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VOL. 42. No. 22. ^OME, ALASKA, MONDAY, FEB. 19, 1940 Price per copy 15*
British Destroyer Rescues Seamen
Finns Stop Russians And Kill Or Capture 18,000
British Warships Enters Norwegian
Waters And Rescues 3-400 Seamen ,
From Tender for Sunken Graf Spee
LONDON, Fob. 18 (/P)— The]
Admiralty today announced that j
a British warship had entered,
Norwegian territorial waters and i
battled the German prison ship'
Altmark which was tender for
the sunken Graf Spee.
The announcement declared j
the British warship had rescued'
three or four hundred British
merchant seamen what were bat
tened below the Altmark’s desks.
The Admiralty said that while j
a sharp battle was progressing;
between the Altmark and the j
cruiser, other Britishers saw the j
German tanker Baldur nearby, i
The crew of the Baldur scut-!
tied their own ship when theyj
were ordered to stop.
At least five Germans and one
Briton were reported killed in i
the Altmark engagement.
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British Prisoners j
Landed in England i
LONDON. Feb 18 {&)— The |
British destroyer Cossack land
ed today British prisoners freed
from the Altmark. The landing
was made at Leith, a Firth of
Forth port where ambulances
waited to carry away the wound
ed.
At the time of the engagement
sharp rifle fire ensued when the
Cossack entered the narrow Nor
wegian fjord to send a boarding
party onto the ice-stranded Alt
mark.
Earlier the British ship with
drew when Norway announced
that the German ship had been
examined at Bergen and there
were no prisoners aboard.
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The British Admiralty said: ,j
“Liberated prisoners state that
during the Norwegian examina-!
tion at Bergen their efforts to
make their presence known to
the searching party went unheed ■
ed.
Norway Makes
Sharp Protest
OSLO Feb 18 (/P)—Norway to
day sharply protested Great Brit
ain’s action in entering her ter
ritorial waters and removing
prisoners from the Altmark.
The Norwegian government
demanded that Britain return
the prisoners and pay compensa
tion and respect in the future
to Norwegian sovereignty.
“Most Swinish
Action in History”]
BERLIN Feb 19 (/P)—Author
ized sources today branded the
British attack on the Altmark as
“one el the most dastardly and]
swinish actions in history” and j
that it would be comparable to;
an act if a German u-boat enter-!
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ed New' York harbor, boarded
the Queen Mary anchored there,1
and then lustily shot down its
crew’. ,
They said the Altmark-attack
was the grossest violation of In
ternational Law' since the Brit
ish bombardment of Copenhagen
in 1807.
The Captain of the Altmark
telephoned Berlin he attempted
to ram the British destroyer when
he w'as hailed. He then tried to
scuttle the Altmark and lower
the lifeboats, but was captured
too soon.
He also said that the British
fired small arms wildly, even at
Germans attempting to escape
afoot on the ice floes. The cap- j
tain of the German boat said;
that all of th*e dead and wound-1
ed were hit in the abdomens, in-1
dicating that close range had ]
been encountered.
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HIS TERMS: CASH —Unless he gets a boost In his re
> ported 1939 salary, $15,000, “Red” Rolfe, Yankee third baseman.
! may ring: up “No Sale" at his Penacook, N. H., filling station
l where he awaits arrival of his 1940 contract.
SEE WHAT FINNS STARTE D—From the military strategy of Finland, where white-clad
armies move like ghosts across the snowy wastes, the U. S. army borrowed a technique and used
it in maneuvers at Fort Brady, Mich. Here are two Yankee soldiers, white-costumed, pulling equip
ment on a toboggan. Skis were also used. (A.P.-Paramount News Photo.)
British Capture Two German
Merchant Ships But Lose 1380
Ton Destroyer.Daring, 157 Men
LQNjDON, Feb. 19 %/P) —Great
Britain and Germany traded
blow for blow in a furious naval
battle while the British prideful
ly counted two captured German
merchant ships as prizes in their
sea blockade. The Admiralty dis
closed that the British destroyer
Daring was torpedoed and sunk
with ia loss of 157 lives.
The two enemy powers mean
while waged a legal battle over
the fate of the German prison
ship Altmark, the British press
ing internment of the vessel in
Norway where a British destroy
er cornered her Friday, and the
Germans demanding her release.
The Daring is the sixth des
troyer lost by Britain since the
outbreak of the war. In all the
British; fleejt lost 25 vessel of
which 14 were capital ships,
destroyers or submarines. When
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or where the 1300-ton Daring
was sunk was not disclosed.
The Daring was the sistership
of the destroyer Duchess lost
earlier in the war. The Daring
carried 44 seven and one-tenth
inch guns, seven smaller ones,
and 8 21-inch torpedoe tubes.
Completed in 1932 at a cost of
about a quarter of a million dol
lars she could attain an excep
tional speed of 38 and two-tenths
knots.
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Among those lost was her mas
ter Commander S A Cooper. An
unofficial tabulation of British
naval men lost in the war is list
cd as 2271 including the Daring’s
694 missing.
Dem. Natn’l
Convention Held
Chicago July 15
MIAMI, Feb. 18 (JP)—James A.
Farley, Democratic National Com
mitteeman announced today that
the Democratic National Conven
tion would be held July 15th at
Chicago.
His announcement came foll
owing the setting by the Repub
licans of June 24th at Philadel
phia, of their national conven
tion. ,
The choosing of these two cit
ies as the sites for the opening
battles of the presidential year,
proves to be a recurrence of the
setting for the 1932 conventions.
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43min. Air Raid
HELSINKI Feb 18 (fP)—A forty
minute air raid which last until
two thirty o'clock this afternoon
ensued but Russian planes re
mained unsighted behind low
lying clouds,
Germans Ambush
French Patrol
PARIS, Feb. 19 (i*P)—A French
patrol fell into a German am
bush before dawn in a central
sector of the Western Front and
about 20 men were killed, These
casualties were the heaviest suf
fered by the French so far in any
single skirmish of the patrol war
fare.
Tiie clash marked the quicken
ing of Western Front activity as
strong German raids were repuls
ed Saturday and Sunday.
Finns Annihilate
Red 18th Division
HELSINKI, Feb. 19 (/P) —“An
nihilation” of the .Russian 18th.
Division with 18,000 Russians
killed or taken prisoner was an
nounced iby the Finnish high
command of the Soviet attacks
Sunday on the new Finnish posi
tions along the Isthmus Front,
the scene of the war’s bitterest
fighting. The Finns said they re
pulsed the Russians with losses
equal to about one battalion. 20
Russian warplanes were also shot
down they said.
YOUNG MAN ENTERS
CAGE JUNGLE-BRED LIONS
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.,
Feb 18—‘Chester Czaja aged 24,
inexplicably entered a cage con
taining six jungle bred lions on
the Clyde Beatty jungle farm but
was saved by trainer Joseph Ar
caris after the roaring beasts
bowled Czaja over and bit and
clawed him extensively as spect
ators wacthed.
The trainer entered and leap
ed among the infuriated beasts
and drove them off, rapping a
small stout stick on , ,f.eeir noses,
while another trainer dragged
|out Czaja.
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Thursday Mail
Closes Wednesday
U S Postmaster Guy E Mish
announced that the outgoing
mail for Thursday’s mail plane
for Fairbanks would be mode
Wednesday evening, inasmuch as
Thursday February 22nd is Wash
ington’s Birthday and federal,
territorial and city offices will be
closed.
The public is requested to
make their mailings by Wednes
day closing time if they wish
their mail to go out on the
Thursday mail plane.
HANDS OFF, WARNS CARO L—The greeting of one of his soldiers is accepted at (
Kishineff. Bessarabia, by King Carol (left) on the Jan. 6 occasion of his militant speech warning
Russia that Rumania “will fight as one living wall" if Russian armies try to invade Bessarabia, pro
vince that was Russian until 1918. Next to Rumanian king Is Crown Prince Michael.
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