Current Events June 10, 1942; VICTORY ANTICIPATED BY ALL SIDES:

            The Portsmouth Herald

PORTSMOUTH, N. H., WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 10, 1942.

Axis Fate--- Petain;

Japs claim Heavy U. S. Toll

Reds Report Iron Defense

Laval Confident

Of Nazi Victory

Washington, June 10 (A

P)—Two years of war since

Dunkerque have convinced

chief of state Marshal Petain

that the Axis cannot win, authoritative

reports from

Vichy revealed today.

There was a time after the

fall of France in 1940 when

Petain regarded a German

victory as inevitable; but

now, these reports said, the

old Marshal is convinced

Germany and her allies will

be defeated.

Vichy's Collaborationist Chief of

Government Pierre Laval, however,

still holds the contrary view. An

American observer who recently

talked with him quoted Laval as

saying Germany could not be defeated

and, moreover, that it would

be a disaster for Europe if England

and Soviet Russia won.

Reliable Informants in Vichy report

that Admiral Jean Darlan,

chief of the Vichy government's

armed-forces, holds a somewhat similar

opinion.

Tokyo Says

2 Carriers, Transport

Sunk In Sea Battles Off

Midway, Dutch Harbor

Tokyo (From Japanese Broadcasts), June 10 (AP)—

Japan announced the loss of one aircraft carrier and

damage to two other warships in her first report of the

battles of Midway and Dutch Harbor today and declared

two United States aircraft carriers and a large transport

had been sunk.

(The Navy has reported only

onto US vessel sunk in the Pacific

fighting- last week, this a

destroyer torpedoed by a submarine,

and an aircraft carrier

damaged. The toll on the Japanese

fleet was officially listed

as two or three aircraft carriers

and a destroyer sunk and from

11 to 14 other vessels, including

three battleships, damaged.)