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VOL. XLVII. nVT 5 4. NOME, ALASKA, FRIDAY, MAY 4, 194 5 __
Allies Capture
Port In Burma
CALCUTTA, May 4 — (JP) — A
decisive defeat to the Jap forces
in Burma was climaxed by the
capture of its capital Rangoon,
with its big port intact was an
nuonced by the Southeast Asia
• Command.
Rangoon was found abandoned
by the enemy but the amphibious
> force which landed just below the
city to paritcipate in its capture^
went through the operation as a
practice for bigger things to come;
perhaps the attack on Singapore.
The communique said 97,000
Japs had been slain in the Burma
campaign in the last fifteen
months.
Germans Hasten
To Surrender To
Yanks and British
i LONDON, May 4—(/P)—Ger
man soldiers by the thousands are
surrendering to American and
British forces in a panicky effort
to avoid falling into the hands of
... the Rusians and are creating a
3 serious problem for Allied au
y* it
ithorities charged with keeping
them caged and fed.
Front line dispacthes said Gor
man officers and men were vir
tually racing each other to what 1
they evidently consider the safety
I of the American lines. London pa
pers declared that British and
American armies already have
taken so many German prisoners
that Britain’s facilities for feeding
and housing them has become in
adequate.
iAn Associated Press correspon
dent, Wes Gallagher, reported
from the Ninth Army front on the
Elbe river the Germans are
swarming across the stream, pad- ,
dling makeshift rafts, or even j
swimming in order to surrender.
The Daily Express said more than
three million Germans have been j
* taken prisoner since D Day.
i Under the original agreement
Britain must look after half of
them, regardless of whether they
k were captured by British or
1 American troops. The paper said
the British government had asked
FAR EASTERN THEATER — Map of eastern Asia and the North Pacific shows where
Russia, which has denounced its neutrality pact with Japan, faces its historic Nipponese enemy.!-'
Chinese Start
Counter Offensive
In Hunan Province
CHUNGKING, May 4—(i«P>—
Chinese have started a general
counter-offensive in Hunan prov
ince in an attempt to save the
American air base at Chihkiang.
two hundred fifty miles southeast
of Chungking an army spokesman
said.
He declared the Chinese al
ready had brought the Jap drive
toward Chihkiang to a complete '
standstill after annihilating 3 000
.
of the enemy.
Chinese forces engaged in the
counteroffensive were reinforced
by airborne American equipped
troops he added.
.
The first zoological garden was
established in China about 1100
B.C.
•
the captured Germans because all j
British prison camps are full and !
the food problem is bad.
us to take a larger proportion of I
National League
St. Louis 1, F’ittsburgh 11. Chi
cago-Cincinnati game postponed.
American League
Cleveland 2, St. Louis 1.
Pacific Coa^t League
Seattle 2.4, Oakland 8, 1. Port
ia d 7, Hollywood 2. Los Angeles
4, San Diego 5. San Francisco 2,
Sacramento 3.
THURSDAY GAMES
National and American Leagues
Ail games postponed.
Pacific Coast League
Seattle 10, Oakland 3. Portland
3, Hollywood 1, second game. San
Francisco 8. Sacramento 3. Los
Angeles 4, San Diego 2.
ODDFELLOWS ATTENTION
The I.O.O.F. Nome Lodge A-5,
will meet Friday evening at 8:00
o'clock at the home of Brother
Boucher.
53-2t Robert Boldwin, Sec. I
'Navy Reports
5,055 Casualties
On Okinawa
GUAM, May 4—</P)—American
naval casualties of 5,055, includ
ing 1,131 killed were reported to
day by Adm. Chester W. Nimitz
for the Okinawa campaign, as
ground fighting reached another
vicious deadlock.
Two “light units” of the Pacific
fleet off strategic Ryukyu island
were sunk in an attack last night
by four flights of enemy war
planes the communique announc-:
ed. Casualty breakdown showed
2,816 wounded. 1,604 missing.
Japanese ground casualties
alone exceed twenty-one thou
sand..
The fight on southern Okinawa
raged with full fury yesterday as
Gen. Simon Buckner Jr’s. Tenth
Army hurled itself against tough
Japanese defenses. Only the First
Marine Division of * Maj. Gen. ,
Pedro A. Del Valle reported lim
ited gains. Elsewhere the Yanks j
held.
Sii perforin Hiti s 4
Bombs < h\ Jap
!lome Airtields
GUAM. May 4—UP)—Fifty to
one hundred Superfortresses made
the fourteenth neutralizing attack
in thirty-eight days on Japanese
homeland airfields from which
the enemy could stage raids on
American forces in Ryukyus. The
demolition bombing, made in day
light with visibility good for the
eighth time in eleven days on
Kyushu airfields also included
Matsuyama airfield and hit for
the first time on Shikoku island.
Airmen reported results good,
on all targets in Kyushu. Objec
tives were Amura west of Oita
prefecture of Seaki on the east
ern shore.
V
(lonferenre Nears
A rw
Agreement i
Dumbarton Oal
SAN FRANCISCO, May 4—(/PI
—The Big Four are reported as
near an agreement on major
changes in the Dumbarton Oaks
plan of world organization de
signed to keep peace. This accord
is regarded by the officials of the
forty-six nation conference here
as a long step toward preventing
deadlocks, even after Molotov sets
out for Moscow as he is now ex
pected to do next week.
Secretary of State Stettinius
told friends he is extremely well
pleased with the progress made
thus far in his talks about amend
ing t lie Dumbarton Oaks charter
with Molotov’, Eden, S<>ong there
was no veidence that the big four
intend to favor any amendments
to alter the basic Dumbarton
Oaks idea of concentrating in the
security council the authority to
use armed forces to smack down
any trouble-making nations, but
there was signs that the council
may be permitted to recognize re
gional defense pacts which auto
matically would produce help for
an attacked naiton while the
council was going through the
process of deciding on long range
measures.
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