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VOL. 44. No. 33. • NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, Mar. 30, 1942. Per c°Py ™
British Raid Sub Base St. Nazaire
British Commandos Raid St. Nazaire
German U-Boat Base on French Coast
UNDATED, March 28 (AP) — A spectacular Brit
ish sea-borne attempt to wreck the port of St. Nazaire
on the French coast, key base for the offensive in the
Atlantic, was declared by the German high command
as crushed with “high bloody losses,” and a hundred
prisoners captured. A special bulletin acknowledged
that the British succeeded in landing troops in an at
tack last night but asserted that they were routed in
an attempt to storm the big St. Nazaire shipyard and
to penetrate the town itself. The communique said a
former American destroyer, laden with explosives,
blew up under fire of shore batteries as the British
sought to ram it against the gates of the harbor locks
in an attempt to destroy them.
A British communique said units of the army and
navy air forces made a “small raid.” A further report
is to be issued “as soon as our forces return.”
The Germans said not one of their warcraft was lost
and the submarine base was not damaged; that a Brit
ish destroyer, four large torpedo boats and nine small
er ones were destroyed.
The raid marked the farthest British thrust into
southern France and followed other hit and run Com
mando raids.
(onimmamlos Given Hero's Welcome
Former U. S. Destroyer Is 5,000-Ton Time Bomb
LONDON, March 29 (AP) — The British Com
mandos who raided St. Nazaire Saturday returned
home to a hero’s welcome,' amid acclaim over their
dock-shattering attack, in the most brilliant and dar
ing amphibious operation since the famous World War
raid on the Zeebrugge Mole in Belgium. Informed quar
ters acknowledged that there were probably a large
percentage of casualties and prisoners, but they pro
nounced the raid a great success.
The explosion, of the former American destroyer
Campbeltown, fitted out as a time bomb with five tons
of explosives, was sufficiently heavy “to wreck the
docks and kill anyone within a hunded yards, rammed
into the main gate dock.”
Attacks on Bataan
Dwindled After
Being Repulsed
Washington. Mar. 30 (AP)
— The War Dept, reported
that Japanese attacks on
Bataan Peninsula dwindl
ed ah or they were repuls
ed with heavy losses. Hos
tile air raids continued day
and n'ght on the fort'fied
isl: r.d of Corregidor, how
e *e tl e communique said,
adding that one enemy
Dime, flying above 27,000
feel was downed by anti
aircr ft shells.
On the southern island
of Mindanao, local skir
mishes took place, mean
while, between patrols in
three widely separated
points.
After the repulse of a
heavy Japanese attack on
Bataan peninsula Saturday
fighting continued through
out the night but died
down at daybreak yester
day _
RETURNED TROOPS
FULLY EQUIPPED
—
Canberra, Mar. 28—Army
Minister Francis Forde an
nounced that members of
the Australian Imperial:
Force which returned to;
the island^continent to aid
in its defense against the
threatening Japanese forc
es only 250 miles away,
had returned with full war
equipment.
THIS WAS ONCE A GENERAL STORE
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In front of the wreckage of what was once her general store at Alvin, 111., stands
Mrs. Florence Brown (center) and State Highway Patrolman Melvin Cessna af
ter a devastating tornado had ripped through the town. Half the 100 homes and
biuldings in Alvin were destroyed or damaged and the death toll through the
state reached at least 18 with 170 injured.
TOWN WRECKED IN ILLINOIS TORNADO
This is all that was left, of ‘main street” in Alvin. 111., after one of two tornadoes
that ripped across six Illinois counties struck it. The toll of dead in the state mount
ed to IB, with about 170 others injured and more than S500.000 in property dam
age estimated. In the foreground is debris of the former post office building.
Dominion Status
For India Is
Proposed
New Delhi. Mar. 29 (AP)
— Sir Stafford Cripps an
nounced that the British
war cabinet’s plan of free
dom for invasion-threaten
ed India, proposed the cre
ation, after the war, of a
new Indian union, which
will be a dominion within
the British empire, but
which will have the power
to secede.
Filipino Troops
Make Raids
On Mindanao
Washington, Mar. 28 (AP)
— The War Dept, reported
that the Philipp'ne defend
ers made successful raids
on the Japs in Bataan, also
at Zamboango on Mindan
ao, 500 miles away. In the
latter raid, Filipino patrols
penetrated within less than
a mile of the city.
In an attack on an out
post of Corregidor, anti-air
craft shot down several
heavy bombers.
TEA CONSUMPTION
IS CUT IN HALF
WASHINGTON, March 27 —
The WPB today ordered the na
tion’s tea consumption cut in
half to conserve its dwindling
tea supply.
The order is intended to
stretch tihe stock of tea on hand
as of January 1 which was said
to be enough to last six months
unless restricted to a full year’s
supply.
Fighting Takes Spurt With Action
From Arctic Ocean To Libya
British Imperial Forces In Libya Strike At Axis
UNDATED, March 30, (AP) — The war which Hit
ler started at the Polish frontier 31 months ago, has
became a tangled contest for sea and air power in
Western Europe and in the Mediterranean basin, and
above all, an effort to break the deadlock on the 2,000
mile Russian front.
On the blizzard-swept Arctic seaway to Murmansk,
the Germans acknowledged that one of Hitler’s prec
ious destroyers was sent down in a battle with a con
voy, but claimed the sinking of a 10,000 ton transport
loaded with tanks and munitions.
Once more in Libya, fighting columns of British im
perials struck at German and Italian positions behind
the Tmimi El Mechili line. In these Saturday night
forays, it was said that highly mobile field guns were
turned on the Axis positions. Rome reported large
air battles over Libya and claimed for German fight
er planes, the destruction of four British aircraft. New
bombing raids on Tobruk and Malta were reported.
Blows of Britain’s springtime aerial offensive fell
last night on German shipping off the Norwegian coast
The British action, announced without detail, said, in
the Saturday night’s raids on Germany’s big Baltic
port of Lubeck, RAF bombers struck down two inter
cepting planes.
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Joe Louis Wins From Abe Simon
In 6 Rounds, 21st Fight for Crown
NEW YORK, March 27 (AP) — Joe Louis success
fully defended his world heavyweight championship
for the 21st time by knocking out the Long Island giant
Abe Simon, after 16 seconds in the 6th round, but
only after firing his Sunday shots at the challenger
who took everything and asked for more. Abe was
getting up to come back a split second after the referee
tolled ten.
Joe rang the cash register for the Army Emergency
Relief Fund to the tune of $50,000 or more than twice
than in his earlier fight with Abe who went 13 rounds
with Joe a year ago, but was on the floor when the
I bell ended each round. This time more than 8,000
I persons paid more than $132.00 to see the fight.