Stalin Calls Scorched Earth Plan To Defeat Nazis
Premier Joseph Stalin urged Russians to employ a scorched earth strategy and universal guerrilla warfare as German forces press toward Soviet territory. He outlined tactics to destroy rolling stock grain fuel and other assets and to organize guerrilla units to disrupt enemy lines and supply routes.
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Lithuania
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new defence committee
Russians Say Hun Attacks Are Failures
Moscow reports the vanguard of German invaders was repelled at the Berezina crossing as Red Army halted a mechanized Nazi advance toward Shepetovka in the Ukraine. Russian communique says heavy fighting continued overnight with 61 enemy planes shot down and 28 lost, two major battles raged near Borisov and in the Shepetovka Tarnopol area as Germany drives toward Kiev.
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Borisov
Berezina
Red Army
Shepetovka
Ukraine
Kiev
Tarnopol
Lwow
Luck
Bomsov
Moscow
Minsk
Negotiated Peace Urged by Three Senators
Washington July 3. Senators Burton Wheeler Gerald Nye and Robert Taft urged President Roosevelt to use his July 4 Independence Day address to advocate a negotiated peace in the war. They argued the Russo Nazi conflict makes a favorable Axis peace possible for Britain, though no expectation exists that the president will accept the proposal.
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WASHINGTON
Roosevelt
Burton Wheeler
Montana
Gerald Nye
North Dakota
United States
Robert Taft
Ohio
Britain
German claim 768 950 tons sunk in June shipping
German high command asserts German sea and air attacks sank 768 950 tons of shipping in June. British admiralty figures for June await release later in the month. The Nazi tally is regarded as likely inflated, noting May losses totaling 461 328 tons with heavy Mediterranean fighting included.
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BERLIN
Mediterranean
New Structure in Japan tightens food rations
Ollier's Weekly reports on Japan's New Structure a government system of price limits and shortages under Hitlers Axis ally in Asia. Prices rise and food quality drops with eggs scarce matches sugar rationed whale meat replacing pork fresh milk scarce condensed milk restricted to infants under one. Continues on page four.
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OLLIER
RAF Bags 11 Planes in Northern France Sweep
The Air Ministry reported 11 German fighter planes shot down in two RAF offensive sweeps over Northern France. Seven British planes were missing. RAF bombers targeted Cologne Duisburg and Bremen, with large fires in industrial districts. Night attacks hit Bremen docks Cherbourg docks and Rotterdam oil storage tanks. Impressive fires marked clashes along the Rhine as Cologne’s industrial sites burned.
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Royal Air Force
France
Cologne
Duisberg
Bremen
RAF
channel
guardian
English
Cherbourg
Rotterdam
Netherlands
Treasury to offer tax certificates via banks starting August
Washington July 3 Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau announced plans to let individuals buy tax certificates through their local banks starting August 1. The certificates can be turned in on income or excess taxes next year.
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WASHINGTON
Treasury
Henry Morgenthau
Nazis Admit Resistance By Red Army
Berlin reports the German high command claims Soviet resistance to have been broken while DN.B. cites obstinate resistance and bad weather on the eastern front near Lwow. The bulletin says a German push is across the Front from the Arctic to the Black Sea and that the Prut river border has been crossed. Russians allegedly begin moving back as Soviet leadership initially tried to halt the advance but now appears to concede a shift in momentum.
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DN.B
Lwow
Russia
D.N.B
Arctic Ocean
Black Sea
Prut
Romania
Soviet Bessarabia
Moldavia
Land Troops France Aim Land Troops France
London reports the Aeroplane magazine hints RAF daylight sweeps and nightly raids on the French coast may precede continent troop landings before Aug 1. It says Germans believe no British combined offensive will occur soon, while RAF operations cast doubt. France and Russia may gain strategic aid as British moves unfold.
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LONDON
C.P
Royal Air Force
RAF
France
Russia
Aeroplane
King tours Pacific coast industries with satisfaction
Prime Minister Mackenzie King traveled eastward after three days inspecting Pacific coast defense and industrial sites. He told The Canadian Press the visits pleased him beyond words and refused to comment on conscription pressures, though he voiced approval of his observations.
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C.R BLACKBURN
VANCOUVER
Mackenzie King
Pacific coast
Canada
Canuck Troops Arrive in Britain Largest Contingent Aboard Convoy
Canadian troops reach the United Kingdom in a massive delivery led by the first Canadian Army Tank Brigade. Bereted tank troops march to camps in England and Scotland for final training before joining the Canadian corps. Brig Worthington leads the unit under canvas as St Gen McNaughton plans visits. Air force personnel head to RAF depots for squadron assignment.
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GREAT BRITAIN
First Canadian Army Tank Brigade
British Port
Atlantic
ROSS MUNRO
C.P. Cable
Canada
United Kingdom
Canadian Army
Britain
England
Scotland
debarkation
army tank brigade
Dominion
WORTHINGTON
A G L McNaughton
Bng
F F Worthington
forestry corps
AIR FORCE
RAF
Pack of Seven Subs Attack G B Convoy
A Saint John eyewitness recounts a large convoy attack off Britain by German U boats. He says at least three submarines were sunk and describes torpedoing and crash-diving maneuvers. The bosun and another crewman died. Commander Otto Kretschmer was reportedly captured.
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OTTAWA
Britain
Otto Kretschmer
Saint John
Charles Damery
bosun
Submarine Chase Disrupts Convoy Carrying Canadian Troops
London July 3 Reuters reports a submarine surfaced near the convoy bearing thousands of Canadian troops to Britain. Destroyers hunted the marauder for about half an hour, forcing a new course. Depth charges were dropped though no enemy ships or aircraft were spotted afterward as the transports–nearly 140,000 tons–reached port safely.
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LONDON
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Cooperation For Defence Is Urged
Washington reports the United States urged the American republics to adopt a policy of constructive and practical defence cooperation. The Uruguay plan would bind 21 nations not to treat any American state in war as a beliggerent, act as benevolent neutrals, and allow use of harbors air fields and facilities during conflict. Uruguay first proposed on June 20, citing prior World War action and hemisphere solidarity.
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United States
Americas
Uruguay
hemisphere solidarity
Auchinleck Says We Must Attack
General Sir Claude Auchinleck the new British Middle East commander told a farewell speech in India that a Nazi victory over Russia or an eastern Asia breakthrough is of little consequence while Britain holds the seas and air. He urged concentrating India's forces to defend, arguing the enemy must be kept at a distance and attacked wherever he is.
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Middle East
Russia
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Claude
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India
Two Slayers To Be Hanged
Charlottetown July 3 Frederick Phillips 29 and Earl Lund 25 sentenced to be hanged August 20 by Mr Justice A C Saunders for the murder of Peter J Traynor 78 in his store January 30 They received the second death sentences of the 20th century on Prince Edward Island Convicted last Saturday by a Supreme Court jury If carried out it would be the province s first execution since 1887
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Prederick Phillips
Earl Lund
A. C Saunders
Peter J Traynor
Prince Edward Island
supreme court
Palmyra Falls as Vichy Forces Admit Loss
Jerusalem reports Palmyra surrender at 3 30 PM while Vichy confirms the fall after an artillery barrage. The town lies 150 miles west of the Syria Iraq border and 125 miles northeast of Damascus, with Free French and British units previously entering from Iraq. Royal Air Force jets attack Beirut harbor and Nasrullah airfield. Vichy submarine also reports sinking off the Syrian coast.
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VICHY
France
Syria
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Iraq
Damascus
CAIRO
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Middle East
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Lebanon
Nasrullah
Sam H. Harris Dies at 69 Noted Broadway Producer
New York reports the death of Sam H. Harris aged 69, a leading Broadway theatrical manager and producer renowned for long-running shows and numerous hits. The obituary notes his influence on American theater and his prominent position in the industry.
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NEW YORK
Sam H. Harris
Broadway
New British Director of Storage Named in London
Supply Minister Lord Beaverbrook today named S. Jackson director of storage and transportation to represent the ministry in North America. In other reports, seamen strike, Australian government defeat, Mendoza quake, and Danish consuls withdrawal urged by Berlin.
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C.P
Lord Beaverbrook
S. Jackson
supply ministry
North America
NEW YORK
A.P
Seafarers’ International Union
A.F.S
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R. G. Menzies
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Maurice Blackburn
Victor
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MENDOZA
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J.P
Japan
MOSCOW
Red army
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Gordon James Lethem
Wilfrid Jackson
Tanganyika
Gordon
Leeward Islands
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United States
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