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VOLUME 53—NUMBER 26

THURSDAY, APRI

L 10, 1941

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U.S. AGREES TO DEFEND GREENLAND

Nazi Balkan Gains Peril Whole British Position In Near East

Churchill Wants U.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS

Times Foreign Editor

WASHINGTON, April 10— Great ritain now wants the United States, the Soviet Union and Turkev to come into the war and io come in shooting. That is the interpretation here of Prime Minister Churchill's speech before the House of Commons yesterday. Though he Commons. it was talking

was addressing sensed here, he Josef Stalin, the Government at Ankara and the American people—one of the strangest audiences of all time. In effect he deposited squarely upon the doorstep of Uncle Sam the chief responsibility for winning or losing the war for the democracies and warned Russia and Turkey that their particular goose will be cooked if they stand by and let Hitler have his way.

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THE FULL IMPORT of Mr. Churchill's words can be gauged only if taken with their proper background. Here is what he had in mind when he warned the United States of possible Jisaster ahead: British sea power is now waging a losing battle in the Atlantic. That much is an open secret here. The United States is building about one million tons of merchant ships a year and Britain another millon. Yet, even according to British figures—the German claims are much higher—the Nazis are sinking more than twice as many tons as are being built. Britain is already short of ships. She needs far more than she now possesses, even if the sinkings

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The newest U. S. Navy to come into the war “shoot

ceased at once. Patently, therefore, disaster is not far ahead unless the Nazis can be blasted from the sea lanes or their activities quickly and radically reduced. But, experts here say, no such drastic reduction is in sight. The British Navy can't do the job cut out for it. The oceans are big and the lanes many. The task is

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simply too much for the available warships. So unless the United States quickly comes to the rescue, the British Prime Minister said, in substance, “the life of Britain” will be threatened and the purposes “to which the Government and people of the United States have devoted themselves will be frustrated.”

AS FOR RUSSIA and Turkey, the arrival of Hitler's Panzer divisions at Salonika is held to constitute, in itself, a more poignant reminder than anything the British Prime Minister could say. Since the days of Peter the Great, Russia has dreamed and plotted and fought for a warmwater outlet to the rest of the

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battleship, the 35,000-ton North Carolina, com missioned yesterday ... Churchill wants it and the rest of the American

world. Most of all she has longed for control of the Dardanelles. She has waged four wars in the past century for that very thing. Yet today the outlook in that direction is more ominous than it has ever been. Today the Nazis are encamped on the. Aegean Sea. That is the (Continued on Page 16)

2 HOOSIERS HURT

IN TRAIN WRECK

Passengers From Here Escape as ‘South Wind’ Leaves Rails.

VALDOSTA. Ga., The Miami train “South Wind" was derailed during a heavy fog 25 miles east of here today. At including a Hoosier injured and All but a few were only slightly hurt. The train carried 104 passengers. The locomotive and all seven cars of the train left the track. Injured were brought to hospitals here and in Waycross, Ga. The accident occurred near Dupont, Ga., when many of the passengers were in the dining car, George Powell, bulance driver who went to the scene and carried injured to Valdosta hospitals, said:

passenger

least, 30 persons,

couple, were

taken to hospitals.

Fog May Be Cause

“The train apparently hit an open |

switch near Dupont. The engine

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Find Cobwebs In White House!

LANCASTER, Pa.. April 10 (U. P.).—Sixteen Young Demacracy Day contest-winners, just returned from Washington, all insist that Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt 1s charming. But, the girls say, they saw— | of all things-~cobwebs on the crystal chandelier in the Blue Room of the White House “Mrs. Roosevelt was charming,” one of the girls said, “but we couldn't get over the cobwebs.” They all noticed them during a 20-minute wait before they were greeted by Mrs.

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60D FRIDAY RITES * SCHEDULED IN CITY

Legal Holiday, but Stores To Remain Open.

Indianapolis will observe Good Friday tomorrow with i

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services in most of the City’s churches marking the anniversary of Christ's Crucifixion. Besides the services in churches,

|noonday devotional rites will be

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and six or seven passenger cars| held at several downtown locations

attached tipped over. They were on their sides when Tommy Giddens and I got there, “The train had probably slowed down for Dupont when it struck the open switch, There was a heavy fog here morning so mavbe the engineer missed his signal. But I don't know anything official about, that “I guess some of were hurt pretty badly. think any will die. “The place where the wreck happened was in a straight stretch. The (Continued on Page 16)

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ARMY ENDS SHIP SERVICE VIA CANAL

WASHINGTON, April 10 (U.P). Undersecretary of War Robert P. Patterson that the transport between and West Coasts via the Panama Canal 1s being discontinued because of the demands for shipping facilities for overseas garrisons and the new Atlantic bases acquired from Great Britain, Mr. Patterson said the Army has been operating 18 combination passenger and freight vessels, and eight freight ships in the service. He added that it has chartered 10 additional freighters in an effort to meet the problem of greater traffic. He said that the Army does not intend to turn over any of its transports to the British.

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7! Model Planes. Movies ....12, 5 Mrs. Ferguson Obituaries ... Pyle Radio Mrs. Roosevelt 8 Serial Story.. Side Glances. Society 3 Sports ..22, 23, State Deaths.

Clapper Comics Crossword Editorials sass Fashions Financial .... * Flynn Forum .. In Indpls..... Inside Indpls. Jane Jordan.. Johnson

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froma 12 to 3 p. m.,, representing |

| the hours Christ was on the Cross. The English Theater services will be broadcast over Station WIBC. | Governor Schricker has | claimed the day a legal and banks, the securities markets will be closed all day. Downtown stores will remain open but employees wishing to do so will be permitted to attend the noonday services. Offices of the Indiana Employment Security Division also will remain open because of the urgency of its placement and

proholiday,

|fense program. At noon tomorrow, a squadron of airplanes, in cross formation, will | fly over the downtown area. Lighted crosses have been formed on the faces of the Circle Tower, the Electric and Guaranty BuildIngs, all facing the Circle. by

“blacking out” a part of the office |

windows after dark.

WOMAN CLOCKED AT

55 HELD AS SPEEDER

A woman motorist was charged with speeding toda | Sheriff Harold Buc {her | pass

y after Deputy | y said he clocked | at 55 miles an hour as she! ed a school building. The officer said he trailed Mrs. | Frances Goodwin of Danville, a |State Welfare Department em- | ployee, for more than a mile on the Rockville Road and arrested {her when she “slowed down” to between 55 and 60 near the Garden | City School. She will appear in {Municipal Court tomorrow.

public buildings and |

J registration | work in connection with the de-!

LEE URGES END

T0 SAFETY UNIT

Favors Transfer of Traffic Committee’s Work to C. of C. Division.

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A move to disband Mayor Sulli-|

van's hard-hitting Traffic Advisory Committee and transfer its funec[tions to the Chamber of Commerce was disclosed today. The plan was proposed by Wallace O. Lee, Committee chairman, in a letter to Mayor Sullivan and has aroused a behind-the-scenes [controversy among committee members. In his letter to the Mayor, Mr. Lee suggested that: | 1. The Advisory ommittee be dis{charged as soon as its recommendations on parking, parking {meters and safety education have (been presented to the Safety Board. 2. The task of seeing that ‘the recommendations are carried out be assigned to the newly-formed |Safety Division of the Chamber of Commerce. The division ‘is an {amalgamation of a half dozen private safety organizations. Mr. Lee, in addition to heading | the advisory group, is also chairman of the Chamber of Commerce Safety Division. Tre Mayor has not yet indicated (his attitude toward Mr. Lee's plan. (If he should approve it, the ad-| |visory group would die only two | ‘and one-half months after its birth | amid a welter of traffic confusion. So far, the Committee has fulfilled the first objective set for it! by the Safety Board with a scathing report on enforcement. The report said in effect that the City's effort to cut the mounting | | accident and death rate was a fail- | ‘ure and it urged the adoption of drastic methods. Reluctance at first to adopt the committee's recommendations, the City Administration now has done so. With the aid of a grant of gas tax funds from the Legislature, the (Continued on Page 16)

SENATOR M’KELLAR COLLAPSES IN HOTEL

MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 10 (U. J).~—Senator Kenneth D. McKellar . Tenn.) collapsed today in the [lobby of the Gayoso Hotel here. The 72-year-old Senator suffered

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the attack as he stepped out of the

elevator. A physician was summoned. The Senator later appeared to be feeling all right again.

Pope Attends Holy Week Mass

VATICAN CITY. April 10 (U. P.).—His Holiness Pope Pius XII made his first public Holy Week appearance today when he attended mass celebrated by Cardi-

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the Sacred College, in the Sistine Chapel. The mass was attended by 12 cardinals, the diplomats accredited to the Holy See, members of the Roman aristocracy and thousands of Catholics. Wearing the precious miter and covered by a rich mantle of purple and gold, the Pontiff was carried in the gestatorial chair from the papal apartments to Sistine Chapel. After high mass the Pope returned to his apartments in a procession which included cardinals and the pontifical court.

TWO UNDER STIMSON GIVEN PROMOTIONS

‘New Yorker Named Assistant Secretary for Air.

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JACKSON HEADS STATE DEFENSE

Indiana C. of C. Vice President to Direct Schricker

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president. of the Indiana | Chamber of Commerce, today was | named State Civil Defense Director by the Governor's Advisory Defense | Council. As Civil Defense Director, Mr. Jackson will head the Administrative Defense Council created by the 1941 Legislature to supervise the spending of $200,000 for aid to important defense communities. The Advisory Defense Council formulated a long-range program at the meeting in the Governor's office today. It decided to ‘prepare for any eventuality” by setting up a Home Defense Council in each of Indiana’s 92 counties. The county councils will be composed of representatives of city ang county officials, school and health authorities. They will be charged {with the responsibility of getting (ready for “any emergency,” Mr | Jackson said.

WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P). —President Roosevelt today nomi-|

Serves Without Salary Mr. Jackson will serve without

nated Robert A. Lovett of New! salary and will retain his post|Perry, are missing and presumably

York to be Assistant Secretary of | with the State Chamber of Com-

War for Air. and John J. MeCloy/ etee. He Ry hat Heng : ; , nar S ¢ 5 - - Bi New York to be Assistant Secre- tor for Indiana by former Governor Both Mr. Lovett and Mr. McCloy | M. Clifford Townsend, and his staff are being promoted from posts as would be retained in the Set-up. special assistants to Secretary of Advisory Defense Council memWar Henrv L. Stimson. | bers said that Mr, Jackson was Mr. Lovett. who served overseas! tlected director so that the two from August. 1917. to December, defense organizations created by 1918, in naval aviation and was the 1941 Legislature, the Advisory awarded the Navy Cross. has served and the Administrative, would be

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{as special assistant to Mr. Stimson |since Dec. 19. Mr. McCloy first came into the | War Departinent as an expert con{sultant on last Sept. 9 and Dec. 16 {he was made special assistant. He, {too., has a war record. having [served overseas as a captain.

ARNOLD FLIES TO LONDON

NEW YORK, April 10 (U.P.).— Maj. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the United States Army Air Corps, left aboard Pan-American Airways Dixie Clipper today for London by way of Lisbon.

1,185,600 IN U. S. ARMY WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P). —The War Department today estimated the Army’s strength at |1,185,600 officers and enlisted men.

closely tied together. The former | council has power only Members of the Administrative Defense Council besides Mr, Jackson are Don F, Stiver, State Safety Director, Dr. Clement T. Malan,

| struction; Dr. John W. Ferree, State Board of Health director and Thomas R. Hutson, State Labor Commissioner.

partment is now making a survey of the educational needs of the Charlestown area for the Federal Government. Mr. Jackson was named civil defense director for Indiana under an executive order by former Governor Townsend. The new appointment was made necessary by a law passed by the 1941 Legislature.

By FREDERICK C. OTHMAN

United Press Hollywood Correspondent

FAUSETT CONVICTED OF MANSLAUGHTER

| GREENFIELD, Ind. April 10 (U. P).—A jury of | farmers today (Dewey) Fausett, Fortville tav jowner, of involuntary manslaug for the fatal shooting of Cook, also of Fortville. sought to convict Fausett of first-|

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degree murder. | movies,”

Conviction for involuntary man- |

| slaughter carries a sentence of one

to ¥ Ya in the State Prison.

HOLLYWOOD, April 10.—The | Marx Brothers, who have been | chasing blonds, tinkling harps and | cracking wise on the screen ever

| announced today that they were

in show business. “When I say we're sick of the

mustachioed Groucho. “I the people are about to get of us. By getting out now, were

just anticipating public demand, and by a very short margin. Our | stuff simply is growing stale. So > we.” : Groucho. therefore, will hecome a | writer of humor and perhaps a ra- | dio performer; Chico will head a

Hancock County | ginoe the movies became the talkies, | 1822 band with Lou Holtz, and Harconvicted Francis |

| po will return to Broadway to play

ern | sick of picture making, abandoning in a straight drama with Alexander hter| Hollywood, and splitting up one of | Woollcott and, perhaps, Noel Cow-

| the most prosperous comedy teams IC: The State | k

The Marxes, who are the firsi comics in the history of Hollywood

Marxes, Their Stuff ‘Stale,’ to Quit Films; Groucho to Write Humor and Harpo Will Talk

| which finds them playing hob with | the merchandise—and the beautiful | salesladies—in a department store. Groucho, known in this, his {11th movie, as Wolf J. Flywheel: | Harpo, who: never has opened his | imouth in the pictures, and Chico, | who has banged a piano as it sel- | dom. has been banged before, all | have become independently wealthy | since their first. smash film, “Cocoanuts,” in 1929.

| “And I don't drink and I don't

explained burnt-corked| to admit they aren't the funniest Play the races and I can afford mean men alive and rapidly hecoming|t® quit now, while the quitting is sick | funnier, are working now in their| 800d,” reported Groucho, who funcfinal movie, an untied comedy |

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to advise. |

State Superintendent of Public In-|

Dr. Malan revealed that his de- |

HUNGARY HINTS AT SURRENDER OF SLAV CITIES

'3 British Generals ‘Missing’ In Libya; Greeks Resist ‘Inch-by-Inch.’

On War Front

The truth about Italy..Page 17 Berlin bombed Today's war map ..... 16

British braced Jisesasee 18 Macedonians esCApPe ........ 14 | Labor and defense ... 3 |

By HARRISON SALISBURY

United Press Staff Correspondent British armies in Greece and | | Africa braced themselves today for collision with Nazi blitzkrieg forces | land the Royal Air Force bombed | {the heart of Berlin. Hitler's southeastern offensive |

80,000 Prisoners Reported

| So far there has been no report fof a meeting between the British Expeditionary Force in Greece and the Nazi columns slashing down | through the Vardar gateway, But contact was expected: at any time. | The Greeks were resisting “inch- | by-inch” in ‘an attempt to cut] down the momentum of the Ger- | ‘man drive, but Berlin reported that | 80.000 Greek prisoners had been | taken so far. Reports yesterday | from Switzerland that 300,000 Greeks had surrendered were en- | tirely unconfirmed. Athens reported that Jugoslav | (troops, driven back in South Serbia. | also were attempting to rally, | Unconfirmed

reports circulated |

Clarence Jackson, executive vice today indicating that the Germans be r State have won control—or are about to|can be moved from

(win control—of the two principal] |cities of Jugoslavia. Budapest reported rumors that | | Belgrade, the capital, had capitu- | {lated. This report was not con- | | firmed in Berlin.

Claim ‘Independence’

A broadcast by the Zagreb radio station was heard in Zurich, Switzerland, calling on the populace to prepare to greet the Germans in friendly manner. The radio said German troops would march in today and proclaimed a “Free Croat State.” The station apparently was {under control of Ante Pavelic, an |exiled Croat extremist who was given refuge by Mussolini after the assassination of King Alexander of Jugoslavia in 1934. | Terrific force of the German drive |across. Libya toward Egypt was em[phasized today by the revelation |that Britain’s three top desert com{manders, Generals Richard O’Connor, P. Neame and M. D. Gambier-

Croats

[prisoners of the Nazi column. The British commanders were be-

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NAVY PLANT BUILDER FREE TO PROCEED

No Stop Order Planned, Knox’s Secretary Says.

Times Special WASHINGTON, April 10.—There will be no stop-order from the [Navy preventing the Austin Co. | | Cleveland, O., from proceeding with [construction of the Naval Ordnance ‘plant at Indianapolis as planned. This was learned today after] John F. O'Keefe, secretary to Secretary of the Navy Knox, returned here from New York City. He admitted that the Navy Ordnance Department has submitied to the Secretary’s office a detailed report on the Austin award but denied that the matter was discussed with Lukas-Harold Corp. officials in New York. “I was over there yesterday to attend the launching of the U. S. 3S. North Carolina,” Mr, O'Keefe declared. He said that both he and Secretary Knox are personal friends of Maurice Mendenhall, Indianapolis attorney, who has protested the Austin award on behalf of E. A. Carson, Indianapolis contractor, a client. “But that has nothing to do with the matter,” Mr. O'Keefe added. Mr. Mendenhall was one of the |Knox-for-President campaign man- | lagers in 1936. Mr. Carson is said | {to be a “contributing Democrat.” |

WHELAN JOINS COTY FIRM |

NEW YORK, April 10 (U. P).—| Grover A. Whalen, president of the] |New York World's Fair in 1939 and | 1940, has been elected to the newly created post of board chairman of | Coty International Corp. it was announced today,

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ISLAND NOW IN ‘OUR SYSTEM, F.D.R. EXPLAINS

Denmark Grants Washington Right to Set Up Air Bases and Other Fortifications to

‘Block Aggression Against Continent.’

WASHINGTON, April 10 (U. P.).—President Roosevelt today extended American protection to Greenland under an agreement with Denmark giving this nation the right to establish air bases and other fortifications on the vast island, The agreement was announced by White House Secre«

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tary Stephen T. Early who said: been informed that German planes have been flying over Greenland.” In explaining the agreement, which was signed yester= mark, the State Department said that it “recognizes that as a result of the present European war there is danger that Greenland may be converted into a point of aggression agal * =» ! Significant Agreement | Further, the Department POWER T0 HOLD said, the agreement “accepts 69 IP (the United States of assisting ‘Greenland in the maintenance ia lof its present status.” nsidered especially significant in To Keep Supplies Moving view, not only of the German . * flights over Greenland, but also bee Hinted as Convoy Reply. 't f I K : - WASHINGTON, April 10 (U, P.) | uted lockade of Iceland, autono (mous. Danish territory. “our own ultimate defense will : endered futile” unless supplies close to Greenland, the President American ports {has never included it in his defle on |Dition of Western Hemisphere empowering him to requisition and | mits, pay for any foreign vessel immobil- | “In Our System” ized in U. 8S. waters. : islatior: in a special message to Con- | While the United States would have gress, accompanied hy the proposed |Proad ‘military rights in Greenland, draft of a resolution which would [including the maintenance of naval islation would give him full powers | territory would not be impaired. I to take over all of the 69 Danish, also provided that such military Italian and German vessels which facilities as are created in Greene in American ports two weeks ago. Mr. Roosevelt issued a statement White House Secretary Stephen explaining the agreement which was T. Early suggested that President signed by Henrik de Kauffman, swer to the controversy about con- State Cordell Hull, saying that it voys. Referring to Mr. Roosevelt's placed Greenland “in our system of message, Mr. Early said, “I wouldn't co-operative hemispheric defense.” swer right here.” ing on Mr. Early's reference to the “I mean that it (the message) presence of German planes over speaks of the futility of national de- Greenland, said that there were

“This Government made this agreement after it had day—one year and a day after German occupation of Dene inst nations of the American continent.” ‘the responsibility on behalf of : | Signing of the agreement was FDR Plea, Stressing Need co cause of Germany's recently instie Roosevelt, eclari : g caring) Although Iceland is comparatively today asked Congress for legislation |» The President requested the leg-| The agreement stressed tha accomplish his objectives. The leg-|bases, the right of Denmark to the were taken into protective custody land shall be on a lease basis. Roosevelt's message may be an an-|Danish minister. and Secretary of be surprised if you'd find the an-| The State Department, elaborate fense unless we can have shipping,” | several] instances of Nazi activity in

he said. “I don’t mean armorad protection by the Navy,” Mr. Early said. mean shipping.” The President, meantime, called

for another minute check of progress of America’s war-aid program extension of further material assistance to Britain. Attending the meeting were Sec(Continued on Page 10)

WEATHER JUST AHEAD

|the area. Nazi Bomber Over Coast

{ “During the summer of 1940 Ger« man activity on the eastern coast of

|in the policy making “War-Cabinet” Greenland became apparent,” the

Department said. “Three ships proe ceeding from Norwegian territory

‘and, presumably, for conference on under German occupation arrived

'off the coast of Greenland, ostensibly for commercial or scientific purposes; and at least one of these ships landed parties nominally for scientific purposes, but actually for meteorogological assistance to Ger= man belligerent, operations in the

North Atlantic. These parties wers eventually cleared out. In the lates fall of 1940, air reconnaissance ape peared over East Greenland under circumstances making it plain that there had been continueq activity in that region “On March 27, 1941, a German bomber flew over the eastein coast ; lof Greenland and on the followin The Weatherman didn’t make day another German war plane hes any prediction today for Easter|wise reconnoitered the same terrie Sunday. but so far the news is good |tory. Under these circumstances it if youre planning to stroli with all|appeared that further steps for the that Easter finery. |defense of Greenland were neceg= “Somewhat warmer and partly [sary to bring Greenland within the cloudy” were predicted for tomor-|system of hemispheric defense ene row. visaged by the act of Havana.”

War Moves Today

By J. W. T. MASON United Press War Expert

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Much more difficult military problems for the Germans in the immediate future than they have encountered in Jugoslavia are indicated by reports from Athens that the Greek Army continues intact and most of the Greek forces in the Struma Valley and eastern Greece have escaped. Hitler's basic aim in Southeastern Europe still is the subjugation of Greece to relieve the Italians in Albania but his quick thrust into Salonika does not yet mean he is well on his way to victory. Contact with the main Anglo-Greek de= fenses has not vet been made. The real battle still is to come and conditions to be met by ths Germans in Greece must be expected to be different from Jugoslavia's dis- = a organized military strategy which gave the Nazis their chance for a break through. The fact that the British Expedi- to defend. tionary Force in Greece continues| The Jugoslav problem of defense to delay going into action indicates was handicapped by the necessity co-ordination with the Greek Army | for diversifying troops at intervals is proceeding for a unified stand. along a total frontier of nearly 908 The main Greek defenses west of (Continued on Page 10)

Mr. Mason

the Salonika and Vardar area cover a line far shorter than the long houndaries which the Jugoslavs had

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