The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1941-08-07
DIARY OF The WAR

percent and reported big counter Of
fensive planned with million troops.
Said Nazis were beating against UNI
yielding walls. Reds asked British for
more aid. British attacked Finnish
port of Petsamo and Norwegian port
of Kirkenes but lost 16 airplanes. Ger
mans claimed %. Japan apoiogized for
damage to U. S. gunboat. Japan for
mally occupied Saigon in Indo-China.
A Nazi plot to overthrow Argentine
government was smashed. In U. S. a
shortage of iron and steel scrap was
announced.
SATURDAY-Germany appeared to
be making little or no progress but
they claimed heavy losses at center Of
line on Red army. Nazis said they were
concentrating on destruction of Red
amy and were interested" in taking
cities of Leningrad and Kiev. Reds
claimed they sank German destroyer
and damaged two others in Baltic.
Japan was making pressure on Thai
land, adjoining Indo-China for bases
and control of rubber, rice and tin.
British strengthened forces there.
Welles, secretary of state here, ac-
cused Germans of impudence in trying
to get Latin American countries to
protest blacklist of traders with Axis
powers. U. S. placed embargo on air
plane gas for Japan.
SUNDAY-The French baked at
joint French-German defense of Dakar
and other strategic French African
possessions. A large English fleet was
operating in the Arctic ocean, and
large Soviet army was in the Muir
mansk sector. Hitler's newspaper de-
clared that the Red army surpassed
all previous opponents in fighting
temper. Reds claimed Germans were
in retreat in some sectors and that
new drives were annihilating many di-
visions Of men. Japan was reinforcing
her forces in Manchukuo as a threat
to Russian base at Vladivostok. The
Nazi head in Norway was given life
and-death power to meet disturbances
flaring up there.
MONDAY-Germans were pushing
farther into Ukraine toward Kiev, the
capital. There was heavy fighting also
southeast of Leningrad and fighting in
Smolensk area. British sent 300 planes
to Berlin for its worst raid. They also
bombed Kiel and German-held coast of
France. In London there were hints of
a British eXpeditionary force, perhaps
to Norway or Finland. British also at
tackled Crete and Sicily, sank two Axis
supply ships. There was restlessness in
lands under the German heel, par
ticularly in Rumania. French remained
calm in spite of pressure for more
German collaboration.
TUESDAY - Britain announced a
new air fighter, with four cannon in
fuselage and six machine guns in the
wings. 1t has range of | 500 miles.
The German offensives into Ukraine
were giving Reds concern but they
were counter-attacking and Nazis
acknowledged their peril Nazis were
told France would give them no mill
tary bases in North Africa. The con-
trolled press blamed this on U. S.
Britain sent some of her battle fleet
into Gulf of Siam. War in Africa
showed new signs of life with Axis
planes raiding Suez canal and Nile
delta. Axis troops were withdrawing
around Tobruk.
WEDNESDAY - Germans con-
tinued their pressure toward the
Ukraine and were turning south
from the Smolensk area in an effort
to encircle Red troops. Germans
claimed advances below Kiev, over
running Soviet field positions. Rus
SLAMS claimed they were holding. Big
reinforcements reached Britain's
Singapore base in face of japanese
demands upon Thailand There was a
possibility Britain would occupy key
points in Thailand to head off the
Japanese. China was massing an
army to aid British in defense of
Burma military supply road. 1t was
rumored Churchill and Roosevelt
would meet in conference somewhere.
British bombers hit Nazi ship in at
tack on convoy and also attacked
Nazi shipping along channel ports.
Observation-Disclosures claimed that
million Russians had been wounded,
killed or captured since attack began.
Moscow reported continuous bitter
fighting and many counter attacks
along $50 mile front. Britain and U. S.
warned Tokyo that occupation of Thai
land would threaten Singapore British
pounded French coast and German
shipping in English channel. France
told U. S. she would defend her empire
in her own way. The U. S. Senate
killed the one-year draft limitation.
Representatives of nineteen rail
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