Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 May 1941 — Page 5

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7,

RITISH ROUT AXIS

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AT RAF IRAQ BASE

Imperials Regain Post on Mosul Oil Fields Pipe Line. (Continued from Page One)

obviously have put a damper on enthusiam for the German expangion into the Balkans and the threat of Nazi penetration across the Dardanelles into the Near East. But so far there have been only surface indications to support the hope of Britons that Stalin might break with Hitler or stand against the Nazi armies. On the other hand, there continued many concrete evidences that Moscow hopes to make herself strong enough to stand safely aside while Europe's great powers fight out the war, possibly with increasing American participation.

What Does France Pay?

Another important diplomatic shift was revealed today. Vichy announced that Germany had agreed to open the border between occupied gnd unoccupied France to permit passage of food, coal, iron and other merchandise and that negotiations were under way to reduce the cost to France of maintaining the German Army of occupation. These concessions by Germany were undoubtedly the result of some concessions by the Petain Government, but It was not announced what these were. The new agreement was reached as a result of negotiations in Paris by Vice Premier Admiral Jean Francois Darlan, who arranged a dramatic emergency meeting with’ Marshal Henri Philippe Petain on the Riviera today It was reported that some Cabinet shufile, possibly the restoration Pierre Laval to power, might be imminent n Iraq, the British seemed to be gaining the upper hand rapidly and they appeared have sucteeded in getting started with formation of a rival Arab regime to fight the pro-Axis Government of - Lh = .

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Rashid Ali Beg Gailani at Baghdad. Nrui Said Pasha, former Iraq Pre- | mier, and Prince Abdul Illah, the | former Regent, were said in reports Ito Budapest to be the leaders of the new movement, originating in

{British-controlled Transjordania,

but moving into Iraq. The Budapest dispatches reported that a vain attempt had been made to assassinate Prince Abdul at Amman, in Transjordania.

Report Turkish Concentration

BACK CHURCHILL ON WAR POLICY

Premier Wins 447-3 Vote Of Confidence; Assails Lloyd George.

(Continued from Page One) | Malta, Crete, Tobruk and the Nile

| Valley would be defended to the end and that Gen, Sir Archibald Wavell now had 500,000 troops in the Middle East. He warned that the Germans may intervene in Iraq but | promised to crush the pro-Nazi Pre{mier, Rashid Ali Beg Gailani. “Let there be no feather-headed

Dispatches from Iraq by way of [Or defeatist talk about cutting our

Jermany, reported that 11 British airplanes had been

fighting yesterday in Irag and that there was a serious engagement under way at Basra, where the Brit-

ish Imperials had been concentrated |

and where more transports arrived vesterday. The reports of fighting | at Basra, however, was in conflict | with previous advices that the Brit{ish were in full control in that sec- | tor and were moving northward toward Baghdad. The official Italian news agency! reoprted thet the Iraqi, who today resumed diplomatic relations with | Germany broken off at the begin-|

destroyed in |

{losses in the Middle East.” Church-

ill said. Then, turning on Lloyd George,

he called the former Prime Min-|

ister’s speech unhelpful and unworthy of a great World War leader. “It was the kind of speech with which I imagine the illustrious and venerable Marshal Petain might

{well have enlightened the closing

days of the Reynaud Cabinet,” he said. He said that the United States construction of shipping would see Britain safely through 1941 and added: “It may be that 1943 if we have to endure it, as a year of war, will

ning of the present war, had de- |bresent easier problems.”

clared a Moslem “holy war against |

the British for the independence |

and liberty of the Arab world.” {

“I am the one whose head should be cut off if we do not win the war,” Churchill said, “and I am very

ready that this should be so, because

Air Success Reported

{most of the members of this House

The British today reported increas- [Would probably experience an even

ing success in night fighter action, downing nine German bombers dur-

ing the night to boost the total for |

six days of May to 54 craft shot down in derkness, against 87 for all | of April. The Germans, however, strongly attacked the vital shipbuilding area on the river Clyde, especially Glasgow, where they reported much destruction. Plymouth, Liverpool and other areas also were bombed, with the Nazi pilots reporting that they had | started fires and done heavy dam- | age to wharves, arms factories and | and military establishments, British bombers concentrated on | the Hamburg sector during the] night, unloading heavy bombs on | that great and battered Nazi port, | as well as other northwest Ger- | man targets.

SEEK 3 FUGITIVES

HUNTINGTON, Ind, May 7 (U. P.).—Police today continued search for three Federal prisoners who escaped from Huntington County Jail last night after overpowering | a turnkey.

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Seeks Care For Soldiers’ Feet

WASHINGTON, May 7 (U. P). —Senator Robert R. Reynolds (D. N. C) acting head of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, has moved to relieve the American doughboy of the agonies of ach-

| ing feet, swollen by long marches,

hikes and drills. Senator Reynolds introduced legislation which would establish a chiropodists corps in the Army similar to the present dental and medical corps. Chiropodists, or podiatrists, would serve as commissioned officers.

ANTI-NAZIS DEATH

WASHINGTON, May 7 (TU. P).—

| Police today listed the mysterious [death yesterday Simon, anti-Nazi editor of theiyears and is a familiar figure to|

of Dr. Heinrich Frankfurter Zeitung until he fied from Germany in 1934, as murder and began a search for his assailant.

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There Won't Be Much To-do; They'll Just Report for Duty. Twenty-five years ago next Fri-

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quarters following their appointment | to the force. | On Friday, these same six men] will report for duty as usual, perhaps have a few words of greeting to say to each other, and then start| out on their jobs. Through the quarter of a century that they have served Indianapolis, each has had his share of thrills that goes with their type of work. Harry Schley, now a lieutenant, has done noteworthy work as head of the burglary squad; William Ott

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DEMANDS PROBE OF U.S. SALES TO AXIS

WASHINGTON, May 7. (U.P)— | Senator Guy M. Gillette, (D. Iowa) |

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France Is ‘Ripe’ Thanks, in Part, to Darlan

(Continued from Page One)

of “collaboration.” As a proof that it could be worked to the benefit of France he wanted to make an important announcement. Darlan said Germany was sending down wheat from occupied to Vichy France, The admiral put it on too thick. Marshal Petain intervened. “I think it ought to be clear,” said the old Marshal, “that this wheat which is being sent down by the Germans is French wheat, grown in French soil by French peasants. It is part of wheat seized by the Germans. I think we ought to make that clear.” & & 4

Nazis Control Press

NEEDLESS to say the journalists did not make this clear. The Vichy press is entirely controlled by the Germans who even write the headlines for the principal articles, What Darlan says about the “generosity” of the Germans—he used that word—is less important than what he does about the | French fleet, Charging that the British were preventing the are rival of ships with food for France | —despite the fact that many come through regularly, though their cargoes are carried directly to Germany—Darlan made a proposal at which even Laval would have balked. The admiral threatened to use French warships to convoy French merchant vessels. Such a move has long been sought by the Germans. It would make a clash between British and French ships inevitable. The clash would enable the Germans to get complete control of the French navy. The French fleet is now spread in African ports all the way from Tunisia and Algeria through Mor-

occo and down the Atlantic to | §&

Dakar. back in French ports. Nazis could seize them. If Darlan is able to call these ships into convoy service many of them will fight with British ships, many of them will come back into French ports and thus into German | hands.

The Germans want them There the |

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Aided German Moves

THERE CAN be small doubt that Darlan intends to do this for the Germans after what he has already done. The German panzer divisions which were landed with supplies in Libya and drove the British from Cirenaica would never have reached Africa without the secret co-operation of the French. Thanks to Darlan’s policy of “collaboration,” the Germans moved their convoys across the narrow Straits of Sicily under cover of darkness to French North Africa. There they were reorganized and with strong air escort made their way down the coast in French territorial waters. | In this way the Germans, despite the great strength of British sea power, moved to Africa a

ROTARY NAMES COY 156TH DISTRICT HEAD

FRENCH LICK SPRINGS, Ind,

|May 7—Don L. Coy, a member of

the Seymour Rotary Club, has been | elected governor of the 156th district, comprising 38 southern Indiana counties, The election took place at the an=| nual district conference here yes-| terday. About 300 attended.

= PACE 8 SEEK CHURCH BELLS | ring on the soft tropical air of the BOSTON (U. P.).—Have you a Philippines has been received rechurch bell in your home? A re-|cently by the American Board of |quest for church bells which can!Foreign Missions.

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whole mechanized army which more than anything else in the war has threatened to take Suez and close the Eastern Mediterranean, French connivance alone explains the safe transit of the first two mechanized German di visions which included 40-ton tanks. The passage of almost two more divisions was facilitated by the battle of Matapan, which the Germans forced the Italians to undertake as a diversion for the troop convoy. A fifth German panzer division was sunk by British fleet and air-arm action. Darlan’s attitude, consequently, gives Hitler every hope of being able to take over the French fleet even before he completes the occupation of France. Should Darlan become alarmed in face of protests by Petain or by what remains of French public opinion, the Germans can always threaten to replace him wih Laval or some other pro-German politician with fewer scruples.

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today demanded a “thorough” in-| Homer L. Chaillaux, American | vestigation of reports that Ameri- Legion Americanism director, told

can materials are being sold to Ger- | the delegates that “the doors to all

many and Japan while the Ameri- | immigration must be closed until | 8

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can people are being asked to make | the danger of this war has paszedy| §

“tremendous sacrifices” to halt the and also until there is no unem- |

“expansion of the Axis powers.” |

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War Moves Today

(Continued from Page One)

to defend her vital interests. The

{third was Russia's approval of the (coup d'etat | fourth | Hungary

was

tory. : | It is impossible for a dictator to

: [remain in seclusion while suffering i |such a rapid series of rebuffs with- : lout endengering his own position : lat home. It would seem that Stalin : |has been forced to appear in public |

as the open director of Russia's | policy because in so critical a situation he cannot afford to sit]

Iback and receive second-hand re-

ports regarding the trend of events and the opinions of his Communist confederates. By engaging Japan in a neutrality pact, Stalin relieved Russia's eastern frontier of attack, thus causing a crack in the Triple Alliance and so again warning Germany. What these cumulative events mean in| terms of future Russian action is a question that is yet unanswerable | and for that reason Stalin now | appears in person on the bridge, trying to pierce the fog. It is impossible to dismiss the matter by saying Russia is resolved to remain quiescent. That means! becoming indifferent to happenings | in the world and Stalin already has | shown by his actions sincé March 4 that he is far from indifferent.

Reports are circulating in Europe] that Stalin intends to reconsider | his refusal to join the Axis. If he should do so, the reason within as well as outside Russia would be attributed to fear, even if there were some territorial recompense, Stalin wouid have to give tacit recognition to Hitler's overlordship. which would not be good for Stalin’'s own home reputation. A somewhat bolder Russian diplomatic front might well appeal to] Stalin to protect Russia's Black Sea | and Dardanelles interests, as a| move short of war. But that policy|

| would require serious risks of fur-

ther rebuffs, pushing Russia into a corner with no escape except bel- | ligerency or subjection to Ger- |

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