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VOL. 43. No. 64. NOME, ALASKA, ’ FRIDAY, AUG. 1, 1941. P« Copy is*
London Reports Invasion Stalled
Japan Apologizes For Bombing Of USS Tutuila
Britain Sees Peril In Jap Demands On Thailand
A new German offensive is under way in Russia, it was reported in
IXMtxH n, aimed at Moscow, Lcfaingrad, and Kiev, Rushans pre
viously indicated Germans were stopped cold, and German reports
had conceded a standstill at some places. Map shows main sectors1
to date on the battlefijomt and principal Russian rail lnes: (1) where
a drive at Leningrad was centered: (2) area of a Moscow pu,4h:
(3) where a drive was aimed at Kiev (4) the Bessarabian frtmt.
Reports Indicate Soviet Defenses
of Leningrad Crumbling-Russians
Burning Forests, Fields In North
UNDATED. July 31 W) — Ger
man troops, smashing toward
Leningrad were reported to have,
destroyed at least seven Red j
Army divisions of about 103.000
men on the northeast front. Nazi
dispatches said the Russian I
troops were annihilated after the
completion of a 'German encircle
ment movement. Thousands of
prisoners were reported taken
in earlier advances which al
ready indicated that the Soviet
defenses were crumbling before
Leningrad. German columns are
striking from the south and Fin
nish trops are moving down the(
Karilian Peninsula from thei
north, in a gigantic squeeze man-j
euver.
A Red Army bulletin, report-,
ing bitter fighting all along the
battlefront gave no hint that the
fall of Leningrad might be im
minent.
North of the city of 3,COO,000
population, lying on the Gulf of
Finland, the Germans said that
Russian troops were spraying for
ests and fields with naptha, set
ting them afire, and employing
artillery barrages in a desperate
attempt to stem the advance.
Whether the Russians will put
Leningrad itself under the torch,
i in execution of Stalin’s ‘scorched
earth” pclicy, remained to be
jseen.
A Hitler’s headquarters com
munique on the Leningrad thrust
■ declared “in its fighting evonia
J throw back the opponent north”
: on the centra! front drive on Mos,
cow.
The Nazi communique asserted j
a steep trap around the Red Arm
ies east of Smolensk was “fur-j
ther tightened.” In the south it |
was said the Germans, knifing
deep “defeated the Rusians” re:
treating into the Ukraine.
Simultaneously, the Germans;
branded as a dismal failure the
first point of the British-Russian,
military action, an aerial assault
yesterday on the Nazi-occupied (
port in northern Norway. The
Germans said the British lost 28
planes launched from a carrier'
in the Arctic Ocean.
In London, the Admiralty re
ported that British naval aircraft
violently attacked the northern
port of Kirkes, Norway, and the
Finnish port of Petsamo, hitting
at least four ships and inflicting
great damage on jetties and other
port facilities. The British ack
nowledged that 16 planes were
lost.
Invasion Annies Pictured Stalled
Along 2,000-Mile Front-Hopkins
Exp resses Confidence Hitler Lose
i
UNDATED. Aug. 1 (fl>) — Hit
ler’s invasion armies were picturj
ed by London reports as stalled
along the whole 2.000-mile So
vie war front and for the past 24
hours, near exhaustion.
In Moscow, Harry Hopkins ex
pressed “even more confidence
that Hitler is going to lose.”
The Germans asserted that
Nazi columns lunging at Moscow
wiped out the Red Army troops
trapped south of Smolensk, cap
turing 35.000 prisoners and 245
cannon. Nazi dispatches claimed
that tens of thousands of Rus
sians were killed in action yester
day.
From Hitler’s headquarters
came another communique of ex
treme brevity that “Battles on |
the East front continue to devel
op in our favor. Warplanes laist
night bombarded military object
ives in Moscow.”
DNB declared that Nazi troops
on the far southern front forced
passage across the Dnester Riv
er near the Bessarabian town of
Ceiaea Alba, threatening Russia’s
great Black Sea port of Odessa,
30 mi es away. DNB asserted that
German artillery fire halted
troop trains attempting to with
draw Soviet forces from the
southern front.
Moscow dispatches said that
Soviet troops are taking the init
iative at some points in the vast
battleline. A Red Army bulletin
reported fierce overnight fighting
in the Smolensk and other sec
tors.
Lend-Lease Billl
Does Not Apply
I To The Soviets
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 {JP) —
President Roosevelt asserted that
Russia’s resistance of the Axis
war machine is “magnifiscent and
frankly better than any military
expert of Germay thought it
would be.” This was his reply
at a press conference where he
authorized direct quotes on an in
quiry into what he thought of
the Russian resistance. Today
the President said the Russians
didn’t come under the terms of
the lease-lend bill and he saw no
prospect that she would. The rea
son, he said, was that Russia is
able to pay for purchases in this
country of war equipment. The
President didn’t have anything to
say on conditions in the Far
East or shipments of oil to Jap
an.
U. S. To Buy
War Materials
From Canada
WASHINGTON, July 31 <jP) — j
The joint Canadian-U. S. econom
ic and defense board is working
on plans for the United States
to switch from buying a yearly
total of two hundred million dol
lars in Canadian gold, that it
doesn’t need, and begin talcing in
its place, strategic base material
for vital defense preparations.
The United States already has
some 22 billion 700 million dol
lars in gold, about 80 percent of
the world’s supply.
Authoritative sources disclosed
that the Canadian-U. S. board
members reached an agreement
calling for greatly increased Am
erican purchases in Canada of
aluminum, asbestos, antimony,
bauxite, copper, nickel', sulphur,
zinc, dhrome, brass, cobalt, co
balt, magnesium, manganese,
mica, stainless steel, titanium,
and selenium.
Alaska Legisla
ture Bill Is
Introduced
WASHINGTON. Aug. 1 (JP) —
Chairman Green of the House
Committee on Territories intro
duced a bill increasing the Sen
i ate membership of the Alaska
Legislature from 8 to 16 mem
bers, four from each of Alaska’s
legislative districts; and a House
increase of 16 to 24, the members
to be elected on a population
basis.
RAF In Burma
Undergoes
Strengthening
LONDON. Aug. 1 (/P)—The AirJ
Ministry said the Royal Air
Force in Burma was strengthen
ed by the construction of air
dromes “for both offensive and
defensive actions.”
Meanwhile, dispatches from
Shainghai said that Chinese Com
munists and Russian officers
have already held staff confer
ences to plan a joint military ac
tion in the event that Japan
strikes at Siberia.
Shanghai reports said Japan is
still pouring war supplies into
Manchukuo which border on Si
beria. 14,000 troops moved there
recently.
Dutch Might
Destroy Oil
WASHINGTON —Dr. Alexan
der Loudon, Dutch Minister to
the United States, said that “in
case of an extreme emergency”
the oil wells and refineries in the
Dutch East Indies will be effect
ively destroyed by the Dutch so
as to prevent Japan from secur
ing fuel for navy ships or other
purposes.
Japan Demands Bases, Concessions
From Thailand-Takes Initiative
Apologizes to U.S. For Bombing
UNDATED, Aug. 1 </P) — Jap-j
an’s high pressure march to the
south took another big stride in re
ported demands on Thailand for
military bases and control of that
country’s rubber, rice and tin pro
duction, authoritative quarters
said. The London source of this
report said Japan in exchange,
offered to restore the province of
Laos and the ancient city of An
gkor, both in Japanese-dominat
ed French Indo-China.
British concern was pointed by
the fact that the Japanese occupa
tion of bases in Thailand put
them within 400 miles of striking
distance of Britain’s fortress of
Singapore, and would poise a dir
ect threat to British-ruled Bur
ma, and even India which lies
across the Bay of Bengal.
Japan Apologizes
For Bombing
Of Tntuila
TOKYO. July 31 f/P) — The
Japanese government took the in
itiative and quickly apologized
and expressed regret to Ambassa
dor Grew for the bombing of the
United States gunboat Tutuila at
Chungking. The Japanese initia
tive occurred before Grew was
ab’e to act on the Washington in
struction to make representations
against the bombing. Meanwhile,
the navy minister and chief aide
visited the American naval at
tache, Commander Heri Smith
Hutton and expressed his regrets.
Hopkins May Go
To China
From Russia
LONDON, July 31 (/P) — Harry
Hopkins, now in Miscow discus
sing United States help to Rus
sia, will reutrn to the United
States by some other route than
London, itw as reliably reported,
indicating that he might travel j
to the Far East. There has beenj
some speculation that he might,
visit China. He has pledged both
the Chungking and Moscow gov
ernment all possible and immed
iate aid.
POLA NEGRI BACK IN U. S.
NEW YORK — Pola Negri is
back again in the United States
with Uncle Sam’s blessings and
, will be a permanent resident.
When the noted actress arrived
she was taken to Ellis Island be
cause here permit to enter thej
country had expired. She was;
granted an immediate hearing;
and explaining that she did not!
know her permit required an an-j
nual renewal. Immigration of- i
facials ruled in her favor and she:
is back in the U. S. to remain.
Committee Split About
Selectee Retention Bill
WASHINGTON, July 29— The
House Military Affay-s Commit
tee failed to agree today on legis
lation designed to retain draftees
and National Guardsmen in ser
vice for longer than one year.
Representative Dewey Short,
of Missouri, said seven Repub
lican members of the committee j
favored “a simple resolution to |
authorize keeping Guardsmen in
service.” He expressed the opin
ion the President already has
power if he wishes to exercise
it, to retain draftees.
Another Italian cruiser has
been sunk. The British seem de
termined to treat Mussolini just
as though he were in the war.
Wallace Heads New Office
WASHINGTON. July 3U iWP) —
A board to guide over activities
of federal economic agencies,
was created by the President and
Vice-President Wallace was
made the head. He also name^as
members the secretaries of State,
Treasury, War, Navy, Agricul
ture, Commerce, and the Attor
ney General.
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Marshal Semeon Iimoshenko
(top) and Marshal Semeon Bud
yenney (bottom) were named by
the Russian State Defense Com
mittee to command in the west
and southwest respectively, in a
move Organizing three defense
commands, according to a Mos
cow radio announcement.