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VOL. 42. No. 64. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY. MAY 24, 1940 ***“ Per c°Py 1S*
Motorized Troops Approach Cal. ais
| Allies Claim Superiority Over Germans At Somme
Three Mysterious Fires Break Out In Dawson, Y. T.
* Germans 12 Miles From Channel
British Deny German Report Allies
Embarking From Channel Ports
UNDATED, May 23 UP) — The
fall of Abbeville, 12 miles from
the English channel, to German
shock troops was announced in
the House of Commons in a two
minute statement by Prime Min
ister Churchill. Heavy fighting al
so raged around Boulogne, Fran
ce, on the Channel. Churchill
said: “It is too early yet to say
what the results of this coastal
fighting may be but evidently it
carries implications of a serious
character.” French reports yester
day said the Germans were chas
. ed out of Abbeville.
Alive to Possibilities of Invasion
Clement Attlee, deputy leader
in the House disclosed that the
governments of both Britain and
Ireland .vere appiei. ■i-,.ely
“alive to the possibilities” of an
invasion through Ireland.
Communications Imperilled
^ The German break-through
again imperilled communications
between the 550,0C0 Allied troops
in Northern France and the mil
lion French soldiers to the south.
The British spokesman admitted
“there is a gap between the two
armies and the Allied situation
on the Western Front is extreme
ly grave.”
British Deny Bombings
The German high command re
ported that harbor facilities in
D ver, England and Dunkerque,
France were “effectively bomb
ed” but this was met by a
quick, flat denial by the British.
Berlin sources said the British
troops falling back to the Chan
nel were “embarking from sev
eral French coastal points” and
the England-bound transports
were bombed. Also that mechan
& ied troops were slowly winning
after terriffc fighting in Flanders
along the Scheldt River line.
Italian Defense Council Meets
Mussolini summoned the Ital
ian supreme defense council into
session, perhaps auguring the
long-awaited Italian decision to
enter the war. The Italians accus
ed the French authorities in Mor
occo of “renewing the hateful per
secutions against the Italians liv
ing in that protectorate."
Count Ciano, II Duce’s number
one man, who has been inspect
ing Italian-held Albania, left for
the Yugoslav border, the focal
point of the tension.
Possibility Of
Invasion Thru
Ireland
LONDON. May 23 </P) — Lord
of the privy seal Clement Attlee
told the House of Commons that
the governments of both Ireland
and Britain were “alive to the
possibilities” of an invasion of
Britain through Ireland. He said
“There can be no question of the
British government giving orders
to the government of Eire but all
proper consultations have taken
place.
BROADCAST FROM DUBLIN
IS CAUSE OF CONCERN
NEW YORK, May 23 I/P)— Ed
ward Murrow, CES correspond
?nt in London said a broadcast in
the presence of many German
diplomats and newspapermen,
from Dublin was causing “consid
erahle alarm in England.”
German Armored Troops Drawing
Near Callais, Only 20 Minutes
*>
By Air From Dover, England
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UNDATED, May 24 UP) — The
German capture of Bou'ange,
Fiance, strategic seaport just 20
minutes by air from London, was
admitted in authoritative Lon
don quarters. The sweeping Nazi
push to the sea, preliminary to
the heralded invasion of England
also gained in two other smash
ing blows. German mechanized
troops are reported in Berlin to
have advanced to within close
reach cf Calais, gateway and
French channel port, only 22
miles from Dover, England, while
other Nazi forces grappled in
fierce fighting with the Allied
troops in the streets of Ghent,
Belgium. Ghent is 30 mies north
west of Brussels where the Ger
mans are reported to be attack
ing on the outskirts of the city.
Nazis Try for Jump-off Places
The trend of the battle in the
critical struggle for the mastery
of the English channel veered
rapidly north with the Germans
striking hard for the shortest dir
ect jumping off base for England
at Calais. In so doing, Hitler’s
armored legions simultaneously
tightened the steel trap on be
tween five hundred thousand and
a million Allied troops pocketed
in northern France and Belgium.
Nazis jubilantly declared the en
circlement of the Allies is near
ing airtight completion and said
that the great destructive bat
tle may occur earlier than expect
ed.
Germans at Gates of Callais
Later German reports said the
swift German armored cars, driv
ing through St. Gmer approached
the “gates of Callais.” The Ger
man high command announced
the sinking of six loaded British
transports in the English Chan
nel.
| . According to German censor-approved caption, this picture, radioed
from Berlin to New >York April 10 shows German troops on the
march on an unamed road in Denmark as they took over contoi
of that nation without resistance.
5,00:1 Mechanized Troops Isolated
A Pans radio broadcast -aid
hat five th a • :r.d German moch
aniz ti ps were isolated in a
bitterly contested Amiens sector
on the south prong of the Nazi
pine rs and that other German
forces in Flanders were stalled
for lr ek of fuel.
Sailing Liner Rex Cancellled
Tension in the Mediterranean
increased as a Fascist Youth of
ficial declared that Italy is "on
the eve of our war to break the
British manned gates of Gibral
tar and Suez. Rome shipping cir
cles heard that the scheduled
sailing of the liner Rex from
Genoa was postponed and was a
possible tip-off to Italian war
plans.
French Armies
Threaten Chop
Off Nazi Thrust
PARIS, May 23 K/P> — The
French armies, effecting what for
eign military experts called "a
miracle of reorganization,’’ fou
ght with new fury to reunite the i
northern and central armies,
and to chop off the long spear
head which the Germans have
driven to the sea, and engaged
in a (bitter see-saw battle be
tween Cambrai and Valencien-'
nes.
German Columns
Mechanized Army
in Crossfire
PARIS, May 24 m — The Al
ii' 1 armies caught the German
.mored columns in artillery
'. i 33 fire in a new effort to cut
‘.he German salient to the sea.
I Masses of Allied infantry also
| weighed down on the corridor,
pressing ^outh from Flanders
; fields. In the Cambrai region,
n rth from the Somme liver, in a
pi; cers movement, brought into
| full play for the first time, two
[ branches of service for which the
Allies claim superiority.
Military reports said the Ger
; man columns discarded the flame
throwing tanks in their drive to
ward the sea and are using new
equipment and machine guns.
Earthquake
At Lima, Peru
LIMA, May 24 f/P) —A strong
one-minute earthquake demolish
ed houses and sent the popula
tion into the streets in panic. In
the first report, none were re
ported killed.
i'resident To
Give Fireside
(h:A Sunday
tt
W • ■" INGTON. May 23 ,7’
Pr at Roosevelt will cl rj'
d i n conditions and need . "in
a flit: de chat" broadcast Sun
day t at 6:30 p. m. P cific
Tin" . S .rotary Early said it w.ii
be straight-forward, factual
repel from the governin' i. to
the people with a general dis
cuss:,’.! of the defense situation
and needs." The chat will pro
bably last for a half hour.
Delegates For
Roosevelt Now
Over Majority
WASHINGTON, May 24 (TP) —
Roosevelt’s pledged and semi
pledged delegates to the nation
al convention went over the ma-1
jority mark with Vermont's giv
ing him six yesterday. He now \
has the committments of 547'*2
votes of the 1,094. Republicans
raised the demand that he state
his third term intentions in his
Sunday night broadcast.
CROMWELL RESIGNS AS
U. S. MINSTER TO CANADA
WASHINGTON, May 23 (TPi —
President Roosevelt accepted the
resignation of Jimmy Cromwell
as minist"!- to Canada. He was
nominated Tuesday by New Jer
sey Democrats for U. S. Senator.
‘Mysterious’ Fires
J
Break Out Dawson
DAWSON. May 24 (Special
from the Daw. n News) — The
D on News bunding and stock,
plant w re sen •■.. iy damaged by
Thursday night, following
•v m> .s i riot; .plosion in the
ir if the build:' Peters jew
: y store, tv • cks from the
New. building $ badly damag
d by a fire which .'farted at the
iv ,r of the bud ling at five this
morning.
Wednesday n dr a fire start
ing at the rear of Orphium Thea
tre destroyed the theare, he Yu
konia Hotel, Jimmy Oglow and
Ernest Schink’s stores, banly dam
aged Grace Wyness’ ladies wear
store and Jack Houdeman's bar
ber shop, arcade and cafe, all ad
joining. All three of the fires
were in widely separated parts of
town and were of mysterious
origin.
King George Makes
Personal Appeal
LONDON. May 24 (kPi — On
Empire Day, with England threat
ened with her first invasion since
1066. King George in a personal
broadcast to the world aeoueed
Nazi Germany of “a long planned
scheme to subjugate by force the
nations of the world.'
He called upon his people to
“keep your resolve unshaken. De
feat will mean the destruction of
our world as we have known it,
and the descent of darkness up
on the ruins."
William Bitus (center), 23, in custody of policemen as he and two
companions were haled into court in New York City and s"nten.ed
to 50 years in fatal beating of a 78-year-old woman dorm-; a 34
cent hold-up. The court termed the trio “mad do-jV