The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 4, 1941, Page 5

‘Associated Pres [ JANUARY ¢ Calendar _Of Year’s Historic yep§§_ One month old was the Russo-Finnish war when 1940 dawned in Europe where war hetween Allies and Axis was also being fought—Ilazily at Maginot Line and sporadically in air over Thames estuary and Sfollaml. Outnumbered Finnish troops routed the Russian 44th division Jan. 8 near Suomus- THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, SATURDAY, e 8 FEBRUARY the Altmark (above), Nazi prison sl Russigzs moving on Viipuri. salmi where Arctic cold hastened death and froze Russian soldiers into grotesque shapes. APRIL Germany struck April 9, invading Den- mark which submitted and Norway which vesisted so stubbornly that Steinkjer (above) and other Norwegian towns soon felt the fury of Nazi bomb- ers. The Allies vainly tried to muster aid for Norway. i ¥ OCTOBER Unrecorded are thoughts of Pe- tain (left), hero of Verdun and premier of«Viehy government, as he met Hitler, con- queror of Frauce, Oet. 24. Britain rgppened.the Burima road in mid-October, and Italy invaded Greece on Oct. 28. ]UL Y_ Britain’s fear that French fleet would be put to war uses ) if it fell into Axis hands led to July 3 naval battle off Oran, Algeria, where British gunfire sank French battleship Bretagne (sinking, center) and crippled cruisers, various’ craft. On July 21, Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania—under pressure—voted to join the U. R. TR MA ‘Y Long remembered will be May. Hitler irvaded Hollanl and Belgi than a week. Churchill replaced Chamberlain as primé minister. ers by a combination of the Germans® Sedan break-through that advanced N capitulation of Belgian King Leopold and surrender of his soldiers (left). Into the neutral waters of a Norwegian fjord, British ves- sels pushed Feb. 16 to take 300 ca Finland’s plight was becoming desperate with urkey, on Feb. 8, suddenly seized the large Gerr owned Krupp shipyards on the Golden Horn, an inlet of the strategic Bosporus straits. m May 10, crushing the Dutch in less Allied troops were trapped in Fland- 14, riding past the Arc de Triomphe (al rch channel-ward, and of May 28th i ne 335,000 soldiers trapped in Fland- > +4 3 s 1940: WAR IN REVI-WY e Fall of the French cabinet with MARCH Reynaud (left) replacing Daladie= (right) came March 20, just eight days after the Russo- Finnish p treaty that gave Russia the Karelian Isthmus, Vi ri. Lake Ladoga shoreline. and other areas. e British seamen off France collapsed quickly. Italy entered war June 10 and Nazis occupied Paris June JUNE ve). France ed an armistice with Germany June 22 at Com. piegne forest in railway car used for the 1918 armistice, ers were taken off blood-stained beaches at Dunkerque, endless human chains (right) reaching out to rescue ships. c A UG UST Nazi planes by the hundreds crossed the channel to bomb England, starting an aerial blitzkrieg that lasted for weeks. Londoners took over subway platforms and tracks to escape bombs. Raiders visited ports, industrial Midlands. Britain sent her bombers over the Reich, watched for any Nazi invasion attempts. poo — o P . NOVEMBER Only a shell of historic ca- thedral at Coventry, Eng- land, rémained after fierce Nazi raid Nov. 14. At least 60 personis -were' slain about Nov. 26 by Fumanian Iron Guardists avenging 1938 death of their leaaer, Codreann DECEMBE! =Lere British soldiers (right) askeéd U. S. for replacements. Hitler’s Dec. 10 speech called German capacity for woik “our gold,” said *“with this gold ¥ defeat any other power in the world.” Viscount Halifax became Ambassador to u.s. SEP TE MBER Signing by Germany, Italy and Japan of a 10-year milil‘al;y. political pact was big news Scpt. 27. Ambassador Saburo Kurusu (left) signed for Japan, Ciano (center) for Italy, and von Ribbentrop for Ger- many, Hitler (right) attended. Rumanians rebelled Sept. 5, 6 over Axis-dictated cession of Transylvania area to Hungary; King Carol abdicated, was succceded by son, Mihai. s . P 7 i T .. & — Vs Petain’s dismissal Dec. 14 of pro-Nazi Pierre Laval (left) as vice premier, and retreat of invading ltaliuns—out of Greece where they met knife-bearing warriors, and out of Egypt usked them into Libya—added up as Axis reverses. Britain lost ships to Nazi subs,, 5 4 é F i —