Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1940 — Page 2

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FIGHT PLAN TO END

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More than 150 persons are exbected to jam the Public Service Commission offices in the Statehouse Monday in protest to the proPosed abandonment of the Lexington Ave. Streetcar

Petition for the abandonment has been filed by the Indianapolis Railways. The petition asserts that the line has been losing money for era] years and operated last at a $19.000 deficit Opponents to the proposal point out that will have to walk from four to five blocks if the line 1S removed Railway spokesmen say there is sufficient transportation facilities without the car line. At a mass meeting last night Hugh Francisco was named chairman of the protest group. Mr. Francisco's committee includes Harry Royce, EE M heh A O'Brien, Mrs. Hugh Francisco and Mi SS Martha McFarland

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by British in Fierce Fight FARLEY'S TEARS

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Rritish claimed to have sunk an Italian destroyer and to have heavily damaged an Italian battleship in the action. In the British Isles, defense forces battled powerfully against a new series of German bombing raids from the channel-—where shivping was under heavy attack—to Scotland. German along land, and

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dive bombers struck the southeast coast of Engbut anti-aircrait guns on SIHDS land as well as attacks by British drove them back brouzht down six or afternoon, The renewal of aerial the British Isles might timed to coincide with speech before the Reichstag lin From Holland, nm and France came new repercussions of the German triumph in Western Europe and a declaration of special interest to the United States At The Hague, it was declared that Germany will take reprisals for al leged mistreatment of Germans in The Netherlands East and West Indies T'he

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appeared 10 Dutch colonial authorities had interned since mvasion otf the Low Countries The French Government at Vichy published two decrees providing that 1Ivll servants may be of foreign origin and that haturalization of any non-native citizen may be can celed at any time. From Berlin. the official News Agency said Hitler had ordered release of all Bel diers, except officers, that man military commander in glum and northern France issued strict orders to “pacify country and prevent return of ugee government officials. In a sudden whirlwind propaganda campaign, the Germans and Italians had whipped their nerves and terror offensive to a high peak of threats against the British Isles and for every threat thev received a dogged cry of defiance from London ritain any indirect ges make toward on Hitler's

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Emotion Is of Mellow Kind As He Prepares to Quit Poltical Siage.

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That was strain enough, but his big test came later when the voice of his chief—the man he had served so faithfully for seven years, and whose fortunes he was now voluntarily abandoning—came, smooth rhapsodic from the loudNo one could tell what was in his eyes—what expression was on his face, no more than they could tell what was in his mind as that voice enthralled its hearers every inflection, every harmony clear as though its owner ] in the flesh Mr. Farl face covered with a fan . 0. old I send to You often done bef cere appreciation

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Makes ‘Final Appeal Reason’ to Save British Empire.

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| British | co-operation,

France June 19 contained reports of secret meetings of the Allied War Council, and that marginal notes by French Generalissimo Maxime Weygand and the then Premier Edouard Daladier showed the “machinations of the war mongers regarding all small nations.”

Today's War Moves

By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert Count Ciano’s arrival Berlin! {oday for renewal of secret conferences with Hitler coincides ww Italian newspaper warnings to Stalin that if the Kremlin accepts offers of conciliation Russia's fate will the same as Poland's. Hitherto, Italjan and German journalistic comment on Russia’'s war time forwardness has been worded cautiously. The open suspicion

lof Russian

“Churchill Will Flee” war mongers,” Hitler said, “inflicted an appalling fate on hun- | dreds of thousands, even millions, of their own soldiers, callously enforcing mass evacuations of own geople.” “What is coming people, not Churchill, ably be in Canada.’ caustic reference to the British Prime Minister and as warning to the British people of the effects of blitzkrieg attack. “He may think the outcome will be the annihilation of Germany but it will be the destruction of a great world empire—the destruction which was never my wish or aim Hitler recalled his speech of Oct 6th in which he said he had stretched out his hand to England and France, even though he was then convinced of German military superiority and of the outcome of the war Not Weakness, He Savs

his hand had been rehad all of his peace offers

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He said jected, as In the past "I regret the victims the among civilians in well as among Germans.’ even though I know young Germans are ight England.” He warned Britain against viewing his appeal to reason as a weakNess ‘Churchill may with the claim that fear, but in any case I will have the knowledge that I acted rightly according to my conscience,” hel said Hitler praised Mussolini warmly for his participation in the war on Germany's side He also warned agamst any hopes for a split between Germany and Russia “German-Russian relations

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treachery now voiced in the Fascist controlled press implies a Slav situmay be developing which siders dangerous. Only a sudden importance would this second visit Foreign Minister after his earlier month with Hitler. Italy's suspicions of Russia are more sensitive than Germany's because of Mussolini's claim to paramount interests in the Balkans and the Mediterranean At the

Mr. Mason

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thoroughly established as even men will also learn.”

Hitler also paid grateful tribute

to the German soldiers and military

to the civil enemies from

as well as “whom could

leadership population thought they

our separate me.’ Hitler said that the men in various European countries who wanted “honest peace” had heen denounced as "weaklings” or traitors or as “fifth columnists.” He denounced “the scribblers” who called such men fifth columnists and charged them with following a ‘criminal” policy. The victories of the German army in the west proved that he, Hitler, was right and his enemies wrong the Fuehrer continued.

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| no doubt Germany must be much | concerned by this week's over-| whelmingly pro-Soviet plebiscites in Latvia, Esthonia and Lithuania,| which in effect give Stalin complete control over the armies of the three | Baltic countries, Germany has broken the French encirclement of the Reich, but a new Slav encircle- | ment is now being strengthened At the same time Russia not only

is pressing Turkey for joint control

of the Dardanelles but is also trying |

to stimulate a new wave of commu[nism in the Eastern Balkans from | the vantage ground of Bessarabia | Coupled with these developments so adverse to Italian and German in- | teres's, the Itaiian press now re-

| veals fears that Russia is moving

toward some form of rapprochement with Greaf Britain. The British Government has associated its closing of the Burma road with suggestions for peace between China and Japan. Here is a possi{ble opportunity for Great Britain and Russia to work together in the Orient out of which might come a mutual pact of co-ordination in Europe. Such is the way the intricacies of European diplomacy operate beneath the surface Certainly, Russia has become the war's enigma for “iernianv and Italy. No dictator can trust any other indefinitely. It. is difficult enough for two dictators to co-~per-

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FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1940

DUTCH FACE NAZI

REPRISAL THREAT

THE HAGUE, Netherlands, July 19 (U. P.).—German authorities said today that reprisals will he taken against certain distinguished persons in Holland having influence in the Dutch colonies because of refusal of authorities in the Dutch East and West Indies to

release Germans from concentration camps An many persons names

official would now are ideas territories was said, quences.” For several

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