Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1941 — Page 5

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES °

LTHURSDAY, JAN. 30, 1941 roe oc a:

BRITISH CAPTURE

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England’s Libyan Drive Against Italians. (Continued from Page One)

4 Jeet, said that the Free French force had wiped out an air base . from which the Italians had watched British and French madeuvers in central Africa and might t any time have become a menace o the allied lines of communicafion from Nigeria through Ft. Maly, : i Lake Chad, to Khartoum on the ile. '

i 1 4 Benghazi Is Next Goal of : »

Meanwhile, German planes regumed widespread and sometimes intensive air raids on the British Isles and by early afternoon London Bad its fourth daylight alarm. High explosives and incendiaries were dropped.

{v Wilhelmshaven Raided

4 Several casualties, some fatal, were reported in a London suburb. + Bombs also fell in an East Anglia town, where two houses were damaged. : The Dover Coast shook with the explosion of great shells fired across the Channel from the Nazi longfange batteries on the French Coast. * The Royal Air Force got back into faction after a long period of lowgear operations because of had weather, It raided the area of the Wilhelmshaven naval base in North Germany last night. The German High Command admitted civilian casualties but said military damage had not been reported.

Air circles in London understood |g

hat Wilhelmshaven was well hamered. It was the 42d raid of the ar on the city. : It was remarked that the R. A F. poon had fulfilled a recent racioeast warning to German dock workers by German Grand Admiral Eric Raeder. “The danger of air attacks is growing,” Raeder said. . A significant statement was made In Berlin on the obscure question

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Other developments included: The: Italian press attacked President Roosevelt and Wendell L. Willkie and hinted that the British secret |seryice might have had a hand in the death of Premier Gen. John Metaxas. Vichy reported that the daring column of Free French forces which raided into Libya from French Equatorial Africa wads still at large on the desert, presumably hunting new Italian outposts to attack. New Greek éettacks on the Albanian coastal and central sectors and failure of an attempted Italian

i |counter-offensive, were reported in

Alexandros Korizis, 5:, succeeds Gen. John Metaxas a= Premier and dictator of Greece, Metaxas died yesterday.

of Franco-German relations, A German spokesman said tha; the Nazis agreed with the [eriticisms of the Vichy regime of Marsiall Henri Fhilippe Petain made ir the Paris press. | These criticisms have centered on the lack of “collaboraiion” with Germany and the unfriendly attitude of Petain toward Pierre Laval, ousted Vice Premier. | The Nazi spokesman indicated doubt of the sincerity of Petain’s desire to collaborate wit Germany. Whether the statemen' presaged some far-reaching meve, such as German occupation of unoccupied ‘rance or action to take over French Mediterranean bises or the French fleet was mot indicated. i The Rome communiqile reported that successes had beer scored in Eritrea with the captuie of some Australian troops and taat British troops have been thrown back at an unspecified location on the Ethio-pian-Kenya front, | The ’talians admitted fierce fighting in the Libyan desert.

dispatches frorn the front to

Athens. London suggested that King George might become the Greek strong man with Metaxas gone from the scene, at least until the new Premier Alexandar Corizis becomes more familiar with his task.

War Aims Debated

A Liberal member of Parliament, Geoffrey Mander, raised the question of British war aims in Parliament and it appeared Prime Minister Winston Churchill might make some statement on this issue. The Japanese Parliament received ¢ drastic new national defense bill providing the death penalty for peacetirne espionage. It was said to be designed to meet the “Fifth Column” menace in Japan. The Suez Canal area was raided from the air, it was announced officially in Cairo, but it was claimed that bombs which fell from enemy planes caused no damage. Whether the raiders were Italian or German was not apparent immediately. Air raid warnings were sounded in Cairo and other districts in both upper and lower Egypt, a communique said The Russians, reacting to war dangers,; inaugurated further changes in the Red Army at the orders of Marshal Semyon Timoshenko which were believed to put Soviet forces on almost a war foot-

ing.

AID BILL GIVEN COMMITTEE 0. K,

Minor Amendments Made; Gerard Says Nazis Plan Seizure of Mexico. (Continued from Page One)

that “Germany hates us like poison —hates us from the last war.” He said that he would favor an American declaration of war against Germany now but that he could

“see no necessity for it.” As finally approved by the House Committee the measure contained four amendments, none of which tives—giving Mr. Roosevelt auAmerican arms and munitions to nations whose fight against aggression he deems “vital” to American defense, : The amendments placed a two. year time limit on the bill, making it inoperative after June 30, 1943; required that Mr. Roosevelt “consult” with Naval and Army chieftains before sending U, S. Army and

interferred with the basic objec-|}:

thority to lend, lease or give away,

prising 35 per cent of the entire population there, He added. that the German Government is “spending énormous sums” for organization work in Mexico. Senator Hiram W. Johnson (R. Cal), who was the only Committee member to. question Mr. Gerard, asked him: “If the situation is as bad as you say, why don’t we declare war against Germany now?”

necessity for it,” Mr. Gerard replied. “We have committed enough unneutral acts according to the Hague convention of 1907 to justify a declaration of war by the Nazis, but they don’t declare war because they fear the effect upon their own people.” : The Senate opposition is lining up witnesses to be heard next week. Senators Hiram W. Johnson and Robert M. La Follette (Prog. Wis) want to question Robert M. Hutchins, president of the University of Chi-

“I'm in favor of it, but see no

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Navy supplies abroad, and made it mandatory that they report trans. actions to Congress at 90-day intervals, unless the public interest requires that the data be withheld. There was no change in the bill's provision authorizing the President to permit warships of friendly belligerents to be serviced and outfitted in American ports or outlying U. S. bases. The bill would also give Mr. Roosevelt entire discretion as to terms of repayment. Administration , witnesses have admitted that the measure does not necessarily require repayment. Another provision of the bill authorizes the President to purchase or otherwise acquire defense articles abroad, if he deems it in the interests of the defense of the United States. : Stressing what he considered the danger of German aggression in this Hemisphere, particularly in Latin America, Mr. Gerard told the Committee - that Brazil has about

2,000,000 inhabitants of German descent and an Italian element com-

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foreign policies last week, and hn. Robert Wood, chairman of the American First Committee. Chairman Walter F. George said the Administration’s rebuttal witness a week from tomorrow will be Dr. James B. Conant, president of Harvard University, who believes the United States should be .prepared to risk all—war if necessary— to insure defeat of the Axis. Senate Committee members have expressed desire to hear Wendell L.

cago, who criticized the President's Willkie and Harry L. Hopkins, the

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