Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 April 1941 — Page 10

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BRITISH NEAR EAST POSITION IN PERIL

Belgrade’s Capitulation 1s Hinted; British Lose Three Generals.

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lieved captured at Mekili, south of Derna. in a battle in which the Ger-

mans took 2000 British prisoners. Urgent consultations

London today after arrival of Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Gen. Sir John G. Dill, chief archi-

tects of the present disposition of

British forces in the Middle East.

These developments turned atten-

tion upon Turkey, Syria, Iraq and

Russia—vitally involved in any Ger- | break-through to the Middle

man East Turkey has given no indication of her position, although some Middle Eastern observers suggested that she might be closer to entry into the war at Britain's side than is generally believed Both Syria and Iraq are centers of German undercover activity, In Iraq a pro-Nazi government established power by a coup d'etat and there have been indications the British might intervene to secure

control of this back-door to Turkey

and gateway to the Indian Ocean Russia Watches Closely Similar activity in Syria has led to reports of possible British intervention Russia made it obvious today that che is watching the situation with closest, attention but there was no indication that she is prepared to discard her neutral aloofness. The German High Command reverted to its policy of silence for the time being after yesterday's victorious announcements. It confirmed that blitz forces had smashed across the narrows of south Serbia to reach the Albanian frontier south of the River Drin after capturing Tetovo and Prilep and added that the column which took Nish, 130 miles southeast of Belgrade and about 90 miles from Cacak, one of the temporary Jugoslav capitals, is racing northward. The plight of the Jugoslav forces trapped between the fast-moving

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| {German fingers of steel in south Serbia was desperate but Greek reports said that they had braced at some points. : One Athens report which had no [official confirmation said that a | Jugoslav counter-attack was de[veloping in an attempt to recapture the key town of Skoplje. But with German armored forces spreading out along all the roads | that hub from Skoplje this appeared to be an almost impossible endeavor.

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London said that the Jugoslav battalions had orders Skoplje or die in the attempt. Possibly the most dangerous report from the Greco-British standpoint was one that German troops had reached the Lake Ochrida sector at | Albanian corner. : German troops in this region would be in a position to smas down the network of northwestern Greek roads and flank the prepared defenses which are believed [to have been set up from the region of Florina, southeast to the Gulf of Salonika. The Greeks attempted to mini= mize loss of Salonika and Mace|donia today. They reporied that weeks civilians and supplies [have been evacuated from the area under defensive plans which called | for abandonment of the region if [the Gemans should attack. | So far, it appeared, the Royal {Air Force is the only arm of the | British fighting services which has {been in action in Greece. The R. A. F. was active despite bad flying [weather in pounding at the narrow [passes and mountain roads over | which the Nazi blitz divisions are | advancing. They reported heavy attacks on | Kilkis, Plykastron and AXxioypolis, |all northern Greek border points where the German columns bottle[neck down into Greece. | There was an unconfirmed report that some Jugoslav troops, apparently retreating southward along the road that leads from Tetovo |had made contact with an “Allied force” in the region of Bitolj, the only remaining pass by which the | trapped Jugoslavs can communicate with their Greek-British allies. This would be important news since it would indicate that the British and Greeks have moved north to meet the shock of the German advance around | Ochrida.

| Hungary May Invade, Too

The Budapest radio station was intimating that Hungary | would send troops inte northern Jugoslavia to “protect the Hungarian population”—apparently to re|gain some of the territory that | belonged to Hungary before World War. | Berlin reported that Belgrade is {a mass of ruins after bomb-set fires (which were visible east to the RuImanian frontier. Nazi spokesmen denied reports that German troops {have entered Belgrade and there was no authentic account of any

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general German advance across the |

| flat country of northern Jugoslavia. German quarters, however, expect|ed early orders for incorporation of the Maribor border region into the Reich and Marshal Hermann Goer|ing’s Essener National Zeitung made [the possibly significant comment {that German arms in Jugoslavia (had made a ‘moral impression” {which should react upon ‘specta[tors at the war theater.” Just | which spectators the paper had in mind was not known, but other German quarters suggested that any (hope that Turkey might enter the

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James G. Clark leaned back in his chair in the local National Labas Relations Board office, took a |flective puff on his pipe, and exe | pressed the hope that his traveling days are over for some time. Today was his first day on the job as the new director of the local NLRB office in the Architects’ Building. He succeeds Robert H. Cowdrill, who has been transferred to Cincinnati. Mr. Clark has seen a lot of the country in his 61 years. “I've worked in almost every state in the Union,” he said, “and now I'd like to settle down and stay here” He recalled that he worked {here as an NLRB field examiner lin 1938 and 1939. The new director began his career as a railroader, shoveling coal for the Northern Pacific in 1898. Besides his experience in the ranks of labor, he also has had experience on the management side, serving at one time as an assistant general manager for the Union Pacific. He entered the Government service in 1933, transferring to NLRB in 1938.

Mr. Clark said the present in-|

| crease in the number of “represen- | tation” cases coming before the {board for collective bargaining pur- | poses indicates a ‘‘good trend.” in

| increased confidence

the Jugoslav-Greek- New Director Is Ex-Railroad porte, such as the huge 80-million-0

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POWER TO HOLD 69 SHIPS ASKED

FDR Plea, Stressing Need To Keep Supplies Moving, Hinted as Convoy Reply.

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retary of State Cordell Hull, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of Navy Frank Knox and Admiral Harold R. Stark, chief of naval operations. Harry L. Hopkins, informal secretary of the so-called “War Cabinet,” alse was present. Later in the day Mr. Roosevelt will meet with his full Cabinet. The broad ship - requisitioning powers asked by Mr. Roosevelt would give him authority to take over | French vessels lying in American

ar luxury liner Normandie should he decide that the security of national defense makes such a move advisable.

Governments Would Be Paid |

There are 18 immobilized French ships in American waters, including the Normandie, Two of the total may sail soon with American wheat flour for unoccupied France. There are also three Esthonian ships, one Lithuanian, two Belgian and one Rumanian, all of which conceivably could be requisitioned. Under the proposed bill, all the Governments whose ships were requisitioned would be compensated

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miles. The Greeks and British, how- edly motorized and possess tanks Optimist Club will hold their own ever, do not have to defend a front-| and planes, Suding to their POWer | Good Friday services at their lunchage of much more than 150 miles. [against the badly equipped Jugo-! TOW i i Bs Anglo Greek Army is thus | slavs. quipp 80 eon Toro in the Columbia Club not only more compact but also is| If the Jugoslavs are able to re. |"RINOOR. better equipped. Although the situ- gain Skoplje, it will be an important | ation has serious aspects for the de-| victory. The chances are against | fending forces it also has many dif-| them, however, for by now, the Ger- | ficulties for the Germans mans must be receiving reinforce- | The German troops that have ments. moved through the Vardar Valley| There still must be more than to Salonika must be strongly re- half a million Jugoslav troops in| inforced before they can attempt an the central and northern districts | offensive westward into Greece. capable of some form of action, for Everyday’s delay gives the Greeks the Germans have not announced | and British more time to perfect the capture of any considerable | their co-ordination and familiarize number of prisoners. They may be | the British with terrain new to doing something to interrupt railthem. way traffic for the principal Balkan The Jugoslav Army's present prob- | railway passes through Belgrade! lem is to try to break the German|which the Germans have not yet oc- | hold on Skoplje, in southern Jugo-|cupied. With the Danube already | slavia, where fighting is reported to| blocked and railway movements be proceeding today. If that can|through Jugoslavia into Germany| be done, a gateway will be formed | hampered, the Germans will cerfor a Jugoslav movement southward |tainly feel the consequent drop in! along the Monastir Pass into Greece. |essential imports from all southShould any considerable number eastern Europe while the new Balof Jugoslav troops succeed in effect-| kan war lasts. | ing touch with the Anglo-Greek| main army on Greek soil, it would | probably be by this means. It is| improbable that the Germans have]

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It is a sign, he said, that “both Of more fighting ships.

Lake | management and labor are placing Men NLRB | British

Prime Minister Winston

| machinery for helping in capital- | Churchill warned in London that|

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| {war on Britain's | dashed. | There were several items of in- | terest. concerning Russia. | One was from Bucharest where

[eastern or Russian | been placed on a special alert, No | reason for such an order was suggested. Bucharest also said Danube traffic had been halted, possibly by sinking of concrete-filled barges by the Jugoslavs at the Iron Gate. From Moscow itself came the statement by Red Star, organ of {the Soviet Army, that Russia approved with fullest sympathy the Jugoslav foreign policy. Since this policy involves resistance to Germany and collaboration with Britain the Russia comment might be significant. However, in London it was thought that the Soviet had not passed beyond the stage of annoyance at Germany's Balkan adventures. It was noted in London that the Moscow radio, reversing its custom, read the Jugoslav and Greek communiques ahead of the German communique.

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Relations With Axis Worse

These developments came as dip-| lomatic relations between the Unit-

the | it was stated that troops on the ed States and the Axis powers took frontier had a turn for

the worse. Retaliating | against this Government's request for the recall of the Italian naval attache here, Italy demanded the withdrawal from Rome of Capt. William C. Bentley, assistant American military attache there. The Italian Government consented to withdraw its naval attache, Admiral Alberto Lais, charged by Mr. Roosevelt with ordering the sabotaging of the 28 Italian vessels seized here last week, along with two German and 39 Danish ships. Officials believed the next step in the retaliation and counter-retalia-tion, which began two months ago when the Italian Government ordered the U. S. Consulates at Naples and Palermo closed, would be expropriation of the Italian ships.

President Roosevelt has said that he has ample authority to expropriate.

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