Russian Drive
Threatens Million
And Half Japs
LONDON, Aug. 13—-</P)—Tokyo
reported that the vast new Soviet
offensive in Manchuria threatened
to cut off possibly a half million
Jap troops in China and to split
an estimated million and half en
emy forces on the Asiatic main
land into two massive pockets.
There was no immediate Soviet
confirmation of the Tokyo report
which originated at the command
headquarters of the Jap Kwan
tung army in Manchuria. The Sov
iet communique, fourth of the
Soviet-Jap war told of Soviet
gains of nine to twenty-two miles
toward the central Manchurian
arsenal city of Harbin.
The Soviet bulletin also an
nounced that Russian Marines
were invading Korea under the
guns of the Soviet Pacific fleet,
and had seized the vital ports of
Rashin and Yuki in the Sea of
Japan. After Admiral Ivan Yuma
shev’s ship bombarded the bases
Red Army planes cascaded tons
of explosives on the wharves and
harbors in a three-day aerial
pounding.
Tokyo radio, heard by FCC, re
ported sea borne Soviet troops
had begun landings on the south
ern part of the disputed island of
Sakhalin. Tokyo previously had
reported invasion of the territory
known to the Japs as Karafuto.
The Domei dispatch said landings
were under way at Anbetsu and
Esutoru, the latter about sixty
miles south of the border on the
west coast. Anbetsu is just across
the Soviet Jap border.
A Domei dispatch, recorded by
FCC, said the Russians had also
penetrated twenty miles into the
Jap half of the island in their land
invasion from the border and had
Fleet And PI aces j
Blast Yokohama
Docks, Sub Pens
GUAM, Aug. 13—(JP)—Admiral
Halsey’s powerful Third Fleet,
guarded against possible banzai at
tack by the Jap airforce, as his
carrier planes blasted Yokohama
docks and sub pens, after being
turned back by heavy weather
from the Tokyo area.
{!■P) war correspondnet Richard
O’Malley, with the fleet reported
six enemy planes, attempting
sneak attacks were shot down by
carrier planes. A Tokyo broadcast
recorded by FCC, admitted “some
damage” was caused by eight
hundred carrier based planes at
tacking the Kanto district in east
central Honshu.
The attack, Japs said, lasted
twelve hours and seventeen planes
were shot down and twenty-five
damaged.
The possibility of a Jap aerial
assault against the fleet was
voiced by some officers. O’Malley
said because of the persistent at
tempts of reconnaissance planes
to locate the American force
which had been turned back by
heavy weather around Tokyo.
Carrier planes picked targets
of opportunity. Yokohama docks
and submarines in pens at Shi
moda to the south along Sagami
Bay were hit hard.
reached the village of Keton Ras
hin, a great Jap naval base, just
thirty-five miles from Russia’s
naval anchorage at Poset, south of
Vladivostok.
It is the best enemy port in
Korea. From Rashin and Yuki, ten
miles farther to the northeast the
Japs shipped a vast amount of
war production from Manchuria’s
industries to the homeland.
per month
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MONDAY and TUESDAY
“REUNION IN FRANCE”
JOAN CRAWFORD,
JOHN WAYNE.
PHILIP DORN
And "ROMANTIC NEVADA"
1 Show, Aug. 15 and 16, 7:30 P.M.
WEDNESDAY and THURSDAY
“POSTMAN
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RICHARD TRAVIS.
BRENDA JOYCE
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“HANDS ACROSS
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BILL ELLIOTT, MARY DALY
DUB TAYLOR
"PACIFIC FRONTIERS"
And "BONE TROUBLE"
1 Show, Aug. 18, 7:30 P.M.
SATURDAY
“SOMEWHERE I LL
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CLARK GABLE, LANA TURNER
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2 Shows, Aug. 19, 7:15 & 9 P.M.
SUNDAY
“A VARSITY SHOW”
FRED WARING, DICK POWELL
PRISCILLA LANE
And "WINTER PARADISE"
DR. H. FOSTER BAIN
VISITOR IN NOME
Dr. H. Foster Bain, who is
studying mining and economic
conditions in Alaska, arrived via
the P.A.A. last Friday evening.
Dr. Bain is a consulting mining
engineer and has worked in many
parts of the world in that capacity
for large mining companies. He
has been the director of the U. S.
Bureau of Mines in the Philippines
since 1937, and is at present ad
visor to the Philippine govern
ment on mining problems. Dr.
Bain was in Manila on Pearl Har
bor Day, and was imprisoned in
Santa Tomas for two years. This
is his first trip to Nome although
he has visited other parts of the!
Territory many times, his last trip i
being in 1922. Accompanying Dr. j
Bain is Robert Sanford, Chief of
the Alaska Division of the Bureau
of Mines. Dr. Bain and Mr. San
ford called on Mr. Art Hartford,
manager of the U. S. Smelting,
Refining and Mining Co., and also
called on Mr. A. Polet, of the
Alaska Development Board, to
discuss mining and the post war
development problems. They left
for Shungnak yesterday.
NATIVE DANCES
SCHEDULED EVENT
Paul Green, 1st Sgt., ATG, of
Kotzebue, announces that Kotze
bue and Diomede Island natives
will hold a dance in the gymna
sium of the Bureau of Indian Af
fairs school at 8:30 o’clock this
evening. Visitors are welcome to
attend.
Tuesday evening at 7:30 the
King Island natives, led by Chief
Ahlagonna, will stage their ritual
istic dances. The native program
will be fllowed by one hour of
moving pictures, in color, of “Ne
lakatuk Celebrations.”
Japanese Debate . j
Peace Terms |
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relay to his government.
Since they are handled by wire- j
less the surrender conditions1
could be officially placed before
the Jap government by nightfall
<EWT). It is considered doubtful
whether a reply and possible end
of the war could be forthcoming •
before late Sunday or Monday. ,
UNDATED —The Tokyo radio |
broadcast a Domei dispatch say- j
ing the official text of the Allied
reply to the Jap government’s
message offering to surrender had;
been received today in Tokyo;
through the Swiss Legation.
Domei, recorded by (JP) in New
York from the English language
wireless transmission at 9:04 a.m.
EWT. a dispatch sent by Domei.
As the bulletin gave no additional
details of the Allied reply to the
Japs, making it clear that Hiro
hio would have to be subservient
to the Allied Supreme Commander
which was dispatched to Japan
Saturday at 10:30 a.m. EWT
through the Swiss Legation in
Washington.
At the time of Domei broadcast
it was 10:04 p.m. in Tokyo. Do-J
mei followed the announcement
with a French language broadcast
sayihg Hirohito had received it in
audience of Foreign Minister Togo
at two ten this afternoon. “Tog<
made a report to the throne 01
affairs under his jurisdiction,’
Domei said.
After this the Tokyo wireles:
transmitter said “stand by” a
9:14 a.m. EWT. After less thai
five minutes silence Tokyo re
sumed the dissemination of rou
tine dispatches in the French lan
guage.
The Allied reply to Tokyo wai
received at Bern at 4:05 p.m. EW1
Saturday and delivered to Jai
Minister Shunichi Kase twenty
minutes later for transmission t<
Tokyo.
Cosmetics in crude forms were
known as early as 5,000 B.C.
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