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Newspaper
Tucson Daily Citizen
Location
Tucson, Arizona, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1940
Page
1
Bucharest reports the war ministry calls up over 100000 reservists in five categories with undisclosed exact numbers. Rome notes Il Giornale D Italia warns that if Italy joins the war, every Italian city bombed could bring five English cities under attack.
Berlin authorities denounce Paris claim that French sea planes raided Berlin suburbs last night as absolutely preposterous and untrue.
Swiss air patrols brought down a German bomber forcing a landing and shot a Nazi Messerschmitt out of the sky in separate Swiss regions. Two Swiss casualties were reported as their patrol plane was shot down over the Jura mountains.
Paris issued a call to racing experienced motorcyclists to enlist in a special corps of crack parachutist chasers, seeking skilled riders for rapid response patrols.
Alexandria reports the Egyptian government ordered 6,000 children and aged men and women to interior provinces. Italian ships in the Mediterranean were said to have orders to return to Italy, signaling a possible broader war move.
Detailed box score style report of American and National League finals noting pitchers Milnar Gorsica Dietrich Chase and others. Scores show St Louis Philadelphia New York Boston Chicago Washington and Pittsburgh with multiple runs by each side across innings.
The War Department sent a fast pursuit plane to Henry Ford in Detroit to gauge if his plants can deliver 1,000 standard-type fighters daily. The move aimed to bolster Allied air power and drew reactions in Congress over compulsory training and wartime manufacturing policy.
Berlin reports a rolling German offensive along the Somme front with new gains on the lower Somme as air power supports troop advances. The French withdraw from the Aumale Noyon line with heavy losses to the Germans, while a bridgehead forms on the Aisne front and large tank forces are deployed.
ROME June 8 Italy's entrance into war against Great Britain and France within a week was forecast by informed sources. They said action would start on the night of June 13 or 14 with an announcement by Premier Mussolini after Italy moves. The Relazioni Internazionali weekly cited six reasons for war including territorial aims in Nice Corsica Tunisia and Djibouti and opposition from France and England.
Prescott June 8 A fire at Mercy Hospital left the 24 patients moved to safety by nurses and neighbors. Low water pressure hampered firemen's efforts to control the 50 year old building as much furniture was removed and the adjoining parsonage and church faced possible damage. Patients were relocated to nearby homes or to St Josephs in Phoenix pending transfer.
The British liner Carinthia, 20,277 tons, recently armed as an auxiliary cruiser, was torpedoed northwest of Ireland. Four people are reported dead. The vessel, built in 1925 and operated by Cunard White Star, had home port in Liverpool.
General John J. Pershing called for the United States to supply the Allies with unlimited airplanes artillery small arms and ammunition and urged compulsory military training for American youth. He endorsed the Red Cross drive for 20 million and stressed moral duty to aid refugees and civilians amid the war.
An election-year bill seeks an additional billion dollars yearly by broadening the tax base raising rates for corporations and middle income earners and instituting a 10 percent supertax on all income. It would raise the debt limit to enable a four billion dollar defense bond issue over five years. Roosevelt asked Congress for about 4.6 billion more in defense outlays.
German armored drives from the Bresle to Forges Les Eaux threaten Paris if followed by infantry. Without a major infantry push, Weygand faces risk of a northwest attack on Paris or a rear maneuver along the Somme from Amiens. Berlin delays detailed reports show German perplexity as Paris drive stalls.
British military experts, uncertain after Germany failed to break the Weygand line, speculate Adolf Hitler may target Switzerland with Italy’s aid, crossing the Rhine between Basel and Lake Constance and then moving into France. Another possible Alpine assault on France’s southeast could occur.
New York dispatch notes two United States liners arriving with 2,634 American and alien refugees from Europe. The President Roosevelt is due tomorrow at 8 p.m. EST with 720 Americans from Galway. The Manhattan will dock Monday at 3 p.m. with 1,914 refugees from Italy, many of them aliens, predominantly Jews.
More than 150 German chemists and engineers have passed Honolulu en route from Germany to Mexico. In the past six months a few on every vessel on the Japan South America run have been reported, according to high government sources.
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