Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 July 1941 — Page 3
* WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1941
K MOSCOW REPORTS 9-FRONT VICTORY
Counter-Blows Successful, Claiming That Red
Says Russian Communique, i
Army Is Holding at
All Other Points. MOSCOW, July 9 (U. P.).—The Red Army reported to- a
day that the German forces driving toward -Moscow on the} central front had been hurled back in retreat and that the|;
Axis Army in the extreme south had been routed in the
* Falciu sector and driven back across the Pruth River into|;
Rumania.
The Germans left “hundreds of dead” on the field as
‘they retreated westward in the Lepel Sector, the war com-
‘munique said, after Russian counter-blows had smashed two enemy motorized regiments (probably 6000 men) and
‘destroyed four heavy and] light batteries and a large quantity of anti-aircraft
‘guns. (The report of triumph in the
Lepel sector was regarded as of
greatest importance because the Nazi advance there had been one of the strongest of several drives toward Moscow.) All along the front, the war com- _ munique said, the Red Army held up or turned back the German forces in severe fighting, especially in the Sebez direction near the Latvian border, while the Russian air force pounded at enemy columns, airdromes and bases, destroying 102 German planes and losing 10. Both reports of German forces being driven back—in the Lepel area and along the Rumanian frontier— were regarded as indicating the fury with which the Red Army now is striking back at the enemy after having held up the main Nazi advance on the central (Moscow) front for about six days. Furthermore, it was the first time that the Russians had said the Germans had “retreated” westward from any positien they had won in the offensive against the Red Army, although on previous occasions there had: been frequent gains and counter-gains in a fluid form of fighting. The communique did not indicate that the Germans had fallen back in disorder on the central front, but on the Pruth front it was stated that the enemy had been caught in
a counter-attack and had dropped their arms and fled back to Rumania. These were described as German and Rumanian troops. In the far north, the Red Army was reported fighting strongly against German-Finnish thrusts both toward Leningrad on the Karelian isthmus and in the Arctic toward Murmansk. The enemy apparently had failed to make any appreciable advance through former Finnish territory toward the great industrial city of Leningrad. Heavy - fighting continued last night at Polotsk and Lepel on the central front and in the NovogradVolynsk sector of the southern or Ukraine front. (The Germans had thrust several spearheads into each of these fronts and the Russian report of smashing the Lepel and Pruth River drives would not necessarily effect other forward stabs such as those at Novograd-Volynsk in the Ukraine and at Bobruisk, on the Berezina River, where the Germans had been held up since last week.) The communique said that in the Ostrov direction, Russian troops
fighting and were consolidating|™ their positions. (The German advance here is almost due west of Moscow but the Nazi drive apparently is headed both toward Moscow and Leningrad.) Fighting was in the Sebez area, where German tanks and infantry endeavored to break through to the
ously.
Ostrov Seized, Berlin Says
" BERLIN, July 9 (U. P.).—German armed forces were reported by the
DNB official news agency today to
have occupied the Russian town of
Ostrov on the road to Leningrad and to have made “a large territorial
gain” in Bessarabia on the southern
sector of the Eastern Front.
A Russian attempt to establish new defense positions on the LatvianSoviet frontier (in the Ostrov sector, 190 miles south of Leningrad) was
smashed and Russian troops were hurled back by the advancing Germans, the agency reported. The dispatch added that the Estonian towns of Fellin and Pernau (Pernov) also were occupied. Pernau is on the coast, about 100 miles north of the Latvian capital of Riga. - The news agency also claimed that the fortified town of Salla, scene of fierce fighting in the Soviet-Finnish war, had been occupied by German troops also aiming at Leningrad. The High Command did not make any specific claims regarding the Eastern Front were proceeding “successfully.” The news agency. reported that 128 Soviet planes had been destroyed yesterday and 201 on Monday. : The Russians employed sirong tank forces in an attempt to hold up the German offensive, the . agency said. The Russians were
repulsed after hard fighting, it was
added, and the German and Rumanian troops “pursued” the Russians.
(The German High Command said on July 3 that the power of resistance of the Russian armies “now seems broken.”) The Germans, it was said, continued day and night to bomb the so-called Stalin Line in an attempt to make a “decisive breach” which would - permit the German forces to break up the Russian armies and then destroy isolated forces by concentrated artillery and airplane bombardment. ,An official news agency dispatch said that “hundreds” of Russian troops “surrendered” to the Germans at various parts of tie front yesterday. It said that most of the Russian troops had “hardly any clothes or equipment” and reported that they were the “last remaining survivors” of “isolated and broken up” regiments.
R.A.F. Bombs Ruhr Again
LONDON, July 9 (U. P.).—British long-range bombers smashed at Germany’s vital industries during the night, blasting railway yards at Hamm and Munster and factories at Bielefeld where “great fires were
started and much damage was done,” the Air Ministry said today.
An important synthetic oil plant at Leuna, a few miles west of Leipzig, was reported riddied with “heavy bombs” and other planes. were
said to have struck at Haugesund, shipping off the north and west "coasts of Occupied France and an important airdrome in North France. “The town and railway yards at Hamm were heavily attacked,” the Air Ministry said. “A great weight of high explosives and incendiaries again were dropped on Munster and another force successfully attacked communications in the industrial town of Bielefeld.” - The Air Ministry said that seven British bombers were missing from these operations and reported that
five German bombers were destroyed during raids on Britain last night. A
ALIENS TO BE EDUCATED
WASHINGTON, July 9 (U. P.)— President Roosevelt today allocated $14,000,000 of Works Progress Administration funds to a program to educate 1,000,000 aliens seeking nat-
uralization in the duties and responsibilities of American citizen-
ship.
were holding firmly in night patrol.
east, was said to be going on furi- 3
‘42 Victory G. 0.
P. Goal .
“Victory in 1942” was the subject of these Republican leaders at the Columbia Club. Seated, left to right, are U. S. Senator Raymond
Willis, Angola; Mrs. Grace Reynolds, Cambridge City, National Com-
REPORTS DENTZ
Churchill Says Armistice Is Talked in Syria; French Deny It.
LONDON, July 9 (U. P.).—French forces fighting in Syria under command of Gen. Henri Dentz, the Vichy commander in chief, have asked Great Britain for armistice terms, Prime Minister Winston
Churchill disclosed today. (French sources in Beirut denied that an armistice was being considered.) Churchill told the House of Commons that Gen. Dentz had made his request for a discussion of armistice terms through the United States. “We welcome the negotiations and trust they will reach a speedy conclusion,” Churchill said. “Pending any formal arrangements being made the military operations must, of course, continue with unabated
gor. “Need I hardly say how very glad the British Government will be to see an end brought to this distressing conflict in which nearly 1000 to 1500 British, Australian and Indian soldiers who volunteered or joined the Army in order to defend France have fallen killed or wounded under French bullets as a result of the lamentable confusion into, which the affairs of so many good people in so many parts of the world would have been thrown by the victories of Hitler's armies.” It was said in a reliable quarter that the intermediary between Dentz and the British Government was Cornelius Van H. Engert, American Consul General at Beirut. The request for an armistice discussion was made in reply to a British offer transmitted more than a week ago, it was said authoritatively. This offer outlined conditions under which Britain might grant a truce. It was believed that one of Britain’s terms was that Allied forces should occupy Damascus, Beirut, Aleppo and Palmyra, possibly subject to ultimate establishment of Syrian independence. . Authoritative informants emphasized that Britain did not intend to impose harsh terms on the Vichy forces.
VICHY, July 9 (U. P.).—Gen. Henri Dentz, Vichy High Commissioner for Syria, was reported today .in official Beirut dispatches to have rejected a new British armistice offer. The Beirut dispatches said Dentz replied to the armistice offer, which reportedly originated with the British High Commissioner in the Near East and was transmitted through a non-British intermediary, by mobil-
_|izing all Frenchmen between the
ages of 19 and 45.
2 NEWSBOYS DIE IN GAS-FILLED CELLAR
DETROIT, July 9 (U. P.).—Richard Power, 11, and James Cobinna, 10, promised a friend that they would deliver his paper route while he vacationed. Police found Jimmy and Dick dead today. Trying to deliver a paper, they entered a basement apartment which was being exterminated. Both were asphyxiated by cyanide gas. It was their first day as newsboys.
IN INDIANAPOLIS
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signals 5 Drunken driving 2
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MEETINGS TODAY John Hancock Lite Insurance Co., Hotel Washington, 9 a. Rivas Club, abla Club, noon. . erican Association of Workers fo the Bina Claypool Hotel, all day. Lions Club, Claypool a. noon. Indiana Motor Truck Association, Hotel Antlers, noon. hs A. Camera Club, ¥Y. M. C. A, %:30 n. m. Ava Men’s Discussion Club, Y. M. C. Co-0 ative Ci 8 operat Dlib of Indianapolis Co E maniansye pois” Cott erce Outdoor Non a
Novena, a rmente Monastery,
go Jidiznapols Wrapping Merchants, Hotel Fine Paper Merchants, Hotel Severin, rds Alumni] “Association, Hotel Seve6: ing _~ Indianapolis Athletic Club, gue, Claypool Hotel, noo!
In indinnie li Ts Apartment Owuets, Claypoo
3 Wash
unior Chamber of Com- |New
Josep Ciinior Rober: ‘E. vis Pt of 41 11.5
Pls Club,
Chamber of Commerce, 7:30 p
MEETINGS TOMORROW : a vtdeer Novena, Carmelite Monastery,
’ ® Bookbinders Union, Hotel Severin, 7:30 7 ‘National Federated Craft, Hotel Severin,
p - Board of Church Extension, Hotel Severin, 8:30 a, John Hancock ‘Lite Insurance Co., Hotel Washington, 9 a American Assovis tion oy Yorkers for the
Blind, Claypool Hotel, Indianapolis Real Estate * Board, Hotel Ad on Club of India lis, Indianapalis Athletic Club, noon. apy 3 an on Club, Hotel Severin at aE Camera Club, 110 E. 9th
s Motor Tra tation Club, Ine., ror dag Ry House, noo noon: allen TO
MARRIAGE LICENSES These lists are from official records in the County Court House. The Times, therefore, is not responsible for errors in names and addresses.
Ivan E. Macy, 21, of 2 Chester; Merle B._DeMott, of 1405 Brookside. Elwood on ard a, of 2753 Columbia; Katherine E. Carr, 31, of 2759 Columbia. Louis M, Culbertson, “n, 1 150 Opa Opal E Shell, 22 Clara Le Blitop. nL v5 Uhlan a. R. 14, Box 616; Marjorie R Me 5%, R. 4, Lewis Bro 25, of 1728 'N. Alabina; Meredith I I. L Floyd. is 19, 3 1728 N. Alabam Minerva; Mattie
uis L. Ry oo of 15 3 Minerva. Lew Robinson. 54, of iss Hoes Jessie Willia) son
49, of 1433 H Paul F. Wy ysong, 50, of 5 . New Jersey; Katherine Dooley, 4, ‘of 303 N. James L. Ho 25, of 1628 W. Market; Gladys J. Ruddick, 16, of 1337 Cruft. Ji h n, 34, of 417 oF
West Newton; Newton.
Ma. Fulford, 31, 5a Rive AR L. na.” 29,
ter Idamae K. Malone, 28 China J. J, Bader, 58 ty be on. Cof 289 XN.
RO J. A | Marte E Tiabig. 20. of 1738 Union Riley E, Miles, 36, of 1084 83 day, 24, of 941
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BIRTHS - a ‘wins, Boy and Girl Clark, serah F. Roggte, at Coleman.
ir Donald, Martha Hunt, at SL Francis. . Bernard, Mary Sprouse, St. Franci plosep! h, Providence Camille, at William Violet Hill ' Bernice olipsi" Wilson. St. Vincent's 8.
, Alice Hany ’ Helen MISKDoc, 8 t St. Vincent's. Robert, Helen ach at Methodist. —Boys
Ciffor Charlotte Clark, at St. Francis. pol ord, Annabelle Caplinger, at St. an
Ry Marcyle Long at St. Francis. Simpkins, at, at Si. Elmer, Tay, 2 at Go , Melvin, Maky Elle Jennings, at Sleman. Joseph, Irene Weaver, at Colema.
Roy, Bessie Conover, ‘at LL Jrens i, 3 at St. te Vincent's Ss.
Nol rson, Phil, Betty Ds Bairympie, at Methodist. Eugen Met
SU. Manuel, Gertri Methodist. Earl, Helen ey at 5438 De arborn. Roy, Marié Morgan, at 1538 Se
DEATHS
aes Shepley, 82, at 28 8. Rural, myo-
Nancy Richardson, 7, at 1661 Harvey, cardiac asthm:
Jon Kelly, na at Veterans’, coronary Kelley, 6s, ‘at 901 Woodlawn, chronic
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rhardt, 85, at Central, cerebral hele rie oY B de, 50, at 4235 Sangster, arrie! e al mary) thoaaaodls. Mary Jolly, 51, at 4421 E. Washington, carcinoma, RE Stellmac ask. 63, at 132 Wisconsin, te cardiac mpensa o tes ie 3, at 936 Park, carcinoFrances Delon ong, 81, at 3038 N. Tlinois, chronic myoca den, 68, at 2110 8. State,
cerebral hemo: Elvin Adams, 9: at Long, multiple
elom ohn “Anderson, 49, at 215¢ N, Talbott, ay: | “den nis Fite, 6. at 3010 . Colorado, a heb A Bearnall, 47, at Methodist, malig-
Glial Brian at. a 70 3. 250, cr
ASKING TERMS|
mitteewoman, and Rep. Joseph Martin, national G. O. P. chairman. Standing is Ernest Morris, South Bend, nafional Sominiitestan,
Bobbitt Remains in Saddle, ‘Blessed’ by Party Leaders
By VERN Arch N. Bobbitt, target of G. O.
3 375,000 U. S. BOMBERS CRASH
Pilots Lose Way in ‘Perfect’ California Weather, but Escape Unhurt. (Continued from Page One)
the ships crashed and burned on the flat farmlands of the San Joaquin Valley. Lieut. H. E. Adams and Corp. C. L. Norwood decided, however, to ride their plane to the ground. Lieut. Adams pancaked the ship into a vineyard 50 miles southeast of here. A wing tip and a propeller were smashed. Army authorities at Hamilton Field, Civil Aeronautics officials and other experts offered three explanations that might have caused the pilots to be drawn so far off their course. One was natural atmospheric distortion of the radio beam; weeklong bad atmospheric conditions suddenly cleared yesterday and became much better than usual. Such “acute” conditions can cause as much distortion as bad conditions, it was said. The second explanation was that the Tucson-Los Angeles beam and the Fresno-San Francisco beam are so close together they might have been confused. The third possibility — instrument error — seemed unlikely, since it would hardly have affected three planes at once. The pilots, beside Lieut. Adams, were Flight Leader Lieut. A. M. Rulison and Lieut. J. R. Cables. Their assistants were Sergts. G. M. Thomas and C. C. Herron.
AGREE ON PARTITOINING
ROME, July 9 (U.P.).—Italy and Germany signed an accord outlining the partitioning of Jugoslavia at Berlin yesterday, i was announced officially today.
OFFICIAL WEATHER
U. 8. Weather Bureau
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Partly cloudy, slightly warmer tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy with likelihood of local thundershowers; temperature this afternoon about 87.
Sunrise
4:24 | Sunset TEMPERATURE
Precipitation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m.. Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1
MIDWEST WEATHER
Indiana—Partly floudy, scattered thundershowers in southwest portion, warmer tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy to cloudy, scattered thundershowers, Illinois—Partly cloudy.” scattered thundershowers in west and south rtions; wagmer in north and central portions tot; tomorrow partly Sloudy, to cloudy
a scattered thunderst Lower Michigan Paty 5 cloudy and th Sortion tonight; udy to cloudy; showers; ortion. and mostly Sjouyy portion tonight; tomorrow mostly ‘ollowed by in west por-
warmer, showers in nor tomorrow partly clo cooler in Rorthwest Ohio—Fair in nor
in south cloudy and slightly warmer, showers lomerrow ugh and oudy with scattered
tion tomorrow Kentucky Mostly ostly” showers and thunderstorms tonight and a Slightly warmer tomorrow. WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Bar. Temp. 29.94 67 . 20.84 29.73 rs 30.08 30.01
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TOMES .Ohio Leader Present
Hugh Huntington (center), Ohio State Commititee treasurer, came over to see how the Hoosier Republicans carry on. Edwin V. O’Neel, Hagerstown (left), Tenth District chairman, and Byron Jones, Lebanon, Sixth District chairman, are explaining the, situation to him before last
night’s ananee nesting.
BOXELL P. leaders who opposed the ill-fated
“decentralization” program, still was in the Republican saddle today, his prqgram reapproved by the State Committee. He came out of yesterday's conference here-with a full victory, including a resolution urging unity and the end of dissension within the party, and the praise of National Chairman Joseph Martin, U. S. Sen-
ator Raymond Willis and G. O. P. State officials. : The resolution was adopted without a dissenting vote after Mr. Bobbitt had made a formal report to the committee. He stressed that the program which the Legislature passed and the Supreme Court struck down was created by the entire party and not by any cne man or group. He also called for an immediate start for the 1942 campaign, with the Supreme Court’s decision as the chief issue. He recommended that a state conference of Young Republican organizations be called within the next month, to be followed by a series of county rallies to explain the campaign program.
Tucker Not Present
Meanwhile, leaders of the opposition to Mr. Bobbitt admitted they lacked the strength to unseat him at this time. They indicated that their attempt might be delayed until the regular election time next May, when Mr. Bobbitt’s two-year
term is to end. Secretary of State James Tucker, the only Republican State official to come out of the inter-party battle with any sizable patronage, was the target of another section of yesterday’s resolution, which recommended that “such appointments as are available to. Republicans be made through and with the approval of the regular Republican party organization.” Mr. Tucker, who did not attend yesterday’s session, has indicated that he will “co-operate” with the committee, but will not follow “any hard and fast rule” in passing out Auto License Division jobs. He has denied a statement by Mr. Bobbitt that the State Chairman ever disSussed the patronage situation with
Martin Lauds Bobbitt
Supporters of Mr. Tucker say he will name heads ‘of the 136 lucrative branch license bureaus soon and pass out some 250 jobs in the State House bureau. He already has appointed Lowell McDaniels as head of the division, and with this organization it is reported that he will attempt to gain control of the State Committee in preparation for his 1944 campaign for the U. S. Senator nomination. The resolution was presented by George Dickman, Greenfield, 11th District chairman and bitter opponent of the Tucker-McDaniel group. It was approved without discussion but seemingly without enthusiasm. National Chairman Martin said that the national organization was proud of the achievements of the Indiana party under Mr. Bobbitt
‘land National Committeema® Ern-
est Morris of South Bend. He
9% |urged that the “Republicans main4|tain a policy of strong opposition
during the next two years. Hits F. D. R. Attitude
He discussed national issues in a press conference and said “one of the weaknesses of the President's foreign policy is that he does not consult Congress.” Senator Willis also attacked the President’s - foreign policy in an earlier address and said he opposed “committing this nation to a foreign war”? Party finances were discussed at an executive session last night at which Rep. Martin was the chief speaker. State Committee members, State officials and businessmen attended the meeting. It was reported that a fund-raising campaign would begin soon with 50 per cent of the money going to the counties and 25 per cent each to the state and national organizations.
BOILER WORKERS STRIKE
SAGINAW, Mich., July 9 (U.P). —A_ strike of 150 members of the|:
¢3 |Steel Workers Organizing Commit-
tee (C. I. O.) today halted production on $500,000 worth of Army and defense - plant contracts at the
Wickes Brothers Boiler Works.
HEMISPHERE'S LIMITS ‘VAGUE’
FDR to Ignore Them in
Extending Defense Posts In Atlantic.
(Continued from Page One)
entering the European theater of war. That warning from Berlin was uttered in protest against occupation of Iceland by United States naval forces. The Nazis received what could be considered as an indirect answer to their protest today when Presidential Secretary Stephen T. Early revealed that a new request for national defense and Lend-Lease funds would go to Congress this week. It was indicated that the aggregate sum would be around $5,000,000,000 to $6,000,000,000. Part of this new defense money, which will hike 1941 appropriations to a record level, will be earmarked for Lend-Lease aid to Britain and the remainder for the United States Army, Navy and Maritime Commission. Mr. Roosevelt explained to his regular press conference that the limits of the Western Hemisphere are vague and therefore are not figuring in a major way in determining of his strategies. He told questioners that some points within the Western Hemisphere are not important to hemispherical defense whereas other points beyond the imaginary line might be of great importance.
Dodges Some Questions
This expanding defense policy is significant not only in connection with possible future movements of American forces but also in connection’ with the Congressional limitation upon assignment of selectees to points outside the Western Hemisphere. There was no indication, however, that selectees—or any other armed forces—immediately are destined to Atlantic islands whose attachment to one hemisphere or the other might be disputed. The President brushed aside questions whether he would seek elimination of that restriction on movement of selectee troops. But he feels that the one-year limitation on service of selectees, National Guardsmen and reserve officers should be repealed, although he does not now plan to send to Congress a message on the subject. Mr. Roosevelt's lack of concern with the twin provision that selectees may not be sent outside this hemisphere seemed to indicate that no showdown on that issue is imminent. But he apparently intends to make future decisions regarding movements of American forces in the Atlantic dependent on defensive strategy rather than upon hemispherical associations. Gen. George C. Marshall, chief of staff, recommended removal of the one-year and hemispherical limits on service of all restricted Army classes. Congressional leaders have intimated their opposition, but the President appeared confident that the time limit would be dealt with satisfactorily. Any radical dispute regarding troop movements outside hemispherical limits probably would provide a Congressional effort to define the boundaries of our half of the world.
RAYBURN APPROVES HOLDING GUARDSMEN
Speaker Sam Rayburn said today he approved the War Department’s recommendations to extend the active service of the National Guard beyond one year, but opposed retention of selectees except those who wish to volunteer for extended service.
Mr. Rayburn said, however, he believed the Selective Service Act should be amended to permit selectees to offer their services for an additional year. He added that he believed officers’ training schools should be set up within the Army units selectees, to give these soldiers every opportunity for advancement if they
decide to stay in service.
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WASHINGTON, July 9 (U.P).—|’
~ Local party leaders took an active part in the meeting. Included ‘were (left to right) William R. Higgins, Indianapolis, Twelfth District chairman; George Dickman, Greenfield, Eleventh District chairman;
James Bradford, Marion County
chairman, and John Bookwalter,
Indianapolis, State Committee treasurer.
action. * Nazi agencies of publicity said
the sovereignty of a small nation but said the thoughts of all civilized persons would be with Germany in its struggle against Bolshevism in behalf of the world. German comment on the occupation of Iceland was delayed but it came finally in a flood. “Roosevelt will have to bear the consequences now that he has decided to enter the war zone,” a spokesman said. “Roosevelt's action is considered here a stab in the back of Europe, especially as at present Europe is engaged in a war against Bolshevism.” “Roosevelt has consciously entered a battle area where there is
indicate at least that the German progress. This third week of the war Is critical for Russia, more so than the first two weeks, when the Germans were making a steam roller advance that carried them through the outer buffer states acquired by Stalin as a first defense line. Now the Germans are up against the real defense of the Stalin Line, which is not only long but from all reports deeper than anything the German Panzer divisions have run up against yet. At the moment the Russians are holding, and perhaps even thrusting the Germans back at some points. At any rate, they claim to have the Germans in retreat on the central front around Lepel, and in Bessarabia on the River Pruth. If the Russians can keep this up and prevent a real German breakthrough before next week they may force the Germans to call a halt to reorganize for a new smash through on a more concentrated front. In
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‘Stab in Back, Cry Nazis
BERLIN, July 9 (U. P.).—Germany complained today that President Roosevelt had stabbed it in the back by occupying Iceland at the mo= ment it was fighting to free the world from the threat of Bolshevism and emphasized that he would have to bear the responsibility for his
the President had brutally violated
Zeitung. with him.
of every civilized being Is side by side with the German fighters, comes Herr Roosevelt from ambush and occupies Iceland after already violating Greenland. A broadcaster said over the offie | cial radio in an English language program: “Roosevelt has elected to enter the war zone where no quarter is given. Europe considers his action an unheard of interference and w not tolerate it.”
Today's War Moves
By United Press War Experts
The Russians have made undeniable progress toward slowing down the German drive after 18 days of bitter fighting, but the issue is still in
the balance, in the opinion of military experts. The claims of the opposing forces need not be taken at full face value, but the absence of any specific | information from Berlin would |
forces are not making appreciable
their first drive, the Germans have felt out the Russian strength on an incredibly long front from. to the Black Sea. So far, they have found no really vulnerable spot. Russia has'the manpower. The question mark is how long her mas chines, artillery and air force hold out against a German Army which
into a fine art.
tious optimism in British comment on the situation. The British, franks
prised by the Russian showing. An authoritative London source advances the idea that after three
mans will have to slow down to rest
Mechanized warfare is a terr strain on the men engaged and would take superhuman endurance to keep at it indefinitely without & pause.
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