Current Events may 23, 1942; MEXICO JOINS ALLIES AGAINST AXIS

61 LOST AS 3 SHIPS ATTACKED IN GULF

The Portsmouth Herald

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1942.

Mexico Ready To Join Allies

Congress Assent Certain; Acts Against Aliens

Nation

Prohibits

Export Of

U.S. Money

Mexico City, May 23 (AP)

—Mexico, lacked only the formality

of apparently certain

congressional approval today

to become a full-fledged ally

in the war against the Axis.

Mexico's decision was

made rapidly last night as a

wave of public fury swept the

country over the news that

Axis submarines had sunk

the second Mexican merchant

ship within eight days.

Even while awaiting President

Manuel Avila Camacho's formal

proclamation of war, the first in

Mexico's history, the republic put

precautionary measures against Axis

aliens quietly into force and took

its first military steps.

Nazis Halt Reds By Counter-Attack In Kharkov Area

(By The Associated Press)

German Field Marshal Fedor von Bock was reported

throwing masses of air-borne troops into the bloody 12-day

battle of Kharkov today, and for the first time the Russians

acknowledged reverses on the southern flank despite a toll

of 15,000 Germans killed there in three days.