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A Papier For The Home SUNDAY INDEPENDENT The Weather Sunday: Fair, cooler. Monday: Fair, wanner. 35TH YEAR, NO. S9—56 PAGES WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1941 PRICE TEN CENTS BRITISH CLAIM SEA VICTORY IN WEEK OF WAR WITH ITALY i Philippines Have Army of 250,000 FDR Orders Into U.S. Forces Troops Red Army Officers Reach New York City U.S. Fleet Ready For Action: Further Measures Expected ^. HgcARTHUB WAMIIL . Former Chief of Staff Chosen to Head 'U.S. Army in Far East' By T. F. BEYNOUM Hyde Park, N. Y.. July M. (UP)— President Boossvelt tonigbt lm* plementsd the United SUUs 'te*- nomic wartars" againat Japan with an order mobilising 300,000 Phillip- pine troops and incorporating tbem, with the Pblllpptns Navy. Into tba a»med forces of ths United SUtes. Apparently ready to abaadan every vestige ef Amerloa's pelley of appeasing Japan. Mi. Rooaavalt brought the United SUtes to a state o( eomplete preparedness. With economic cantacU already severed with Japan and a naw army creaud in the Philippines, the German Losses 'Great' On Moscow, Kiev Fronts IMaIn Nazi Drive In Smolensk Area Spent, Russians Say By HKNBY BHAPIBO Moscow, July M. (UP)—Counter¬ attacking Soviet forces are tsjcing a tremendous toll of Germans kill¬ ed, wounded and captured In violent battles on the Moscow and Kiev fronta, It was asserted tonight. The msin German drive toward Moscow in the Smolensk area ap' Peru and Ecuador Halt Hostilities Quaya<tuil, Ecuador, July M. (UP)—Peruvian-Ecuadorian bor¬ der hostilities were reported to have ceased at 6 p. m. today. Quito, Ecuador, July 2S. (UP) -'An ofllcial communique today said that Peruvian troops, "con¬ siderably reinforced during the past two weei{s," have initiated «._...... ... ,..,. oiuun;.... >.<:. «|>- nn attack against Macsrs, tn the . paara to be spent, according to ' Province of Lojn. The Bc'tnifor:-J. noatral observers, and the Nasi's' ians were said to be "nisintaln- ConaUnttna Oumanikl, Russian Ambassador to tha Unltad States, greeta Lieut. General Flllp Ivano- vlch Golikov, head of the Soviet miliUry mission to the United SUtea, and his aide. Col. Alexander Raspin, aa tho arrival of the Red Army oflleera at LaGuardia Field. Thay Just arrived from by plane frem Canada. second offensive of the war toward Leningrad in the north, Kiev In the Ukraine and Odessa on the Black Sea has been halted. Violent fighting was reported in the Polotsic-N'evel sector northwest of Smolensk, in the vicinity of Smolensk iUelf snd at Zhitomir, southwest of Kiev. Air Feree Active The offirlsl communique reported by the official Tass News Agency said the Germans wers "sustaining great looses as evidenced by a num¬ ber of intercepted reporU from the commanders of enemy formations and uniU" and sdded that "our air force, in co-operation with land troops, continued operations against enemy motortxed, mechanised and I infantry troops in field action." Te PanriM Britieb Mtaaiaa I Ing of orders, Inapactlen af finish-' The mioston Is not expected to | Tha communique added that 47 The task of tba naw mission,' ^ work and tha accommodation ^ •* large as Great BrlUtn's, new Gemwn planes were downed tn President was exerting all force the United Preaa reporisd laat - _^ , , ^^^^ j^ ^^^ materials r"'P'jy'"f.."*5'"* »»>¦'> !«» peraoiM, fighting Thursday. ——_^_—_^____ short of war to mainUln the aUua night, will parallel the ^^^^j;; ». t^, r.,utre««.U af RuMta's I ^1/,' ^^t'^Z^ :la'^;:!!^*\ji% ^;^J^^'^'' ''»"»«« '"at after the tanlis from both flank, wtth Ing flrmly their posillons.' The government announced to¬ day receipt of a message frem United States Acting Secretary of State .Sumner Welles, urging acceptance of an Argentine pro¬ poaal for the peaceful solution of the border dispute. (Both Ecuador snd Peru al¬ ready have replied favorably te the Argentine proposal.) IJma, Peru, July 26. (UP) — Peruvian forces in the SSaru- mtlla sector of the front have dislodged Ecuadorian troops frem the border posts of Chacras and Huaquillas, n foreign offlce com¬ munique said today. The communique, which dealt only wtth yesterday's flghtlng, said that attacks on Peruvian garrisons at Huasimo and El Sauce were repulsed. Report 12 Axis Planes Downec^^ Sub and Motor Boats Destroyed As Vital Convoy Goes Through; Italy Tells of 'Suicide Attack' By SIDNEY J. WILLIAMS London, July 26 (UP)—The British claimed toniffht a week of war in the Mediterranean, climaxed by an Iti E-boat attack today on the harbor of La ValletU, MaHB^j proved that they still controlled that vital lifeline of empiviwl The atUck on La Valletta, first of its kind in the war, k|#| neutral observers here to believe that the British had able to send a large convoj^ of reinforcements and su| to their beleaguered Maltest base, bombed 130 timea June, 1940. First Lord of the Admiralty A. V. Alexander aaid l4,| 'important convoy" had reached its destination, descrlhal;| as •*t.-*e«y-dangt.'««»-8i^4r»"i!»to«gh han 8W'waters "cli to enemy bases." It liad been assumed that the convoy was bound fotj Alexandria, but the admiralty lord's allusion to narro# I waters an(l enemy bases appeared tn refer to the Sieilimi Channel, the Italian naval base at Palermo and airdromea the Island of Sicily. The British, according to their official claims, had only sent the convoy through the Mediterranean with _ minimum of damage against three days of running attacks I by Axis air and sea unit.^, but their naval and air forces had destroyed nearl.\' a scoie of Axis planes, 12 or more Italian | E-boats and an Italian submarine. Major events of the week in the Mediterranean: 1—An important British convoy. heroes and shipmates. The A4> | for three days was under attack I mtralty day and night by Italian and Ger you, man airplanes and lUiian sub¬ marines and naval forces. The convoy got through with only ons and whole nation thank quo in the Pacific. It appeared obvious that tf Japan continues to the Dutch Baat Udlaa, tba BtralU BattlapMatSsMid Auatralta. fwUiat done by the British Mission. It will attend ta tbe plae- alliaa. caah. Kukortf Tax SHL%l9dy for Action in House President May Salaa «m.| These might inchida aaiaura af any Jspanaaa ahlpa aUll in Amer¬ ican harbora and an executive order embargoing all shipmanU ef oil to i Jspan. Japan's efferU te buy oil ' here to lubricate her war machine, > however, were rendered virtually Impossible lost night by Mr. Roose¬ velt's orders freestng her credtU In this country and thus severing com¬ mercial contact with the UnlUd By JOHN L. STKEI.R States. Waahington, July M. (UP)—The Houae Ways and Means Committee Wtth Amertcsn-Japanase relatlena > |«m before Congress today a (S,I129JOO,000 tax bill with a forecast that Ways and Means Committee Forecasti Public Will Give $5,529^00,000 Gladly; To Pay 60 Per Cent of Armament Coats more strained than ever befora, the United States fleet based at La- haina Roads off Hswall waa en the alert and ready for action. Mr. Roosevelt's order moblUsins the Philippine forces followed a plan tong age developed by army defense strategists to make the Philippines the Far Cast bastion for defense of ths New World. War American taxpayers would pay ths record-breaking levies cheerfully. House leaders arranged to bring ths measure before the House on Tuesday undsr a rule that would assure a vote within three days and would exclude any alUratiens othar than those sponsored by the i committee. If this schedule is followed the IMl Revenue Aet, which with previous money-raising methods* ' will net the government $7,607,-jl" many InsUnces. On top of 000,000. likely will be on the sUtuU | rr«^.?ii!!!«"»?.i«_'_»'«^ti)".« ^i» PilillSSAYSU.S. READHD SEIZE CAPEVERDE,DM Praises Japanese Aid to France In Indo-China Vichy, France, July M (UP)— Paris newspspera asserted today of war their armies the result. It waa claimed, that it were inUct and their cammunlea-i heavy and 11 light tanks, 12 trucks tions unimpaired. The communi-1 and seven anti-tank guns were dis- que did not mention the fighting: allied. northwest of Leningrad or go into I tn another action. Lieutenant detail about (iH^.f^galgapalnU nt Colonel Mnlakhnv led a landing whieh the Red Army was counter- party against three Islands, held attacking. It did, however, report by Finns and "White Guards." and individual actions in which Rus- !<ucceeded in orcupying them with sian cappers and Guerilla flghtprs the aid ef artillery and air force aasertedly did great damage to the support, Germans. (The location of the Islands wns Motorcycle Scouts Captured not given, but since they were de- German motorcycle soouts np- fended by Finns they might have preaching the "large village of X" been tn tlie Gulf of Finland or were trapped by sappers and cap- Lake Ladoga, north of Leningrad.) tured. It was said, making It Im-' The Defenders, according to the possible for them to warn a tank lommunlque, fled in panic, leaving column advancing on the villr.g*. behind 12 machine guns. ISA rifles, A Soviet battery opened flre on (Continued on Page A-9) "Sukide" Crew DevoMtatt Im VaU*tto, ItuUuiu CliOm merchant ahlp damaged, loM» "j the | ^ bevkoLDS PACKABO destroyer Fearless and damage to , a cruiser and anothsr deaUeyer. i ««"»«. J"»y 28; .<UP)-lUllga | The British shot down 12 lullans n»^«' ""'»» consisting of po«l« and German planss. seriously dam- »»'P«^°" operaUd by two-nH* aged four others, destroj-ed an Italian submarine and a motor tor ••suicide" fortified crews harbor l>enetrated of La Valletta,! pedo boat and damaged another I M/»i..{-^-J' •«->•«; «J* devaaUtion behind them, tha High | Command reported tonight. The raid followed a thr B-boat. Repulse iUllan Air AtAck 2 Italian planes approached s'r and naval attack on a BrItI Malta yesterday but the attack \ convoy which, the Italians said, r^ I was repulsed and five Italian i suited in destruction of 70,000 tana planes were shot down. : ot enemy merchant shipping, tha 3. Italian R-boats attacked the'?»*"'_"« »' ^j British planes and | harbor at La Valetta, Maltese capi¬ tal today, but were repulaed by roast defenses and the Royal Air i Force with a loss of at least 121 E-boats. In his broadcast Alexsnder said: the severe damaging of eneaiy { naval units. The La Valletta attack was car* | ried out with craft called "Gr hoppers" because of their abtlltv I to jump over torpedo neU. TlM# I ' are manned by crews willing tB | %Var Suuimarj "The destination of the convoy risk almost certain death, was a very dangerous spot. The The grasshoppers — giant te^ route was through narrow waters pedoes wtth seats and outboafi close to enemy bases. There were niotora attached—were towed cleia | surface ships, lurking U-boaU, tor- to the harbor by escort craft. , The democracie."! prepared Satur- lost the bulk of Its export and Im- ' that the United SUtes Intends to: j,y „ight f„r a possible military port markets. occupy the Cape Verde Islanda and showdown with Japan in the Far The Japanese, who have been Dakar, French West Africa, while ' ¦¦»t. obtaining much cf their war ma- ' -.,..., ...^ |i»a aurUxea ranging from 8 per attempting to intimidate Japan,! The United States snd the British 'crisis from the United States In Department orders, which quickly i^Mbs by the'end of August. The e,„t „„ the first dollar of Uxable which is getting bases In Indo- Empire siready were engaged In i*"* P*"' '"" .v""", described the followed Mr. Roosevelt s move, des- g,„,j. Finance Committee haa ar- Income up to 75 per cent on the ! China in a "defense move." i economic war with the nation i'J"":^'* State.-i' action as "economic ignated the Philippine force Of _the, ^ ^^ ^^_^^ h..„„.. Aue. 4. i man who makes $3,000,000. The press did not elaborate on i which American and British states- )^*j'__r^ ^»^d|iajd th^^ the accusation that ths United ^ " ' '"' "*"" '""'"''"' pedoes and deadly mines, "Attacks came and the pressed them home again and again. You (the men of the fleet) The torpedoes then drove toward enemy their targets under their owa power and, the High Command I said, scored eight hits, causing tr«« lost the destroyed Fearless but you meiidous explosions and fires. rescued a majority of the officers and crew . . . you all have been The communique did not mcn> tion the fate of the crews. Ia Into the jaws of deatii for a great theory the crews leave the tor« "t];Vt;rsurerX?;;y in7he-Far!rang«I to start bearing. Aug^ *" E»^ Cheerful Pnvme-t East ' and placed at its head Doug- Enactment will mean that effec-, «««pe«t vneerful Fayment , . . j . ^ las MacArthur who was given the tiv. 10 dsys afUr that date Ameri- Deapite these stiff levies House' States intended to occupy Cape temporary rank of Iteutenanrgsn- csns will sUrt paying almost a, fiscal leader, expect the public to Verde and Dakar, •'thou«h there aral. I bilHon dollars- more In excise Uxes MacArthur, brilliant army tech- and the next March income tax (Continued en Page A-») I bills would be doubled and tripled By JOHN FABB18 London, July 26 (UP)—Far be¬ neath London's bomb-scarred street's, in an underground studio shrouded tn semi-darkness that pay cheerfully because the burden is for defense and the flscal pro¬ gram Is to pay for about W per cent of armament coaU as they are incurred. The remaining 40 per cent would be borrowed from the public purchaaes of defense benda. Tha Ways and Mean. Committee pointed out that thU financing ».«.„ .»iii .»» t«..ik.. « u,, 1 Pl»n is in contrast to that of World will give the Germans something I ">• committee said that It haa to think about. Britain's Xolonel V Retruiting Army oi 100,000,000 to Piglit Hitler .''i!fJl1ri.:"r\'^":„,^.tr„' "'i ^ ha. be.n amy . we.k sine. tonight a man who is recruiting an army of 100,000,000 persons, "Let the word be given to thia army of oppressed to go over the top with us tn our final offensive to free the world of Hitler and hi. like," the man said In a calm voice. There were just the two of us, nnd the man behind the great oak table with a microphone on top of It was Britain's "Colonel V"—the he haa started hi. "V" campaign, the colonel pointed out. but it has been month, since the "V" sign appeared in citle. and towns now under Nazi domination . . . "and the spirit for which it stands goes inflationary Undencies, back to the day when the German. first set foot in an Invaded coun¬ try." Hs explained that the "V" sign first appeared In Belgium and sought to spread the burden equit¬ ably among taxpayers and also hss kept in mind the aocial and eco¬ nomic effecU of the higher levies. Also In the taxmakers' minds, the committes said, was tha idea of supplying a "needed restraint upon "5.U? f^^'fi*''''' . «j ^» u.Trtaetit the beginning of the J" ?-.'*, '•?• ''•'". »' 1»*'"l ,^: ywr. By early summer, he added, "1''-.7''k " ' e^lu* "»•'•»»'*• It had apread far and wide, out the hopes ef the peoples i« \ ..Of^tJtttut Atttfttntt" those countries which have been | ..j ^„ .preed," he sold, "because overrun by Hitlers legion •¦•>•". u i, , .i^n of resUUnce U the one day .the V Army wlU rise q„„,„, '^^^ ^,,„, „, , b„, up against Hitler. The V Army I. „„ ,„ ,^ .ponUneous accepUnc. not an ordinary army and H" of-| ^ ^^e people, end here is one fenstv. will be no ordinary of fen-. ^,^ ,, j ^ ^,„ ^t the im- i'^!; ^IJ.'J":,.*'" P-'ll^'P't* In our ,,|„,tlon of the people of France ! and Belgium, and the sign also is beginning to catch on with ths final offensive "Will Use Weapons" "The arms of the V Army will not necessarily be the ordinary arms of a mlltUry force. But It will Csachs, the Dutch and the JugO' slaves. All I have dons In my broadcasts is to take that symbol have weapons of Its own and it and make tt, not merely an expres- will use them "When the time comes the V lli Today't Iuu0 Classified ......7ZZ Editorial Movies , Politica Radio Ill A—!• V—i A—IS B—1 sion of resentment, but a sign of the underground army of the op¬ pressed—the V Army," The colonel said that hi. V Army was meeting with "superb success." "Let us look at the future which, I tell you, will be a glorious future," he concluded. The Interview was over. Tha colonel slipped through the shadow, down a dimly lighted rorridor--the phantom leader ef Europe's In¬ visible army. Te Spend II BlUlane Mara Tha commlttse pointed out that during conaideration of ths tax msaaure the government has In¬ creaaed ita estimates of defense outUys by tll,0(K),00O,00O, from fSr.- 000,000,000 to |W,00O,00O,0OO. Addi¬ tional levies probably will have to be made to meet this cost or dip Into borrowings deeper but Presi¬ dent Roosevelt and the committee are agreed that new imposU will not be Inflicted until nsxt year. The new tax bill assesses about $2,500,000,000 on the earnings of In¬ dividuals and corporations and take, sums from pennies to dollars from users of clgaraU and yachts. One of the features is a tS use tax had been recent official reperU that France was strengthening her Dakar defenses. In connection with the freezing of Japanese assets in the United States, the Paris Midi said: Say Tokyo Ready "The United States, as an accom¬ plice of England, tried to intimi men have denounced for "aggres- nese-American relations would de- sion" agsinst French Indo-China ?•"«« on how far the Un ted States and there were Indications that a ««nt in its attcmpU to restrict mlllUry war was not considered JaP*""* commerce. beyond the realm of pdssibility. Meanwhile, the Dutch govern- President Roosevelt ordered '"«"t «o"«ht collective security cause. You all have maintained the highest atandards of the Royal Navy and the merchant marine. We salute the brave memory of those who have fallen in battle— pedoes when they are about SOS yards or less from the target, de¬ tach the seats, which become tiny motorboats, and try to get back to their escort vessels. Philippine troops placed under the with Britain and Australia and command of the United States j^oni'd-sred what economic action to take in connection with the armed forces, American soldiers in Hawaii were placed on a "precau¬ tionary alert basis," parachute Anglo-American measures. The Dutch, like the British, were be- troops from Fort Benning Ga., were "•^•'» ">, '"' 'jr?.' J»P"n"« ocju- ....hii.i,.M .. .h. P.n..v,. f>.„.i Pat'on of Indo-China, f-'.hwart the Flying Fortress Bombs Naval Base at Emden date Japan by threaUning her wtth I "'i^'i!!!!!! ¦l,''l?,„^.'""'"w.^.*".t'' P««:i»c routes to the' "ast Indi sn embsrgo. Tokyo Is ready and ""f, ¦*"""» °' »''P'»"" Australasia, the Philippines a any attempt to parallel Japaneae' "»?'• to Manila and Singapore, action in the Far East will provoke' •'"P"" '"•P"*'' '" '«'"'' '» '*>« India, was sessions. and threat to their pos- de- swift and decisive reUllation. j mocracies' freesing of Japanese , .assets and the Japanese Domci «-¦"¦«•» "ei«e» snip While the newspapers reporUd , n.w, Agencv hinted that Thailnnd, Meanwhile, (Janada became the that Frsnee and Japan had taken j fPrench Indo - China's neighbor, ''"t nation of the British Corn- action to pool their military | mlglit be the next nation to be nionwealth to nrt against Japanese strength lo defend French Indo- \ drawn Into the Far Elastern crisis, shipping as well as freezing assets. China, Marshal Henri Philippe [ Oerman* Appai«ntly SUIIed ^^ Vancouver a Japanese vcssrl , Petain hastened to the capital from I The Far Eastern situstion over- •o'»<**<' ^*''th hcniloclt was impound- a vacation to hear Vice Premier shadowed the Russo-German War «<* " " ^as about ready to sail. Admiral Jean *^''ancois Darlan ex- | which, at the end of Its fifth week. United Stales army authorities plain the details of the Japaneae- f„und the Germans apparently i" Manila estimated that President French negotiations to the cabinet, stalled for the second time in their Roo.ievclfs order would add about Praise Japaneae Aid drive on Leningrad, Moscow, Kiev 200,000 Filipino troops to the forces The offlcial French news agency and Odessa. guarding the Philippines. In Wash- published an inspired note lauding While the Russlsns counter-at- ington, however, the number of the government for obulning tacked the Germans in the east, the Filipino effectives \vnx believed to Japan's participation in the defense. Royal Air Force, aided by Amer- be no more than 75,000. of Indo-China. The note sought lean-made flying fortresses, con- The United Slates In recent to differentiate between the situs- tlnued Its bombing offensive months has sent many long range tions in Syria and Indo-China. agsinst the Third Reich in the bombers to both the Philippines "In Indo-Chlna," ^he note said, west. A flying fortress bombed the and Singapore. The British were "the situstion Is different than In German naval base of Emden, fol- said to have 60,000 .seasoned Aus- Syria, where we saved our honor lowing up RAF night attacks In ti«lian. British and British-Indian snd retained the rights accum- ' which four-motored .Stirling, drop- troops in Briti.sli Malaya phis about ulated in nine centuries of Influ- P*** "'he heaviest bombs in B0,000 Malayans, ence. In pretending to defend Britain's armory" on the center of Naaia Contradict Selves Indo-China we would have lost face Berlin last night and pounded Both London and Moscow i lainied in the first place and then would heavily at Hamburg and Hanover, the German drives had been halt- have lost sovereignty over a region ' The British claimed to have In- ed. The Soviet communique claimed .--,-,«.. ..» of 800 square kilometers and 20,- ! flicted new losses on Italy In week- that great losses in dead, wounded Imposed annually en motorists ! 000,000 souls. Japan has no pre- j '"nK fighting tn the Mediterranean nnd captured were inflicted on the Here are ths estimated returns i tent'on to take Indo-China from elimaxed Saturday by a daring Germans by counter-attackinK Ked from the principal aources- i us or even dispute our sovereignty. It«li"n toroedo raid on the fortified forces. Furious flKhtinc was ic-- , ., „ , The Japsnese come as friends for harbor of La Valletta. Malta. i ported in the Polotsk-Ncvel and inaivMuai Ineemee $MS2.0«0,Me ,| common defense." 1 It was in the Far East, however, Smolensk sectors of the Moscow LarporaUen Ineamae... 13tl,B0O,O0O] that the democracies sopeared to front and In the Zhitomir sector Estates aad Olfto 151«MI,000 xWO MEN OVBRCX>ME i be striking their most telling blows, of the Kiev front. ¦^'"•^ •08,«0,«00 BY CITY'S HEAT I The full economic power of the ^^om France .amo charges by T.,.. „„ .n.ii„M.;.i 1 ! '^'' •'•'•'¦'^ """• overcome by British Empir.!, covering a quarter the Paris press that the United .«if-™™„....Hi^"ri '"*''?".'" '"heat yesterday afternoon, were of the globe, along with that of the suies intended to seize the Cape to be computed on the jelnt earn-I taken to their homes by Officer.; United States, was directed against ; verde Islands and Dal<ai. p .d rr- L".f.l.°...^"'.lr*'''*'.,l*!'''^i^"'''" ¦"•*""«*'"¦ I th. Japanese. ^a heard in Vichy were that ««^!2>A /- ! T." additional! They were Edward MacDonald,! The joint action in freesing Jap- Pierre Laval, ousted last y 9300,000,000, ———» . ! - are Planes Built in U.S. Follow Berlin Raid With New Attacks I planes attacked German alrdremM I In Northern France. Returning to the attack todayi 1 I fighter planes carried out offensiva { j patrols over the French eo I shooting down one enemy fighter I and raking a patrol vessel <rff Boulogne with cannon and machias By EDWABU W. BEATTIE JB. London, July 26. (UPl—Afour motored American-built Flying gun fire. No British planes wer* Fortress bombed the great German lo.st, naval base of Emden today as thi Nine British bombers wers lott Royal Air Force followed up last \,i \n»i nights raids. The atUeIg night's widespread raids in whi',h on Berlin was the 47th of the war. the heart of Berlin was hit with The Air Ministry said that in th* the heaviest high explosive bombs Berlin raid "huge flashes" of tmt in Britain's nrmory. ploding bomba were observed "right It was the second time in three in tJic center of the city." dny.s that Kiying '''9'-tre..ses^cH|mble f. ^ „ ^,„„ ^j of extremely "txuratc bombing at ^^ anti-aircraft gunn.rs S'nXh^ !««;.ks bv the BrUis r ^^•'""''''« '"eir fire in o^ effort ti Th^''''frrstC.ight^aid'^n^wmch '^^^l' '!l\^,^!^l^ 'T'X'.Z'S: the American plane, with their °^" '^'^ "^Mntl Lm^„ ^ tS huge bomb rapacity participated " our h„mt^ hl.fn .« f^lt " waa the attank on Brest Thursday "N°^',J'°'",^..''"?^h .h.t aH,li« during which the 26,0O0.tPn Ger- . '^ ''"^ understood that StirhnB V .,1 .1, „ j-„-i.i„.„ ..... r. hombers were used in the BerltS man battleship (.neisensu was re- „,,.„, „.i,,, v. ,.,.. ,,,. ,,„, __ .iTrT . A UI. ...uu I......,, o-n,nr attacK, which was the first on that l>orted hit with neavv, armor- -. , . .l ,,..«« ^ LJ-.i,, K...„w. capital since the night of Juns Ik •"The"'at!'aT.:''on Emden, ..5th of ^hey flew a total of 1,200 mils* They were Edward MacDonald,! The joint action in rreesing Jap- pienc Laval, ousted la.n year by ,000,000. corporation earnings 70 colored, of Jit Wright street, city,! anese assets and repudiation of chief of Stale Henri Philippe aubjected to a 10 per cent rise ^nd William Roach, 75, of 33 East Japanese commercial treaties by Pelain might return to the French (Contlnusd on Psgs A-9) Market street. the British—meant that Japan had cabinet. A the war, was carried out on recoil' n.Ti.s.anro and the Flvin;; Fortress leturned to base safely, the Air Ministry said. It was believed, al- tliouKh the communique did not say so, that the American bombers were beinfc increasingly used In i,i!;ht as well as day raids. I'1y Higher Than (iernwna Flying Foilrei.sci i,;" especially , 1 rizcd by the British, however, for their usefulness in daylight raids. Equipped with supercharger."!, they can fly al Kieater nltitudcs than many German fighters. Ill addition n ine Ktiacl; on Ber¬ lin, carried oul by "a small force ¦ of four-engined bombers," the RAF I smashed heavily at Hamburg and > Hanover lasl night while fighter The lengthening nights were pected to give the RAF opporttt* | nilies for more and more roida ¦ Berlin henceforth. Meanwhile the Luftwaffe wg relatively inactive in the west. A\ communique said only a fsw Ger>| man planes appeared over Great j Britain last night. They droppafll some bombs in East England buLI il was aaid, did little damage t»i\ caused no casualties. Diapatchea from Euro¬ pean countrie* are now aubject to cenaoraUp, k
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Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Month | 07 |
Day | 27 |
Year | 1941 |
Description
Title | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Masthead | Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent |
Subject |
Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) - Newspapers Luzerne County (Pa.) - Newspapers |
Description | An archive of the Wilkes-Barre Sunday Independent newspaper. |
Creator | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Publisher | Wilkes-Barre Independent Company |
Place of Publication | Wilkes-Barre (Pa.) |
Date | 1941-07-27 |
Date Digital | 2009-08-28 |
Location Covered | Pennsylvania - Luzerne County |
Type | Text |
Original Format | Newspapers |
Digital Format | image/tiff |
Digital Specifications | Image was scanned by OCLC at the Preservation Service Center in Bethlehem, PA. Archival Image is an 8-bit greyscale tiff that was scanned from film at 300 dpi. The original file size was 30656 kilobytes. |
Source | Microfilm |
Language | English |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/ |
Contact | For more information, please contact the Osterhout Free Library, Attn: Information Services, 71 S. Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701. Phone: (570) 823-0156. |
Contributing Institution | Osterhout Free Library |
Sponsorship | This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER LIBRARY: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. |
Full Text |
A Papier For The Home
SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Sunday: Fair, cooler. Monday: Fair, wanner.
35TH YEAR, NO. S9—56 PAGES
WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JULY 27, 1941
PRICE TEN CENTS
BRITISH CLAIM SEA VICTORY IN WEEK OF WAR WITH ITALY
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Philippines Have Army of 250,000
FDR Orders Into U.S. Forces
Troops
Red Army Officers Reach New York City
U.S. Fleet Ready For Action: Further Measures Expected
^. HgcARTHUB WAMIIL .
Former Chief of Staff Chosen to Head 'U.S. Army in Far East'
By T. F. BEYNOUM
Hyde Park, N. Y.. July M. (UP)— President Boossvelt tonigbt lm* plementsd the United SUUs 'te*- nomic wartars" againat Japan with an order mobilising 300,000 Phillip- pine troops and incorporating tbem, with the Pblllpptns Navy. Into tba a»med forces of ths United SUtes.
Apparently ready to abaadan every vestige ef Amerloa's pelley of appeasing Japan. Mi. Rooaavalt brought the United SUtes to a state o( eomplete preparedness.
With economic cantacU already severed with Japan and a naw army creaud in the Philippines, the
German Losses 'Great' On Moscow, Kiev Fronts
IMaIn Nazi Drive In Smolensk Area Spent, Russians Say
By HKNBY BHAPIBO
Moscow, July M. (UP)—Counter¬ attacking Soviet forces are tsjcing a tremendous toll of Germans kill¬ ed, wounded and captured In violent battles on the Moscow and Kiev fronta, It was asserted tonight.
The msin German drive toward Moscow in the Smolensk area ap'
Peru and Ecuador Halt Hostilities
Quaya |
Sequence | 1 |
Page | 1 |
FileName | 19410727_001.tif |
Month | 07 |
Day | 27 |
Year | 1941 |
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