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Pres. Roosevelt Asks Another Billion For Defense
German Losses Placed by French Over Half Million
* French Declare German Success In
Belgium Directly Due To Treason
Nazi Losses Since May 10-500,000
UNDATED, May 31 (JP) — The
French military spokesman de
clared that the German military
successes in Belgium were “dir
ectly due to treason.”
The semi-official Telefrancc I
news agency asserted that the'
Germans lost half a million men
since they began the invasion of
the low countries on May 10th.
The agency said this figure was
“written in authentic German
documents.” There were no de
tails.
British tommies fought hand
to-hand wiih German troops
south of Yser canal in a fierce1
struggle to hold the Allies’ “es-;
cape port” of Dunkerque which
was a kettledrum of dinning anti
aircraft fire and naval guns coop j
crating with British pursuit
plane squadrons, operating from
English bases to “forbid” the air
to Nazi bombers. One source said
i thousands of battle weary troops,
both French and English stream
ed into the port through a pass
between muddy seawater several
miles v. ide which girded the city
as a moat. The ancient fortress
canal locks, the Allies opened &
spilled the deepening water ov
er the flooded defense area.
The Germans are reported wip
ing out a Biiiish pocket near
Csssel, 2) miles south cf Dun
kerque. Berlin said :ho trapped
French forces in the Lille area
“practica.ly ceased to exisi.”
An early Hitler atierr.pt to split
England and France with separ
ate offers of peace under threat
of calling his axis partner, Italy
in*o the war, was forecast in
London.
The French spokesman said
of tbo
French army lashed their way
through the German lines be
tween Cassel and Poperinghe,
making their way to the coast.
Whosesale slaughter of Hitler’s
conquering warriors was indicat
ed in a Berlin dispatch saying
that a hundred huge Junkers
planes, each carrying 20 soldiers
sitting and 8 stretched out, were
used one day from a single sec
tion of the Western Front to trans
port the wounded to base hospit
als.
Transports
Troops Out Of
Flanders Fields
BERLIN. May 30 VP)—Neutral
military circles expressed the be
lief that the British have
succeeded in getting quite a num
her cf men out of the Flanders
trap since movemeris of trans
ports are being reported under
way for four days.
British Hospital
Ship Is Strafed
LONDON, May 30 f/P) — A hos
nital ship arrived at a south coaT
r> rt carrying wounded soldiers,
with portholes smashed by ma
chine gun bullets and funnels rid
died. The ship was attacked yes
terday si. a French port while
on wounded.
With tracer bullets, machine gun crews of the 30th Infantry, wor king in unison, are shown dem
onstrating the use of cross-fire a> a defensive measure at Camp Ord, Cafi. It was part of the re
view of the Army Day maneuvers held April 6th.
Roosevelt Submits Supplementary
Billion Dollar Defense Program
-Aviation & Mechanized Equipment
WASHINGTON, May 31 (fP) —
President Roosevelt submitted
to Congress a supplementary em
ergency defense program involv
ing “over a billion dollars’’ and
asked action without delay. In a
message to the legislators, he said
this latest enlargement of the de
fense program was necessitated
because of the “almost incred
ible events” of the past two
weeks of Europe’s war “particul
arly as a result of the use of
aviation and mechanized equip
ment.”
Roo evelt mentioned no specific
figure and gave no breakdown of
the new program, the details be
ing left to the representatives of
the war and navy departments,
and other g v lament agencies,
WASHINGTON, May 30 {/Pi —
The White House announced a
new defense program of more
) h billi m dollars to supply
the ne ds of the army which are
regarded as critical. Secretary
Stephen Early told reporters that
Pc.-ident Roosevei. hoped to send
to Congress tomorrow a message
recommending additional defense
expenditures which he said
would be used for tanks, guns,
planes and building up reserves
of material.
Germans Declare
Cattle Flanders
Is Nearing End
UNDATED, May 30 i(iT) — Re
treating Allied troops fought des
perate rear guard actions against
the smash of an estimated 440,000
to 600.000 Germans rushing ac
ross Flanders plains in an at
tempt l.o crush them. ' Many
French units were completely cut
off in a twelve mile pocket
around Lille and were reported
as laying down their arms.
The German high command de
clared the), the great battle of
Flanders was fast nearing an end
and that the Allied armies there
were “destroyed.” The high com
mand also said that dive bomb
ing sank 16 transpoij s, three
Briiish warships and damaged 34
other vessels waiting to embark
with fleeing Allies at channel
ports. The British expeditionary
force was pictured by Berlin as
“being cut to pieces.” Almost
within sight of the chalk cliffs of
Dover, 89 .Allied planes were re
ported shot down with a Ger
man plane loss of 15, the high
command said.
The British air ministry said
52 enemy pianes. including 25
bombers were shot down, and 17
others damaged in encounters
with “many large formations of
enemy aircraft engaged in bomb
ing operations on the French and
Belgians at a cost of only 10 Brit
ish planes missing. British mili
tary circles insured that the main
base depots at Flanders were still
held.
Argentine Grain
Ship Torpedoed
BUENOS AIRES. May 30 (/Pi—
Tht first war torpedoing of a
ship flying the flag of an Ameri
can republic, ‘the 3400-ton Argen
tine freighter Uruguay, brought
xpressions of deep concern from
the foreign ministry.
The grain-laden ship sailed
April 2G for Antwerp and was
halted Tuesday night 140 miles
off the coast of Spain. Captain
Garcia and crew were ordered to
abandon ship. A torpedo was
then fired into the hull. A fish
ing boat brought 13 of the crew
of 28 jto Spain, the others took
to small boats.
30,000 Allied
Troops Fight
To Dunkerque
PARIS, May 31 (/P) — The min
istry of information announced
that two divisions of the French
rear guard Allied retreat from
Flanders, numbering 30,000 men,
before it underwent a shattering
attack, fought its way to Dunker
que, just as Germany’s mechan
ized legions laid seige to the
town.
S. S. Columbia. First Passenger
c
"oat Season Sailed Thursday
Will* el 13 Passengers Aboard
The S. S. Columbia of the Alaska Steamship Co.
SEATTLE, May 31 (JP) — The
S. S. Columbia of the Alaska
Line sailed at 10 a.m. Thursday
ard carried 343 passengers, 185
s.eers.ge. Nome passengers are:
Mrs Amy Krablee
Thomas Shaw and wife
Mrs T B Tucker
Barbara Buchmaster
A P Brandt
Duncan McLean
William Sullivan
Charles F Giliis
William Deady
Mrs Robert Ornduff
Anne Ornduff
Robert Ornduff
Clarence Christie
H B Morgan
E S Kelly
Mrs lone Clark
Betty Klokkvold
Mrs G H Pearson
Mrs. A Polet
Don Morem
Ncrman Mayer
C J Carson
Bobby Lewis
Mrs H W Lewis
Frances Panachot and wife
Mrs Louis Mideke
P Fold
D Barry
Mrs A Biggins
Mrs M S Cappelen
C J Tj ernegel
Gus John in
Mrs. David Foberts
M II Ranchioso
J E Shaw
H Stout
Ai Fared
J T Sullivan
H Kfent
Norman Rolando and wife
Carlyle Ewbank
Lillian Silverman
Julia Silverman
John Goodspeed
Mrs. Jennie Snipes
Mrs. Harold Bayne
C A Randrup and wife
Charles Haegele
August Olson
Dr. A H Leeghton and wife
Harriet Leininger
Dorothy Falkner
Anna Withrow
Karl Theile Jr
Barney Rolando
A Mattson.
E Drange
Howard Beasley
Brooks Stevens
Casey Jones
Hugh Gabbard and wife
Jack Robbins
Lyroj. Elaner
August Adams
Joan Engstrom
June Engstrom
Mrs H Engstrom
Mrs W E Ytung
Mrs W H Graves
Eva Rith Aldyice
Mrs G M Aldyice
Herbert McRellan
H E Louto
Ted Wallace
Frank Ashoneak
Barbara Rabbins
Mrs P A Robbins
Mrs. J Robins and two child
ren.
Tom Cunningham
Richard Westergren
F R Van Campen
Mrs G T Livingstone
Mrs S W Taggart
Alfred Lomen Jr
Dooley Warner
R R Coates
C H Code and wife
G H Cronin
J B Mertie Jr
Elizabeth Rude
Mrs O A Margraf
Mrs E B Lucas
Geraldine Smith
R D White
Dick Caton
C W Neisen
Lo-uie Jacobson
Kristie Sather
Mrs D E Crowley
Marianne Mish
Mrs J A Panes
C C Cloninger and wife'
E D Rydeen
Robert Stewart
H L Stull
E H Mahan and wife
W B Young
J H Young
S E Young
Jerry Carrol
Bud Grimes
W H Maas
J B Moyer
Jane Jones
Mrs Herman Ingala
Norvin Lewis Jr
Charles Lewis
A H Davis and wife
Editor’s Note — The above are
the first class passengers’ names
and altho the Nugget wired for a
complete passenger list, apparent
ly the steerage passengers’ names
were unavailable.