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GENERAL MacARTHUR’S
HEADQUARTERS IN THE
PHILIPPINES, Oct. 23.—(AP)—
American soldiers who landed at
Leyte last Thursday evening are
pushing forward to the westward
of the island, it has been report
ed today.
On the southern front, the
Yanks have overran the strong
Japanese defenses and were try
ing to trap the enemy troops who
were retreating up the wide Ley
te valley.
War Corresponden Aldopking,
on the southern front, reported
the U. S. Seventh Army Division
troops led the tanks moving up
the wide valley inland from Du
lag, where the first American
beachheads were established.
Troops are engaged in action at
this point under command of Lt.
Col. Herepert Edmundson of
Georgia.
It has been reported the coun
try leading northwestward from
Dulag is flat, and the supposition
is that all warfare will be per
formed by heavy anks in this
area.
*DeGAULLE
GOVERNMENT
RECOGNIZED
.
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WASHINGTON, D. C„ Oct. 23.
—(AP)—The United States and
Great Britain have recognized
the DeGaulle administration of
France ’as a provincial govern
ment, it has been reported to
day.
| It was also said that Canada
1 and Australia have announced
Similar recognition.
This action was announced by
the acting secretary of state. He
disclosed that the most of France,
| including Paris, is to be desig- j
nated by allied military author- |
ities as the “interior zone.” J
Which. French authorities will
Shave complete responsibility, the
statement said, would be deter
Joined by an election as soon as
I possible.
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Regular meeting, 1900 hours.
Request all members attend.
MAJOR BRONSON,
Commanding.
fit
Philippines A
Springboard to China
»
By RUSSELL BRINES
(AP Correspondent formerly in
the Orient who was captured by
-«tfee Japanese in Manila.)
The Philippines form the east
ern shield of Japan’s vital new
empire. <
This string of more than 7,000
islands sprawls for 1,150 miles on
the edge of the empire’s last vein
of shipping.
Severance of that vein, possi
ble from the archipelago, will
weaken t'he imperial war machine
further for the decisive battles
which may be fought on the
| Asiatic continent.
American re-occupation of hte
Philippines also provides an Al
lied springboard for a double
jump onward—northward to the
China coast, southwestward into
the Neherlands East Indies.
War industries in Japan and
Manchuria are sustained by oil,
rubber, tin, bauxite and other es
sentials from the East Indies and
Malays. These resources do not
exist in war sufficient quantities
elsewhere in the empire.
They can be shipped in quan
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JAPAN SAID
TO BE NOW
ON DEFENSIVE
I _
UNDATED — Japan is now oh
the defensive, according to Jap
anese naval correspondent Nasan- |
rito, who issued such statement in
a dispatch transmitted from Do
mei, recently.
The statement came in the j
course of remarks in which it was
!
claimed that Japan welcomed the
American invasion of the Phil
ippines, because it offered an
other opportunity to deal a
crushing blow to the mainstay of
the enemy’s Pacific forces.
The speaker compared he in
vasion to Formosa and Pearl Har
bor and added that there ies j
however, a considerable differ- j
ence in the present circumstances.
Compared with three years ago, j
he said, the difference is that
' Japan is now on the defensive,
while at the outset of the war,
he Imperial government wos on
he offensive.
s
ROOSEVELT TO
SEEK WORLD
PEACE COUNCIL
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.—(AP)—
President Roosevelt called for a |
world council today, with an
American representative . ap- j
pointed by Congress, to place
the American forces in the
pathway of future aggressors.
He made this statement in an
address prepared for the Foreign
Policy Association dinner at the
Waldrof Astoria.
The President said that a re- j
publican victory in the fall would
toss the congressional leadership
to inveterate isolationists who
are not reliable custodians of
American foreign policy in a
world which requires internation- .
al cooperation to preserve peace. '
Roosevelt said that the poject
ed council of United Nations,;
which he proposed through the
Dumbarton Oaks agreement must
have power to act quickly and
decisively. It must keep peace by
force if necessary, the President
assertd.
Th chief executive also stated
tL 4 if the world organization is
to have any realiy at all, the rep
resentatives must be endowed in
advance by the people them
selves, by constitutional means
through their representatives in
Congress with authority to act. 1
LEYTE TO BE
FOCAL BASE
OF OPERATIONS
\
By JEAN SCHEDLER
WIH GENERAL MacARTHUR’S
HEADQUARTERS IN THE PHIL
IPPINES, Oct. 23.—(AP)—Amer
ican ground • forces held their
positions today on all the Leyte
Island fronts to parallel the be
ginning of work on what a com
munnnique called the great base
for all arms for future opera
tions.
Simultaneously, Gen. MacAr
thur declared in his proclamation
that the Americans had come as
liberators for the entire Philip
pine archipelago, and declared
that the seat of the island gov
ernment had been re-established
under President Sergio Osmena
of the Commonwealth govern
ment, who landed with the liber
ating forces.
Enemy forces on Leyte are ap
parently withdrawing to the west
ward after their preliminary de
feaa.
A communique reported that
the work had begun tao prepare
captured airfields for American
use. Other preparations com
menced to make Leyte the great
offensive base for future cam
paigns.
WALTER DOWD fTNISHES
PRELIMINARY TRAINING
Walter Dowd, son of Commis
sioner and Mrs. Walter Dowd, has
now finished his preliminary
training at the Naval Training
Station at Farragut, Idaho, and
has been admited to the radio
school there for further train
ing. Other Nomeites at this base
are Eric Hay and Wendall Shy,
the latter a former druggist of
the Nome Drug Co. here.
SEVERE STORM OVER
THE WEEK-END
Nome had a short, but severe
fall storm over the week end,
which blew down several chim
neys, interfered with phone ser
vice, but created no great dam
age. The wind reached a velocity
of 48 miles an hour and increased
up to 55 miles an hour in some
of its sharper guests.
DUO ADJUDGED
GUILTY
The Commissioner’s Court trial
of John Kost and W. Stestlinger
for the illegal seining of trout,
was completed Fri,,riy with a ver
dict of guilty. They were each
f;r^d $80.00.