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VOL. 44. No. 30. NOME, ALASKA, Wednesday, Mar. 11, 1942 Per Copy iu
Japs Guilty Atrocities at Hongkong
Germany Collects Soldiers For Spring Offensive
The Japanese crossing of the Salween river Martaban
and the posh at Paan (1) fnenaced British holding a
strategically-inferior position in the Thaton area. Cross
mg past Martaban gives Japanese chance to force
and drive or bross bay by boats in thrust at Rangoon
designed to begin push up toyard India (2). Chinese
forces clashed with Thai troops in defense of the Bur
ma road. Rangoon reported the defenders of Burma
* and the Burma road had smashed the Japanese attempt
to crass the Salween in the Paan area.
Italy, Hungary and Slovakia To
Supply Hitler with 2,600.000 Soldiers
UNATED, March 11 (AP) — Hitler is reported to
have called upon Italy, Hungary and Slovakia for
2,600.000 fresh troops to bolster the heralded Nazi
spring offensive and to fill the gaps left by nine months
of slaughter in the war in Russia. Advices reaching
London said Hitler, desperately needing manpower to
replace the Nazi losses in dead, wounded and missing,
vill demand a million troops from Italy; a million and
a half from Hungary and 100,000 from Slovakia.
Soviet authorities declared on February 22, that
Germany lost six million men on the Russian front.
With pre-spring thaws already melting the snow on
the long battleline, dispatches indicated that the
Russians are smashing with ever increasing fury to
demoralize the Germans and keep them reeling back
wards instead of organizing a spring counter drive.
A bulletin from Hitler’s headquarters acknowledged
that the Red Armies are striking in mass attacks on
the southern front and are holding the initiative on
the Moscow and Leningrad fronts. “Heavy and bloody
losses were inflicted on the enemy,” the Germans said.
The communique also noted uninterrupted heavy de
fense fighting by German troops.
Soviet dispatches reported the capture of an import
ant junction in the Lake Ilmen sector where trapped
survivors of the German 16th army, originally esti
mated at 96,000 soldiers, were reported suffering from
lack of food, clothing, and munitions. The Red bulletin
also announced the capture of three villages on the
central front where the Nazi garrisons at Rzhev and
Vyazma were described as virtually surrounded.
KING GUSTAV OF
SWEDEN RECOVERS
FROM OPERATION
Stockholm, Mar. 9 (AP)
—King Gustav of Sweden
was reported in good condi
tion, following an oper
ation for the removal of a
large bladder stone.
SEATTLE GETS
NEW MAYOR
Seattle, March 10 (AP)—
Police Judge William F.
Devin was elected mayor
of Seattle today, defeating
Mayor Earl Millikin, al
most three to one after a
bitterly waged campaign.
Report Thai
British Army
Evacuate Rangoon
Mandalay, March 9 (AP)
— The British army has ev
i acuated Rangoon, it was
: anounced here tonight. The
; fall of Rangoon means the
; interruption of the ship
ment of United Nations
war supplies to China. En
i gineers are at work arrang
ing to supply China thru
India and by whatever oth
er channels that are feas
1 ible.
All Able Men In
Germany Are
Reported In Army
I Bern. Switzerland, Mar. 10
; (AP) — Germany’s mobil
i ization of the entire Axis
i manpower for a gigantic
; spring, offensive is in full
i swing, reports reaching
Bern from various parts of
Europe indicate. In Ger
many itself, virtually all
men able to cary arms al
ready are in the army.
The recent visit of Field
Marshal Keitel to Hungary
and Slovakia is beginning
to bear results in the form
of approximately a million
and a half fresh troops.
RAF Batters
Nazi Plants For
Third Night
London, March 10 (AP)
i— Wednesday, Heavy ex
plosions, echoing across
the English Channel last
night, told that the RAF is
still battering German ob
jectives for the 3rd straight |
night after two powerful j
blows at the giant Krupp
munitions works at Essen.
The Air Ministry said the
damage wrought such hav
oc that production will be1
j slowed for some time.
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Admiral King
Also Chief of
Naval Operations
Washington, Mar. 9 (AP)
Secretary Knox announc-!
ed that Admiral Ernest J.
King, commander-in-chief
of the United States fleet,
would absorb the duties of j
Chief of Naval Operations
heretofore exercised by
Admiral Harold R. Stark,
and Stark would take the
new post of commander of
the United States naval
forces operating in Europ
ean waters. v I
1
Aussie Airmen
Sink Japs Off
Aew Guinea
Canberra, Narch 10 (AP)
Wednesday, Australian
fliers, in one of their heav
iest attacks of the war on
Japanese shipping, off the
nvaded New Guinea port
, of .Sa'amaua, scored direct
hits on a warship and left
i four other ships in flames,
i The air ministry said two
.ships were observed in a
(sinking condition and a
third was beached. The
warship was believed to be
1 e ther a cruiser or a large
destroyer.
Confirm Reports
Treatment Prison
ers in Hong Kong
r r
OTTAWA, March 9 (AP)
— The Canadian External
Affairs department" an
nounced tonight that “the
distrubing reports of Jap
anese treatment of prison
ers of war and civilians in
Hong Kong were confirm
ed.”
4th Brazilian
Ship Sunk In
21 Days
New York, Mar. 10 (AP)
— The torpedo sinking of
the Brazilian cargo and pa«
senger liner, Cavru, is the
fourth Brazilian ship sunk
in 21 days, it was anounced
tonight, following the ar
rival of 26 survivors. Fifty
nine others are missing in
three lifeboats.
DESTROYED’ WARSHIP SAFE IN PORT
i /
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With a stub bow resembling the business end of a snow plow, the destroyer Shaw
which was reported destroyed at Pearl H trbor, sailed into a west coast port under
its own power and operated from a temporary bridge aft. The Navy said the ship
ivvill be back in service soon.
Eyewitnesses Report Japs Commit
Attrocities Population Hong Kong
LONDON. March 10 (AP) — Anthony Eden charg
ed in the House of Commons that the Japanese army
at Hong Kong was guilty of wholesale atrocities when
it occupied the crown colony.. He declared the Japan
ese Emperor’s government and “the whole Japanese
people” are to blame for fifty British officers and men,
bound hand and foot, then bayoneted to death, follow
ing the capture of Hong Kong. Women, both European
and Asiatic, were raped and murdered, and one whole
Chinese district was declared a brothel, without excep
tion to the status of any of the inhabitants.
Eden declared these happenings, previously report
ed to the government, were not made public until they
were confirmed by reliable eyewitnesses recently es
caped from the colony. Eden said, “their testimony
established the fact that the Japanese army at Hong
Kong has perpetrated against their helpless military
prisoners and the civil population, without distinction
as to race and color, the same kind of barbarities
which aroused the horror of the civilized world at the
time of the Nanking massacre, in 1937.” He referred
to the Japanese capture of the former Chinese capital
on December 13, 1937.
Eden said “the widest publicity in all languages will
be given these atrocities.”
FDR Asserts Fight Against Inflation
Is As Vital As Fight on War Front
WASHINGTON. March 9 (AP) — President Roose
velt told the nation tonight that the fight against in
flation is as vital as the fighting on the war fronts, and
it calls for cooperation and restraint on the part of
every group. In a broadcast in connection with the
National Farm Program, the President said, it calls
for mutual goodwill and willingness to believe the
other fellow’s good faith, for unflagging vigilance,
and for executive action by the government to prevent
profiteering and unfair returns, alike for services and
for goods.
The President referred to the considerable amount
of discussion lately about alleged complacency of the
American people, but said he is certain the American
people have not been complacent.
It seems to me, he said, we ought to feel proud of
the undoubted fact that we are getting cooperation
from a reasonably fair balance, about ninety percent
of our population, and if less than ten percent of the
population is chiseling, we still have a pretty good
national record.