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VOL. 44. No. 56. NOME, ALASKA, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1942 Per Copy i*
Allied Fleet Wins Battle Coral Sea
War Dept. Confirms U .S. Army Raid On Tokyo
U S. CHIEF OF STAFF IN LONDON
Arriving in London. General George C. Marshall (left1
chief of staff of (he U. S. Army, chats with Vice Ad
miral Robert L. Gbormley (right), chief of U. S. naval
>perations in Europ an waters. Harry Hopkins and sev
eral military advisers also arrived in London with
Marshall. Thi's picture radioed from London to N. Y.
War Dept. Confirms U. S. Army
Raid On Tokyo On April 18th
WASHINGTON, May 10 (AP) — United States
Armv bombers made the sensational raid on Japan on
April loth, the War Department disclosed in confirma
tion of what millions of American hoped was true.
Thundering in low and fast in broad davlight the
mighty bombers loaded with both demolition and in
cendiary bombs blasted selected military targets near
Tokyo. Yokohama, Nagoya and other cities. As to
whether the planes took off from carriers at sea in joint
army and navy operations or from land bases some
where, hew many there were, and all other details, at
which the Japanese have been desperately guessing,
they will have to keep on guessing, the Department said
The Russians reported the Nazis introduced gas warefare on the Crimean front,
the use of which, Churchill has promised, will bring retaliation on German people.
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Arrows indicate new attacks made by the Red Army outward from Russian held
regions (shaded) on the Sevastopol and Kerch fronts in the Crimea. Berlin also
acknowledged that Soviet naval units (ship symbols) bombarded Feodosia from
the Black Sea, but claimed the attacking ships were forced to retire by return fire.
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War In Europe
Still Largely
iPsyehopatliie
UNDATED, May 11 (AP>
—rn Europe, the war still
I lay largely in the psycho
logical realm of nerves,
fears, expectations, and
' threats. The Russian front
! is still quiescent compared
j with the furv that prevail
j ed in the German offensive
last summer and the Rus
sian counter offensive of
the winter months. Winter
is having a final fling in the
northern and central sec
tors, while the world wait
ed for fury to break anew
either there or at some oth
er potential battle zone in
Europe.
The Russians in advance
have given point to Church
ill’s threat of retaliatory
j gas warfare on behalf of
| Uie Soviet Union, report
ing officially Saturday that
the Germans are testing a
new gas technique on the
Crimean front, using small
mines to dispel the disabl
ing vapor.
The German command,
admitting localized attacks
yesterday on the Russian
front, but declared the Red
army thrusts either collaps
ed or were repulsed, claim
ed for their air force a 271
score of planes downed on
the far northern front and
listing 20 British Hurrdcan
es among the Russian’s
losses.
Senate Chaplain Dies
Washington, May 10 (AP)
— Rev. Zebarney T. Phil
lips, aged 67, white-haired
Senate chaplain, whose
prayers opened virtually
every day’s session since
1939, died suddenly to
night.
Churchill Warns Germany
Gas Used On Reds Will
Bring Retaliatory Acts
London, May 10 (AP) —
In a grim fighting speech,
Prime Minister Churchill
tonight warned Hitler that
Britain will carry poison
gas warfare far and wide
ever Germany if he dares
to use it against the Rus
sians and forecast for sure
a mighty British-American
bombing offensive against
Germany.
Grim in his predictions
of “misery and slaughter”
for Germany, Churchill
nevertheless confident and
optimistic, brought what
he said was a “message of
good cheer*' for Britain
and her allies, declaring
that the “awful balances”
have finally turned to the
LTnitcd Nations’ favor. He
predicted that “British and
American sea power will
grip and hold the Japan
ese” and their overwhelm
ing power will eventually
bring her low.
Wallace Predicts Axis
Will Strike Last Desperate
Blow, Probably at Alaska
New York, May 8 (Delay
ed) (AP) — Vice Presi
dent Wallace, predicting
that the Axis will strike ‘‘a
last desperate blow” this
summer, said tonight that
this might include a Japan
ese attack on Alaska and
the northwest United Stat
es coast, with a simultan
eous German uprising in
Latin America.
‘‘We may be sure that
Hitler and Japan will co
operate to do the unexpect
ed, perhaps an attack by
Japan against Alaska or
our northwest coast, at a
time when German trans
port planes will be shuttl
ing across from Dakar to
furnish leadership and stif
fening to a German upris
ing in Latin America,” he
said. Wallace predicted the
worst kind of fifth column
activities in Latin America I
21 Ships Sunk or ( rippled Is
Jap Toll Battle of Coral Sea
UNDATED, May 11 (AP) — The grand total of Jap
anese ships sunk or crippled in the battle of the Coral
Sea and its aerial sequel mounted to 21, with bomb hits
over the week-end on two subs, a seaplane tender and
a tanker. The victory over Jap seapower on the north
eastern flank of the Australia supply line to that con
tinent, base of the United Nations, strengthened the
belief that it could be held as a concentration point
for an eventual counter offensive against Japan. Al
though the danger is not yet passed, competent observ
ers at the Allied headquarters in Australia, stressing
the conservatism of the total claims against the Japs,
expressed the belief that the Washington summary of
the sea battle, when it is issued, might include addition
al Japanese transport losses with the sinking “of two
transports or supply ships,” and damaging two, listed
in a communique from Australia.
In line with Allied restraint in interpreting the battle
of the Coral Sea, Sir Keith Murdock of the Melbourne
Herald, one of Australia’s most eminent public fig
ures said the engagement was with a “comparatively
light Jap naval force and not against the main Jap
anese fleet. What must be realized, is that a large Jap
anese expedition was beginning.'
RECEIVES NO REPORTS TO SUBSTANTIATE
JAPS CLAIMS OF SINKINGS
WASHINGTON, May 9, 1:29 p.m.—12:27 p.m. (AP)
— The Navy Department said it had received no re
ports to substantiate the loss of a single U. S. battle
ship or aircraft carrier in the southwest Pacific as re
lated by Tokyo. The Department said the American
public is aware of the unreliable nature of any claims
emanating from an enemy source. They said reports
of damage to our forces are incomplete and will be an
nounced when they will be without value to the enemy.
MacARTHUR REPORTS BATTLE OVER TEMOR
ARILY BUT JAPS ARE FLATLY REPULSED
Allied Headquarters in Austi’alia, May 8 (Delayed*
(AP) — Saturday, The Japanese battle fleet has been
repulsed in the Coral Sea and the greatest air and
sea battle in which the American fleet e'ver engaged,
has temporarily ceased. A communique issued by Gen
eral MacArthur’s headquarters announced today the
cessation of the terrific battle came on the sixth day
after the Allied air and naval forces had gone out to
meet the threat to the Australian mainland.
The headquarters communique said the action rep
resented “the continued effort of the Japanese to ex
tend their aggressive conquests towards the south and
southwest.'' It was pointed out that the Japanese have
been building up their forces with emphasis on naval
transport units for coordinated attack of combined fore
es. This attack was “initiated several days ago.”
While cautiously saying only that the battle ceased
“temporarily,” MacArthur’s headquarters neverthe
less said flatly that the Japanese were repulsed.
The British news agency Reuters said the Japanese
lost even more ships than Washington claimed thus
far. The Reuters dispatch was sent out four hours be
fore the cheering news was received from Australian
headquarters.
The Navy Department said the issue is still in doubt.
With 11 or more of its warships sunk, 6 or more
damaged and presumably thousands of its finest war
riors at the bottom of the Coral Sea. the battered Jap
anese enemy is reported limping northward with Unit
ed States and British Imperial units in hot pursuit, on
the sixth day of the engagement. “Our attacks will
continue,” the Allied communique said
REMNANTS OF JAP FLEET ON THE RUN
LONDON, May 8 (Delayed) (AP) — Saturday,
Reuters, in a dispatch from Sydney said the vast Jap
anese invasion fleet off northeastern Austrlia has been
smashed and remnants of the Japanese fleet are on
the run. Reuters said, in the dispatch, based on re
ports from an advanced Allied base that the toll of
Japanese sea losses rose to 18 ships sunk and four dam
aged, including certain destruction to two aircraft car
riers, one cruiser, six or seven destroyers and other
vessels.