Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1941 — Page 7

PRN, SMOLENSK FALL

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 6,

MOSCOW DENIES

Germans Thrown Back There, Private Soviet Advices Say.

. MOSCOW, Aug. 8 (U. P.).—Private advices from Russian sources said today that Soviet troops have thrown back strong German forces “a considerable distance” from the key city of Smolensk on the central front. These advices were said to have been received direct from Smolensk, which was asserted to be still in Russian hands, despite the claim

by Nasi High Command three weeks &go0 today that it had fallen.

New Atiack at Kholm

Reports from the front said that German forces in the region of Kholm have resumed their attempt to break through toward the Lenin-grad-Moscow railroad, 110 miles to the east. It was believed the ultimate Nazi objective in this region iz the upper reaches of the Volga River. Fighting was also reported today in the Belaya Tserkov (Ukraine) and Esthonian sectors. The Soviet High Command said this morning that no major battles were fought in other areas of the front and indicated that no appreciable change in fighting lines had occurred in the main theaters of the war,

Moscow Has 3-Hour Raid A Russian submarine, operating in the Baltic, was credited with the sinking of an enemy transport loaded with troops and munitions.

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BERLIN, Aug. 6 (U. P.) —The three-week battle of Smolensk on the Moscow front has ended in German victory, the High Command claimed today and indicated that a great new Nazi offensive on the Eastern Front was about to

The Soviet air arm was reported to have been active against German | motorized detachments moving up| through the night to new positions | at the front, artillery concentrations; and Geérman airports. Moscow went through another; German air raid, a three-hour at-| tack. A number of Nazi raiders were! reported shot down.

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that {Battle of Smolensk, Moscow would

begin. The High Command, in four special communiques claiming the annihilation of Soviet armies totaling { several miilion men, placed German forces, after seven weeks of fighting, at the gates of Kiev, at the main defenses of Leningrad and about {235 miles from Moscow. The four special communiques,

| however, revealed no gains that had

not already been claimed in the regular daily High Command communiques or in the reports of DNB, the official news agency.

ular communique was that German | bombers had attacked Moscow dur- | ing the night and unloaded a “large i number” of high explosives and incendiaries that “hit the target area” and started large fires that | lighted up the sky over the Sov let capital “over a considerable area.’ The communiques emphasized the obstinacy and savage persistance of | ‘the Russian armies and described the Soviets as the “toughest opponents” yet encountered by Hitler's armies, The High Command indicated with the conclusion of the

be the next objective of the German armies of the central front. One of the special communiques, reviewing the seven weeks of hostilities. claimed the capture of 895.000 prisoners and reported that 13.000 tanks, 10.388 cannon and 9082 planes had been taken or destroyed. Authorized Nazi sources said that {this report of the capture of 895,000 i prisoners indicated that the Red Army has lost thus far about 4,000.-

{000 men killed, wounded and captured.

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The eastern seaboard gasoline curfew didn’t catch Chauffeur Julius Ziegler unprepared. He's shown here having spare gasoline tins filled to avoid the risk of running out of gas during the forbidden hours

Four Special German Communiques Review War in Russia, Claim 895,000 Prisoners

In the Battle of Smolensk alone the High Command claimed the capture of 310,000 prisoners and reported that 3205 tanks, 3120 guns, 1098 planes and “inestimable” other war materials were captured or destroyed. Soviet military leaders do not possess “a reliable picture of the situation on their own front,” the High Command asserted, saying this was the reason the Germans had been reticent about revealing news of progress of the fighting that might be useful to the enemy. The front, from north to south, according to Nazi claims, shows German spearheads at Narva, Leningrad’s outer defenses as far as

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An Army command under Col Gen. Busch succeeded in breaking through the strong Soviet positions south of Lake Peipus with the cooperation of an armored force force commanded by Col. Gen. Hoeppner, Ostrov, Porkhov and Pskov, said the High Command, fell after a

to thrust northward and open an attack in the direction of Leningrad. An Army grecup, under Col. Gen. von Kuechler, operating in Estonia then advanced, taking Dorpat, Fellin and Pernau. It then moved for-| ward to Tapa. Operations of this] group, charged with the mopping up! of Estonia, have not yet been com-

the Moscow-Leningrad railway, east of Lake llem to the Waldai Hills, |

| Kholm, Viazma, the Upper Dnieper |? The only claim made in the reg-!

over which several bridgeheads have! been thrown, then down to the ring |” of defenses of Kiev. German spearheads are reported also to have thrust deeply into the Ukraine between Kiev and Odessa down to the black sea, where a bridgehead is said to have been thrown over the Dniester to threaten Odessa. 2 n ”

Leningrad Front

The High Command gave this picture of the opening of German operations: One German Army group, under Field Marshal Ritter von Lieb, forced the Dvina River between Dvinsk and Riga after heavy fighting, mopped up Latvia and then moved toward to break the Stalin defenses along the Latvian-Soviet frontier and simultaneously mop up Russian forces in Estonia. Despite difficult roads and strong defenses, German forces moved forward between Lake Ilmen and Lake Peipus to a short distance from Narva on the Estonian-Soviet frontier, “blocking the land bridge

between Lake Peipus and the Gulf}. of Finland.

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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

PAGE 7

BLOCK JAP WAR, ANGLO-U. S. AIM

Hope to Show Tokyo Bluff Is Over; Give Siam Confidence.

By LUDWELL DENNY Times Special Writer WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—Rapid Anglo-American armed concentrations in the South Pacific, including movement of the augmented British fleet into the Gulf of Siam and arrival of two U. 8. cruisers in Australia, are ‘intended to prevent rather than provoke Japanese war. It is hoped that this preparedness may convince Tokyo that the bluff game is over, and at the same time persuade Thailand that the western powers have not abandoned her to Japan. With all sides recognizing that Thailand has become the key to war or peace, her policy in the next few days or weeks is of the utmost importance. If she plays with the Japanese much longer, they can reproduce their bloodless and “legal” conquest of Indo-China by secret occupation of Thai bases menacing Singapore and the Burma road. Britain and the United States were unable to challenge the Indo-China move effectively because it was an inside job, pulled off with the aid of Vichy. The object now is to prevent an inside job at Bangkok. So far Tokyo in dealing with Bangkok has had a free hand. Economic, diplomatic and military pressure, and territorial promises, all have been used to force Thailand into the so-calied greater East Asia sphere of Nippon. This has been accompanied by Japanese jibes that Bangkok dares not trust to British help because of the fate of small European nations. And until very recently the obviously inadequate garrison and fleet at Singapore tended to confirm the Japanese blackmail diplomacy,

British Making Headway

All the while, however, there have | been forces in Thailand which preferred British to Japanese protection—if the former could be obtained. The question whether

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said to have been captured and 355 tanks and 655 guns destroyed or taken. One German air fleet, under Col. |Gen. Keller, co-operated with this German force and was credited with shooting down or destroying on the ground 771 Soviet planes.

The second special communique dealt with operations on the Kiev front. Here the German Army groups

have been faced from the start with |

particularly difficult terrain, bad weather and a numerically superior enemy. Infantry forces, commanded by Gen. Btudeélpnagel and Field Mar- | shal von Reichenau, supported by| armored groups under Col. Gen. von Kleist, were said to have forced their way forward in frontal attacks,

| Bangkok has allowed so much Jap-

anese penetration that she would be | unable to swing back toward Britain if it could be demonstrated that London was through with appeasing Tokyo. Britain's large reinforcements of Singapore and Malaya on the south, and particularly of Burma on the west, are calculated to stiffen the once influencial Thai group which favors Britain instead of Japan. A hint that the British are making at least a little headway is seen in the Bangkok statement ‘that Tokyo's announcement of Thai dip-

| lomatie recognition of Manchukuo,

Japan's puppet, is premature. There i8 a further hint in the inspired stories that the Thailand

| Government is not committing itself

until it knows what the United States is going to do. Apparently Bangkok has been somewhat impressed by the Roosevelt orders freezing Japanese trade, banning aviation oil exports and reducing other petroleum shipments. Time Element Important The most complete diplomatic victory for Britain would be a Thai-

forcing the Russians back until a wedge was driven through Zhitomir “pefore the gates of Kiev.”

said the High Command, made it possible to launch a broad

ting off Soviet lines of retreat and

ress. Hungarian and Slovak forces

part in these operations while Ger-man-Rumanian units, commanded by Rumanian Gen. Ion Antonescu the |

strongly attacked

In this sector, said the High Command 150,000 prisoners have beén-taken 1970.tanks destroyed or captured as well as 2190 guns. An air fleet under Col. Gen. Loehr backed up the offensive in this operation and was credited with destroying 980 Soviet planes.

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Moscow Front

The third communique dealt with the Battle of Smolensk. “In the center of the Eastern

Front,” sald the High Command, “an Army group under Field Marshal von Bock victoriously fought the great Battle of Smolensk to a

“In space of time and severity of

history for the adamant series of destructive blows against the Bolgshevist armed forces. “In almost four weeks of conflict the armies of Field Marshal von Kluge, Col. Gén. Strauss and Col. Gen. Baron von Weich, as well as the armored group under Col. Gens. Guderian and Hoth. inflicted terrible and bloody losses on the enemy. “The air fleet of Field Marshal

this victory. The course of this battle will be described more detailedly in tomorrow’s communique.” The fourth communique recapitulated the data presented in the

to paying tribute to the great feats

German forces. “In consciousness of its superiority and confidence in final victory Germany’s armed force stands ready to continue the fight in the new area

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land invitation for British protection, a la Petain’s Indo-China em-

\ - h talin de-| brace of the Japanese; or a military hie ea rN SY Sa EE alliance and joint defense pact.

Though there appears little hope of that at the moment, there is more

{hope that Anglo-American military

and diplomatic persuasion at Bangkok will at leave stave off the impending Thai-Japanese alliance. Otherwise Britain would be faced with another, and much more dangerous, Syrian operation. The time element is all-important. For Japan's policy and strategy

Her move into South Indo-China, which eannot be consolidated without adding the Thai hinterland, was made in the belief that Hitler would defeat Russia in August and turn on Britain in September,

Move to Postpone War

Only if the European war is going against Russia and Britain, and the latter is unable to defend her South Pacific interests, can the Japanese pursue their scavanger hunt bloodlessly. The Russians already have held the Nazis long enough to eénable Britain to shift large naval, land and air forces from the Meditérranean and England to the Thai-land-Indo-China neighborhood. If the Russians can hold the Germans a few weeks longer, the Japanésé will be less apt to risk a war with Britain over Thailand and the Thailanders themselves will be more reluctant to gamble on Axis victory. Theréfore, the wWAnglo-American fight in the Far East now is a battle for time, and the military, diplomatic and economic moves are to postpone war—as well as to prepare for war if it comes despite these efforts,

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Maj. Clement R. Attlee Nazi Plans Awry, Attlee Says; Eden Warns Japan To Leave Siam Alone.

LONDON, Aug. 6 (U.P.).—The House of Commons debated the progress of the war today in the absence of Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden disclosed that Japan has been formally warned that any action “threatening the independence and integrity” of Thailand would “inevitably give rise to the most serious situation between Britain and Japan.” Lord Privy Seal Clement R. Attlee said that the United States and Britain ®are maintaining together “the utmost vigilance” regarding Thailand. Attlee declared further: That Germany has been forced

|into a two-fron- war and the plans

of the Nazi High Command have been twisted awry by Russia's determined stand. That the Battle of the Atlantic now extends “far toward the coast of the United States” and that Britain is achieving satisfactory results in the sea war of recent weeks. That supplies being received from the United States “far exceed” anything sent during the last war and have immeasurably strengthened Britain's position.

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Tokyo on Verge of Entry Into World Conflict, Says One Spokesman.

By UNITED PRESS A Japanese threat.to Siberia appeared to be building up today. Washington sources said that the first American shipment of war supplies already is en route to Russia, presumably via the Vladivostok route which skirts Japan. Japan's intentions regarding Siberia and Vladivostok appeared to be foreshadowed clearly in a statement by a Japanese naval officer, appearing in the Tokyo press. This statement declared that Russia now faces an “internal revolution” and that Japan cannot be unconcerned in such a development .

Serious Fighting Reported

‘The statement added that, becausd of the Russian developments, Japan stands on the verge of entry into the world conflict. Military sources in SHanghai heard that serious fighting along the Manchukuo-8iberian border already is under way and has been for more than a fortnight. Japanese wounded were said to be arriving at Harbin. A Japanese military spokesman at Shanghai denied such reports yesterday, as did a Russian spokesman in Moscow. Other Japanese newspapers continued to elaborate the thesis that encirclement of Japan is being speeded by growing co-operation between Russia, the United States and Britain. The possibility that Russia may give the United States bases on the Siberian coast again was raised.

‘SPIRITUAL DEFENSE’ URGED ON CATHOLICS

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 6 (U. P.).— Democracy can be saved only by a “spiritual defense,” the Rev. J. Roger Lyons, S. J., of St. Louis, told the summer school of Catholic Action here today. “Any program that can save democracy must be a program founded on spiritual defense,” Father Lyons said at a meeting of the school which is holding a weeklong meeting. “Armaments for this

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