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VOL. 43. No. 60. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, July 23, 1941. Per Copy is#
Japan Makes Demands Indo-China
Moscow Minimizes Damage By Nazi Air Raiders
Efforts Made Prevent Extension Time of Service
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Major German drives thru the heart of former Poland were describ
ed as directed toward Minsk from Brest-Litovsk, now German occu
pied; toward Ukraine, thru southern Poland and Bessarabia; to
wardward Brody & Lwow and in the north toward Kaunas and
Siaulia in Lithuania. Moscow admitted loss of Kolna and Lomza.
Solid lines denote driection of drives; dotted lines, objectives.
Russians Minimize German Raid
On Moscow, Said Compare With
London Raids-17 Raiders Downed
UNDATED. July 22 </P)—■Great
fires were reported raging in the
heart of Moscow after Nazi war
planes blasted thousands of high
explosive and incendiary bombs
in a five and one-half hour as
sault. Berlin described the Taid
as “one of the heaviest carried
out by the German air force,”
and was comparable to the Luft
waffe’s fiercest attacks on Eng
land.
Hitler’s command asserted that
Nazi break-through operations
are fighting on the front “on the
Soviet frontier in defense of a
number of disconnected groups.”'
In comparison to previous com-!
■muniques, the Nazi command;
mentioned both the stout resist-;
ante and stubborn Soviet counter
attacks, indicating that Hitler’s
invasion armies are finding the
going rough and declared the at
tack on Moscow “is in realitation
for Bolshevist air raids on open
capitals of our allies, Bucharest
and Helsinki.”
In Moscow’s first raid, Nazi
pilots said 12 big explosions
shook the Kremlin district in the
center of the city and fires spread
to a huge area southeast of the
Moskva River, west of the Krem
lin. Twenty fires were reported.
The Germans said the entire re
gion of Moskva Bend, site of the
Communist Party headquarters
and power plants, were aflame.
Russian officials said that at
least 200 Nazi bombers struck
but night fighters of the Red
air fleet and a thundering bar
rage of anti-aircraft fire downed
17 of the planes and prevented
all but a few from getting over
the city. A Soviet communique
said “several private dwellings
and a small number of persons
were killed and wounded. The
attempt should be considered a
failure.”'
On the War front, Moscow re
ports said Russia’s armies are
still holding doggedly to the
main theaters of the struggle. A
■Soviet bulletin gave this picture
of the main battlefront: “During i
the night stubborn fighting con- j
tinued on the Pskov-Leningrad
front; the Polotsky-Nevel-Smol-1
ensk front; and the Kiev front.” j
In all these sectors the Russians
aire bitterly fighting and apparent'
ly without losing noticeable
ground for four days.
A Soviet communique also re
ported that a Russian tank unit
crashed through the Nazi for
ward wall at an undisclosed sec
tor and attacked German com
munications and supply lines.
Rcssians Succeed
Hold Germans
Pskov Sector
LONDON, July 22 (/P) — Mili
tary quarters said the Russians
are “successfully holding up the
Germans” in the Pskov sector,
■where the Nazis are driving on
Leningrad, but the Germans ap
peared to be making progress on
both sides of Smolensk and the
■central front.
Dispatches from Berlin said
the Germans destroyed 391 So
viet tanks Sunday, most of them
in the Dniester River sector, and
that 10,090 Russian were report
ed taken prisoner.
General Marshall Denounces As
Sabotage Efforts of Petitioners
iVgainst Extending Time of Sen ice
WASHINGTON. July 23 (.T) —
General Marshall denounced as
sabotage and of a dangerous char
acter. what he said were organiz
ed efforts to have draftees peti
tion Congress against extending
the service -of selectees and Na
tional Guardsmen.
Testifying before the House.
Military Committee in behalf of
the extension, he asserted that
there has been an organized ef
fort "by countless outside forces"
to have members of the First
Army sign petitions against the
proposal.
RFC Loans
425 Million
To England
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WASHINGTON, July 22 (/P) —
The Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration announced a $425,000,
000 loan to Britain, against an es
timated half a billion dollars
worth of collateral, to help the
British pay for war supplies or
dered in the United States prior
to the enactment of the iend
lease program.
The loan was authorized with
the approval of President Roose
velt, at the request of Jesse Jon
es, Federal Loan Administrator.
The deal was arranged, a state
ment explained, “for the purpose
of providing the British with a
dollar exchange, without having
to sell securities and investments
in forced sale.”
Funds to a total of $425,000,
000 will be paid out to the Brit
ish at a rate of approximately
a hundred million dollars a
month. The loan, .bearing interest
at three percent annually, will
■mature in 15 years and may then
be extended five years, providing
that two-thirds of the principal
is repaid.
Peruvian Troops
Start Attack
On Ecuador
GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador, July
23 (/P) — Official Ecuadorean re
ports said Peruvian troops start
ed a general attack on a 12-mile
front along the Southern frontier
of Ecuador, but were repulsed
and driven out of several of
their own outposts. Ecuadorean
reports said Ecuadorean troops,
although greatly outnumbered,
pursued the attackers to the oth
er side of Zarumilla River and
captured the Peruvian posts of
Aguas, Verdes and Brancamoro.
Eight Peruvian planes bombed
Puerto Bolivar three times this
morning, Ecuadoreans said.
NOTICE
Sealed bids will be received at
the office of the City Clerk un
til 5 p.m. Monday, July 28, 1941,
for surfacing street in Block 64
between “B” and Division
Streets.
For detailed information call
at City Clerk’s office.
M. J. Walsh, City Clerk
Knox Asserts
Pacific Fleet
Is Prepared
WASHINGTON. July 23 J^P)—
•Secretary of the Navy Knox said
“There is no question” but the
recent developments in the Far
East, including the Japanese gov-j
ernment’s establishment of radio
and cable censorship of informa
tion in Japan, meant new mili-,
tary movements in the Far East.
Knox told a press conference to
“look for movement out there
very soon.”
Sumner Weiies arranged to re
ceive the Japanese ambassador
at noon, *PST, for amid the in
creasing signs, the United States
is preparing a new notice to Jap
an, on the threat- of military
moves in the Far East.
Knox was asked whether the
U. S. fleet is in a position to do
“whatever is necessary to carry
out our policy in the Far East.”
Smiling, Knox said, “Yes,” but
declined to elaborate.
SOUTH CHINA SAID
TO HAVE AIRBASE
TOKYO. July — The Japanese
Times and Advertiser claimed
that an enormous new air and
military base is being completed
in South China as part of a mili
tary plan of China, Britain, Rus
sia and the United States to en
circle Japan.
The paper said that plans for
the China base call for 800 mo-1
dern fighting planes, probably I
about 600 to come from Austrlia i
and 200 from the United States, j
Japan Makes Sweeping Demands
French Indo-China—Declare Is
An Effort Protect Her Interests
UNDATED, July 22 HP) — New
tension arose from a flurry of ru
mors that a Japanese military
move is imminent. The London
radio said all reports indicated
that “big developments” are
ready to erupt," as..a large scale
mobilization is proceeding thru
out Japan, reservists have been
called to the colors and lorries
and horses requisitioned.”
The British spokesman said the
continued reports probably mean
the Japanese demands on French
Indo-China, which are “disturb
ing, particularly after the cabinet
changes” in ^okyo. He added “It
is worth noting that Matsuoka,
who assured the British Ambassa
dor. last month, that the reports
of Japanese territorial demands
on Indo-China, are false, is no
longer a member of the govern
ment.” *
Possible Spring
board for Attack
On Singapore
UNDATED. July 23 (IP) — Far
East dispatches said Japan made
sweeping demands for conces
sions in Southern French Indo
iChina, for a possible spring
board for an attack on Britain’s
great naval base at Singapore,
to which the French yielded. Si
multaneously, a Reuters dispatch
from Hanoi, capital of France’s
oriental colony, said it was con
firmed officially that the Japan
ese demanded the use of facil
ities and it was assumed that the
Japanese meant airfields and na
val bases. Conferences between
French Admiral Decoux, Gover
nor General of Indo-China and
Major General Sumita, chief of
the Japanese military mission,
were said continuing at Hanoi,
and the end is not yet in sight.
Washington said London watch
ed the situation with mounting
anxiety and Berlin kept an eye
on developments which might
affect United States aid to Brit
ain and China.
The German radio declared,
‘According to news available here
the Japanese government has
learned of British aims directed
at French Indo-China, and the
Japanese government is deter
mined to defend its interests by
a 1 the means at her disposal
against such intentions. The
French government is likewise
believed to share this view.”
Negotiating
Technical
Jap Protection
VICHY, July 23 (fP) — Official
ly disclosed negotiations on the
technical Japanese protection of
French Indo-China, are under
way both in Vichy in Hanoi, af
ter what French authorities said,
were British troop concentrations
along the Malaya and Burma
borders of Indo-China. ■,
Newspapers in German-occu
ied Paris charged General Cat
roux, active Free French leader,
with cruising off the Indo-China
coast and with directing an in
creasing flow of DeGaullist pro
paganda. They also said the Brit
ish, Free French, and Chinese
were conferring. presumably
with a view to a division o Indo
China. ». »
CAN OUT-PROD UCE
ANY TWO NATIONS
LOS ANGELES, July—Wm. S.
Knudsen, director of the Office of
Production Management declar
ed that the United States can
out-produce and other 2 nations
of the world and will be doing
it soon. Tlie OPM Director said
that all America now lacks is the
unity of men, tools and materials.
Knudsen said that the annual
American output of machine tools
increased from $200,900,0000 in
1.939 to $40,000,000 in 1940 and
$700,000,000 so far in 1941.
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ine aoove map snows tne locale or tne threatened new outbreak in the far East with Japan making
demands for concession of French Indo-China.Britain was concerned over whether the action war
preliminary to a Japanese attack on Singapore,England’s heavily fortified stronghold. Star sym
bols show locations of principal U. S. Navy seaand air bases in the Pacific.
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