Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1941 — Page 18

3 : ported that Soviet troops had re-

be! after the Russians, repulsing an en-

ussian Confidence Rising on War Anniversary; Gens. |, “Dodonov and Rokossovsky Lead Troops Into German Central Front Lines. , =~

MOSCOW, Sept. 1 (U. P.).—Big Russian counter-|¥ attacks all the way from the Arctic Sea to the northern “Ukraine were reported in Russian colnmuniques and dispatches today. It was indicated strongly that the Russians had slowed, if not stopped, the German attacks on Leningrad and the uthern Ukraine. On the central front a powerful force ander Gen. Andrei donov, appeared to be Hnidy developing a new counter-|

after their artillery had blasted German tanks, tank traps

and trenches.

~ In another counter-attack, under} Gen. Constantin Rokossovsky in the _ Smolensk-Moscow highway direction, ‘German troops were reported to be withdrawing after losing mang ‘thousands in casualties. The Russian salient in the Smoarea is steadily being sniarged, as asserted.

‘was - Report Attack in Far North | ~~ A special dispatch to the official ‘mewspaper Izvestia disclosed a Rus- © sian counter-attack far above the = Arctic Circle; where, it was asserted, the Russians had routed a Ger- ' man division after a German pen- ~ eral had flown to the front in a vain : attempt to hold them. - The day’s second communique re-

Stories of Russo-Finnish efforts Stockholm today. The reports said that Marshal Kiementi Voroeshilov, defender of Leningrad, had vol-

+ ‘peatedly repulsed Finnish - attacks f Dea) that 1400 Finns had been killed

___ emy attack, had pursued and encir2 Sled a Finnish brigade of 2000, mob 2) than 600 of whom escaped. A sudden surge of confidence Sore “marked the 11th week of a war which the Germans are said to have hoped to win in three or. four. | t was indicated on the basis of reporic. from the front that the Germans had been hurled back in

stop hostilities.

Sunday’s newspapers devoted. articles to the second anniversary of the general war and the first 10

They showed steadily increasing

The United States Gs two years, the United States

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Swing from a position of siats]x active interven-|

utory neutrality to

tion in everything’except the actual 1 shooting. - It has constituted Nett an’ arf

senal of democracy” and its material resources to help defeat |F le Axis powers. It has raised all conscript army committed to defense of this hemisphere. Today the armed forces reached’ 1,886,000 and are

“In the fiscal year 1941, the United

Including future committmen whole\program for defense and

. participation in the World >

American marines are garrisoned at Iceland. The Atlantic fleet guards the biggest section of Britain’s sea lifelines between -North- America and England. The Pacific fleet watches Japan. The people ‘of the United States face gi of new taxes as a start toward paying for defense and indirect tion. in’ the war. The cost of living is rising.

Great Britain

Britain moves into the third year. of the war on a surge of hope that,

peace |together, the three greatest political{to be in London and units on earth could find the com-|summer thaws come _again, they

bination to tary power

t the greatest milihistory :

ik : na. by

After 10 wedks of pertiaps the most terrible slaughter in the his-

tory of warfare; some 10,000,000 Rus- {|

sian and German soldiers face the

prospect. of a winter campaign in bitterly cold“weather on an incomparable desolate and vast battle“From the Arctic to the Black Sea and perhaps beyond, Russians and Germans will fight rain and mud and snow . Bnd lee. ds well 5s wath

-jother.

On an 1800-mile battlefront they will pit endurance against endurance, and the probability appeared that when ‘the spring and

will still be fighting. In the first two months of strug-

No Briton permitted himself to|gle on the Eastern Front the Ger-

won. Until Hitler attacked Russia, nobody knew how. The invasion: of Russia threw against Hitler's Army the only military force which conceivably might stop it. It raised the hope

‘Army might penetrate into - the

their offensives on Leningrad from west and south and that the Jey of the Ukraine under Marshal Semyon Budyenny was hold- "/ ing fast on the Dnieper River line. +A communique disclosed that the Germans had already started to attack the Dnieper line, attempting | pontoon bridges across the.

confidence in Russia's ability to|Soviet Union, it would always face beat the Germans. a succession of new fronts farther Pravda Izvestia, the official back. Comm and Government orgahs| Jt raised a hope that Russian.reand Red Star, the Army organ,|sistance would impair, if it did not said Russia was getting stronger|gestroy the temper of the military and Germany weaker. - | weapon forged by Hitler which had They charged that Germany at- gained him nine nations and forced tacked Russia only because itljoyr others into his continental

iver to the Russian side. - These i pts had been thrown back with heaty losses, it was said. y

Siren Halts Berlin Fun

‘BERLIN, ‘Sept. 1 (U. P.) —Hundreds of thousands crowded into air . raid shelters during the night as fleets of Russian and British planes 3 into Germany from the Baltic Sea and occupied - territory on the second anniversary of the war. Tans of thousands of Berliners ‘were in movies, restaurants and : Frees cars when sirens shrieked and sent them to shelters. A brief

despaired of ine Great Britain, and for its pains exploded the myth of its army’s ¥ineibiliy.

ue said Russian planes ch had flown in from the Bals had caused the alarm but said y had been thrown back “before reached the capital’s defense

Bo sunive in the. cenfor. Berlin

.-18. “said British ad of} jombs ‘on’ western and southwesttn Germany but caused only “insignificant” damage. However, it was said that eight of the British : planes were shot down. ‘There“was no official program to “mark the second anniversary of the day on which German troops “matched across the Polish frontier jer fleets of German planes. t was reported that the high command had prepared a communique summarizing German | triumphs during the two yeas. Robert Ley, Labor Front leader, ; , in a week-end: speech to arms - factory workers at Krems: | | “Germany today is the most unit- |. ~ed object throughout the world: One people, one opinion, one will, one force. The goal of our battle against capitalism and bolshevism ~—our unrelenting war which began |" ‘the moment fate opened our eyes and permited us to recognize the ‘World enemy Judea—Is 10 preserve, ane secure for ever this holy posses- : “This battle will be “prosecuted to victorious end, until the true ~ =socialism of law, order, achievement and freedom is achieved.” German forces have captured the

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port of Hapsal on the west coast of Esthonia in the course of mopping up operations ‘following the {fall of Tallinn, today's High Command said. It also claimed that German iiiiks in operations on the Dnieper River north of Kiev had destroyed 27 Soviet monitors and gunboats since Aug. 26. Press dispatches during the weekend admitted Russian counterattacks not only at two points in the’ central area, but cne in the Ukraine where, it was said, the Russians tried vainly to cross to the west bank of the Dnieper.

Postal Employees Open Convention

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pecting is a day or two late, just blame it on the National Federation of Post Office Motor. Ve--hicle Employees convention which opened today at the Hotel Severin. The Federation is comprised of the truck drivers, mechanics and garage employees who move the mails.” Convention sessions will continue. through Thursday morning. ‘ Today’s program included 2a sightseeing trip with some of the ‘300 delegates sneaking out to the State Fair. Business: “sessions are ‘scheduled for tomorriw- and Wednesday with: the convention dinner Wednesday "night.

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Britain’s hopes were keyed up fu: her when, on Aug. 14, it was |revealed that - President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill had held: a conference at sea and drafted an eight-point program covering| war aims. The joint declaration of the two powers offered to all countries the solemn assurance that they would” have a share in a hetter

world in which Hitlerism would not |

exist. The opening of the third war year finds a complete turn-about in the War 4 We Wir eunpared' 10's year

NAZIS TELL EIRE|

OF U. 8. ‘DANGER’, §

Propaganda About England Failed, But May Be - Disastrous Now.

By HELEN KIRKPATRICK

t. 1941, by The Indianapolis Times Copyright. e Chicago Daily News, Inc.

LONDON, Sept. 1. — German

* | propaganda, working through news| bulletins, broadcasts and agents, is

trying to stir up “anti-American

feeling in Ireland and to incite]

Irish extremists in America against the United State’ Government.

“The campaign in Eire is well or-|

ganized and skillfully conceived. If successful, it threatens to underminé years of - friendly Irish-Amer-ican relations. Until a few months ago

German propaganda in Eire was directed al-|.

most entirely against Great Britain. It fell on soil made fertile by years

of Anglo-Irish antagonism but it|.

ed. failed. i [ 2 «“Jewishdominated Pluto-Democracy” and America’s alleged sinister designs against Ireland now farnmi the bulk of the news bulletins issued to Irish newspapers. Quote ‘Wheeler, Lindbergh “Pat "Brie: » g from Radio SO tells Deaking not to be deceived into selling Ireland to the United States. The United States has done nothing for any other country and is doing nothing for|

ist. Bulletin of July. 13 clurged ifie United States with provoking every South American dispute in order to bring the South American na-

untarily removed his troops to the [doubt in the second year of the war,/mans failed to accomplish their old Russian-Finnish frontier in [any more than he did during its|first objective—annihilation of the hope of persuading Helsinki to first year, that the war would be|Soviet armed forces. y They drove deep into the vast

U. S. 8. R. with its 200,000,000 inhabitants, but the Red army fought back, returned in® fair order and managed to keep itself intact in a dozen sectors.

weeks of the Russo-German war. |that, however deeply the German| As they retreated, the Russians

eft only a “seorched earth” to the advancing Germans wherever it was possible to destroy grain, railroads, power plants, factories, “buildings and equipment of all kinds. Losses. on each side were unprecedently large, but each side appeared to have vast reserves and resources left on which to draw. The Russians claimed that they still had a powerful air force and that their naval fleets were still a major weapon against the Germans. What the actual losses have been may not be known until the war’s end. But each side has made its report on the other. The Russians, according to the Symans, have lost 5,000,000 men kgs. wounded or captured; - 15,000 , 14,000 guns and 11,000 airplanes.

Germany

~Nazi Germany observes the end of two years of war with nine countries and part of a tenth conquered, but the arch-enemy, Britain, still unbeaten.

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In five major lahd campaigns covering only 246 of 730 war days, the German Wehrmacht crushed Poland, Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Jugoslavia, Greece, and took a large slice of Russia.

It conquered an area of more than 600,000 square miles with a population of 106,000,0 in the first four campaigns. With its Allies it conquered : anotfier 300,000 square miles in 11 weeks of ‘the Russian campaign. In two years the Germans further claimed they had sunk more than 13,000,000 tons of enemy shipping and destroyed: an. estimated total of 19,000 enemy planes. Germany’s own casualties, exclusive of losses at sea and over Britain, up to the beginning of the campaign in the East, according to official German figures were 41522 killed (same as Germang killed . Verdun in the World War), 24,168

300 Boys of Safety Patrol Attend Fifth Annual Camp

at | divisions being sent to Russia is a

The war. of hres, oontets Tus Taged fof swe Till years, Wut of the 791 Ways oF owmtlich ily. 98 have been spent in actual battle oh land. While the war in the air and at sea has gone on continuously since Sept. 1, 1939, the conflict in Europe, Africa, and Asia has divided itself into the several Simple Although the 198-day Jugoslav-Greece campaign, including Crete, seems the lo it includes only 55 days of Nazi action, leaving Russia the record for longest resistance to German blitz.

At sea they lost the battleship Bismarck, the pocket battleship the cruisers Emden,

from British air raids were unpublished but announced to be 298 throughout the Reich in July.

Italy

The of the third year of the ‘World War and Italy’s 16th month of participation in it finds the Italians enjoying a brief lul] in She fighting during, which they are their armies for new Ee in the coming year.

North Africa. The vanguard of a contingent of Ifalian troops first participated in the fighting against the Russians in the Ukraine on Aug. 13, and although the number of

secret, it is widely reported that the

missing and. 168,870 wounded.

camp staff.

of the Pplice Accident * Prevention Bureau, all instructors; Alonzo Watford of Crispus Attucks, inspector; Leo Kirch, City Hospital interne, |free doctor; Alonzo Edison of Tech, band director; Herbert D. Traub of Tech,

photography; Paul Traub, student at Syracuse University, engineer, and Todd Stoops of the Hoosier Motor Club, consultant.

5 YOUNGSTERS HURT IN FAIR ACCIDENTS

Five youngsters were injured in accidents at the Fair over the week-

itroops already in

"| National Association of Manufac_{turers, charged today that the Ad-

" | peculiar brand of totalitarianism

| throughouf defense industrials,

I. S. POLICY ON LABOR ASSAILED

Manufacturers’ President Says Private Industry - Is in Peril.

.NEW YORK, Sept. 1 (U, P}— Walter D. Fuller, president of the

ministration was playing into the hands of “forces which prefer the

which is based on Government own=ership and operation of all facilities of production.” In a Labor Day letter to N. A. M. members, Mr. Fuller ‘said that “Government labor policy is little short of chaotic” and demanded “imposition of ' reasonable obliga-}| tions” on unions to prevent repetition in other defense industries of the Navy’s seizure of the Federal Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. yards at Kearny, N. J. ; Mr. Fuller defended the management in ‘the Kearny dispute and criticized the National Defense Mediation Board which, he pointed out “exists by executive order only.”

Says Disorder Encouraged

So long as the Government permits such conditions as led to its

“If the forces whith prefer the brand totalitarianism

peculiar which is iT) on Government ownership and operation of all facilities of production can secure their ends by making arbitrary and unreasonable demands upon management, that can be gute as elfective in destroying our system of free ‘enterprise and representative Soverriment as could any other

— he Mediation Board, whose Kearny

proposals : for settling. the strike were wefe anctpisqoy Sue umn but rejected by the management, can obtain enforcement of its “mere executive decree, Mr. Fuller said, it has

powers. "than any agency Government created by act of Congress” : - Overhauling Urged

Charging “that “every labor ‘statute today

The dong. long-term interests

ore oR a ar ve et

a! Af present Italian activity on two fronts can be foreseen—Russia and

Federal| operates = ¥ Glusively against management,”

AES] Free French EZ Axis Controlled [IID Vichy French

Possible ta e Soils targus,

in coming year t

B35 sritish-Russion’: {fl French . Legion Ca

To Silence Ohpone _ Of Vichy Regime.

~ VICHY, France, Sept. 1 (U. | The reorganized anti-Jewish L of War Veterans was

CON!

tain as a political party on the Vichy Government will ¢

ad for silencing its op} : & Se ihoriiaiive quarters

Xdlever, that the increased role ‘of Legion, renamed the “French gion of Combatants and Voluni of the National Revolution,” ¢ ] not be compared with’ G 8 Nazi organizations. Tt will have

appointive assembly. politics, they said, would co! more closely to that of the, Am can Legion in the United 8

the present war and the World ¥

dedicated to support his Vorid aval

be considerably augmented by a steady stream of fresh soldiers. Italy's casualties on the eve. of to fewer than 250,000 men, including killed, wounded and prisoners on all fronts in-all branches of the armed forces, whereas the bulk of the army—it was estimated before the war that Italy could muster 6,200.500 men—remains intact.

~ Direct Action Hinted “You are the faithful men ¢

whom we, the Government, Darla and I will lean,” he said. “Rally & bhesitants and’ discontenteds to u those who because they do not derstand our disaster and its ¢ quences continue to harbor past lusions,

i “You ‘will impose silence on

whispered or ‘tumultous criticis

Francois Valentin, general @

of the Legion, hinted strongly 4 manifesto that his ni might resort to direct _actiqn.,

“The Legion is the most effe

instrument in the interest - of

Frenchmen in the State’s tro ; “It: also has authority ar

The Legions’ reorganization a Petain a powerful national without rejecting the Reassemb ment National Parfy, -which created six months ago as single - political party. The Reass semblement National «failed in Une occupied France, but was appropris ated in Occupied France, by the vocates of collaboration with

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1 —Rear Admirals Joseph J. and Hayne Ellis, who celek their 64th birthdays last week, were transferred to the Navy's tired list. :

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