REGISTER STAR- NEWS
SANDUSKY, OHIO, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1942
1.000 RAF BOMBERS ESSEN
Krupp Armament Works
Target Last Night For
British; Nazis Migrate
BY ASSOCIATED PRESS
Another destructive assault fell upon the heart of Germany's
war foundries before dawn today when nearly 1,000
RAF bombers smashed at the city of Essen, site of the Giant
Krupp armament works, even as the Germans were reported
fleeing in a mass migration from the Rhineland.
Altogether, Prime Minister Winston Churchill announced,
a total of 1,036 British planes thundered over the
Reich on missions of ruin during the night.
Churchill promised, too, that raids of even greater severity
would develop "when we are joined, as we soon shall be,
by the air force of the United States."
FDR ASKS WAR
DECLARATION
ON 3 NATIONS
Bulgaria, Hungary and Ru-
mania Are Cited as Instru-
ments of Hitler in Special
Message to Congress.
WASHINGTON, June 2
(UP)—President Roosevelt to day
asked Congress to declare
war o n Bulgaria, Hungary
and Rumania.
In a special message to Cong
r e s s , he pointed out that the
three nations had declared war
against this country, "not upon
t h e i r own i n i t i a t i v e or in response
to the wishes of their own peoples,
but as the instruments of
Hitler."
But, he added, the three count
r i e s "are n ow engaged in military
a c t i v i t i e s directed against the
U n i t e d Nations and are planning
an extension of t h e s e activities."
Convoy Reaches
Port, But Admits
Some Ships Lost
LONDON. June 2 (AP) — A
large United Nations convoy
carrying American and B r i t i sh
war supplies to Russia has
reached a North Russian port
after a running battle of five
days and n i g h t s against German
U-boats and w e l l over 100
Nazi planes, the British announced
today.
With almost constant daylight
now in the far north waters, the
admiralty said this was t h e most
difficult time of the year to push
convoys through that route.
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