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HIT BY HUGE
BOMBING RAID
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS
IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Aug. 23.—-fAP)—Wednesday, the
reeord ol' dropping of a 135-ton
of bombs in a raid on Halmahera
and the wrecking of eight Jap
vessels, five small coastal ships
and 28 barges, marked new strikes
against enemy targets in the areas
south and east of the Philippines,
headquarters announced today.
The communique also reported
that a Liberator bomber patrol
ling off Davnn Gulf, off Mindano,,
barely missed an 8,000-ton freight-!
ertransport.
Stepping up patrol action and
aerial attacks in the Mollucca Is
lands, Liberators and Mitchell
bombers smashed at key defenses
Monday with a record bomb- i
load dropped on installations.
INDOMITABLE
SPIRIT SHOWN
BY RUSSIANS
♦'SEATTLE, Wash., Aug. 23.—
(AP)—jEric Johnston, U. S. Cham
ber of Commerce president, des-J
oribed Russia today, as a land
where “civil liberties are only a|
vagtie promise, and where, “if
there is any religion, it is the
worship of Stalin.”
“'But,” he said, addressing 500
construction, executives here
“Russia is also a nation of indom
itable courage.”
Describing Stalingrad, as an ex- (
ample, he said, “The city’s streets
| Y.Cfre filled with rubble, with occa
| sional walls standing like tomb -,
J stones. Its great industries were
like volcanic bomb craters, and
slit trenches like trails left by
worms in rotten wood.”
“Stalingrad,” said Johnston J
will rise again, Phoenixlike from,
its ashes—a landmark of labor |
mid pains, of Russia re-born.”
H.*G. MILLER. LIEUTENANT.
ATG PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN
At the regular meeting of the(
Alaska Territorial Guard, Nome.
Unit, last evening, Lt). Henry G. j
Miller was promoted to the rank
of captain. The meeting was well)
attended and regular drill was the
orde$,of the day. Captain Miller
-has been active in all branches
of civil afffairs, having served on
|the city council, and for one term
•as mayor. The promotion was
deserved.
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RED OFFENSIVE
ON ROMANIA
NEARS CAPITAL
MOSCOW, Aug. 23.—The new
Red Army offensive, designed to
knock Romania out of the war,
and to break Hitler’s grip on the
Balkans, smashed forward on a
150-mile front beyond Iasi, to
within 180 miles of jittery Buch
arest, and 155 miles or the Floes
ti oil center.
An official German broadcast
said the Russians had reached the
beaches at Riga, the Latvian cap
ital, the largest in the Baltic
states.
This advance indicates a new
trap for the 16th and 18th Arm
ies, as the Russian troops are ad
vancing over the bodies of 25,000
Germans slain in three violent
days of fighting, while 12,000
others trudge wearily bock to
prison cages.
Red Army groups unaer Gen
erals Malinovsky and Tolbukhin
drove within 50 miles of the
mouth of the Danube river in Ro
mania.
In northern Poland, Russian
forces are gradually outflanking
Warsaw, splitting the German
forces between Warsaw and East
Prussia, as the Soviet forces went
SWEDISH WAR
INSURANCE
DENIED SHIPS
STOCKHOLM, Seweden, Aug.
23—(AP)—The Swedish War In
surance Board today announced it
u^ould no longer underwrite
Swedish ships travelling to Ger
man portib.
This will, in effect, eliminate'
all Swedish vessels from trading
with Germany.
The action will be a terrific
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blow to Germany because an es
timated 50 per cent of the trade
between the two countries is car
ried on Swedish ships.
The Burmese are descenddi
from Mongolian tribes which mi-:
grated from western China and
Tibet.
ahead 14 miles southeast of Lom
za, a communications hub, where
the Germans are making a des
perate attempt to salvage her
Baltic positions, brought new*
tanks info attacks in. the direction
of Jelgava, which controls the
road and rail routes to Latvia.
Bucharest was reported to be in
panic, as many of Premier Anton
escu’s supporters are openly dis
cussing chances of suing for peace.
BOMBERS HIT
YAP NEAR THE
PHILIPPINES
PACIFIC FLEET HEADQUAR
TERS AT PEARL HARBOR,
August 23.—Army heavy bomb
ers. based in the Marianas, raid
ed Yap, which, guards the central
approach to the Philippines, for
the second time on Sunday, with
out encountering enemy opposi
tion.
However, the Liberators which
struck at Truk, ran into Japan
ese fighter opposition, which they
overcame, and re4urned to their
base after accomplishing the mis
sion.
Admiral Nimitz also reported
actions on other targets at Nauru,
and an attack on shipping in *he
Marcus Island area, in which a
medium cargo vessel was destroy
ed, and a smaller one left burn
ing.
Nimitz said the raids reported
Monday and Tuesday, covered fH).
000 square miles with but slight
opposition, showing how 4he
American airmen are fanning out
from advanced bases.
GEN. CLAY TELLS
COMMITTEE OF
WAR SUPPLIES
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 31.
—(AP)Major General Lucius Clay,
director of material for the army
service forces, told Senate inves
tigators today that one theater
commander failed to get half of
the 155mm. ammunition needed
for a recent landing operation.
The committee is considering
the question of surpluses and
scarcities in war supplies.
Gen. Clay said there are seri
ous shortages in a number of cat
agories, on account of manpower
problems, but in the small-arms
ammunition the supply will carry
through 19 months with the au
thorized reserve still on hand.
FRENCH ARMY
SEIZES BRIDGE
AT HENDAYE
IRUM, Spain, Aug. 23.—Uni
formed officers of the French
army took possession of the In
ternational bridge at Handaye, at
5:30 p. m. on Monday, in the
name of the French Committee of
National Liberation, thus com
pleting the French occupation of
the entire Pyrenes frontier.
NAZIS CLEARED
FROM CITY BY
FRENCHMEN
LONDON. Aug. 21.—(AP)—
Today Paris shook itself loose
from the shackles of the four
years of enemy bondage, and
stood free once more, liberated
by armed and unarmed tens of
thousands of Frenchmen who
swept the Nazis from the city's
streets, while the armed might
of advancing allied forces
drew up around the capital.
A special communique from
Gen. Henri DeGaulle's headquar.
ters in London, announced <he
liberation after four days of street.
figh‘ :ng.
The general recalled the scenes
of Rastile Day, when mobs of
Paris, once before struck an his
toric blow for liberty.
“This time," the communique
said, “the fight was led by 50.
000 organized French soldiers of
*he interior, bolstered by 100,
000 more W'ho joined in with
whatever weapons they could
find.”
I The dramatic announcement
touched off broadcasts to French
men everywhere as triumphant
strains of “La Marseilles” *ound«d
the news of French victory.
The capture of all Vichy rep
resen* atives who had not fled from
Paris were made by the French
patriots.
No word was received imme
diately from the American troops
who entered the city, but the
French claimed the seizure of all
public buildings, winning com
plete control of the situation.
The communique also said De
Gaulle conferred with General
Eisenhower in France two days
ago, presumably on details of
1 civil affairs in the control of the
capital.
COMPULSORY
TRAINING
ADVOCATED
NEW YORK. N. Y., Aug. 23.—
(AP)—The endorsement by Secre
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i tary of War Henry L Stimson,
of compulsory military training,
was made public by Archibald
Teacher, chairman of the Second
Service Command branch of the
citizens committee for universal
! service,
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In a letter to Teacher, Stimson
said, “It is my idea that the most
important provision, which can be
I made by Congress, for the future
defense of the nation, is a system
i of universal training."