have notified the Nazi commander in Belgrade their productive facilities to take on arms orders that they hold 650 Germans who will be shot if without fear of prosecution under the anti-trust any more Serbian hostages are executed.

laws, it was announced. There is battle activity, day and night, in the Oct. 12--The Russian communique said: “Fighting

vicinity of Perekop, on the land bridge from Was particularly fierce in the directions of Crimea to the mainland.

Bryansk and Vyazma. After many days of stub--The British destroyed an Italian airplane at born fighting our troops left Bryansk," (220 Jibouti, capital of French East Africa.

miles southwest of Moscow). -The Rumanian losses to date are officially put -Seven aboard were killed when an Army plane

at 20,000 dead; 76,000 wounded; 15,000 missing. crashed in San Gorgonic Pass, near Beaumont, Oct. 6 The Cabinet of Panama, at a session which Calif.

included the President of the Republic, Arnulfo Oct. 13-The Russian official bulletin said: "Our Arias, adopted a resolution under which vessels troops fought the enemy along the whole front. flying the Panama flag and arm against raiders, Fighting was especially stubborn in the Vyazma will have their registration cancelled. A blood- and Bryansk directions. After many days of fierce less revolution on Oct. 9 put Ricardo A. de la fighting, in which the enemy sustained treGuardia and a new cabinet in power, and on mendous losses in man power and armament, our Oct. 20 the decree of Oct. 6 was revoked and a troops left Vyazma." (Vyazma is a rail junction, new one was adopted, authorizing the owners 17,000 population, 125 miles west of Moscow). of ships flying the Panamanian flag to provide in the Netherlands Indies, near Batavia, Lieut. at their expense the arms necessary for their Gen. G. J. Berenschot, Commander-in-Chief of legitimate defense against attacks which con- the Army, and 13 others were killed in two airstitute violation of the freedom of the seas and plane crashes. of international law."

-A Portugal dispatch announced sinking, by Oct. 7-Berlin said German forces had occupied torpedo, of the British steamer Avoceta with loss

Mariupol and Ossipenko (Berdyansk) coal and of 94 passengers and crew of 78. grain ports on the Sea of Azov. Mariupol is 125 Oct. 14 The Russian bulletin said: "After fierce miles east of the Dnieper River and 100 miles fighting our troops evacuated Mariupol." west of the Don River city of Rostov, and -A German bulletin said: “The enemy forces en

Ossipenko is 40 miles southwest of Mariupol. circled in the Vyazma area are now definitely --An Army bulletin from the Hitler field head- annihilated. Dissolution of the enemy in the

quarters said: "A renewed nocturnal attempt to kettle around Bryansk is continuing unchecked. land Soviet forces on the coast west of Leningrad The number of prisoners taken in this double was repulsed. A majority of the ships used for battle has increased to over 500,000. It still is transport were sunk. The enemy units which increasing hourly. The total of Soviet prisoners landed were completely annihilated."

brought in since the beginning of the eastern -Finland, in a note to the British Government, campaign already has far surpassed 3,000,000."

declared her war against Soviet Russia was one -Italy reported a disabling attack on a British of defense "without political obligations and battleship and a cruiser in the Mediterranean. said important areas within her 1939 frontiers Oct. 15-Russian radio reported the withdrawal of still were in the hands of "the enemy."

." This was Soviet forces from the City of Kalinin, 100 miles in answer to a British note of Sept. 22, which northwest of Moscow. It was asserted also that declared that unless Finland ceased hostilities the Germans had broken through Soviet defenses and evacuated Soviet territory the British would separating the Crimean Peninsula from the be forced to consider Finland their enemy and mainland. treat her as such.

--Korcheva, 70 miles northwest of Moscow, was Oct. 8-German forces took Orel, 200 miles south taken by the Germans in a push eastward from

of Moscow, on the road to Kharkov; and Berlin Kalinin along the secondary road, linking it and said that communications between the Russian Kashin. armies on the central front and those of Marshal --By consent of Portugal, a Japanese air line has Semyon Budenny in the south were severed; also, obtained landing privileges on the eastern end that a German tank army strengthened by

Timor Island,

miles from Darwin, Italian, Hungarian and Slovakian units had Australia, It is an extension of the line from smashed through to the Sea of Azov in the Japan to Palau Island. region east of Dniepropetrovsk, cutting off the -The tomb of Lenin, in the Kremlin, Moscow, has retreat of the 9th Russian Army which had been been closed, for the first time. defeated on the Melitopol front.

-Tokio announced that an agreement fixing the -A "leak" in Washington on Moscow put in frontier between Manchukuo and Outer Mongolia

German possession a copy of a letter which had been signed by Japanese and Russian dele-
President Roosevelt sent recently to Josef V. gates, ending a border dispute which caused
Stalin, the Soviet Premier, in care of W. Averell open fighting at Nomonhan in 1939.
Harriman, head of the American mission to Oct. 16-Rumanian Axis troops took Odessa, the

Moscow, promising material and equipment aid. Soviet Black Sea port which had been under
Oct. 9 Otto Dietrich, Reich press chief, after a siege for two months. German planes aided.

conference with Hitler at the battle front, an- The city was largely in flames, and the Rumanian nounced, on returning by air to Berlin, that the announcement said that pockets of resistance last complete Soviet armies, those of Marshal were being overcome in street fighting. Semyon Timoshenko defending Moscow, are --American Ambassador Laurence A, Steinhardt locked in two circles; that the southern armies and his embassy staff were leaving Moscow, in of Marshal Budenny are routed, and that 60 to a general departure of diplomats for Kuibyskev 70 divisions of Marshal Voroshiloff's army are (Samara) 550 miles southeast from Moscow. It locked in Leningrad. “For all military purposes, is the easternmost city on the Volga River, and said Dietrich, "Soviet Russia is done with. The has connection through the Caspian Sea with British dream of a two-front war is dead."

the trans-Iranian railroad, which runs to the --The Russian communique said: "Fighting con- Persian Gulf. It also has railroad facilities. The

tinued throughout the night with particularly special train was 42 days on the road before fierce fighting in the sectors of Vyazma, Bryansk reaching Kuibyshev. and Melitopol. On one sector of the central -The cargo steamship Bold Venture, Americanfront our troops are stubbornly fighting against owned but of Panama registry, was torpedoed advancing German troops. The German com- and sunk 500 miles south of Iceland: 19 on board mand is throwing into the battle division after were missing: 16 others were rescued. division. Our units are putting up fierce re- Oct. 17-On the night of Oct. 16-17, the Navy sistance to the Fascist troops and are striking Department.announced that the U. S. destroyer, heavy blows at the enemy.

Kearny, under Lieut. Commander A, L. Danis, Oct. 10---Berlin reported that the German army while escorting a convoy of merchant ships, 350

had made a breach 310 miles wide in the central miles southwest of Iceland, received distress front in Russia through which troops and tanks signals from another convoy which was under were pouring toward Moscow.

attack from several German submarines. The Oct. 11-The Berlin radio said Vyazma, 125 miles Kearny proceeded to the aid of the attacked con

from Moscow, had been taken intact and that voy and on arrival dropped depth bombs when soft coal fields near it were being worked as well she sighted a merchant ship under attack by a as numerous factories that were in good con- submarine. Some time afterward three torpedo dition when seized.

tracks were observed approaching the Kearny. -United States Naval patrol has seized in Green- One passed ahead of the ship, one astern and

land and destroyed å Norwegian-German radio the third struck on the starboard side in the station used to observe weather conditions for vicinity of the forward fire room. The force of the benefit of German submarines in the North the explosion breached the side of the ship well Atlantic

under the water line, flooding the boiler com-In Washington, the Office of Production Manage- partment and killing the men stationed in the

ment and the Department of Justice approved a boiler room on the steaming watch. The deck policy under which factories and plants may pool above the fire room was ruptured with such force

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that wreckage was thrown onto the bridge; 11 escaped. The German authorities at once armen were killed as a result of the attack; in rested 100 French hostages there and in 16 nearby addition two were seriously injured and eight towns; 50 of them were ordered executed. received minor wounds. Other U. $. destroyers Oct. 22—Berlin stated that snowstorms and freezescorted the Kearny to an unnamed port.

ing nights were impeding operations on the -The Norwegian mail steamer Vesteraalen, was Moscow front and that Axis troops occupying the

sunk by a submarine; most of the 60 persons Donets basin had slowed down for a breathing aboard were reported lost.

spell after weeks of forced marches. -In Japan, the Cabinet of Prince Fuminaro Konoye -Beginning Oct. 28, United States war supplies

was succeeded by one headed by Lieut. Gen. for Russia are to go by way of Boston instead of Hideki Tojo with himself as Premier, War via Vladivostok. Minister and Home Minister, and Shigenori Togo, -By the light of the volcano, Vesuvius, British former Ambassador to both Berlin and Moscow, planes raided Naples. as Foreign Minister of a government reported Oct. 23-In the Moscow zone supreme command of pledged to pursue a strong foreign policy.

Russian forces has been shifted to Gen. Gregory Oct. 18-From Berlin a special German High Com- K. Zhukoff. Chief of the General Staff, who has

mand communique announced that U-boats in replaced Marshal Semyon Timoshenko, the latter the Atlantic had sunk 10 merchantmen and two having been transferred to the southern front, protecting destroyers from a convoy en route to in place of Marshal Semyon Budenny. The Britain from North America in a conflict lasting German High Command announced that Nazi several days. There was no official comment on spearheads had thrust within 37 miles of Moscow. the Kearny incident, but a Berlin radio broad- A Berlin spokesman reported that Axis forces cast denied that a German submarine had tor- in the Ukraine were inside the city limits of pedoed the Kearny, and charged that Secretary Kharkov. of the Navy Knox had discussed the staging of --A Hitler communique said: "Submarines sank an incident with Sir Ronald Campbell, British four enemy ships totaling 32,000 tons. In the Minister, at a luncheon in Washington on course of this operation the British transport, Oct, 4.

Aurania, 14,000 tons, was shot from the strongly -A communique from Hitler's headquarters said protected, fast-sailing convoy in the Atlantic." that more than 80 divisions of Marshal Semyon Oct. 24--A special communique from Hitler's headTimoshenko's elite troops-eight entire armies-- quarters said that Kharkov, a city of 840,000 in

had been crushed and 648,196 prisoners taken. habitants, industrial center of the Ukraine, had --In Iran (Persia), British-Russian forces evacu- been taken by German forces. ated Teheran.

Oct. 25-Warfare in the Donets basin is hindered Oct. 19-Premier Stalin announced a state of siege by snowstorms.

for Moscow and for 60 to 75 miles to the west. --For the first time, Russian accounts spoke of Traffic on the streets, midnight to 5 A.M., was

Finnish and Russian troops as fighting alongside banned. Volunteers were called for to aid the the Germans in the Moscow theatre; the two militia. The order added: “Provocateurs, spies apparently, it was said, serving as reinforcements and other enemy agents inciting breach of to fill the widening gaps in the Nazi lines." discipline will be shot on the spot. The State

-The French Cabinet provided severe punishment Committee for Defense appeals to all toilers in for eyewitnesses, accomplices or others who had the capital to keep calm and orderly and to

information of acts of terrorism against the render the Red Army defending Moscow all pos

German authorities but who failed to make their sible help." (All Moscow dispatches are now information known to officials. transmitted to the United States by official Soviet ---Adolf Hitler conferred with Count Ciano, Italian agencies. All American news correspondents have Foreign Minister, on the Eastern front, the left Moscow with the American Embassy),

German High Command announced. At Rome, -German Elite Guards, Berlin said, had taken

Premier Mussolini dropped or shifted 19 of the Taganrog, about 40 miles from Rostov, through 22 of the leaders in the Fascist guilds orwhich runs the pipeline from the oil fields of ganization, the Caucasus that carries northward fuel to the Oct. 26-One unit of German engineers reported it Red Army. Taganrog is 20 miles from the delta

had removed 5,500 mines since Leningrad dug in of the Don, and the confluence of the Don and for siege. More than 10.000 mines were removed Donets is about 100 miles to the eastward.

from Kiev by the Germans before they occupied -Afghanistan, at Britain's request, is expelling

that city. Fires started by Russian land mines Germans and Italians.

detonated by time devices five days after the -The cargo steamship, Lehigh, flying the Ameri. German occupation of Kiev, burned for five days

can flag, was torpedoed and sunk in the South and destroyed 20 blocks in the heart of the city Atlantic, off Africa and just north of the

even after the Germans had discovered and reEquator, The crew was rescued. The next day

moved 10,000 similar explosive plants, Nazi ofthe tanker, British Mariner, was torpedoed in

ficers reported. Many of the mines were set to the same area.

explode from radio, it was said. Oct. 20—The United States advanced Russia $30,- --Russian forces evacuated the city of Stalino, in 000,000 against the promise of the delivery of

the Donets basin, Moscow said. gold within 180 days.

Oct. 27--Having paid no heed to two personal --In Nantes, France, Lieut. Col. Karl Friedrich

appeals from the President, John L. Lewis, head Holtz, commander of the troops of occupation

of the United Mine Workers of America, called in the city, was shot and killed by a civilian,

out 53,000 members of that union from coal mines who escaped. In reprisal, 50 hostages were put

in the Appalachian area. A third appeal from to death at dawn on Oct. 22.

the White House after the strike had begun was - The new $31,000,000 U. S. aircraft carrier,

rejected. The appeals were based on the conHornet, was put in commission at Norfolk, Va.

tentio that mines shut-down would cut Oct. 21- Berlin officially announced encirclement

fuel supplies from the steel mills (chiefly the of Leningrad; capture of the city of Stalino in

mills of the U. S. Steel Corp.) and thereby would the Donets basin; conquest of the Baltic Island

hinder their work on war defense contracts. of Dagoe, on which a “surprise" landing on

Lewis's formal note of refusal to the President Oct. 12; and pushed the Russians out of the way

said: "I have no wish to betray those whom I at Mozhaisk, west of Moscow, in the Axis drive

represent. There is yet no question of patriotism on the latter city. The Russians were driven

or national security involved in this dispute. For back at Taganrog, in the Rostoy region, they

four months the steel companies have been

whetting their knives and preparing for this stated. --In Eastern Karelia the conquering Finns have

struggle. They have increased coal storage and changed the name of the capital from Petroza

marshalled all their resources. Defense output is vodsk, after Peter the Great, to Aanislinna to

not impaired, and will not be impaired for an

indefinite period. This fight is only between a symbolize the end of an era of Russian rule

labor union and a ruthless corporation-the over territory which Finns claim as their own.

United States Steel Corporation." The next day, Its population was estimated at from 70,000 to 100.000 before the war.

the directors of the U. S. Steel Corp. approved

acceptance of a National Defense Mediation --War Secretary David Margesson announced in

Board proposal that the full board of members Commons that the number of war prisoners from decide the union shop dispute in the captive all parts of the British Empire in enemy hands coal mine strike. was about 66,000.

-President Roosevelt in a Navy Day radio broad-Three more British warships are in the U. S., cast said the Government had obtained "a de

the Navy Department announced. This brings to tailed plan" by which Germany proposed to 35 the total number of British war vessels an- abolish" religion in a conquered world end & nounced by the Department as having put into "secret map' revealing Nazı plans to weld South American ports for repairs.

America and part of Central America into five -At Bordeaux, France, a German military officer vassal States. The shooting had begun, he added.

was shot to death by four young workmen who | Oct. 28- The communique from Hitler said that

in the Donets Basin German troops entered --Washington reported an American plane missing Kramatorsk.

since yesterday, with a Navy crew of 11, and -Rome asserted that in a three-day attack on a an Army officer aboard, crashed in the "Atlantic

British convoy off Libya, two British cruisers Ocean" area, All were killed. were sunk,

Nov. 4-German forces reported capture of the Oct. 29-A Hitler headquarters bulletin states that Black Sea port of Theodosia, at the southeast

"infantry divisions with air units forced an end of the Yaila Mountains in Crimea. In the entry into the Crimean Peninsula in stubborn Atlantic, Berlin said, 11 merchant vessels of fighting. Rumanian troops took one island lying 53,000 tons, and one destroyer, were sunk in a off the northwest coast of the Sea of Azov and single Atlantic convoy by U-boats and that cleansed it of the enemy.

bombers sank three merchant vessels of 20,000 - The Russians said they had evacuated Kharkov tons off the east coast of Scotland.

"for strategic consideration at a time when the --Finnish troops have occupied the Koivisto IsSoviet Command deemed it expedient and not lands in the Gulf of Finland, driving Russian when the Germans wanted.'

forces from all former Finnish soil except the Oct. 30-German forces headed for Moscow en- Hangoe naval base near Helsinki.

circlement got through the Russian lines 90 -In Detroit, women threw eggs and tomatoes at miles to the south, and they pushed up the east Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador, as he bank of the Oka River not far" south of entered the Chancery Building with Archbishop Serpukhov, 70 miles from Moscow. The fighting Edward Mooney, head of the Roman Catholic was hand to hand in the approaches to Tula. Archdiocese of Detroit. At Maloyaroslavets, 65 miles southwest of Mos- -The British Admiralty announced that 1,276 cow, another German break-through, just south officers and men had been rescued from sunken of the city, a salient up to the banks of the Nara enemy U-boats and are held prisoners of war. River, to the north, snow and rain still hinder of these 467 are Italians. The Admiralty added: operations in that region.

"Last week when the German High Command -At Washington, John L. Lewis called off the claimed to have sunk 14 ships totaling 47,000 captive mine strike at 11:30 A. M. At 2 P. M. tons from a

convoy homeward bound from he announced that he had set a new strike dead- Gibraltar, in fact four ships totaling 8,772 tons, line for Nov. 15.

were sunk. This was only achieved by the -By Presidential order the Army took possession enemy at a cost to himself."

of the Bendix, N. J., plant of Air Associates, Nov. 5-Berlin said German troops had driven Inc., after demonstrations by non-striking em- through the Yaila Mountains to the Black Sea, ployes inside the plant had forced the removal moved beyond Theodosia and got closer to

of reinstated C. I. 0. strikers under police guard. Sevastopol West of Rostov they were reported -Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, U. 8. Senator Burton digging for a siege. Other German forces were

K. Wheeler, and John Cudahy, ex-Ambassador within 31 miles of Moscow, Berlin stated. Heavy to Belgium, addressed 20.000 persons in Madison fighting was going on at Tula and Kalinin. Square Garden, N. Y. City, under the auspices of Nov. 6-German and Rumanian forces were said the America First Committee.

by Berlin to have pushed through the Yaila Oct. 31-The U. S. destroyer, Reuben James, was

Mountains to the Black Sea coast between Yalta sunk by a torpedo "while on convoy duty" in the and Theodosia. North Atlantic, west of Iceland, the Navy De- -Joseph Stalin asserted that the Germans had partment announced. Of the crew of 145 officers lost 4,500,000 men killed, wounded or captured and men 98 were missing and believed dead, 45 since the invasion of Russia began on June 22. were rescued, 2 were known to be dead. The Russian losses, he said, were 350,000 killed, Navy Department holds little hope for rescue of 378,000 missing and 1,020,000 wounded. Berlin the seven officers and 87 men who have not been replied that Russian losses were 7,000,000 to accounted for, it was stated on Nov. 4. The 8,000,000 men killed, wounded, captured or captain of the ship was Lieut. Comdr. Heywood missing, L. Edwards, 35, of San Saba, Tex. The destroyer -The Soviet Government announced the appointwas commissioned Sept. 24, 1920, It was 314 ment of Maxim Litvínov to be Ambassador to feet long and had a maximum width of 30 feet. the United States. It displaced 1,190 tons and was armed with four -The U. S. Government announced a billion 4-inch naval rifles and a battery of anti-aircraft

dollar advance to Russia, under the Lend Lease guns. To this original equipment had been act. The loan carries no interest charge and is added the modern secret detectors developed in for strategic raw materials and commodities. the last two years. On Nov. 26 Secretary of the

Twenty members of an alleged Czech arson gang Navy Frank Knox made public the fact that two who specialized in burning food stores faced a of the Reuben James' depth bombs exploded firing squad in Vienna. after being torpedoed by the submarine and -A merchant ship, alleged to be the Odenwald, while members of the crew were struggling in laden with raw rubber and tires, bound from the water, Some of the survivors had charged Yokohama for Bordeaux, France, was seized that a considerable number of those in the water in the equatorial Atlantic by a U. S. cruiser. had been killed by the exploding bombs.

The Navy reported that the Odenwald was sail-The Germans reported taking of Kalinin, north

ing under the name Willmoto and flying a west of Moscow. Leningrad, they said, is en- U. S. flag circled except as to the small strip of land -Canadian Navy Minister Angus Macdonald anbetween that city and Lake Ladoga.

nounced German submarines were operating off

the coast of Newfoundland, within sight of the 1941-NOVEMBER

shore, Nov. 1-The German Government denied cate- Nov. 7-The U.S. Senate, 50 to 37, voted to change

gorically White House charges that Chancellor the 1939 neutrality act to permit American Hitler had planned to organize Central and merchant ships to arm and to traverse combat South America into vassal states. He denied areas to carry supplies to ports of belligerents. also, any thought of an International Socialist Nov. 8-In Munich, at the celebration of the beerChurch in place of existing denominations. He hall putsch, Chancellor Hitler said: “Mr. Presidenled, further, that German warships had dent Roosevelt has commanded his ships to "begun the shooting." putting that responsi- shoot as soon as they see German ships. And I bility on the U. S. warboats. Quite on the have commanded German ships, whenever they contrary, Hitler declared, the two American see Americans, not to shoot thereupon but to destroyers (Greer and Kearny) "had attacked defend themselves as soon as they are attacked. German submarines and that therefore the The German officer who does not defend himUnited States had attacked Germany, a fact

self I will place before a court martial. If. which has also been confirmed by the American therefore, an American ship on the basis of the naval authorities."

command of its President, shoots, then it will -An Army bomber plane from Dayton Field do so at its own danger. The German ship will crashed near Findlay, O., and five persons were

defend itself and our torpedoes will strike." killed.

--Hundreds of British planes made one of the --London had its first air raid alarm since July 27. heaviest raids of the war on German cities and Nov. 2-The German High Command reported Axis ports on the Channel and in the Media

capture of Simferopol, capital of the Crimea, terranean. In Brindisi alone 127 persons were German planes bombed Sevastopol.

killed. "British supply shipping" sunk during October --Secretary of the Navy Knox announced that a totaled 441.300 gross tons.

Naval Operations Base had been established in -A U S. Army bomber's tail was blown off when Iceland under the Commander in Chief of the

12.000 feet high; two of the crew were sucked U. S. Atlantic Fleet "both for administrative

out and parachuted safely; the seven others died. and task purposes.' Nov. 3--Berlin said that Kursk, a Russian pro- Nov. 9- Berlin reported Axis bombers had sunk a

vincial capital between Moscow and Kharkov, Soviet warship and 17 transports in the Black had been taken.

Sea.