Thursday, October 7, 2010

Current Events October 6, 1942; JAPANESE IN FLIGHT FROM NEW GUINEA/ STATE OF EMERGENCY IN SCANDINAVIA:

                     Oakland Tribune
                     OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1942

Allies Reach New Guinea
Pass; Jap Flight Reported
North-Bound
Convoy Near
Buna Bombed
Allies Seek Answer
To Whether Ships Were
Evacuating Troops
By MURlIN SPENCER
SYDNEY, Australia, Oct. 7.—(AP)
Australian troops have scaled the
last steep grades leading to the
gap through the rugged Owen Stanley
Mountains in Southern New
Guinea and there still is no sign
of Japanese forces retreating toward
their base at Buna, on the
island's northeast coast, dispatches
from the battlefront said today.
The flight of the Japanese, plus
the appearance yesterday of a Japanese
convoy heading northward
from Buna deepened the mystery
over the enemy activity. It still was
not clear here whether the convoy,
which was attacked by American
bombers, had attempted to land
reinforcements or was withdrawing
enemy forces from Southern New
Guinea.

2640 MILES TO TOKYO"-AND WE'RE ON OUR WAY

U.S. Must Free
All Asia: Willkie
American Envoy Urges
New Deal for East
After Conflict Won
CHUNGKING. Oct 6—(UP)—
Wendell L Willkie, broadcasting to
the Chinese people today, said it is
Ihe duly of Ihe United States lo see
lhat Asiatic Nations will be completely
independent after the war.
"The time of colonial empires is
over." he said. "It is the United
Nations after the war will be completely
independent with government
of their own choice."
PEOPLE INSPIRED
STATE OF EMERGENCY
DECREED IN NORWAY
Crisis Also Arises in Nazi Relations
With Denmark as Invaders Tighten Grip
By the Associated Press
LONDON, Oct. 6.—A rising tide of revolt by once-free men
of Scandinavia against Nazi overlordship was reported today
in news dispatches and broadcasts telling of a state of civil
emergency in the important Norwegian coastal district of
Trondheim and of Denmark's
struggle to escape total engulfment
in the Reich.
These reports and recent hints of
peace feelers by Finland, plus German
dissatisfaction with the political
course of Sweden projected a
broad picture of a weakening German
grip in the north.

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