Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1940 — Page 4
Simultaneous Attack on Suez and Gibraltar May Be Made; Italians Fed Up on War, Axis Loses Face All Over the World.
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Times Foreign Editor.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 22.—Confidential information collected here from Europe, Asia, Africa and South America 8ll adds up to one thing—that Hitler and Mussolini are desperately trying to cook up something which will restore the waning morale of their followers. : Having failed to knock out Britain, and having bogged down in Greece and Egypt, according to these reports the Axis powers now seem to be planning simultaneous coups in the eastern and western Mediterranean to boost their waning prestige. : First-hand reports reveal | ® their desperate need to boster up that the prestige o f Ger- 252 at home and prestige abroad, attacks against Suez and Gibraltar many and Italy has suffered
By JAN YINDRICH United Press Staff Correspondent AN RAF AIRDROME, SOMEWHERE IN GREECE, Nov. 22 (U. P.).—I have just flown over Albania with the Royal Air Force, riding in a bomber assigned to bomb an important military ob-
jective—one of the three ports Italy is using to disembark troops and supplies for her campsign against Greece. Although I was the first newspaperman to fly over Albania since the beginning of the ItaloGreek war, it proved to be the most uneventful trip I have ever made by air, thanks to the efficient navigation and piloting of my crew of non-commissioned officers. I was driven to the take-off point in brilliant moonlight, over winding, tree-lined roads through the blue Greek mountains. Carrying in my hand the parachute pack I felt I'd never have the courage to use, I crawled up a wooden stepladder into the belly of the bomber, behind a shy, fairhaired captain who laughingly called over his shoulder: “Follow me and I'll show you your bed.”
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With a bit of a struggle I squeezed through into the fuselage, completely blocking the narrow passage. I struggled along until I reached the “bed,” clutching a block of chocolate, scribbling pad, and pencil in one hand and the parachute pack in the other. I sat down, feeling somewhat like an Arctic explorer. The captain plugged me in on the plane’s telephone to enable me to follow the instructions and conversation between the pilot, the navigator and other members of the crew. The two motors burst into life with a roar. Only shafts of silver moonlight poured in through the mica observation dome—a huge “blister” in the middle of the fuselage. My earphones crackled as the captain asked each member of the crew if everything was “Okay,” then: “Captain calling passenger. We are about to take off. Are you ready?” Above the din of the engines I bawled back through the mouthpiece: “Passenger okay.” The roar of the engines rose to a crescendo as the huge machine
raced across the flying field which lay in a valley, completely surrounded by mountains. Within two minutes we were off and over the mountains, heading for our target. : The whole countryside was bathed in moonlight as I peered through the windows, but not a single light was visible, so efficient was Greece's blackout. I stood on the raised step and peered through the dome. The scene made me feel like the man in the moon. Brilliant stars flashed out of a cloudless sky, seeming to reflect the cold white light of the moon. The moonlight threw .into bold relief ridge after ridge of blue mountains, around the foot of which a slight groundmist made the blue plain look like a sullen sea. The tail of the plane stuck into the air like a huge shark’s fin as we bored steadily on through the air, \ The roar of the motors gradually deafened my sense of hearing until I was unable to pick out from the ear-phones the occasional remarks between the captain and the navigator. The navigator
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stood at his table, plotting our course and taking bearings for the pilot by the light of a tiny electric desk lamp. I chatted with the navigator by writing notes on my pad, discov-
ering our position and also that we were flying into a 60-miles-per-hour headwind. "A ribbon of water appeared beneath us, then as we got out to sea we went above banks of white clouds, rising like huge snow-cov-ered mountains into fantastic peaks. I stretched my legs in a brief visit with the machine-gun=-ner in the tail of the bomber. Then suddenly, while we were over a break in the clouds, the bomb-sighter, lying flat on the floor and peering through a glasspanel, shouted into , the microphone: “We're over the target.” I had thought we would have at least half an hour more flying before we reached it. The port lay beneath us on a bay sheltered on the south by a small peninsula, not suspecting what was in store for it for not a single anti-aircraft shell was fired at us. Not a light twinkled in the town
to give away its position, but ihe moon showed us the target clearly. “There's an airdrome runway as big as the great west road (one of London's great arterial roads),” the bomb-sighter exclaimed as he released his first stick of bombs. The bombs slithered away into the darkness, but the roar of the engines drowned the sound of their explosion. A red flame, followed by a great fire told us that the bombs had hit their mark, The second stick started another blaze, : We had hit a huge building that looked like a hangar. We had
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started two fires as well. But this was a ghost raid, because the town gave no sign it was aware of our presence. : I had been steeling myself for a cascade of tracer sheels, antiaircraft shells and strings of flaming onions. But apparently thay just were not ready for us. The actual bombing was a matter of minutes; then back we came, I saw the blaze from the fires we had set lighting up the mountains for 40 miles. As we started back I sat in the co-pilot’s chair, watching great
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spurts of flame shooting from the exhausts while the engine cowle ings glowed ruddily. - The observer kept a watchful eye out for any fighters which might have started after us, but’ our homeward journey was as undisturbed as a flight in a pase senger plane.
EARLY MINNESOTA CHAPEL RESTORED
WATSON, Minn., Nov. 22 (U. P), —Restoration of Lac Qui Parle chapel—first Protestant mission in Minnesota—will be undertaken next spring by the state division of parks. The building was destroyed in the Indian uprising of 1862, Richard Sackett, supervisor of the historical records survey, said. Mr. Sackett said records left by the Rev. Stephen Riggs, founder of the mission, indicated the chapel had been built on a hill, with Indian women furnishing most of the labor, Bricks used in its construction were molded by hand and dried in the sun. “The bell later acquired by the mission,” Mr. Sackett said, “was the first church bell in the Mine nesota territory.”
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would seem to be in the cards. tremendously throughout Latin- America, where months ago their agents were predicting decisive results by
September. | Just before Italy entered the conflict, it was as plain as the noonday sun that the Italian people did not want war—especially war on the side of Germans, whom they do not like. If the Duce said so, they would march. But not with the kind of enthusiom that makes i for victory. | The Italian people were behind Mussolini’s Ethiopian adventure. That was because they felt that Britain and France had been shoving Italy = around. Back in $15 Britain and France had prom{sed Italy that if she would come fnto the World War on their side, when it came time to divide Gerpany’s African colonies she would jare the territory with them. They led to live up to their promise. iopia, therefore, was fair prey. I: Tired of War After 5 Years “The war in Spain was less popular. Nevertheless, the Italians were behind Mussolini in that enterprise because he said it \was a fight to prevent communism, gaining a foothold in Western Europe. : Now they are in the European war. They have been fighting for five years. And they are fed up with it. It has not brought them anything. Ethiopia thus far has proved profitless. Victory in Spain has netted the Italians nothing. And if victory does perch on the Axis colors, they are convinced Italy will become just a part of the -Nazi “Lebensraum.” : {Such a frame of mind explains in part why Italy’s thrust across the tian desert (against Suez petered out like a so pu of water
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