House group votes bonus for submarine crewmen
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3 destroyers launched
Kearney, NJ –
Three destroyers were launched at the Federal Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. yesterday.
Allies capture 6,000 in Africa
Big aerial and naval raids batter Axis in Egypt
By Leon Kay, United Press staff writer
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Reconnaissance only off Australia
General MacArthur’s Headquarters, Australia (UP) –
Activity throughout the Australian zone was confined to airplane reconnaissance yesterday, a communiqué said today.
Navy scrapes barnacles off office routine
500 paper reports and forms discontinued; others simplified
By Dick Thornburg, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Hooey absent from Walt’s new picture
Disney and O. Welles turn out authentic films on Latin America
By Ernest Foster
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in wartime the truth is the first victim
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The Pittsburgh Press (July 21, 1942)
Strikes cost million days of war work
Trends of walkouts climbs despite labor’s no-stoppage pledge
By Charles T. Lucey, Scripps-Howard staff writer
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Head of Bund admits guilt as Hitler spy
Kunze says he sought military information for Axis partners
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Japan masses half of army in Manchukuo
Tokyo nearly ready for attack on Russia, British say
London (UP) –
Usually reliable quarters said today that Japan has half her armies massed in Manchukuo and has nearly completed preparations for an attack on Russia at a time of her own choosing.
An informant said:
These preparations have reached an advanced stage and there is little doubt that Japan could press a button for the attack now.
But when Japan does attack, she will do so because it suits her, not necessarily because to give the Germans any particular help.
Japan was reported to have concentrated 30-40 divisions (up to 840,000 troops) on the Siberian frontier, and the informant pointed out that most of the events in the Far East have recently been designed to complete the strategic preparations for a northern attack.
Two of the most important such events, the informant believed, were the seizure of outlying Aleutian Islands and the operations along the Hangchow-Nanchang Railway in Chekiang and Kiangsi provinces in southeast China.
Occupation of the westernmost Aleutian Islands protects the Japanese flank from American attack in case the main body of Jap troops are engaged elsewhere.
U.S. bombers sink two Jap vessels
Chungking (UP) –
American bombers have sunk two Jap vessels totaling perhaps 4,000 tons in the Yangtze at Kiukiang, it was announced today as a military spokesman revealed in the battle for southeast China the Japs had recaptured the fort of Wenchow.
The headquarters of Lt. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell, commander-in-chief of American forces in China, announced that United States bombers, with a pursuit escort, sank the two vessels, each of 1,000-2,000 tons, in a raid yesterday on the river port 90 miles north of Nanchang in Kiangsi Province.
The American planes returned to base without damage, the communiqué (the 16th issued by Gen. Stilwell) added.
Wenchow was reportedly lost again only 24 hours after the Chinese had retaken the seacoast city.