Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1941 — Page 5

| HOW NAZIS STAGED INVASION OF CRETE

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though men in the uniforms of the enemy they are fighting are liable to summary execution under international law. a It was believed that any men caught wearing uniforms duplicating British or New Zealand uniforms would be court-martialed. Mr. Churchill said the decision would be left to the men on the scene. The Germans claim that the troops in question - were simply dressed in a new type of tropical parachutist’s uniform, It is pointed out here that the New Zealanders wear. the words “New Zealand” on the shoulders of their uniforms and that British officers “on the spot could hardly have been mistaken.

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raging there except that the parachutists at Retimo wore British uniforms. : British military experts believed that the next move would be an attempt to land tanks and mechanized equipment from warships, but said that up to late this afternoon there had been no reports of naval landings other than a few smallscale attempts. Defending British planes sought to check the attack by continuous raids on German airfields in Greece from which the transport planes were taking off.

‘One or Two’ Slip By

But it was admitted that fighting was expected to increase in severity. Reports of a sea invasion were

.indefinite, but such an invasion at‘tempt with the aid of the Italian fleet was still expected. (The British Broadcasting Co. as heard by Columbia Broadcasting System in New York, reported that

vading Holland the Germans used about 250 planes to transport one air-borne division and that each plane was expected to make three

or four flights. The-procedure is to put down parachutists first and if they land successfully they put out signals for the air-borne tropps. Big planes and gliders then descend. The troop-earriers carry about 30 men each. I: was admitted that capture of the island by the Germans would be a most serious defeat for' Great Britain’s attempt to keep control of the Eastern Mediterranean. Military experts expressed belief that there were two acute danger points in the island—the Maleka Peninsula in the Suda Bay area of the northwest shores and the narrow waist of the island, only 14 miles across, extending southward from the Gulf of Armyros. Troops who held the waist could cut off Canea, the seat of the Greek Government, and Suda Bay from the rest of Crete. There are but three good roads through the island.

British Take Watning

It was increasingly apparent that tholigh the, German -landing might have come suddenly and dramatically, it had not come unexpectedly. It was understood that a parachutist landing had been awaited for several weeks, since Royal Air Force planes first began to report the concentration of great numbers of German troop carrying planes, Junkers and Focke-wulffs, in Greece. The whole weird invasion of | Crete from the skies brought sharply home to Britors their own danger of invasion, and warnings were given anew that the British High Command must be ever ready to repel an invasion of this country. “In some ways the invasion of Crete would be more difficult than an invasion of Britain,” said the Daily Mail. Military commentators warned against complacency ‘in Britain. They said that Crete’s northern coastline was similar to that of southern England, and they speculated on the possibility of a German swoop on the Portsmouth area with subsidiary feints at Petersfield and Pulborough. “It can happen here as in Crete and it probably will,” one commentator wrote.

some of the Axis aftempts to land forces on Crete by sea apparently had succeeded. ; (A broadcast by Maj. Alan Murray said that the Germans were expected to use ships in Greek and Dodecanese. harbors to run the gantlet of the British Navy and “it looks rather as if one or two already have” broken through. But, be added, such attempts were welcomed by the British Navy.)

Carry Own Artillery

Air-borne divisions such as the one landed, informants said, consist of two infantry regiments instead of the normal three and orie artillery regiment equipped with 24 75-millimeter (three-inch) mountain guns. The infantry regiments are smaller than the ordinary regiment. There is in addition an antitank battalion, with 37-millimeter (1%-inch) guns and finally a divisional reconnaissance unit, motorcyclists, .signal men and engineers. The infantry. regiments are organized in battalions of three rifle companies and one machine-gun company each, it was said. One infantry company in each regiment is equipped with four 75-millimeter infantry guns. There are two motor anti-aircraft companies, using motorcycles, besides the medical and supply formations. The air-borne troops, informants said, requisition local civilian transport as: soon as they land. The parachutist troops, formed into companies, join the orders of the other air-borne troops. It was said - authoritatively that the disposition of the German parachutists asserted to be wearing New Zealand uniforms, would be left to Maj. Gen. Bernard C. Freyberg, the British commander in chief. It was not believed that any commander- would have them shot,

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cifically, regarding actual or intended sailings to the Red Sea, China, Rangoon and feeder services. On May 9, before that request was made, the United Press revealed that 27 United States merchant vessels were being assembled: for the Red Sea service. Germany subsequently proclaimed a combat zone in that area. Henry-Haye visited the State Department yesterday to protest the placing of coast guardsmen aboard 14 French vessels in American waters and to express amazement at the “emotionalism” with which some American citizens and officials had reacted to “collaboration” between the German and French governments. Secretary of State Cordell Hull abruptly told Henry-Haye that the world was satisfied that pro-Hitler elements were in control of the French government in Vichy headed by Marshall Henry Philippe Petain. Mr. Hull added that if this impression was mistaken, it was up to the French government to demonstrate that fact by words and actions, notably by keeping collaboration with Germany within the limits of the armistice.

Charges Unfriendly Act

The French ambassador could only protest and complain, specifically, that placing guardsmen aboard the French vessels was an “unfriendly act.” But he said that the limits of armistice collaboration between Germany and France actually had not been reached and told Mr. Hull that the terms of the armistice gave the Axis complete control over all French air fields and their facilities. This control has not been assumed at Dakar, French West Africa, he said. But so far as is known, he gave no assurances that Dakar would not become a Nazi air base just as French bases in Syria are being used by German airmen against the Fritish in the Near East. : Germany is believed to be devoting around 1000 airplanes to its blockade effort in the, North Atlantic. There are no facilities for such an air armada in Dakar, but a fleet

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000 craftsmen back to work in spite of the machinist strike. At Lorain, O., another shipyards strike ended when 700 members of seven A, PF. of L. unions returned to. work on $10,000,000 in defense contracts at the: American Shipbuilding Co. plant. Wage-hour - negotiations between Southern soft coal operators and the C. I. O. United Mine Workers broke up . today amid company charges that John L. Lewis sought to use the dispute to make himself “dictator of the country” and a Union rebuttal that the “carpet-

“extortion unequalled by any other employing group in American industrial life.” ; | The dispute once again was placed before President Roosevelt's National Defense Mediation Board which will meet with the opposing sides in Washington on Friday. The Southern operators took their case to the public in newspaper advertisements. : Mr. Lewis and the Union yesterday ratified a new two-year wagehour contract with Northern operators. He assured the Northern operators that any contract between the Union and the Southern operators would be on the same basis as the Northern agreement: Union officials have indicated that unless the Southern operators yield, an industry-wide strike will be called, paralyzing both Northern and Southern mines. spokesmen contend this would mean the shutting down of practically all steel mills within a week and a serious set-back in defense production. Two thousand A. F. of L. moulders returned to work today to end 8 nine-day strike which crippled

orders for iron, brass, machine tools and steel processing furnaces.

83,000 CAST SECRET VOTE IN FORD PLANT

DETROIT, May 21 (U. P.). — More than 83,000 workers of the Ford Motor Co. vote by secret ballot today on whether they want a labor union fo bargain for them with Henry Ford, and, if so, which one. Workers in the vast River Rouge plant and in the Lincoln plant were participating in a National Labor Relations Board election to determine the outcome of Mr. Ford’s btiter four-year fight against labor unions. Late tonight the ballot boxes from both plants will be sealed and put under careful guard until the counting starts tomorrow noon. For the 80,372 men eligible to vote at the River Rouge factory the choice was: 1. The United Automobile Workers (C. I.:0.); 2. Federal Labor Union No. 22551 (A. F. of L); 3. Neither union. At Lincoln the ballot read virtually the same. ! \ The River Rouge election was the largest ever conducted in a single plant by the Labor Board. It is the largest industrial unit in the world,

WYNNEDALE RENEWS FIGHT TO GET BRIDGE

Citizens of Wynnedale, an incorported town noftheast of Indianapolis, today renewed their campaign to secure completion of the proposed 38th St. bridge over White River. Started more than a year ago, the project was planned to provide a new outlet for that area, but work has been at a standstill for several months, according to Wynnedale residents. Part of the work, including the extension of W. 38th St. through the Woodstock Country Club and

| improvement of two other boule- | vards has been carried out. The

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| built across the canal, but ends in | midair and does not cross the river. { The other two boulevards which

have been improved are 30th St. to Cold Spring Rd. on the west side of the river and on the east side of the river to the canal, ! Dr. J. H. Stygall introduced a resolution at a meeting of townspeople last night urging that the bridge ‘ be completed “as soon as

and boulevards in connection with this bridge be paved. |

ROBBER KILLS TRIO WHEN RECOGNIZED

HUNTLY, Va., May 21 (U. P.).— Thomas Dewey Cameron Jr. 16-year-old mountaineer, today told how he shot the three members of a family while robbing: their store “because ‘they recognized me as a

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meet the British and suffered heavily the only time the British got a crack at it.

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British Victory in Crete " Impossible Without | Aid of Fleet. |

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on the island, or can get mechanized units and artillery across the water from Greece. Reports that a naval action is imminent probably are inspired by recognition of the necessity to the Germans of getting heavier equipment and supplies across the water, iri the teeth of the British fleet. The. reports may be premature. They imply that the Italian Jleet would be used, the Germans $0 far having little better than mosquito craft” in the Mediterranean. The Italian Navy, however, has shown time and again its disinclination to

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Anne Lindbergh Favors Aid, But Asks If Longer War

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NEW YORK, May 21 (U. P.).—--Anne Morrow Lindbergh, wife of Charles A. Lindbergh, said in the Atlantic Monthly today that she

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favors United States aid to Britaia but questions whether “prolongation of the war will contribute to their survival.” She reviewed what she called the evils of Europe—suppression of free

of individual rights to one person, unrestricted use of force and terror, mob riots, class warfare and racial and religious persecution, and said: “I note with growing concern their rise here, following like a steady thermometer the rise of war fever. It is because I oppose these evils from the bottom of my heart that I oppose war. I believe our entering the war abroad, a war for which we are not prepared either externally or internally, will be the quickest way bringing those evils upon us.... “I believe that democracy attempts to be that perfect mean hetween order and freedom. But if it lapses into a democracy in which each man is out for himself, in which there is no sense of responsibility, no willingness to sacrifice for the common good, in which there is no self-discipline or self-control, is this the perfect mean? “I believe we should help Engla:d. My heart draws me to help thos: I love and admire. . . . But my mind asks me if the prolongation of ‘he war will contribute to their surviv:1.”

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are watching Crete with great interest. real value of this Russian-conceived idea of war.

perimenting with the parachute method for years. in Britain and America as a spectacular and somewhat amusing RusSisk stunt, interesting but not practical.

alert for new methods, pounced on the idea. powered planes and troop-carrying gliders into an efficient arm of their military machine. had developed the glider like no other nation under the limitations of the Versailles Treaty, and by its use built the nucleus of their present mighty air force.

--Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., announced today that the first 17 day’s sale of the new defense savings bonds netted $25'7,646,000. ;

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