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VOL. 46.—No. 101._NOME, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 30. 1944_PER COPY—Lie.
MOLUCCAS
HARD HIT
GENERAL HEADQUARTERS IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC,
Aug. 30. —(AP>—Today, a record
heavy raid was made on the Mol
luccas islands,reported in General
MaeArthur’s communique.
The raiders hit Ambon, on Am.
l3#ma, just west of Dutch New
Guinea, and left the barracks and
harbor installations a mass of
flames and set a 3000 ton ship
ai ire.
The raiders encountered no op
position and returned safely.
Elsewhere on the Mollucca chain
patrol bombers hit oil installations
on Boela. and Ceram, and attacked
Kaoe. a village on Halmahera.
Night air patrols also fired
D'lpao, the capital of Mindanao in
the southern Philippines.
Communiques also reported for
the second time, enemy planes raid,
ed the newly comple'ed allied air
field on Middjeburg island, off
Dutch New Guinea.
One of fhe three medium bomb.1
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ers was downed by ack-ack fire.
Minor damage to the airfield
acknowledged.
Official communiques issued
from the cenral and southwest
Pacific have reported 167 enemy
vessels, ranging from barges to
i
cargo-carders and cruisers, were
sunk, and 192 othes were damaged
this mouth.
During the same period submar.
sunk, and 192 others were damaged
14 combat vessels.
b’ritisii bomb
BALTIC PORTS
LONDON, Aug. 30.—<AP)—Sup
porting the Russian armies in the
North, one of the greatest masses
of British heavy bombers ever
dispatched, bombed the Baltic
ports of Konigsberg and Stettin
last night, while Mosquito bomb
er fighters stabbed at Berlin and
Hamburg
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Today 500 escorted U. S. heav
ieg attacked the robot-bomb sites
in I'^rthern France.
The U. S. armada flew through
rain-clouds to make tine attacks,
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SUPPLIES FOR FRENCH FICH T—U. S. landing craft, beached on a Normandy shore,
unload soldiers and supplies to be thrown into the battle raging in France.
unloading approximately 1500 tons
of high explosives and xncendiar_
ies, making the attack in front of
the allied armies flanking the Pas
de Calais area near the English
Channel.
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RUSSIA APPEALS
TO BULGARIA
V"
MOSCOW, Aug. 30. —(AP)—Beat
en German troops fled from their
last Black Sea stronghold, as Rus
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sia, with its Red Army within 29
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miles of the Bulgarian border,
appealed to Bulgaria for support
in the quick liberation of the Bal_
kan states.
The capture of Constanta, Rom
atnia’s largest, port, will be fol_
lowed within a few hours by the
complete mop-up of scattered Ger
man forces in the Bucharest and
Ploesti zones by Soviet armored
columns, which were last reported
37 miles to the northeast.
The rout in the Wallachia Pro
vince was so disorderly that road
and rail bridges escaped demol
ition. Little or no sabotage was
reported in the Ploesti oil fields.
The German communique said
Russian attacks were checked at
Buzua, northeast of Ploesti.
Soviet troops are now invading
Transylvania, which has been a
part of Hungary since 1940.
• With Hungary in the hands of
the new government, German gen-j
erals are hastily inceasing their
garrison in that “rump ’ state of,
t
Slovania
Large withdrawals of Gerhan
troops from Greece was repor'ed,
as Nazis were seen maching north
along the Bulgar outposts of Mac_
edonia. !
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ROOSEVELT
WILL SPEAK
TO TEAMSTERS
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WASHINGTON, D C. Aug. 30, —
(APt—President Roosevelt said he !
would make his first political cam- i
paign speech in Washington on I
the evening of September 23rd, i
before a group which will be or
ganized by Daniel Tobin, presid
ent of the Intenational Brotherhood!
of Teamsters.
ODD FELLOWS ATTENTION
....The Independent Order or Odd
Fellow's Lodge No. A-5, will meet
Friday evening a 8:00 PM., a* the
home of Brother S. David Mazciu
Transportation will leave the
Federal Building at 7:50 PM.
MOSCOW SAYS
TURKEY IS
SPIES MECCA
MOSCOW. Aug. 30—>AP>—The
semi-official newspaper, Pravda,
accused Turkey of harbor ng Ger
man spies and turnin'.' hw diplo
matic break with the Nazis into
“a friendly run'lire", while Rus
sian troops are closer ‘o the Par_
spread oxer two columns. gave
World War I.
Pravda asserted 1''!P German
!1'°loma'ic and mil’Tmy “Aoia
tion” and commerced attaches
were still in Ankara. 20 days after
their scheduled departure.
The reticle carried 'h° dateline
of Batumi, the neam-t Russian
Black Sea iHnd t> Turkey. a tut the
speari over two columns, gave such
significance as could hatdlv t>e
over-emphasized.
At die same time the FCC re
ported a Moscow dispatch, anneal
ing to Spaniards to oust ‘he Fran
co regime, and “break with 'he
Germans, to gain a place for Spain
among the democratic and free
dom-loving nations.”
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