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JOINT FRONT IN PACIFIC LOOMS

Expect U.S. Navy to Use Singapore, Other British ‘Bases in Far East. (Continued from Page One)

pledged all American aid “short of war.” If he would now set up a “neutrality patrol” in the Pacific somewhat like that in the western Atlantic, the British suggest, it would help them mightily—espe-| cially if the patrol included the East Indies.

All British ports, of courke, would be put at the disposal of the United States, and Dominion war vessels would co-operate. That Japan has long anticipated some such development is clear. Reports of a ‘secret agreement” between London and Washington on Pacific affairs were current in Tokyo weeks ago.

“That the spearhead of AngloAmerican co-operation is directed toward the Pacific is clear ” declared Rear Admiral Tanetsugu Sosa in the October issue of Taiyo” (Great Ocean.) To that end, he added, a “four-power pact” has been concluded among the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.” Japan, Manchukuo and China, the Rear Admiral went on to say, are not enough to form the ‘“proposed co-prosperity sphere.” It must also include the East Indies, Siam, Malaya, Indo China and the Philippines. Pointing out that Roy W. Howard, Rear Admiral Yates Stirling, Admiral Harry E. Yarnell and others had recently called attention to Singapore’s importance as a base for American warships, Rear Admiral Sosa made these deductions: “Should the United States and Britain co-operate closely with each other with Singapore as a center of operations, they can create three Joint fronts: One in the East along the line connecting Australia and New Zealand with Hawaii; one in the North from French Indo China, via Hongkong, to the Philippines, and a third in the West along the Penang-Ceylon-Nicobar line in the Indian Ocean. - “Then the Netherlands East Indies would be surrounded by the Anglo-American defense networks and the southwestern part of the Pacific put under complete control of the Anglo-Saxons.”

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ments were successful, Mussolini would be in a position to dominate northern Greece as completely as

Hitler controls Rumania. But the plan calls for much more vigorous operations and a more intense and continuous offensive than the Italians have yet shown in their Greek campaign. They have been fighting now for nearly a fortnight and have advanced scarcely one-half the distance of 30 miles separating Janina from the Albanian frontier. Once in Janina they would have more than 100 miles to go before reaching Larissa. Their extreme northern drive toward Salonica has had to give ground and is now backed some distance into Albania, where their advance base at Koritza is threatened.

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made by the Italians, it is difficult to believe they can be sure of the success of their encirclement plans before coming winter adds to the defensive strength of the mountain barriers. If the Italian High Command were able to send heavy reinforcements into Greece, the situation might change, though there is 4 limit to the number of troops that can be used along the mountainous front. British aerial bombardment of the Italian disembarkation ports in Albania adds to the complexities facing the Italians. If will require military leadership of the highest order for the Italians to accomplish their final purpose. Whether that exists among the Roman generals is yet to be shown. The Greeks have fair reason for believing that a complete Italian victory is not automatically assured.

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Increasing and mysterious activity around the S. S. Queen Elizabeth, world’s largest liner, have given rise to rumors that she may soon sail to enter wartime service as a troopship. The Queen Elizabeth at her pier at the foot of 49th St.,, New York City, with one of her police guard in the foreground.

Today's War Moves

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BUNKS REPLACE LUXURY CABINS

English Sailors in New York, Presumably to Sail Giant Liner Soon.

NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (U. P.)— The British liner Queen Elizabeth, world’s largest ship, was reported today ready to leave New York Monday for service as a troop transport, probably to transfer soldiers from Australia to join the active British forces. The great liner, which dashed secretly across. the Atlantic to a safe harbor almost a year ago before the finishing touches were put on it, has been the scene of activity for six weeks. : Cabins, designed for luxury liner passengers, have been ripped out. In their places long rooms for bunks have been installed. It was learned that 3000 tubs of butter have been taken aboard as well as large stores of meat and barrels of beer. The specially designed furniture and heavy carpeting have been removed, Hundreds of English sailors have been brought to New York by bus from Canada in the last few weesk. They were reported to have been convoyed to Canada from England to take the Elizabeth out. It was reported that the ships first will go to.a Boston shipyard for a scraping and final installations and then to Canada for armoring and emplacement of guns, The next stop, it was reported, will be Australia.

OCTOBER BUILDING SETS NEW RECORD

NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (U. P.).—Engineering construction awards during October swelled to the largest total

for any month on record, the Engineering News-Record reported today. October awards amounted to $702,842,000, a weekly average for each of the five weeks of the month of $140,568,000. The latter represented a gain of 44 per cent over the previous peak of $97,958,000 established in March, 1930; an increase of 53 per cent over the average for the four

. | weeks of September, 1940, and 130

per cent ahead of the weekly average for the corresponding 1939 month. Total awards in September were $368,252,000 while in October, 1939, construction contracts amounted to $245,062,000. For the holiday-week ended today total awards were $79,645,000 against $50,603,000 in the corresponding 1939 period, an increase of 57 per cent and the tenth consecutive year-to-year gain. In the previous full week construction awards were $157,754,000. Volume for the year through today aggregated $3,285,460,000, a gain of 26 per cent over the corresponding 1939 period. A week earlier the year-to-date total had exceeded the fullJoos volumes for every year since Private awards during October amounted to $229,477,000, the highest level for that type of construction since May, 1930. That represented a gain of 91 per cent over the September figure of $95,941,000 and of 71 per cent over the October, 1939, total of $107,727,000. Public construction, meanwhile, reached the highest total for any month on record at $473,365;000, which represented a gain of 39 per cent over the previous month and of 176 per cent over a year ago.

Aided Friend in ~ Suicide, He Says

DENVER, Nov. 8 (U. P.).—Deputy District Attorney Thomas H. Ryan had a new one on his hands today, a man who had obligingly “helped” a friend to commit suicide. . He was James H. Sears, a 41-year-old railroad section hand. The friend was Merrill Nolin, 44, dead after falling from a fourth floor window of a hotel. No charges were filed against Sears, pending outcome of an inJuess which will be held late toay. Sears told Ryan that they had been laid off the railroad, that they came to Denver, bought a jug of wine and went to the hotel room to drink it. As the wine diminished, Sears said, Nolin started talking about jumping out of the window. Sears concluded his story to the deputy district attorney: ¥ “Finally, Nolin went over to -the window, leaned out, and said: ‘I wish I could jump over this ledge and end it all'—so I just grabbed

ABDUCTION PLOT IS BALKED

British Report One of Heaviest Raids of War; Convoy Lost?

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gime to maintain Hungarian independence in the face of increasing German domination of the continent. There was no implication that German elements were involved in the plot. ; Air War Sets Fast Pace

, Air war continued at a fast pace

{| over northern Europe, with British

: planes battling German squadrons 'that again attacked London and

other objectives. British bombers ranging far over

Germany and German-occupied ter-

ritory made an “exceedingly” heavy attack on the famous Krupp arms factories at Essen, which was bombed for the 16th time since the war started. * Many other oil and factory targets also were attacked, the Air Ministry at London reported, bringing to 2000 the number of raids made by British squadrons on German bases. In addition attacks from Greek airports continued against Italy, with Rome admitting the bombing of big Fascist air and sea base of Brindisi and the Albanian base of Valona, both terminals for transport to the Greek war front,

Sub Offensive Grows

One turret wall of the historic Tower of London—where famous figures of English history were imprisoned and awaited executioner— was damaged badly by a bomb and a huge section of masonry fell into

the ancient moat around the tower.|

Berlin said 109 tons of bombs were dropped on London during the night and the raids continued today, but London claimed the new raids were broken up by fighters and anti-air-craft fire. Dogfights over the city were numerous. : In the Atlantic Ocean, the German surface and submarine offensive appeared to be increasing steadily as a menace to British lines of communication. The German High Command reported that the Atlantic raider, in the Atlantic, took a toll of 86,000 tons in the attack on the British convoy.

Try to Track Down Raider

The convoy apparently was destroyed Tuesday, when two British ships—the Rangitiki and the City of Ornish—sent out distress calls, reporting that a German raider of the Graf Spee type was attacking the convoy. The Nazi version was that the convoy was attacked with such speed and skill that the other ves-

sels were not even able to send out calls for help. They said that the 86,000 tons sunk was all merchant ships, indicating that warships (probably armed merchantmen) also had been destroyed in the battle. British naval craft were understood to be attempting to track down the sea raider, in the same manner that the Graf Spee was destroyed in a battle off Uruguay. Three main fronts were involved in the Italo-Greek war. North front—Greek forces were reported in unofficial border messages to have renewed their counteroffensive toward the Italian base of Koritza, in Albania, capturing the village of Hocista near the Devoli River. A big artillery duel was in progress on the north front, however, and it appeared that the Italians were moving up reinforcements in an attempt to start a powerful new drive in that sector with the ultimate objective of taking Florina and Salonica. : Messages to Jugoslavia from the north front said heavy rains were hindering Italian operations and that British anti-aircraft guns were in action against the Italian raiders. Six Greek planes reportedly set an Italian ship afire in a bombardment of Porto Edda.

Hints Invasion Postponed

Janina Front—Italian “local” advances through the mountains toward the Greek town of Janina on the central front were admitted by Athens, but it was said that the operations were “feelers” apparently designed to find a weak spot in the Greek lines in preparation for a big-scale drive, Coastal Front—Fascist forces were reported to have driven down the west coast of Greece, circling around the town of Filiates as the Greeks fell back slowly toward Pargas. The extent of the Italian advance was not definitely indicated. Gen. Carlo Romano, Italian military expert, writing in the Gazetta Del Popolo of Turin, hinted that an attempt to invade the British Isles had been postponed. Such an attempt would be made only after Germany destroys the British Air Force, he said in admitting that British aviation still was effective. . In Sofia, the Bulgarian Government charged Rumania with “inhumanly maltreating” Bulgarian evacuees from northern Dobrudja when they are returning to southern Dobrudja, recently ceded to Bulgaria by Rumania. The Bulgarian news agency B. T. A. said that Rumanian frontier authorities had searched Bulgarian women and children. It said that clothing had been torn from them and that food and documents establishing their property claims against the Rumanian Government had been stolen.

Good Will of U. S. Wanted

In Vichy, reports circulated that the defeated French Government might act as intermediary in an attempt to bring about “understanding” between the United States and the “new Europe” being formed by the dictator powers. Sources high in the French Government cited the “desirability and necessity” of eventual amelioration of relations between ‘America and

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interests of commerce. It was known that Vice Premier Pierre Laval, who has been conferring with German authorities, would welcome an opportunity to serve as intermediary. : :

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Flees ‘Unbearable Europe’

This unusual character photo of Ignace Paderewski, made when he recently arrived in New York on his 80th birthday, suggests the rugged character which made the famed piano genius one of Poland's great postwar leaders, His leonine mane is silvered and his frame is fragile, but he stood erect as he re-entered the land where he won his greatest acclaim, declaring he could no longer stand “the unbearable atmosphere of Europe.”

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Officials Pay . Tribute as i

Wives, Sweethearts Bid ‘Bil’ Goodbye. ' - | (Continued from Page One)

was ready to perform the .service for which they had . volunteered. Up until today, the youths had been bank clerks, shoe salesmen and garage mechanics. But today they were full fledged members of Uncle Sam’s famed “leathernecks.” After the ceremonies at which the dignitaries spoke, the column formed behind the Tech High School band and paraded to the train, At San Diego they will join thou< sands of other reservists to re ceive training in their particular job—serving as the infantry for the Navy. Parading off for active duty— for what might even be eventual war was not new stuff for two ree servists. It was the second time for Sgt. Maj. I. H. Schermerhorn and Sgt. Blirs R. Reynolds. They know the “leatherneck” service from World War days, when they served months in France. Those two wear World War ribbons on their blouses, but. the rest of the battalion are young, unmarried members whose service has been confined so far to drill at Tomlinson Hall and two weeks each summer at Quantico, Va.

National Guard Next !

It was the Naval reservists first— the main body left two weeks ago to join the Pacific fleet. It was the Marine reservists toe day. And next it will be the Nae tional Guard. Then all Indianapoe lis organized volunteers to the nae tion’s armed services will have taken up posts at widely scattered

points in the Western Hemisphere for “come what may.”

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