July 22, 1944;

THIS WAS REPORTED TODAY, JULY 22, 1944:

LONDON, July 22—(Saturday)—(INS)—

A Germany cut off from normal contact with' the rest of the world was pictured

in Stockholm dispatches early today as torn by growing revolt; with hundreds of insurgent officers executed and. Thousands arrested, after the Nazis claimed, they had "frustrated" a high command coup to seize the Berlin government seat. 

PEARL HARBOR, July 21.—(AP)

—American forces have established good beachheads on Guam and .additional troops are landing against light initial Japanese resistance, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced tonight.

NEW YORK. July 21.—(UP)—

The Swiss newspaper Berner Tarwacht said today that "collaborator

Berger," announced by Berlin as having died as a result of the alleged attack on Adolf Hitler's life, was Hitler's double.

 

Charleston, West Virginia, Saturday Morning, July 22, 1944

Berlin Coup Fails,

Nation Sealed Off,

Mutinies Reported

Hitler's Headquarters

Said Under Siege "

By Blackshirts

LONDON, July 22—(Saturday)—(INS)—

A Germany cut off from normal contact with' the rest of the world was pictured

in Stockholm dispatches early today as torn by growing revolt; with hundreds of insurgent officers executed and. Thousands arrested, after the Nazis claimed, they had "frustrated" a high command coup to seize the Berlin government seat.

The whole Reich was declared in one Stockholm message to have been thrown into a "state of siege as street fighting was reported flurshing  in -several cities while a number of anti-Nazi German generals resisted' efforts to "purge" them in the wake of Thursday's assassination attempt against Adolf Hitler.

Guam Landing Meets

Light Jap Resistance

Foe Stiffens

As Americans

Thrust Inland

Firm Beachheads Seized,

Casualties Moderate,

Adm. Nimilz Reports

PEARL HARBOR, July 21.—(AP)

—American forces have established good beachheads on Guam and .additional troops are landing against light initial Japanese resistance, Adm. Chester W. Nimitz announced tonight.

Nimitz reported in a communique the progress of fighting begun yesterday

morning for the first reconquest of an American naval base lost 31 months and nine days ago.

Hitler's Double Said

Killed by Bomb Blast

NEW YORK. July 21.—(UP)—

The Swiss newspaper Berner Tarwacht said today that "collaborator

Berger," announced by Berlin as having died as a result of the alleged attack on Adolf Hitler's life, was Hitler's double.

"Berger confuslngly resembled the fuehrer in appearance," said

Ihe article, as reported to the OWI.  And was appointed as a

collaborator by the secret service.

Mud Hampers

British Drive

Toward Paris

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