Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1940 — Page 3

Hints Inditectly of hid oy America Eventually. |

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in the devastated French port and thereby held up the Nazi | gm

blow at Paris or London.

The final victory in the Battle of Fiandefs wi now has |

released the Nazi invaders for the new lightning blow which Adolf Hitler has predicted will be a “knockout. "| The meeting today of Mussolini and his Cou cil of Min-

isters failed to throw any light. on. the time of Italy’s entry|

into the war, but. it émphasized that the Fasci ‘nation now was fully prepared to strike on a oment’s notice. The Council approved several war decrees providi 2 for strict war-time discipline in all war industries. Indications were, assuming Mu solini has | agreed to enter the war when Hitler says “go,’ that Hitler is in no immediate hurry for Italy to enter. i ussolini’ Ss ‘position has much the same effect as if he were a elligerent, because it keéps heavy forces of French troops away from the Western _ Front and immobile on guard along the Alps Sap the Mediterranean. : Speculate on Duce’ s<Course Paris and London are. speculating on several courses Mussolini may take. They believe it not impossible that before entering the war, he will present his demands on France in ultimative form, asking for Tunisia, Nice, Corsica, ‘Gibraltar, French Somaliland and the Suez ay : If the demands are refused, Italy might enter the war, ‘simultaneously with a furious German drive on Paris and a new aerial blitzkrieg. Any such Italian A almost certainly would be rejected and Hitler’s hopes of getting a separate peace with France balked. The idea, widely held earlier, that Mussolini would ture into the Balkans is now regarded as less likely becatse of possible complications involving Turkey and Russia. He might attack in North Africa or Egypt—at least one Italian paper already has spoken of Egypt as the ‘next battleground—but there again Turkey enters into the -picture. There is also a strong mixed Allied Army in the Near East to be overcome. | ; Use of Italy’s Air Force Hinted | : It has been suggested that the Italian air force might be used to join the Germians in systematic bombing of in‘dustrial southern France. However, such important north-

ern Italian industrial cities as Milan and Turin are within|:

easy bombing of the French naval-gir base at Toulon ard would have to be protected. If Italy attacks France directly, it might be in conjunction with a German drive through or around Switzerland and| up the Lombardy plains to the Alpine passes. However, Italy’s role is still a matter of speculation. It may be that Mussolini would prefer to get what he wants and share in the spoils of the war without fightir.g, if he can. Therefore, the question of his entrance may ke delayed ‘until the outcome of the impending German drive on Paris becomes almost apparent. That might take weeks, during which Mussolini would continue his role of keeping the French on the defensive in the southeast.

come in.

Nazis Capture Dunkirk

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Then, if Hitler finds he cannot whip the| French alone, he might be expected to call on Mussolini to

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By J. ‘'W. T. MASON United Press War Expert Germany's air raid on Paris has demonstrated that modern air defense of cities now far exceeds the ‘|offensive bombing power of airplanes, compared with the results of the last war. Anticipated devastating effects of air raids on civilians have not been sustained by the attack on Paris, which gives the first reliable large-scale data for analysis since the beginning of the war. If the Germans can do no better in future air operations against civilians than they accomplished in ; their assault on Paris, the expected terrorizing effect of air bombing against civilian centers will have to be written down as fiction.

The Germans have been credited with perfecting blitzkrieg air tactics to a degree far exceeding the efficiency of the last war, but the offensive against Paris shows no basis for any such claim.

Mr. Mason

Today S War Moves

participated, the largest carrying one ton of explosives each. A conservative estimate would

-1give 200 planes actively engaged

with an average of one-half ton of bombs each, or a total of 100 tons of explosives dropped on Paris and the suburbs. Yet, the French casualties were only 45 dead and 149 wounded. The total casualties thus equals less than one for eaeh German plane, a trivial number when compared with the German accom-

| plishment in the last war.,

During the whole of the World War German aviators dropped a total of only 74 tons of bombs over England. Yet the casualties were 857 killed and 2058 wounded. That is to say, if 100 tons be accepted as the probable amount of bombs dropped during’ the Paris raid, it represents 25 per cent more than the explosives dropped on England in the World War.” The total Paris casualties, however, were less than 7 per cent of the air cas-

attack was first developed. This decline in the striking power of airplanes, as shown by the Paris attack, is one of the most astonishing and unexpected results of the war to the present time. It seems to indicate . that “air raids have failed to show the major value on which army leaders were counting and which were so dreaded by

In the Paris raid, between 200 c and 250 planes are said to have!

i ip e principal reason Jor the de-

Paris Apartment Bombed

Times-Acme Telephoto.

One of the more than 1000 German bombs dropped on Paris yester-

day blasts a gaping hole in an apartment house. six stories w he bwin and piled the bottom one wih wreckage,

The bomb shattered

uvalties in England when airplane

down = air battles and 300 to 400 + were destroyed on the ground. It was admitted that nine German planes were missing. The Germans were able to render Prench anti-aircraft fire ineffectual and through co-ordinated high altitude and low altitude attacks upon air fields and factories “to achieve most effective hits,” the communique said. It added: | “Numerous fires and explosions were observed.” . _ The communique said that Allied flights and bombing attacks on west and southwest Germany “continued with the usual insignificant success.” Earlier reports . had said that eight persons were, killed when an

IN INDIANA pon

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40 32 43

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———— MEETINGS TODAY

Rotary Club, Claypool Hotel, noon. ¥’s Men’s Club, Y. M. C. A. noon. i Alpha Tau Omega, Board of Trade. noon.

Gyro Club. Spink-Arms Hotel, noon. Paiversss 0 Crh, Hotsl Lincoln, noon. lumbia Club, ho Phi a Oo Betta. TE es. 6p University of Michigan Culb, Board ot

Ta ants of Columbus. K. of C. clubhouse. oon. } } Lutheran Service Club, Canary Cottage, o Pirie Ps Paper Credit Group. Wm. H. Block 1 Suge tal ‘Librarians’ Association. Claypool tate Lu (Jp Leader er, Teaining ConA Traini Olfieh School, Som-

anu enceme t, Cadle Tabernacle, 8 p mn Indian y a law S hoo! Alumni Asso

biation. oon’ Gn a. senior class ball, ——— v MEETINGS TOMORROW Y. M. C. A. Camera Club, Y. M. C. A,

m. Lions Club—Claypool Hotel, noon Young Men's Discussion Club. Y.

. Purdue Alumni Association, Hots rin 12h Dist Disiriet American Legion, B Tra Sma Alpha Epsilon, Board of

Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Proparty, Managers’ Division, Canary Cottage,

nO adiana 8 ety. Sor Sons 2 Ine Au Resoit Fhietd Tac. seviite oe Co-Oper: of indian Re Co- = hoon Association, HoAnicrg, Soon, of Commerce, (canary

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6 cent’s.

Allied airplane raided Allach, a

surburb of Munich, at 2 a. m. The raid was on a Bavarian motor works factory and a single Allfed plane was believed to have dropped (hombs, one of which struck the factory and the other of which fell to the ground without exploding. (In New York the National Broadcasting ‘Co. and the Colunibia Broadcasting System heard a British brcadcast asserting that last night German planes made a threehour raid in the La Havre region. The report said that high explosive bombs were used and although details were not available it was understood ‘that a number of private houses were hit.) ’

Kiwanis Club, Columbia Club, noon. Junior onder raining Conh Ending, Indiana State Indiana Society of printmakers, H. Lieber Co. galleries, Special Librarians’ Association, Claypool Hote

a Shortridge Vitigh Schon) commencement, | *

and Game AssociaFoundrymen's Association, Hotel Wash-

61 Delta Sone "Kappa. Hotel Washington,

7:30 p. m. |

BIRTHS . Girls David, Mabel Pyles, at Methodist. Theobald, Beatrice Stiles, at Methodist. ‘Frederick, Dorothy Vogel, at Methodist.

Harold, Eloise Devine, at Methodist. Warren, Katherine McClain, at St. Vin-

Boys Earl, Miriam Russell, at Coleman. Robert, Lucille Heath, at Coleman, Clatehee, Jeanette Gatcs, at City. Hilda Torrella, at St. Pra ncis. er, "Catherine Prestel, at St. Francis. Fred, Arnetta Whitehouse, at Methodist. Robert, Jane Jones at Methodist. Rivard Frances Arens, at St. cen Donald, Rosina Housley. at St. Vincent's. Lawrence, ‘Lucille ‘Dollens, at 2227 N.

mple. Wiliam, Florence Pyle, at 1239 Roache. Jaspet, Margaret Hardin, at 4602 &.

18t Robert. Naomi Ross, at 834 S. Senat Paul, Loretta Cannon, at 822 Division. at 235 Douglas. Harris.

Mary Hurley, James, Ellen Montgomery, at 3 Sn —— DEATHS William Donahue, 54, at St. Vincent's, carcinoma. Isaac Neal, 78, at 2135 Olney, chronic nephritis. atherine Byrne, 71, at 5912 Central, cerebral hemorrhage. Dickson, 2, at Long, carcinoma. Leslie Galloway, 57, at Methodist, coronary thrombosis. Lillian Rockwood, 69, at 14 8. Euclid, myo Gitis, Arthur Polk, 81, at 2618 8. Capitol, coronary occlusion ella Check, 31 at City, intra cranial hémorth 70, at 2252 Pierson,

Thomas Casserley, cerebral apoplexy. ; John at Veterans, arterio2, at Riley,

Lutz, . 47, te Wagner,

scler On Jani heart.

Ba genital hi Becaars. 2% vroMs, 1 bronchopneumonia Ferdinand Karman, 53, at 11 N. Tacoma,

sozonary thrombosi Herman, 59, ‘at 4100 8. Meridian, 34, at “St.

rg id “Rathfon, Vincent's, al pericarditis. noma. alts, 68, at 3835 Clarendon Rd. 3

tl] Finney, 49. at Long, pebtic Hleers:

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French Airmen Strike Back, Raiding Northwest Germany

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Le Journal reported today that one German homb scored a direct hit on a thinly-covered air raid shelter trench and killed 20 children and wounded 20 among the hundreds who sought safety. It was asserted that the five schools and one hospital hit made up 16 per cent of the total of buildings damaged. A great blast of anti-aircraft fire

might be -already—as the Army spokesman disclosed they were— raining death on Germany. |Air force experts asserted that at least 120 German bombing planes, escorted by an equal number of Messerschmidt fighters, executed yesterday's raids in the Paris area in which five schools and a hospitai were struck, among other buildings,

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and at least 10 school children were killed. !

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sent Parisians to shelter again today. A single German plane was seen flying direct over the United Press offices, surrounded by dozens of bursts from anti-aircraft shells, but no. air raid alarm was sounded and no bombs were dropped. The plane was at about 25,000 feet altitude. Workers at dawn began demolishing dangerously overhanging parts of damaged buildings. {An official survey hrought the statement that only one bomb in each 14 dropped in Paris and one in each 11 dropped in the suburbs was effective: At least 40 bombs fell in the Seine, it was asserted. A United Press survey showed ti:at no bombs had struck any of the city’s favorite tourist attractions such as the Louvre, Versailles Palace or the Arc de Triomph. Greatest damage was done in the most densely populated suburbs. In one suburban street, each house in a row of 12 had been set afire by .00 | iicendiary bombs, and” apparently 5 |one bomb had struck each house.

Nazis Aimed at Main Roads

‘There was no exodus from the city, and roads to the country were almost deserted throughout the night. The largest German bombs identified were of 220 pounds. Of these, the biggest German bombers were able to carry one ton each. There were a few 110-pound bombs, but most were smaller, including 11pound incendiary bombs. The War Office spokesman sajd that the Germans apparently sought to destroy main roads, war factories, railroads and air fields. But the air defense of the capital area attained an all-time record intensity and almost a curtain of fire obliged the Germans to ‘drop their bombs haphazardly, the spokesman said, and that was the reason for civilian deaths. * Funerals of air raid victims started this morning and will continue tomorrow.

DOUBT SABOTAGE IN CRASH

LOS ANGELES, June 4 (U. P). —Aviation experts sought today to determine the significance of a pair cof wire-cutting pliers found in the wreckage of a Douglas DC5 plane which crashed | Spsurgay killing four persons. They Said they were in<

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OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. S. Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST: Fair and continued warm tonight, becoming unsejtled tomorrow. Sunrise... ..... 4:17 | Sunset....... 7:09 TEMPERATURE : | ==June 4, 1939—

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crease in the number of casualties is the scattering of the population over wide areas. During the last war no such advance preparations to protect civillians from air raiders had been made as now. The evacuation of children from exposed cities to far-off retreats and the provision of air shelters in congested areas enormously decrease the numbker of human targets. Too, anti-aircraft guns and defensive fighting planes compel the attacking aviators to seek safety by flying very high, in some cases over five miles in the air. They cannot select objectives at will from such a height and must

promiscuously. The French report

the Seine River. It seems evident, therefore, that in cases where full advantage has been taken of the defensive devices against air raids over “cities, the injury attacking planes can do to civilians is inconsequential.

the case of pro damage. Though the British suffered so many airraid casualties in the last war, yet

than $7,000,000. There is no information yet available of the destruction of property in the Paris raid, however. Until that is known, no comparison can be made.

FIGHT T0 GO ON, CHURCHILL SAYS

Hints End to Defensive War After Revealing Rescue of 335,000 in’ Flanders.

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defend our island home . . if neces-

sary alone.” Munitions Hurried

8. British munitions are‘ being supplied wish greater rapidity than ever, there are now more powerful armed forces on the British Isles than at any time in this war or the World War and ‘“we shall not be content with a defensive war.” 9. The Government intends “to use our powers without the slightest hesitancy” elements in Britain “until this malignancy in our midst is effectually stamped out.” Police raided British Fascist offices throughout the country today, arresting more than 50 local leaders. 10. Even if the British Isles were

‘| subjugated in large part—which “I

will not for a moment believe”—the British Empire, guarded by the fleet, will carry on the struggle “until in God’s good time thé new world with all its power and might steps forth to the liberation and rescue of the old.”

Counter Offensive Blocked

Churchill placed no specific blame on the French for permitting the Germans to break through the Meuse defenses and sweep “like a sharp scythe” to the Channel ports, encircling the Allies in the north.

But: he pointed out that the French were in command and that it was decided that a big counteroffensive should be launched from the Somme River to break through the erman- “scythe,” instead of withdrawing the troops in the north when that was possible. This was done, he indicated, to prevent destruction of the Belgian Army, but whatever chance it had for success was lost ‘when Leopold surrendered. From the moment that the Sedan and Meuse defenses were pierced, in the second week of May, it became necessary for the Allies to fall back on Amiens and southward in order to attempt to rescue the armies which they had sent into Belgium upon the request of Leopold.

Allied Attack Hinted

An authoritative London source said that regardless of speculation of the scene of the next German attack it might not be necessary for Weygand, the Allied generalissimo, to wait to be attacked at all. Meanwhile, Allied air forces raided military objectives in various paris of Germany during the night, press reports said, in vengeance for Germany’s raids on Paris yesterday. It had been understood that the Allied air forces would exact swift and stern reprisals against German cities for Adolf Hitler's raids in which five schools and a hospital were bombed. A sudden blanking out during the night of the Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Munich and Nurembereg broadcasting stations had caused speculation as to whether military objectives at some or all of those German cities had not been bombed by avenging Allied planes, or visited by' reconnaissance planes preparing data for a raid. Britons awaited eagerly some word from the Air Ministry which would tell them that allied attacks had been started. Plane Driven Off Coast

Aviation experts had pointed out that no official news could be expected of any raids until all Allied planes had been returned and reports of results collated. Though Britain’s air force is still numerically inferior to Germany's, it is held here to be superior in quality, ‘and since years before the war Britain’s air strategy has been based on a polity of reprisal for German raids on British cities, which were taken for granted in event of war. Hence Britain has a stron retaliate for any raids on Britain, and might be used to avenge raids on France. A single German Heinkel plane,

night, sent anti-aircraft guns and fighter planes into action. The plane was driven out to sea, where the sound of fire told of a British plane pursuit. The immediate effect of the Gers!

Britain’s own defense preparations A strong military guard, with bayoneted rifles, took control of a key road near Nottingham, in the heart of the Midlands industrial area. Big tree trunks-and a caterpillar tractor. were placed in the] road as obstructions, along with| overturned trucks, so as to Feduce

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Slined to doubt sabotage.

traffic to a single line.

drop their bombs, to a large extent,” many bombs fell harmoniously in.

against Fifth Column |

striking force which would]

seen off the southeast coast -last|

man raids on Paris was to intensify|’

ombing of Paris Indicates Air Tactics Overrated

It may possibly be different in

the total property damage was less

War takes to the air.

ROME, June 4 (U. P.).—Premier Benito Mussolini and the Council

decrees comnvleting Italy's prepared-

ness for war today and the ministers told the Fascist Prime Minister to “count on us” in any crisis. The communique issued after the meeting merely disclosed approval of a number of decrees carrying forward the nation’s already extensive preparations for possible entry into the conflict. ’ But, it was understood, Mussolini told the ministers what he expected them to do in event Italy enters

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Times Telephoto.

Cities are bombed by the i and Germans.

Approve Duce 'sWar Stand

the conflict and was enthusiastically applauded. “Count on us!” the Ministers were said to have shouted. An announcement later said that telephone communications between

Italy and France has been sus-

pended. The cause was not given, Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano reported to the Cabinet on the foreign situation. The Fascist Grand Council will not meet tonight, it was stated officially despite previous reports that the session would be held and

might decide the time for Italy's guests of Otto T. Kreuscer, Allison - |

entry into the war.

GENTLEMEN-—We

SLOAN INSPECTS ALLISON PLANT

Visit Follows Roosevelt's Request for Expansion ~ Of Local Output.

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mediate new expansion-of plant facilities. The main production plant in Speedway City, which was constructed only nine months ago, | already is undergoing a $2,000,000 ehlargement project. “Set-Backs” Reported

The inspection trip also was interpreted as confirming reports of serious set-backs in the production’ of the 400 and 500-mile an hour liquid-cooled motors which are America’s bid for military warld fair supremacy. It has been reported without cons firmation that little more than tis motors are coming off production lines daily at a time when the Di- - vision is swamped with more than $40,000,000 in orders from both the U. S. Army and the Allies. At a conference in Washington

yesterday the Government asked General Motors, and four other aus tomobilé manufacturers, expand their production of engifies to power the armada of fighting planes con= templated under the defense pro=-

am. Other Officials on Hand

With Mr. Sloan for the inspection were Donaldson Brown, New York, vice chairman of] the board; James D. Mooney, New Kork, vice president in charge of overseas operations; John Thomas Smith, vice president and general counsel; Henry Hogan, assistant general counsel; C. E. Wilson, Detroit, executive vice president; and ‘Albert’ Bradley, New York, vice president. The party arrived by train froin New York at 8:30 a. m. and was scheduled to go to Detroit, center of the Company's auto industry, tonight. Whilé here they were the

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