Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 May 1941 — Page 3

WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1041

HITLER. CHURCHILL MAY TALK ON HESS

Both Expected to Make Speeches on Case Shortly; London Papers Begin to Call Him Names as Berlin Decides He Was ‘Patriot.’

By JOE ALEX MORRIS United Press Foreign News Editor The mystery of Rudolf Hess so bewildered the people of Great Britain and Germany today that both Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Adolf Hitler were expected to take direct action in the case of the No. 3 Nazi. In Britain, one Cabinet minister was reported to have talked to Hess and the Prime Minister was expected shortlv to interview him in preparation for an explanation to the House of Common perhaps on Thursday, following reports that Hess had told of a split in the Nazi Party and of German war secrets. v They also heard warnings

to beware of a “Trojan Horse” DID HESS FLIGHT plot with the Nazi “bloody VEIL IRAQ COUP?

bandit” in a leading role. Whether he acted with Hitlers) consent or without Hitler's knowl- | edge, all neutral observers who knew | Hess were inclined to agree with the Nazi statements (now coming out in Berlin) that the party deputy was highly unlikely to be a traitor| but they disagreed with the Nazi| insistence that he was mentally unbalanced. Hess, according to the official] Nazi spokesman, left letters showing that he hoped to promote peace by | contacting prominent Britons '1h-| yONDON, May 14.—While the ateluding Dis SOUUANIAnSe Ue ee tention of the entire world 1s cenlanded by parachute in Scotland.) tered on the fantastic flight of They added that he did not seek|Rudolf Hess from Germany, the Churchill, but their emphasis on the! Germans are preparing to move

ace angle again aroused specula-|. . . Fon on whether the Hess venture into Syria for an attack on Iraq.

Into Syria, London Is Informed.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

Germans Preparing to Move

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These British Empire troopers look none the worse for their experience upon arriving at an undisclosed port. They were among the last to leave Greece after staging a strong rear guard action to enable their fellow fighters to escape the mainland. Photo passed by British censor.

Get Off Fence, Darlan Told - By Hitler in 4-Hour

BACK TO WALL’

could be linked with a new peace The most reliable reports indicate that the Germans are preparing to land a considerable force in | Syria. Furthermore, they are not !likely to be air-borne. Since the | evacuation of Greece (he Germans have moved progressively into one { after another of the strategic | Greek islands around the Turkish coast. German ships have passed

offensive. ‘Expected’ to Return One of the letters contained the information that Hess expected to be back in Germany within two days

with gasoline furnished by the Brit- |

ish after he had convinced them of “the folly of their rulers.” ! All of the emphasis on Hess’ past

patriotism and a statement by the through the Dardanelles with an mistice. The wrestling reached its

spokesman that it had been difficult to formulate communiques explaining the case to the German people followed suggestions that Hitler might soon make a radio speech on the subject. The Nazi statements emphasized the viewpoint, however, that Hess’ flight could not alter the German determination or unity and would not affect the prosecution of the war. The British were warned, in fact, that they might have a propaganda field day for the time being but they would soon have something else to think about—presumably a new military campaign or even an attempt to invade England.

Trickery Suspected

There were some persons in England, too, who believed that thcre might be trickery in the arrival of

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| unknown number of troops. Present indications are that the Germans will pass by Turkey, which their occupation of Greece will enable them to do. German Ambassador Franz von Papen’s assurances to the Turks are con- | sidered this time, unlike most Ger- | man assurances, to have a basis in fact. The governing considerations apparently are Hitler's desire for closer relations with Russia and the uneasiness a German offensive | against Turkey would cause in MosCow. The London press reports this morning German pressure on Vichy for “permission to send a German army through Syria and FrancoGerman co-operation around the coasts of northern and western Africa.” Vichy is stated to have been offered the return of Paris,

| four-fifths of France and the reEveryone who knew the circum- | lease of all French war prisoners. stances emphasized that Hess was| Informed London quarters believe unwavering for many years in his| these reports of demands on Vichy loyalty to Hitler and that he would | 8s worthy of little attention. If unhesitatingly undertake any mis-| Hitler wishes to go through Syria sion, however suicidal, that the| he will do it without Vichy's perFuehrer proposed. That, they be-| mission, they say. )

lieved, might even be a mission | that Hitler later disavowed. | KILLED IN GUN MISHAP LAFAYETTE, Ind, May 14 (U.

Hess.

Indeed there were indications} that if Churchill did speak it would |P.).—Adolphus Smith, 38. was accibe to warn the country against dentally killed yesterday when his sentimentalizing the case and re-|shotgun discharged as he climbed mind the people that the adventur-/a fence on a farm near Colfax. ous flight and Hess’ action in|

: i a= showing a photograph of his 3%: {desperate effort to bring peace

Monolog.

By PAUL GHALI

VICHY, May 14 —France has its back to the wall in the diplomatic wrestling match that has been going on with Adolf Hitler since the Ar-

‘most dramatic pitch today following the meeting of Hitler and Vice Premier Admiral Jean Darlan at Berchtesgaden on Monday.

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1929 Autos Held

MOTORCYCLE Patrolman Charles Haine was at 30th and Illinois Sts. yesterday when he saw a 1929 model car laboring east on 30th St. He made a mental note of the license number, which was 54237. Not two minutes later, he saw another ancient vehicle, same model and same make, also chugging east on 30th St. He made a mental note of the license number, which also was 54237. Then Patrolman Haine went into action, and hailed the two cars to the curb. One was driven by Paul Davis and one by Oscdr Davis, brothers, Neither car had a front plate. The Davis boys were charged

| The Vice Premier returned huririedly to Vichy last night to con- | {fer with Chief of State Marshai| Henri Philippe Petain and the Cab- | |inet met at 11 a. m. today. A com-| {munique published after the meetling announced that the ministers had “unanimously” approved the results of the Darlan-Hitler talks and that “the effect of these talks would soon become apparent.” | The communique was interpreted jas proof that the terms agreed upon {by Hitler and Darlan had also re|ceived the approval of Marshal Pe(tain, who presided at the Cabinet meeting.

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On the Fence

The Hitler-Darlan interview, it was revealed here today, lasted for four hours and was in the main one of those brilliant monologues | affected by Der Fuehrer. According! to reliable sources, Hitler made clear to Darlan his intentions concerning the British Empire. He told the Vice Premier that France had been on the fence long enough, and that all the help that France gives Germany now will be rewarded for he would not forget it at the coming peace treaty. | What keeps France on the fence was indicated by the similarity of Hitler's words to those used by

State

year-old son to a Scottish farmer

did not “wash out the blood in which Nazi leaders are steeped.” The Manchester Guardian warmed

{after he had failed to convince | Hitler that his policy was leading Germany to ruin.

|United States Ambassador William |G. Leahy, who is understood to have {informed Petain yesterday that at the peace table America would not

that Hitler might have sent Hess to!

The Nazis now said that “Hess

with vagrancy and having improper license plates.

SEEK NATIONAL MEETING IN '42

Funeral Directors Name Group to Make

Convention Bid. .

The Indiana Funeral Directors’ Association, holding its 61st annual convention at the Fair Grounds, today opened a campaign to bring the 1942 convention of the National Funeral Directors Association to Indianapolis. The formal bid will be made by a committee at the 1941 national convention in St. Louis Oct. 14-17. The committee chairman is Robert E. Kirby, Indianapolis. The annual message from State Association President Frank J. Evans, Noblesville was given today. Other speakers included Fred A. Cutler, Chicago, on “Merchandising” and Harley E. Hickman, Terre Haute past president of the state association, on “The Work of Your Enforcement Officer.”

Committees to Report

Britain to mislead the British by a ‘ “false scent” (that by an audacious personal un- |

after the Nazis had geitaking he could achieve co-op- |

was fixed by the Messianic idea |[OTSet Who were her friends.

Delegates also heard reports from the association secretary-treasurer,

Report Terms Are Light

failed in their efforts to prepare the way for an invasion.

Called a ‘Skunk’

The Guardian, referring to Hess as a “skunk.” and as the worlds No. 3 enemy, emphasized that only a few days ago the German newspapers had loudly praised Hess and that the people had been led to respect him almost, up to the hour he fled to Britain. The Guardian's theory was that Hitler might have sent Hess on his fantastic flight to create a “false scent” and weaken “unconquerable” Britain at a critical moment—and that perhaps the plot had failed because Hess fractured his ankle in landing. ' The London Times claimed that Hess “must have chosen to come

because he believed he had a great|

purpose to serve” but professed ignorance as to what the purpose

eration between the two great Germanic nations—Germany and England.” It was said that Hess had expected the Duke of Hamilton, whom he knew at the Berlin Olympics in 1936, to lead a British peace party, although the Duke is now in the R. A. F. They said that it was not surprising that Hess should have “fallen into the peace illusion” since Hitler himself had often said he desired co-operation with England. . One of the day's most novel explanations of the mystery came from Vichy. It said that Hess and Hitler had split because Hitler had accepted Joachim von Ribbentrop's acvice to collaborate with France in a fight to the end against Great Britain, while Hess and Paul Joseph Goebbels had urged that

was. The Daily Telegraph seemed to be expressing the official view in saying that Hess had “exposed a schism in Germany which will make oration with Russia. rifts wider.” : | The Vichy version said that Hess The official British Broadcasting might be only the first of the disCorp. statement, aimed to Ger- sidents to flee to prevent being many, was that Hess had made a|“liquidated.”

Yesterday's story was that the

IN INDIANAPOLIS

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| Trade, noon. County City Total » Sm Alpha Epsilon, Board of Trade,

29 42 Co-operative Club of Indianapolis, Co24 55 lumbia Club, noon. | Ferty-plus Club, Chamber of Commerce,

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: . Mm, Kiwanis Club, Columbia Club, noon. Indian artment Owners’ tion, Cloypool Hotel, noon.

MEETINGS TOMORROW Indiana Funeral Directors’ Association, Hotel Antlers, all day. Indiana Coal Merchants’ Association, Hotel Severin, all day. | Indiana Bankers’ Association, Claypool Hotel, all day. Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Hotel Washington, noon. Caravan Club, Murat Temple, noon, Advertising Club of Indianapolis, Indianapolis Athletic Club, noon. Club, Hotel Severin. noon. of Indianapolis, 231

-, noon. Club, 110 E. Ninth

p.m. ary Cot , noon. Chi Alpha ‘Alamni tion, Russet Cafeteria. noon. 1 lis Motor Fox's Steak House, noon. Nu, Columbia Club, noon. Business Associatio

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Jochn Jones, 21, of 1118 N. Alabama; Annabell 18, of n N. Leon , 35, of 804 Dorothy Hewitt, 32, of 804 N. Keystone.

France be partitioned. |

Hitler-Hess split was over collab- |

N. Reyetone: | Ofna geclusion

| The French now understand that {they can count on losing little ex|cept Alsace Lorraine. They will only |lose those colonies which have fallen into the hands of General Charles de Gaulle, leader of the Free French forces, if they fail to reconquer them in the nreantime, Hitler is supposed to have said. No definite arrangement was put into writing in accordance with the Fuehrer’s custom to leave this job to lesser people. An agreement or agreements will probably be drafted in Paris during the forthcoming visit of Reich Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Darlan is believed to have been greatly influenced by his talk with Hitler. The look of jubilatich on his face as he arrived at the Cabinet meeting was interpreted as meaning that he was not only impressed but also pleased.

EXPENSIVE ‘INSULT’ VENICE, Italy, May 14 (U. P) — | Mrs. Emilia Castellani was 500 lire | tabout $25) out of pocket today for jcalling Francesso Guaglialone an | Englishman. The court decided such 'a characterization was offensive.

Clyde Hoskins, 23, of 953 N. Pennsyivania; Virginia Lea Wosbon, 19, of 713 E. 16th.

BIRTHS

Girls .

Mildred Nolte, at St. Francis. at nes.

Robert. ‘Jack,

Betty rt. Anna Millard, Inez

at Methodist. at Methodist.

Boys Cecil, Rosemary Chamberlin, at St. Francis. Roy, Florence Charnley, at St. Francis. Richard, Margaret Pier, at St. Francis. Richard, Alice Basey, at City. Raymond. Alma VonOhlen, at City. esse, Martha Duin. ity. n Jam ood, Coleman. ay. Clarivie Katzenberger, at St. Vineent’s.

es Wood, at Methodist. a ollingsworth, at Russell, Gaynelle Bedwell, at Methodist.

11, Rwa, Grace Elsey, at W. Morris. Ray, Madeline Pitman, at 528 E. North.

DEATHS Perry E. Hall, 45, at Veterans’, peptic Vivian Mitchell, at City, :nenirgococcic meningitis. race Herbster, 49, at City, acute leua. Russell Gilmore, 87, at Methodist, coronary occlusion. Sadie Verveer, 79, at 53¢ E. 38th, bron-cho-pneumonia Theodore Finkler, 61, at 833 Ft. Wayne, pellegra. Frank Baird, 55, at Veterans’, cerebral viii Sau fts, 63, at Methodist, chronic ary Goodwin, 73, at 5801 E. Washingarteriosclerosis. at 1632 Lexington,

pa ys Foy Joseahine Mitchell, 72. at 6221 Colege,

Herbert R. Wald, and the insurance and constitution and by-laws committees. On the agenda for the final sessions tomorrow are reports of the resolutions, membership and nominating committees and the election of officers. More than 2000 funeral directors are attending. The annual bahquet was held last night. Yesterday association members heard an address by George E. Johnson, Appleton, Wis, chairman of the public relations committee of the national

Cites Public Relations

“Every time we walk down the street, make a sale, write a letter,

conduct a funeral, use advertising,

and a multitude of other items we are engaging in public relations,”

Mr. Johnson said.

He advocated a policy of judicious advertising, friendly relations with all local business and professional groups and development of personality, with a constant high quality of funeral service.

BICYCLE POLICE FAVORED

BOISE, Ida. (U. P.).—Police Chief Austin E. Utley has new and inexpensive ideas for streamlining his force. Pointing out to the city council that in other cities the police are eq with horses, automobiles and motorcycles for patrol duty, he has asked permission to mount his force on bicycles. The latter will be taken from those that have been recovered by the police and not reclaimed.

NAVAL DRYDOCK STRIKE ENDED

Walkout Faces G. M., Hudson Within 24 Hours; Colt Peace Sought.

By UNITED PRESS A strike at a Boston naval drydock project was settled today but two automobile manufacturers which have $780,000,000 worth of national defense orders were threatened with new strikes. The 955 A. F. of L. strikers were ordered to return to work at once on the drydock project at the $30.000,000 South Boston Navy Yard Annex. . The men struck Monday in protest against employment of WPA labor on the project. Emest A. Johnson, secretary of the Building and Trades Construction Trades Council, said after a Washington conference with Navy, labor. and WPA officials that an understanding had been reached on a “fair and equitable” labor policy. A panel of the Defense Mediation Board met with representatives of the General Motors Corp. and the United Automobile Workers Union (C. I. 0), which has set a strike deadline for tomorrow at 61 G. M. C. plants. Negotiators were understood to be ready for consideration of the union's major demands— those for a wage increase and a union shop. The U. A. W. has called a strike at the Hudson Motor Car Co., effective at 5 p. m. unless the company agrees to union demands for a blanket 15-cent wage hike. Many of Hudson's 8500 empl : working on the company’s $30,000,000 in defense contracts. Fruitless conferences between Southern coal operators and the United Mine Workers Union (C. I. 0.) produced a threat of a new work stoppage in the soft coal industry.

Reject 10% Boost

Negotiations began at Hartford, Conn., today to settle a walkout of 6000 workers employed by the Colt Patent Fire Arms Co., which holds $33,614,330 in defense orders. The strike developed yesterday after workers, asking a 20-cent hourly wage increase, rejected a company offer for a 10 per cent boost. Thomas F. Burns of the Office of Production Management arrived from Washington to confer with strikers and company officials, v The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce asked for personal tervention by President Roosevel into the A. F. of L. and C. I. O. machinists’ strike which has halted work on $300,000,000 in shipbuilding contracts at 11 Pacific Coast ship-

yards. Ravenna Strike Settled

An estimated 800 A. F. of L. ters returned to work after a brief strike at the Government's $47,000,000 shell loading plant and ordnance depot at Ravenna, O. U. A. W. members at the Ex-Cell-O Machine Tool Corp. at Detroit vote today on a Mediation Board proposal to resume work pending negotiations.

PURSE SNATCHERS ON BIKES

DENVER (U. P..—Streamlined purse snatchers are operating here.

bore down on her on bicycles as she was crossing the street, grabbed the purse out of her hands and pedaied down the alley.

FIRE SWEEPS CEMETERY

KENANSVILLE, N. C. (U. P).— Several wooden grave markers were included in the damage listed when a woods fire burned across a cen-

tury-old cemetery near here.

The semi-finals of the Indianapolis Times-City Marbles Tournament will be played at 10 a. m. Saturday at four district centers, the Sour ament committee announced ay.

segments of the City. The centers

St. tennis courts; South—Garfield Park tennis courts; East—Brookside Park tennis courts, and West— Rhodius Park tennis courts. The committee unanimously decided that any sectional winner who does not appear on time for the district playoffs in his respective district will forfeit his right to play. Sectional winners will play at the dstrict center nearest to their sec-

hypertension C. White. 81, at. 3109 Broadway,

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tion. A complete list of winners and centers where they will compete in the semi-finals will be published

On Your Marks, Mibs Stars: Semi-Finals Are Saturday|i

The single eliminations game will be used in the semi-finals, the committee decided. In this type of contest, only two players will compete at a time, with the losers being eliminated as the games pro-

The districts cover four compass gress. are: North—Fall Creek and 30th |winners

ey C J. T. V. Hill—-Leo Cash, 12, of 2238 western—

N. Arsenal Ave.; North Robert Edlen, ‘12. of 556 Udell St.; School 31—Vaughn Grisham, 11, of 12343; S. East St.; St. Rita’s— Charles Beavins, 12, 2328 Columbia

Ave; School 63—Matthew Smiley, | MP

14, of 1221 N. Sheffield Ave. Sch

Area—Joseph Bass, 13, terwood St, and Ray St. Community Center—Jewell

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JAPAN STARTS.

BIG OFFENSIVE

Shansi Drive Most Serious But Even It Cannot End the War.

By A. T. STEELE Co he Gh Re Re pe HONG KONG, May 14.—Japanese divisions are striking hard along half-a-dozen fronts in the biggest revival of military energy in over a year. However, unless these | are carried much farther inland than now seems probable, there is no prospect that they will have any appreciable effect on China's internal situation and her determination to keep the war going. The most dangerous Japanese move is the campaign in southern Shansi Province, in North China—a hilly area swarming with guerrillas which the Japanese have failed to subdue in three years of constant warfare. For that reason the Japanese apparently are attempting to break up and destroy concentrations of more than 200,000 Chinese troops. If this is a prelude to a thrust across the Yellow River, westward toward Sian and Hanchung, important junction on the supply road from Ryssia, then it is serious.

‘Encirclements’ Fail

This is by no means certain, for the Japanese, so far have not attempted to cross the river, which is defended on its south bank by some of Chiang Kai-shek’s best troops. Japanese claims of a vast encircling movement and the entrapment of huge numbers of Chinese should be taken with a big pinch of salt. Past experience shows that almost invariably when these “circles of" steel” close in on their quarry, their net haul is but a handful of stragglers—the few who have failed to slip through the net. It seems evident that the Japanese are attempting to take advantage of Ching’s internal difficulties and especially the Communist-Kuomin-tang impasse, in the hope of striking a decisively discouraging blow.

Task Not Easy

Military experts are pretty well agreed, however, that nothing short of a drive toward Chungking, capital of Free China, would have any chance of being decisive. And there is no guarantee that even such a mammoth operation as that would bring the war to the quick decision which the Japanese so obviously desire. The ultimate scope of the present operations depends greatly on whether the Japanese are now utilizing the troops from Manchuria as a result of the Russo-Japanese pact. Only with such reinforcements could the thinly-spread Japanese army hope to extend its lines any considerable distance. Neutral observers have no confirmation of Chinese claims that troops from Manchuria are being employed in the northern operations.

CHANGE MINDS ON $35 GOLD PROVISION

WASHINGTON, May 14 (U. PJ). —The House Coinage Committee, by a 13-to-6 vote along straight party lines, today reversed itself and rejected a previously-adopted amendment to curb President Roosevelt's powers to fix the gold content of the dollar. The Committee yesterday had voted 9 to 7 in favor of such an amendment to pending legislation to extend the President’s monetary powers and the $2,000,000,000 Treasury stabilization fund for another two years beginning July 1. Rep. August H. Andresen (R. Minn.), author of the amendment, said he planned to re-introduce it when the bill reaches the House floor. The amendment would place a ceiling of $35 per ounce to the price that might be paid for foreign gold. That is the current price, but under the present law, Mr. Roosevelt may increase it to $41 per ounce.

CLAIMS COLLEGE MEN ARE UNFIT FOR ARMY

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn, (U. P).— instructor, believes army life would cause “pronounced physical hardship” for 90 per cent of the University of Minnesota men of draft age. Examining the resuite of the university’s program to give prospective draftees body-building routines, Mr. Beise said that “poor physical condition” would make the transition from campus to camp difficult. “They are weakest in the legs,” he observed, “and legs are what they will have to use the most.” Tests“ of prospective draftees showed that they averaged 75 sec onds for the 440-yard dash, about 25 seconds slower than the time of trained trackmen. One youth took 245 seconds, Mr. Beise reported.

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ARININREN

Maj. Stanley Umstead, chief of Wright Field flying branch, will pilot the Army's huge new B-18 bomber from Santa Monica, Cal, where it has just been completed, to Dayton, O., op a test flight.

FINISH FIGHT ON COAL POSSIBLE

Strike Threatened by Lewis Might Mire Defense For Months.

By FRED W. PERKINS Times Special Writer

WASHINGTON, May 14.—John L. Lewis and the coal operators are at it again. with the threat of a new strike next week to choke off the supply of fuel for the basic defense industry, steel, which just now is getting back into production after the April-long coal shutdown. Shivers are running through that

part of official Washington concerned with defense production, because if the new: strike develops it may go to the finish—perhaps a matter of months during which American production would be hopelessly mired. The problem in mid-May is still the same as through April—whether the Lewis union, with the aid of northern coal operators, will be able to force on southern operators a nation-wide system of uniform wages and working conditions.

Northerners Sign

The northern operators have signed with the Wnited Mine Workers on all the major terms that the union demanded. The southerners, while granting a wage increase, have refused to give up their differential of 40 cents a day less pay in the basic wage. To the layman the question: Why can’t the Northern mines continue to produce ‘enough coal to keep defense - industries going, while the Southerners continue their controversy with the union? The answer is that they could— except that the union cannot complete its contract wtih the North until the South is brought into line. The Northern operators have agreed to new union conditions with the stipulation that they shall be made nation-wide.

Sympathy Strike Seen

If the Southerners, now meeting the union in New York, refuse to capitulate, and if Mr. Lewis carries through his threat to call a nationwide shutdown next week, the question before Federal officials will be the differentiation of the geographical segments of the industry. Unless they take the veiw that the Lewis union is entitled to enforce its demands on a nation-wide basis they will be faced with calling the Northern shutdown a “sympathy strike” to enforce union terms on the South.

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AXIS AIR ATTACK ON FLEET FAILS

British Navy Still Rules Mediterranean After 6-Day Blitz.

By GRATTAN P. McGROARTY

United Press Staff Correspondent

ABOARD A BRITISH WARSHIP IN THE MEDITERRANEAN, May 14, — (Via Alexandria). — For six days German and Italian airplanes conducted an aerial blitzkrieg on the British Mediterranean fléet and failed completely. = The series of engagements between fleets of warplanes and a fleet of warships proved that the British Navy still controls the Mediterranean and the results of this action—the full details of which cannot be revealed—may mark the turning point of the war in this area. (Mr. McGroarty's dispatch passed through British censorship and only hints at new developments and perhaps a new technique in the war between surface ships and land-based airplanes. The last time the Germans made an attack in force on the British fleet in the Mediterranean, they sank a British cruiser, damaged the airplane carrier Illustrious and several other warships. The series of new attacks reported by Mr. McGroarty apparently were just as heavy and, according to an admiralty communique issued yesterday, resulted in no loss or damage to the British surface fleet.) Axis Lose Supplies ¥ Although repeatedly sunk by the radios of Berlin and Rome, the Mediterranean fleet has just com=pleted one of the most daring sweeps it has undertaken in Italy's “Mare Nostrum.” The Germans and Italians lost considerable supplies and aircraft. Throughout the five days, the fleet was in an almost constant state of alarm as enemy aircraft attempted to push home attacks, but the fleet's fighter planes drove them off, shooting down approximately 15 and inflicting such serious damage on a number of others that it is doubtful they were able to return to their bases. The British losses comprised two planes. On the third day, a squadron of light vessels left the fleet to bombard Benghazi, German-Italian base in Libya. En route they intercepted two Italian supply vessels which they destroyed. A 3000 to 4000-ton ammunition ship exploded. The other vessel, carrying fuel for the German mechanized forces in Libya, settled rapidly, and broke into flames before sinking.

Bombard Benghazi

These light war vessels then turned their attention to Benghazi Harbor, bombarding it for nearly an hour. The answering fire from shore batteries was weak and had no result. Several ships in the harbor were hit and a number of fires were started. . During the night of our first day out, we sighted an illuminated hos= pital ship whiéh was allowed to. continue unmolested.

The first air attack occurred early the next day, and British fighters drove off the German planes re=peatedly. By this time we were in the area of the Battle of Cape Matapan of six weeks ago, in which the British fleet inflicted heavy loses on the Italian fleet without suffering any loss or damage itself. During the afternoon, more than 100 bodies floated by on both sides of this ship. On the third day the aerial blitz started in earnest. Enemy planes were forced to retire by the fleet fighters without doing more than spotting the fleet. Two hours later, five bombers attacked the fleet. Four were shot down and the other

was believed to have been severely damaged. Four squadrons of German planes attacked but again were ripped apart by the fleet fighters. The number shot down in this bat« tle was not ascertained because

visibility was poor.

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