Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 July 1941 — Page 3

TUESDAY, JULY 15, 1941

REPORT GERMANS

DRIVEN 20 MILES

Greatest Counter-Offensive lzvestia Correspon

of War Called Success by dent; Communique

Says Fight Is Stubborn.

MOSCOW, July -15 (U. P.).—Russian forces have hurled back the Germans 20 miles west of the Dnieper River

in the Bobruisk sector of the

vital Moscow front in one of

their greatest counter-offensives of the war, a correspondent of the official newspaper Izvestia telephoned from the front

today. Russia’s early morning c ported tersely that Russian

ommunique yesterday had retroops had recaptured Roga-

chev, 32 miles east of Bobruisk, and Zhioviny 12 fies south

of Rogachev. Actually, the Izvestia correspondent telephoned, th Russians not only drove back the Germans 20 miles at that point but forced them back from the Dnieper River at several places north of Rogachev ‘after silencing artillery and routing tanks which had

been pressing to the attack.

Civilians returned to Rogachev fast night, the correspondent said, to find that the Germans had looted the city and burned many homes. Rogachev highway was reported choked with captured German tanks. Both Rogachev and Zhlobin are on the west bank of the Dnieper. Rogachev is on the Bobruisk-Roslavl-Moscow road.

Stubborn Fighting Reported

The high command’s afternoon communique today reported that there was stubborn fighting on the Moscow and Leningrad fronts. In other sectors, it said, there was no large scale fighting and there * had been no changes of moment in ~ the position of Russian troops. Russian planes bombed refineries in the Ploesti oil fields of Rumania during the night, the communique said. Other planes bombed and ma-chine-gunned German motorized units. (Izvestia’s telephoned dispatch, one of the few eye-witness stories direct from the front, was an implicit deniel of German reports that the Russian forces were in a state of dissolution and that the Germans had broken the “Stalin Line” at all important points. . For the Germans to suffer a defeat in which they were thrown back for 20 miles, would indicate that the Russian forces were intact and that, as Russian communiques had insisted from day to day, were counter- attacking vigorously.)

26 Ships Reported Sunk

The first communique of the day had said that the Russian, troops were ripping into the German lines in counter-attacks on three fronts and the air, force, Navy and coastal guns had sunk or set afire 26 troopladen German transports, three destroyers and a tank-filled barge in a perfectly timed combined attack in the Baltic. Describing the Baltic attack, a war communique said that on Saturday night a German convoy, taking troops and tanks presumably to Finland, heavily protected by destroyers, patrol ships, torpedo boats and fighter planés, was sighted by Russian scout units. It was not specified whether naval or air craft had sighted the fleet. The Russian Baltic Fleet and air force, supported by coastal guns, attacked the German fleet fiercely and persistently, it was reported, with the result that 13 transports, two destroyers and the tank-bear-ing barge were sunk and 13 transports and one destroyer were heavily damaged “and are now on fire.” It was asserted that the Russians emerged from the battle without the loss of a ship or an airplane. (Substantiation of the Russian claim would mean that the Germans had suffered two convoy disasters_in the Baltic in three days last week. Stockholm reported Friday that at least three German transports, inclding the 5504-ton passenger liner Tannenberg, were driven into a mine field—possibly by Russian warships—Ilast Wednesday igh off the Southeast: Swedish €0as

. ENGLISH TOWN ‘CONSCRIPTED’ ‘SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND (U: P). — In one night the government conscripted the whole of an English town as one huge dormitory for people engaged on national work. Every room and ev-|, ery bed in the whole town is under government control.

IN INDIANAPOLIS

Here Is the Traffic Record

County City Total 61 33

Arrests

SATURDAY TRAFFIC COURT

Cases Convic- Fines tried tions paid 49 = $919 3 70

' Violations

Reckless driving . . Failure to stop at through street. Disobeying traffic ignals

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MEETINGS TODAY

4 Exchange Club Board, noon, Severin HoIndianapolis Automotive Maintenance Association, 8 p. m., Severin Hotel. Rotary Club, noon, Claypool Hotel. Gyro Club, noon, Spink-Arms Hotel. Mercator Club, noon, Hotel Lincoln. Universal Club, noon, Columbia Club. Phalanx Fraternity, 7:30 p. m., Y. M. + Kroger Grocery. Co., 8 p. m., Severin MEETINGS TOMORROW Purdue Alumni Association, 12:15 p. m,, Severin Ho Chi Soterity, 7:30 p. m., Severin 0 Anchor Stove & Range Co., 6:30 p. m,, Severin Hote Milk Foundation, 13:15 p. m. Severin

&ioas Club, noon, Claypool Hotel.

, {Moscow to California by way of

BERLIN WAITS KIEV GAPTURE

City’s RI Reached, Say Unofficial Sources; Moscow Periled.

BERLIN, July 15 (U. P.).—Usually reliablé unofficial German sources claimed tonight that German troops have reached Kiev but said they had not yet “captured the whole city.” The report that Nazi forces have slashed their way forward to the capital of the Ukraine followed the

assertion of the Nazi High Command Saturday night that German forces “stand before Kiev.” At the same time official German reports claimeq that Storm Troops have captured the last of the Stalin Line defenses in the Vitebsk area, some 300 miles from Moscow, and asserted that the Nazi thrust toward Leningrad is making steady headway.

Army Communique Brief

The High Command today confined itself to the cryptic statement that “operations on the Eastern Front are progressing steadily.” A few hours before the report that Nazi troops had reached Kiev, the official DNB news agency reported a terrific Soviet counterattack had been launched in that area by huge Russian tanks in an RHtemps to plug holes in the Stalin ine. The DNB account claimed that the Soviet tanks of 50 to 70 tons, were beaten off by a “hail of fire” with heavy losses.

Battle for Day and Half

The attack in the Vitebsk area was said to have been made by infantry troops who fought from field bunkers for a day and a half against permanent steel and concrete Russian defense works which were equipped with underground compartments. Storm‘ troops, DNB claimed, exploded dynamite charges : against the Soviet forts and managed to win control of “the entire defense position and both flanks.” DNB claimed that the Soviet fortifications were so well camouflaged as to be “completely unrecognizable” and the forts were fitted with revolving steel gun turrets.

From Closest Range

Concealed Soviet sharpshooters were said to have poured a “hail of fire upon advancing German soldiers from the closest range.” With the support of heavy howitzers, DNB claimed, the Germans managed to disable the Soviet gun turrets. Pioneer detachments then forced their way up to the bunkers under heavy artillery barrages and exploded charges which ripped open the Soviet bunkers and killed the Russian defense crews. German informed sources claimed that the line of bunkers taken in this area was most important because of its location at the center of the front before Moscow.

RUSSIANS WHO FLEW TO U. S. ASK HELP.

MOSCOW, July 15 (U. P.).—Three Russian aviators who flew from

the North Pole in 1937, appealed to American fliers for war aid today. on the anniversary of their flight. They criticized Charles A. Lindbergh. They were Mikhail Gromov, Andrey Yumashev and Sergei Danilin, who established a noh-stop rec‘ord of 62 hours 2 minutes, flying

By THOMAS

land means that the directors of cisions of importance even greater have decided to risk violating

The fact that our enemy has two faces—Atlantic and Pacific— does not alter the military facts. The Navy has lately weakened its main fleet in the Pacific to ‘strengthen its forces in the North Atlantic for much expanded operations that are likely to bring about a shooting war. * In these operations occupation of Iceland is only a second step— occupation of Greenland was the .first—but a recond step far more likely than was the first to bring quickly a third and a fourth. For the American occupying force must be reinforced ahd supplied by ships going through the Nazi war zone—and so continually thumbing their prows at Adolf Hitler. No one else has done that and escaped the thunderbolts of his wrath. That the Navy does not expect to either, Secretary Knox has already intimated—and certainly to ‘secure American troops on Iceland the Navy must patrol and convoy, and if any German interferes, must fight. And it will take more than light convoy craft to cope with the pocket battleships or the formidable Tirpitz. That is why Panama has lately seen many a gray ship slip through the locks—though it left behind in the: Pacific a growing Japanese Navy and a Japanese Army clamoring to scoop the riches. of the Indies, including much of our rubber and tin, and mayhap the Philippines, into Japan’s “East Asia Co-prosperity Sphere.”

AXIS AIDS BOARD SHIP FOR HOME

Wiedemann and Borchers Flying to N. Y. to Sail On Transport.

NEW YORK, July 15 (U. P.).— Expelled Axis consular representatives and propagandists sail for their homelands today on the Army transport, West Point. As they boarded the ship with their wives, children, pets, and confidential files, United States consular representatives were preparing to leave Germany and Italy. They had been expelled in reprisal. The two most important of the Axis agents and a party of 14 were flying here from San Francisco in three United Air Lines transport planes so that all can sail in the West Point. They were Capt. Fritz Wiedemann, who is close to Adolf Hitler, and was the German consul-general in San Francisco, and Johannes

Borchers, who was the German consul-general here.

Plans Reversed They had wanted to sail on a Japanese liner for the Orient where: they had been assigned new posts. They missed a boat Sunday. They intended to take the next Japanese boat, but last night something happened that. reversed their plans and a few hours later they were flying to New York with their wives, their assistants, 129 pieces of luggage, and four dogs. The State Department would not. comment. Considerable mystery surrounded the sailing of the West Point. A heavy police guard around the Hudson River pier prevented all unauthorized persons from even approaching the former United States luxury liner, America. The New York Herald-Tribune said that additions to the passenger list were Dr. Manfred Zapp and Guenther Tonn, American managers of Transocean News Service, .German news’ agency, and Dr. Kurt Reith, German diplomat who has been called “the No. 1 Nazi in the United States.” : Ahout 450 Aboard

All three had been confined on Ellis Island, Dr. Reith awaiting deportation proceedings, Zapp and Tonn awaiting trial on a charge of failing to register as foreign agents. There were approximately - 450

M. J OHNSON

imes Special Writer WASHINGTON, July po —Landing of American’ forces in Ice-

our grand strategy have taken dethan appears on the surface. They the time-honored strategical ban.

against dividing one’s forces in the face af the enemy.

American strategists would not have risked that situation six months ago, They risk it now because of the most important change in naval warfare since: Merrimac ' and Monitor introduced ironclad and turret—the «development of air power as an arm and complement of sea power. Norway, Taranto, tRe Bismarck, and finally Crete convinced mafOrity - naval. opinion that, particularly within range of shore-based aviation, the side that had air superiority might, although its ships were fewer and weaker, have sea superiority with all the freedom of movement that it gives.

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U. S. Strategy Changes

SO AFTER CRETE has followed, unheralded and unsung, a change in American grand strategy of sensational import. It means that, within certain limits, the United States may act as if its one-ocean Navy actually were a two-ocean Navy. It resulted, therefore, in a decision that the U. S. could risk a plunge into naval warfare by sending troops to Iceland even though that necessitated our bringing from Pacific to Atlantic, ships that hitherto had been blocking Japan—always provided we sent to the Pacific their equivalent in extra air-power, especially heavy bombers and flying boats So we have sent them—the

tated by the Russo-German war.

TOKYO ATTACK ON INDO-GHINA FEARED

By JOHN T. WHITAKER CoP nt Ghithet aly ebe. te” LONDON, July 15—A Tapanese move before the end of the month— probably against French Indo-China —is predicted in informed quarters here today where America and Great Britain are said to be closely waiching for developments and exchanging information. Germany is believed to have brought pressure on the Japanese, but there are many reasons why Tokyo hesitates to attack Russia, or move against Hong Kong or the Dutch East Indies. Indo-China is safer, while France lies’ prostrate, and it offers loot in rubber and iron. Japan could scareely resist the jackal’s role if ‘Germany crushed Russia and brought the internal collapse df that vast Soviet empire. Unless and, until that happens, Japan will not move against Russia, it is believed, . because Josef V. Stalin, in creating Russia’s Far Eastern Army. has provided for its industrial and food needs. That army would. probably prove vastly superior to Japanese troops. At first glance, a Japanese invasion of Indo-China would seem to satisfy German demands without endangering America and Britain. Actually, the occupation of ' IndoChinase ports such as Cam Ranh would afford the Japanese Navy and air force jumping off places for swift blows against the Philippines, North Borneo and Malaya.

OFFICIAL WEATHER

U. 8, Weather Bureau

INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST — Partly cloudy tonight and tomorrow with likelihood of occasional showers; not much change in temperature.

(Central Standard Time) Sunrise

July 15, 1940— xyes ve 68/1 p. m.

BAROMETER TODAY 6:30 a. m.... 30.02

men, women and children—325 Germans and 125 Italians—who began boarding the West Point at 5 a. m. (Indianapolis Time). The exact number of passengers will not.be known until the ship sails. It had been scheduled to sail at 2 p. m., but it will not sail until 8 p. m.'so that Wiedemann and Borchers and their party, arriving in

622 miles to San Jacinto, Cal.

Kiwanis Club, noon, Columbia Club. Indianapolis Junior Chamber of Come, noon, umbia "indiana Motor Truck Association, noon,

tel Antlers. Hoge M. C. A. Camers Club, 7:30 p. m., . M. C. A, Pans Men’s Discussion Club, 6 p. m., M.

‘Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Property menage division, noon, Canary Cot-

RR ops rative Club of Indianapolis, noon Columbia Club.

ca——— 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.

d Sloc 33, of 33 E. 10th; EveA of 418 Vermont, No.

d B. Fenter, 22, of 1928 Valley; vars Coney, 19, of 2119 Fernway. ard pass, 23, of 343 3 State; Wanita Fulk, 18, of 1608 E. Ohio Stanley V. Crane, 22, of 2044 Alvord; Hellie Sultzer, 18, of 1952 Ralston. Robert Aiman, 25, Dendieton; Brube Augusta

kar, 22, New Thomas M. Allen, 21, of 408 N. New ersey; Frances V. Kremer, 23, of 1118 N.

ount. Harrison Ashby Y 3 403 W. Michigan; Sara C. Petty, Sis Boulevard Place, on 22, of 2444 Park;

Clarence Jor Dorothy A. ‘Helch, 23, of "3444 Park.

Fant, 19, of 2120 Highland; Onpicee cna Sn 16, of 1913 Boulevar Place.

Samuel O. Brile, » Evansville; Anna P, Bennett 24, of hdd m, 31, St., Evansville. Clifford PB.

La.; Helen K Fulsn fo, a1, "of 4

BIRTHS Girls Elsi Senuberty at 8t. & Sone. Marjorie G — Ffichael, Marcella Newport, at Bt. Prec Oatherine Devine, at St. Franeis. Pal opson, at 8t. Francis, James, ms (Alexander, at an. Martin, Fa ‘av. Ernest,

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Kugene, Lona Gordon, at a adil, John, Claudia Hollidge, at Methodist. Paul, Lorrain Nicholas, at Methodist. Ralph, Jean Raller, at Methodist. Dena Adams, at Methodist. Clifton, Aldora Hill, at 31 Harris. Boys John, Edna Elliott, at Methodist, Ralph, Edith Baur, at Methodis Frenerick Muriel py at Methodist. Kenneth, Ethel Schaefer, at St. Francis. John, Geneva xe a . Elmer, Hdna Ewing, at City. Vincent. Julia Fox, at St. Vincent's. Kelly, Oma Crabtree, at 3733 E. 25th. | ————

DEATHS

Ida ©. Prinz, 78, at 631 N. West, cardio _| vascular renal dise

Anna M. Patrick, o, at 8t. Vincent's, carcinoma.

Catherine Hillbrant, 83, at 406 -N. State, Walter. E, Andis 61, at Perry Stadium,

coronary occlusion Lucie A.. an, 5. oi 2324 NWN. -Delaware, broncho-pneumoni a,

William M. Mayo, Puckett, 74, “at 3245 N. Tinos, rrhage.

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ma Sfatoronary 0 pa Snel iD rich, 64, Jat 903 Dorman, diasn John Duffy, 83, at 3245 N. Illinois, ions, John

B. Leonard, 47, at Veterans’, perni-

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Preci pation 24 hrs. ending 7 a. m.. Total precipitation since Jan. 1 Deficiency since Jan. 1

T WEATH Ta THER showers Youth rtion Wednesday; esday. na Partly cloudy, scattered ghowers tonight and in south and east sday: cooler in extreme north portin Wednesday.

WEATHER IN OTHER CITIES, 6:30 A. M. Station Weather Amarillo, NED

MID IMinois—Partly tonight and in cooler near Lake Mich gan Wedn India

Mobile. Ala. .ec.. ew Orleans ... Eran: rg! Portl St. Hite Wash

BERLIN, July 15 (U. P.)—Authorized Nazi quarters said today

that reports President Roosevelt has ordered United States warships to fire German submarines are “100 _ ‘cent correct.”

Stockholm newspaper Aftonbladet, were given great prominence in the German

press. The Nis quarters sold Sat the ‘Government, is observing

“There is not the slightest doubt of the truth of this report,” they |the

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Japan Complains of Soviet Mines in Asiatic Waters

TOKYO, July 15 (U.P.).—A Japanese Government spokesman, com- | plaining today that Russia had mined many areas of the Siberian coast, intimated that Japan might find it necessary to abrogate. its three-manth-old neutrality treaty with Russia because of the situation precipi-

paper Articles. Teflecteq increasing Japanese interest in the possibility of

'at Moscow had been advised by the

#IS VITAL TO NATION

"|avoid war except imperil the free-

world’s best heavy bombers, ranging 3500, 4000, 5000 miles. And it. is 800 miles or less from the Philippines to probable Japanese bases -for an attack on the East Indies or upon the Phillippines themselves. The China Seas are narrow seas through which the Japanese Fleet must come. Also

‘At the same time, inspired news-

American and Btitish aid to Russia against Germany, Japan’s ally. Iichi Kishi, speaking for the Government Information Board, disclosed that the Japanese Embassy

Russian Admiralty that Russia had established mine fields in “many” zones of the Russian Pacific Coast.

Makes No Prediction

Presumably, Kishi said, Russia took its action on the ground that German warcraft might appear off the Siberian coast. “However, Japanese are unable to imagine German wareraft in these waters,” Kishi added. “In any case the mining measures are not very pleasant to Japan.” . In reply to a question, Kishi said that the Russo-Japanese neutrality and friendship pact still stood. “But I am unable to comment on the future,” he said. Commenting on the Russian statement that the Russo-British declaration .of mutual assistance would not affect Russo-Japanese relations, Kishi said:

Soviets.” Goes to See Emperor Shortly after Kishi made his statement, the Cabinet met and after it had discussed what were called

important questions, Prince Fumimaro Konoye left by train for Hayama to seek an audience of Emperon Hirohito at the Imperial summer 8, oe . 5 Under the Japanese-German-Ital-ian -alliance, signed at Berlin Sept. 27, 1940, Japan is not bound to aid Germany against ‘Russia, because Russia did not attack Germany. Under the April 13, 1941, treaty between Japan and Russia, Japan is bound to maintain neutrality in the RussoGerman war because Germany attacked Russia.’ In April, however, Russia and Germany were friends. (Germany'’s attack on Russia was a major diplomatic defeat for Japan. Even. more serious to Japan, however, was the Russo-British mutual aid declaration, especially because Japan already was . anxious over American and British collaboration and their aid to China.)

MWNUTT SAYS UNITY

MILWAUKEE, Wis., July 15 (U. P.).—Federal Security Administrator Paul V. McNutt declared last night that the national administration =| would do “everything in its power to

dom and security without which Americans cannot live.”

He told a National Unity. rally that ‘the Government hoped to avoid war. “The will of every American, if not his judgment, must now assent to the national enterprise,” he said. “Even though wishing that the policy were otherwise, he must work with his fellow coun en to prove the policy by which the entire nation and fruits of of

“That is We contention of the|

from Manila to industrial Kobe and Osaka is 1200 miles; to Yokohama, 1600. A leading authority considers Manila probably beyond the safe capacity of present Japanese bombers. . And Japan's houses are of paper! Their protection, the Japanese air force, was long reckoned, after

U.S. Uses Planes to Stymie. Japan, Free Surface Craft for iceland Coup

fighter maneuvers well if a trifle slowly; bombers are fast, bombardiers- accurate. “But,” an American observer reminded me, “their China experience is just shadow boxing. The Chinese couldn’t hit back much.” Jap fighter-pilots have had even less resistance. Their poor ‘eyesight and lack of initiative are not fully compensated by great

courage. ”

Japan Stymied? WASHINGTON SUMS it up

L this way:

the Red Army, the world’s great-. est military mystery. The mystery is somewhat dispelled by late data. First line Japanese planes total something over 3000; replacements are 300 a month—versus our more dispersed 1500. Japanese planes are largely foreigndesigned but well made. The new

In the air Americans, British and Dutch in Asia have a safe edge on Japan. Japan can spare

from China perhaps 2000 planes; the three have 2500 better planes, better manned. They have arranged co-operation in the air as on the ground. Also, for some time American airmen have been teaching the Chinese, who are better airmen than the Japs, how to give the Japs more than shadow boxing. Russia has 800 to 1000 planes near Vladivostok, 577 miles from Yokohama. So we have stymied Japan with air power in the Pacific so that we can draw off enough sea-pow=-er to enter the Battle of the Atlantic. Else we would not have dared land on Iceland, with all that means. If Japan proves this interpretation of the new rela~ ° tionship, of sea and air power correct “by making no hostile emove, then the U. S. Navy is in a position to go yet deeper into the Battle of the Atlantic. If not, then the Panama Canal will have some busy days and nights as American ships needed near Iceland go shuttling back to the Pacific.

SYRIA MA MANDATE

a British Troops. to Occupy

All of That Country And Lebanon.

VICHY, July 15 (U. P.).—British and Free French troops will occupy all of Syria and Lebanon under terms of the convention ending hostilities in the mandated territory, it was announced tonday. Goverment officials said the accord would not cause any change in the French mandate over Syria nor in France's plan of gradual independence for both Syria and Lebanon. The agreement was signed last night at Acre, Palestine, by Gen. Joseph de Verdillac, acting for Gen. Henri Dentz, French High Commissioner, and Gen. Henry. Maitland Wilson, . British commander. It provides that all French troops must be concentrated in six zones by noon today. They will remain under French officers until they are repatriated, except in thé Jebel Druse section. There, for reasons of security, the French troops will be permitted to retain their arms until British forces relieve.them, Accorded Honors of War

Honors of war will be accorded the Vichy French, and they will be permitted to retain their side arms. Prisoners of both sides will be freed at once. French civilians and military officials will be given an alternative of joining the Allies’ cause or being repatriated. Officials will remain until they can be replaced. French hospitals, schools and religious missions will retain . full rights. Public utilities, railroads and power stations will remain intact with their full personnel ‘continuing work. All railroads and other communications are to be surrendered to the British intact. All ports will be handed over, including arsenals and all ships, including British vessels which had been: interned by the French. British Get Planes

The French agreed to surrender| their airfields with all “airplanes intact and to give the British existing supplies of fuel Monies, mints and' treasuries are to remain undestroyed and unuched. The British” reserved the right to enlist any of the Levantine specialized troops as quickly as they are demobilized by the French, and promised that no ent "would be given either the native military dr civil population for participating in the hostilities.

FEDERAL EMPLOYEES’ PAY BILL APPROVED

WASHINGTON, July 15 (U. P.).— The Senate yesterday unanimously approved the Ramspeck-Mead bill to provide a uniform promotion formula for 350,000 Federal employees. Under the bill, which will — an estimated $29,000,000 over a 10-year period, - the measure specifies that classified Federal employees will be entitled to “in grade” pay increases each 18 months if their efficiency ratings are “good” or “excellent.”

The reports, attributed to the|the

struggle will survive or perish.

Germans Believe '100 Per Cent’ in Reports F.D.R. Told Navy fo Shoot at. Nazi U-Boats

“The fact that the German press ntly

le German Government's Ine regarding Roosevelt's actions. If gives. us for Jug Un

they had every reason to believe |in

{fire on German warships.”. Hon | states Navy means that he has set

The House now considers minor Senate amendments.

Roosevelt: resolves war before Germany wins victory. on eastern front.” “Roosevelt's PR vacations increasingly plain: American Fleet shall

“Roosevelt's order to the. United inj, slow match under a powder barrel.

'FRANCE TO KEEP Syrian War Ends— Silently 3

By HENRY T. GORRELL United Press Staff Correspondent

LORE, Palestine, July 14 {Delayed.)—Gen. Henry Maitland Wilson, h commander, and Gen. Joseph de Verdillac, French leader, faced : Bl Sh son across a long table in the Sydney Smith Barracks this eve’ ning, and, wtihout speaking, signed a convention whereby France sure

rendered Syria to Bxitain. The atmosphere was tense at

Syrian campaign’ in which British and Free French forces had fought against their former allies and compatriots. Terms of the convention were not disclosed here. It was stressed that it could not be called an armistice, because Britain and France had not been formally at war.

The first break in the tedious twoday negotiations came after the signing of tae ‘‘convention for the cessation of hostilities,” when one of Gen. Wilson's aides thanked Gen. de Verdillac and his staff in a tone of strained cordiality.

All the participants showed fatigue and relief when the document was signed. Gen. de Verdillac, who had represented Gen. Henri Dentz, French High Commissioner, appeared very weary.

When Gen. Wilson’s aide thanked the French delegation, Gen. de Verdillac smiled faintly, bowed to Gen. Wilson and left the room. Later, he and Gen. Wilson were understood to have met in a private room to drink to “the heroic conclusion”

the historic ceremony ending the

of the Syrian campaign and to their . confidence in the future. : The only smiling faces at the barracks, named for the British hero who defeated Napoleon at Acre, stopping his drive to the East, were those of Australian soldiers. Standing upon each other’s shoulders, they poked their heads . through an open window behind Gen. Wilson's chair and watched the signing of the document. Throughout the ceremony, phoetographers snapped scores of pice tures, to the annoyance of the - French delegation. Gen. Georges Catroux, Free French leader, was not present.

TOURIST BRINGS CANOE CARLSBAD, N. M. (U. P). —A tourist came all the way from Virginia to see Carlsbad Cav~ ern. When he drove up to the cave entrance, guides noticed a canoe strapped to the top of his car. They - wondered if he had heard about ihe Boos sweeping this part of the state.

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