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.