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VOL. 43. No. 15. NOME. ALASKA, MONDAY, FEB. 3, 1941. Price per copy 1!*
* British Take Undefended Barentu
Weygand Appeals French Soldiers Stay Out War
German Daylight Bombers Return To London
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British African Army Captures
New kalian Stronghold Barentu
Fascists Retreat Without Defense
UNDATED. Feb. 3 (/P) — Brit
ain’s swift-striking army of east
Africa captured another Italian
stronghold. British headquarters:
reported, occupying the town of
Barentu in the Eritrean campaign
to drive Mussolini’s legions in
that sector into the Red Sea. A
big Fascist force previously re
ported trapped at Barentu slip
ped out without making a de
fense. Barentu is 40 miles south
jf Agordat, the railroad .center
captured by the British Saturday.
Weygand Appeals To Half
Million French Soldiers To
Accept Armistice with Germany
ALGIERS. Feb. 1 iff) —French
I - North African General Maxine
Weygand appealed to some half
a million French Afritan sol
diers under his command to stay
out of thi: war and accept the
armistice with Germany as final
and support the “national revo
lution” of Marshal Retain.” He
said “I appeal to you not to leave
the party order and discipline
which will mean only the des
truction of France and the peril
. f al who tak. part in the under
taking.”
Dutch Reject
♦ Jap Suggestion
Of New Order
UNDATED. Feb. 1 (JP) — The
Dutch government in exile in
structed their minister in Tokyo
to inform the Japanese that the
dutch “reject any suggestion of
having the Netherlands Indies
incorporated in a new order in
east Asia under the leadership of
any power whatsoever.”
Greeks Report
Domination Of
lepelini Area
UNDATED, Feb. 1 </P) —Greek
domination of the mountainous
area around Tepelini was reportd
ed from the front while Greek
souro s said the recent Fascist
attempts to seize the offensive in
Albania must be regarded as fail
ures. The actual occupation of
Tepelini is a matter first of mop
ving up isolated detachments.
Asserts Superior F
Again Turn Back
Stronger Nazi’s
UNDATED, Feb. 3 VP) — On
the home front beset anew by
German daylight raiders, London
said it was expected a thousand
American built bombers flying ac
ross the At antic for Britain
monthly by May.
A high ranking RAF officer
said Germany’s first line of air
s'.reng h will be “measurably in
e.vce.v" :f Britain’s on March 1,
but asserted that the RAF will
“again beat back any return mass
of daylight bombing preliminary
to an invasion.” The RAF’s su
perior aircraft pilots he said
cou d count r the Luftwaffe’s
numerical superiority.
lAF Pilots Will
The Numerically
Invasion Attempts
British Bombers Are Active
Against Both Ends of Axis
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UNDATED, Feb. 3 </P) — Brit-1
ish b tmbers were reported active
against both ends of the Rome-1
B n Axis scoring a “successful
at ick on an important power.
supply dam in Sardinia and bomb
ing targets in Nazi occupied'
n -rihwest Franc?. !
Shortly before dawn, five Brit
ish mine sweeping trawlers re
p rted driving off three German
Dornier raiders after a fierce 15
minute battle in daylight some-,
where off the southeast English
coast.
British Ships
Arc Sunk Gy
Counter Blockade
UNDATED, Feb, 1 (IP) — Axis
spokesmen reported the counter
bl.shade sinking of seven mer
chant ships.
The Fascist high command not
J hitter fighting in Libya with
r.sid rabie ios es” on both sid
| es.
i'he Italian high command said
torpedo boat sunk a 10,000 ton
stcan ship in a British convoy in
he Aegean Sea.
The German high command
said long distance planes sunk
two large merchantmen west of
Ireland.
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Harry Hopkins (right), President Roosevelt’s special envoy to London, talks with Prime Minister Win
* sten Churchill on a visit to a British northern naval station. This picture was radioed from London.
Million Dollars
Red X Supplies
Bound for France
BALTIMORE, Feb. 1 (IP) —The
Red Cross r lief ship Cold Har
i bor got up. steam to start with a
mi Lon d liar cargo of food, clo
hing and medicine for war suf1
ferers in Unoccupied France and
Spain. Large red crosses were
painted on both sides of the 5100
ton freighter and b lligerent na
lions notified of the nature of
the trip. The British government
gave its permission.
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Famine Conditions
In Belgium In
Two Weeks
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BERLIN, Feb. 1 .(/P> — Famine
■onditions face Belgium within
two weeks unless help is receiv
'd from the outside.
Hoover Relief Committee in
vestigators reported that on a
basis of reserves there will be no
more bread by the 15th of the
month if the present rationing
system is maintained and aid is
not coming.
Predict Unpre
cedented Bombing
By Both Sides
j
UNDATED, Feb. 1 {IP) — Reli
: able sources in London predicted
i that spring would bring bomb-,
, mg on an unprecedented scale
> by Germany and Italy as well as
by Britain.
MaeAdoo Dies
Heart Trouble
WASHINGTON, Feb. 1 (IP) —
William Gibbs McAdoo, chair
man of the board of the Ameri
can President steamship line died
of a heart attack at 10 a.m. in a
hospital.
THINKS NOTHING OF IT -Very little had Lieut.
Andrew C. McDonough (above) to say about his breath-taking,
620-inile-an-hour, four-mile dive, in an Airacobra interceptor*
pursuit plane at Buffalo, when he arrived by this transport plane
at his home town, Atlanta. However, others talked about his ieat,
plenty. He’s a naval reserve and a commercial airlines pilot.
Nazis Reply To
Allegations Of
Poison Gas War
UNDATED, Feb. 1 <7P) — Au
thorized sources in Berlin, replied
to Navy Secretary Knox’s alle
gations yesterday before the for
eign relations committee, that
Germany might use gas against
England. Knox was ref Tring to
Hitler’s speech at the start of the
war in which he said “He who
applies poison gas will be fougtv
with poison ga.;.”
Big Floaling
Drydock To Be
Built Fcr Navy
NEW YORK — Plans were an
nounced for providing the U. S.
Navy with what is said to be the
most modern floating drydock in
the world. The Tcdd Shipyards
Corporation announced that a con
tract for building the drydock
had been signed.
The drydock will weigh about
4800 tons, but will have a lifting
capacity of 18,000 tons. It will
be built in three sections and will
have an over-all length of 615
feet.
The Todd corporation expects
to build the apparatus in about
nine months. It will be operated
at the Todd plant in Galveston,
Texas.
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In a historical move, Great Brit
an has appointed Sir Gcralcl
Camrbe'l abov ) c a second min
ister to the Unit i! States. Never
before has the British govern
ment had ene mini ter, let alone
two, in addition to tis ambas
‘T tor in Washington. Vriscount
Halifax has been made ambassa
dor and Sir Neville Butler is the
other minister.
Former University
President Passes
NEW YORK, Feb. 1 UP) — Geo
rge E. Vincent, aged 76, former
President of the University of
Minnesota and former president
of the Rockefeller Foundation
died here today.