Current Events June 13, 1942: ALASKA INVADERS ROUTED:

                  Oakland Tribune

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 1942

Japanese In Aleutian Islands

Routed By Army, Navy Fliers

Airmen Pound Alaska Invaders

Attu and Kiska Combed From Air to

Break Foes Foothold That Might Prove

Menace For Northern American Bases

WASHINGTON, June 13.—(AP)—American Army and Navy

airmen combed the small, bleak islands of the Northern

Pacific Aleutian chain today in a rising effort to search out

and disperse small Japanese invasion units which have landed

at Attu and the harbor of Kiska, in the Rat Island group.

Despite adverse weather conditions, a Navy communique

asserted, air attacks have already forced the invaders to retire

from populated regions of the

tiny islands at the extreme'

western tip of the Aleutian

Archipelago.

The Navy announcement of

the landing, issued last night, said:

"Information just received by the

Navy Department is to the effect

that the Japanese have made landings

on a small scale on Attu Island,

at the extreme tip of the Aleutian

Archipelago, and Japanese ships

have been reported in the harbor

of Kiska, in the Rat (island) group.

Japanese operations in the Aleutian

area are still in progress, according

to the information received,

although continuing Army and Navy

aircraft attacks have forced them to

retire from the populated regions of

the islands.

GREATEST A E F LAND

BRITISH IN MURMANSK

Huge American Contingent Safe in Irish

Port After Quiet Warship-Convoyed Voyage

STOCKHOLM, June 13.—(U.P)—A 'dispatch from Helsinki

to the newspaper Allchanda said today that British forces

landed at Murmansk in an attempt to create a new fight-

ing front.

WITH TH£ UNITED STATES ARMY IN NORTHERN

IRELAND June I3, (AP) fl>;—Thousands more United States

soldiers, including tank destroyer forces as well as additional

armored, units', have arrived in Northern Ireland, i t was an-

nounced today. Negro troops were included in the contingent.

The B.B.C. indicated the troops came with "the greatest

American convoy which

ever crossed the Atlantic."

(The B.B.C. broadcast, recorded

the C.B.S. short-wave

station in. New \York, also Used

the date-line phrase "Western Front

for the first time in commenting on

the arrival.

Rommel! Hurls Whole

Division Against Stiff

British Line in Libya

CAIRO, June 13 -(AP)—Repulsed

at El Adem, is 15 miles due south of

Tobruk, Field Marshal General Er-

win Rommel struck with a full

armored division today toward

Acroma, some 10 miles west of

Tobruk. against stiff British resistance.