar
ed the Dutch are building a great
defense system through the is
lands of the East Indies.
America, Patterson believes,
should utilize Britain’s defense
bases in the Pacific, particularly
Singapore. That would, in Patter
son’s opinion, eliminate problems
arising from long communication
; lines.
Reciprocal
Basis Sought,
Air Carriers
*
WASHINGTON —Recommend
ations for a division of interna
tional routes between United
States and Canadian air carriers
on a reciprocal basis, was made
by the Civil Aeronautics Board
to the Canadian Department of
Transportation. j
The board said the proposals
contemplated continued opera
tion by U. S. carriers of existing
service between Seattle, Vancou
ver, Juneau and Fairbanks, via
Whitehorse.
Canadian officials agreed to re1
commend that the Canadian gov
ernment assist installing or per
mit Alaskan airways to install
necessary aides to navigation, in
eluding radio along the British
Columbia coast in connection
with maintenance of regular
schedules between Seattle and
Juneau.
The recommendations, if ap
proved by the two governments,
will continue in effect until De
cember 31, 1942, when confer
ences will develop new policies
to be issued.
DESTROYER WITH NEW
COMMADER LANDS SITKA
The U. S. Destroyer Breeze,
bearing Capt. Ralph C. Parker,
Commander of the new Alaska
section of the 13th Naval Dis
trict, arrived in Sitka recently
for an inspection of the Sitka
naval air station.
Captain Parker will maintain
headquarters at Juneau, probab
ly on either the Breeze or some
other destroyer.
Falks Between Sumner Welles,
Russian Ambassador Arouse Spec
ulation of C ollaboration Soviets
WASHINGTON. Oct. 3 u<Pi —
The renewal of talks between
undersecretary of State Sumner
Wel'es and Russian Ambassador
Oumnasky stirred speculation as
to active collaboration between
Washington, Moscow and Lon
don in the far east crisis.
Conferences were held be
tween Secretary of the Navy
Knox and Admiral Richardson,
Commander-in-chief of the Unit- j
ed States fleet, who flew in from
the West Coast yesterday, and j
these also aroused conjecture.
Unofficially it was considered
possible that the United States
might make use of the great Brit
ish naval base at Singapore, on
Britain's invitation.
In her newly “assigned” dom
inating rule of the Orient by the
Rome-Berlin-Tokyo axis, Japan
has repeatedly stressed that any
,uch American move to share
[Singapore with Britain will be
ixiremely aggravating.
Cmcinatti Reds Beat Detroit
Tigers 2 to 1 In Seventh Game
To Capture ^ orld Series Pennant
FLASH. Oct. 8 </P) — Final —
Detroit 1. Cincinatti 2. the Reds
taking the scries.
Detroit—0 01000000 — 1
One run, 7 hits, no errors.
Newsom anj Sullivan, batter;/.
Cincinatti—0 0 0 0 u 0 2 0 x — 2
2 runs. 7 hits, cm error.
Derringer and W. n, battery.
CINCINATTI. Oct 8 i/P) — The
AEF STATISTICIAN IS
RECALLF1) TO SI KVICE
CLEVELAND, O 5 — Col.
Leonard Av.r-. Cl v land econ
omist and ch:. i s ‘ cian of the
rampant Cincinatti H^cLs won the
World Series. four games to
three by beating the Detroit
Tigers in the seventh contest two
to one before a crowd of about
25.000 thriil-crazed fans.
The Reds rallied for their
winning runs in the seventh
when big Buck Newsom, pitch
ing for the Tigers after one day’s
rest weakened to give two doub
les and a fly.
American Expeditionary Force,
' as been recalled to active ser
vice as chief statistician for the
War Department.
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LOTS TO TELL—1Through'this White House door w ent
Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, U. S. minister to Norway, to give F.D.E.
an account of her diplomatic stewardship. She wangled the cap*
lured “City of Flint” out of German hands, saw Nazis invade
Norway, set up “diplomatic shop" in Sweden, took 250-mile bus
ride to Petsamo, returned on transport American Legion.
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