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DUNKIRK, N. Y., MONDAY, DECEMBER 8,. 1941-

DECLARED DY U. S.
AGAINST JAPANESE;
BRITAIN JOINS WAR
i

White House Announces 3000 Casualties at Honolulu

PACIFIC OCEAN BECOMES THEATER OF U. S.-JAPANESE WAR
1,500 ARE DEAD Congress Declares State of War
IN OAHU ISLAND,
SAYSW1NGION Exists Between U. S. and Japan
Following President's Request
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JAPANESE BASES

CANADA^

American Naval and Air Forces Swinging Into Real

Action Now.

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EAST INDIE

PACIFIC OCEAN
CARTOGRAPHER'S
OF WESTERN HEMISPHERE

AUSTRALIA

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(thine* tiuwil i>n iiiivnit'l; i/timors. mitl o n ' G u a m punctuated

tliis ilcTlimirinn. w h i l e the I". S. Piu'it'ic fleet steamed out of
I'eiirl IrHrlior Imso in H a w a i i .

RUSSIANS HAVE U.S. FLEET BEGINS JAPANESE

Of m IHES SMASHED NAZIS COUNTER ATTACK ISOLATION TALK
IIOFTHEIIMES- BACKNEARTULA AGAINSTJAPAN INWARWtOW
"'Won Hopes for Quick Vic-

and Sympathy of

fallow Peoples

Winter Fastening Icy Grip on Ships Steam .Out of Pearl Spirit of America Unites With
Very First Bomb At
Harbor to Execute P>e- /
GermansItalians Race
,
, Oahu.
conceived Plans.
from Field.

By JOHN R. BEAL
By RICHARD C. HOTTELET
Washington, Dec. 8(UP)
Wnshington, Dec. 8 (UP)
Ernni tonight
thftt Oernwny has I The mivy pressed huge-scaled na- Isolationist sentiment in congress
ciisappenrccl today almost without
un'es* abandontd Attempt, to capture v.1 .nd
<'"
! Japan in the buttle
of the Pacific n trace.
's. Me Moicow for thti winter.
The men who have fought Pres' today.
d by
The counter-offensive begun Ihc ident Roosevelt's foreign policy
By KOBEKT DOWStON
joined his supporters, in calling for
^he Mit.wUntdnn. Dtc, 8-.(UP)-Ruian : moment the first Japanese bomb war against Japan.
exploded
on
the
Hawaiian
islands,
have! skinned and taken
D.,
. ' .Sen. Sin-ion K. Wheeler,
;he important Serpukhov-Tula ar- nnvnl officials said.
Mont., spearhead of congressionThe
immediate
objectives
of
the
, . , , {print highway on the south Mnal opposition to President Rooser>
Coi-respmdrtil !cow ^ ^ ^ German.- m' Pacific and Asiatic fleets are to velt, said the Japanese bombs
i!
( p) Ja
hunt
down
Japanese
naval
units
at
> -' ^ P"| i p! i m | in lo the southeast
dropped at Pearl harbor
''mean
c United 3tyles ; ji^^j,^ thpif tank*, truck;! nn(1! largt- in the Pacific and to block- war and we'll have
to see
il
n;e w i t h long- items, the
Moseow
through."
f;iuatical
tiMerlecl in a
Sen. Gerafd P. Nye, R., N. D,
> based bombers in the Philippines
tttdny.
The road connect* Tula with
a racial War. Moscow. 100 miles to the north.
(Continued on Page IS)
yellow- peo(Continued on Page Five)
'es-oart ot \ f w Attack* Smafttied
Front dl.<patche.s snid Rusin<>
had repuUcd new German attack*
r'ar Kast,
by fierce counter-attacks' nn thr
young i8c

Brlin, Dec. 8.(UP)-A

ff re- Nail military ipokeimnn *aid

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CHINA NOW DECLARES

WAR AGAINST JAPS,
to Christmas
GERMANS, ITALIANS

14 SHOPPING DAYS

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(Continued oti Page Five)

HAITI SWINGS IN

riVl Au Prince. Haiti. Dec. 8

Haiti dwlired war on
Japan today.

Amtricun groctri. butchers, and

ftien .ind mcmbefj

aiul navy wprp lutl ulliviji wlni' Mil goM< by weight
;<us; n[ their graml- ennually ntiuin- more than 08,000 new computing settle*, according to the Ctniu*.

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: Chungking, Dec. 8 (UP)

Chinese Foreign
Minister quo
Tal^Chl today said China has decided to declare war against Germany and Italy as well as Japan,
'against 'which the Chungking regime has, 'never made a formal
declaration of war.

U. P. Reports Are Reliable.

Washington, Dec. 8(UP)

Casualties on the Hawaiian Island of Oahu In yesterday's Japanese air attach will amount to
about 1.000, Including about 1.500 fatalities, the White House
announced today.
The White House confirmed the
loss in Pearl harbor of '"one old
battleship" and u destroyer, which
was blown up.
Several other American ships
.were damaged and a-large number of army - id navy airplanes
on Hawaiian fields were put out
of commission, the White House
disclosed.
U. S. Forces Moving Now
It reported at the same time
that American operations against
Japan were Ijeing .carried out on
a large scale, resulting already in
the destruction of "a number tilJapanese planes, and submarines."

Joint Session of Two Legislative Bodies Called - Roosevelt Demands To*tal War Against "Infamous'* Foe
for Dastardly Attack on Hawaiian Islands
Sunday Night.

By LYLE G. WILSON
Washington, Dec. 8. (UP) Congrew today
proclaimed existence of a state; of war betweem th
United States and the Japanese empire 33 minutes after the dramatic moment when President Roosevelt
stood before a joint session to pledge that we will triumph "so help us, God."
Democracy was proving its right to a place in the
sun
with
a split-second shiftover from peace to allChurchill Makes Announceout
war.
.
'
ment At Emergency
The
Senate
acted
first
adopting
the
resolution
Session Today.
by, a unanimous roll call vote of 82 to 0, within 21
San Francisco The SingBy EDWARD \V. BEATTIE
apore radio, heard by a Unitminutes after the president had concluded his speech.
London. Dec. 8(UP)Great
ted Press listening post here
The house voted immediately afterward and by
today, reported that two
Britain today made formal dec1
:13
P. M. a -majority of the house had voted "aye."
American - built Hudson
laration of war against Japan.
bombers operating off the
The
resolutions were before both houses within
The announcement was made to
north Malayan coast had scoremergency
session
of
pariiaj
15
minutes
of the time Mr. Roosevelt ended his sevened direct hits on two Japanese
ment by Prime Minister Winston minute, 500 word extraordinary message.
troop ship* and another HudChurchill.
son bomber had scored a diThere was a half second of uncertainty in the
The session convened at 3 p. m.
rect hit on a barge loaded
(9 a. m. EST), and Churchill im- house when Rep. Jeannette Rankin, R., Mont., objectwith Japanese soldiers.
mediately announced Britain's ac- ed to unanimous consent for immediate consideration
The White House statement said: tion, fulfilling his pledge of jus! of the war resolution.
"American operations against a month ago that Britain would
Speaker Sam Rayburn brushed the objection
the Japanese attacking force in stand beside the United States if
aside. It was she who in the small hours of April 6,
the neighborhood of the Hawaiian war came to the Pacific.
Churchill addressed the house 1917,
islands are still continuing. A
faltered, wept and finally voted "no" against *
number ol Japanese planes and of commons in a solemn and ser- similar resolution aimed at Germany.
ious
vein
and
warned
against,
any
submarines have been destroyed.
When the clerk came to her name on the roll call
"The damage caused to our tendency to underestimate Japan's
forces in Oahu in yesterday's at- military and naval strength.
today, she voted "no" again.
Churchill's
speech
lacked
the
tack appear more- serious than at
A chorus of hisses and boos greeted her vote, the
famous invective which he hurled 1
first believed.
against
Italy
when
Premier
Benito
first
cast against the war resolution.
"In Pearl harbor itself one old

GREAIBRITAIN
DECLARES WAR
AGAINpPAN

battleship has capsized and sev- Mussolini brought his nation into
Washington Dec. 8 (UP)
eral other ships have been serious- the war at the darkest hour of the
Allied
cause.
ly damaged.
Formally aligning Britain beDestroyer Blown Up
side, the United States, the prime
''One destroyer was blown up. minister emphasized that the war clare that "a stats of war has
Several other small ships were which has now spread over *lwo existed between the United
seriously hurt. Army and navy hemispheres is an indivisible and
fields were bombed with the re- interdependent conflict.
sulting destruction, of several
The session of commons lasted
text of President Roosevelt's war
hangars. A large number of only a half hour. It was a busir- "unprovoked and dastardly
message
to congress:
planes were put out of commission. ness-like, undrama^ic
meeting, attack."
To
the
congress of the United
"A number of bombers arrived typifying the extent to which the
The house voted shortly'on
States: '
safely from San Francisco dun ng war in Britain has become one similar .resolution.
Yesterday. Dec. 7, 1941A daU
the engagementwhile it was un- i long, hard job.
The senate resolution was in- which
will live
in infamyth
derway. Reinforcements of planes' Britain's note to Japan an-i'troduced by Chairman Tom Con- United
States of
America wu
arc being rushed and repair work nouncing her declaration of war j nally, D., Tex., of the senate forsuddenly and deliberately attackla^urfderway on the ships, planes \yas couched in language stronger eign relations committee.
ed by naval and air force*,of tb*
and-ground facilities.
It read:
than; that employed by Churchill
empire of Japan.
:
in commons. ,'
i
'.'Declaring that, a state of war
The United States wa> at pe*c*.
(Continued from Page One)
It charged that "this wanton ac: exists between the imperial Jap- with that nation and, at the solicof unprovoked aggression was anese government and the gov-itation of Japan, was stilt in con*
committed in fragrant violation of ernment and the people, of the versation with Its government and
United States nnd making pro- its emperor looking toward
international .law."

th*
Mrs, Church ill sat in the dts- vision to prosecute the same:.
TttHe quotations ar* furnished
maintenance of peace in th* Pathigui.jhed
strangers
gallery
of
the
''WHEREAS
the
Imperial
Japthrough the courtesy ot Goodbody
cific. Indeed, one hour after Jap& Co. 17 Cnurt St., Buffalo, N * houae as her. husband spoke. She j anese government has committeed anese air squadrons 'had
comwore a bandeau on which was unprovoked acts of war against menced bombing in Oahu,
th
84% printed the slogan: "Go. . . Go. . ..'the government and the people ol Japanese ambassador to the UnitAlcoPfd
.i;.'...
9-% Go.
Alco 'Common ....
the United States of America: ed States and-his colleague deliv A Hegheny-Ludlum
"It remains," said Churchill, 'therefore-, be it
ered, to the secretary of tat a
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'for the two great democracies to "'RESOLVED by the senate and formal reply to a recent American
25
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lace tHe. task
with
whatever j house of representatives of: the message. While this reply ttate*
SO Vs strength God may give them."
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Each time he mentioned China'gross assembled, that the state of existing diplomatic negotiations
Consolidated Oil
33/4 or Gen. Chiang Kai-Shek the war between the, United State* it contained no threat or bint ot
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house cheered.
and the imperial Japanese gov- war or armed attack.
General Motors
34%
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