Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 October 1941 — Page 3
Tide Has as Turned Against Hitler, | J. S . Feels, But He Keeps Initiatio
man he most hated and feared. But now he has to fight
By WILLIAM Scripps-Howard Foreign
WASHINGTON, Oct. 6.
PHILIP SIMMS ~—On og eve of winter it can
now be said that the deep-down impression of officialdom here—both domestic and foreign—is that the tide of war has definitely turned against Hitler and that it is now largely a question of time before the offensive passes to
the Allies. sf
~The report brought back to Washington by Lord Halithe British Ambassador, has strengthened this view.
. He returned in a distinctly cheerful frame of mind, al- * though, like others, he takes care to warn that the Allies . are still in for a vast amount of) “el sweat, blood and
tears” before final victory.
Behind the feeling of long-term optimism a number
of factors are cited.
| First, it is observed, Hitler plainly doubted he could
‘win a war like the present if
he had to fight on two fronts.
That conviction led him to make a partner of Stalin, the
GERMANS
BROAD CZECH PLOT
Premier; Army Generals and Highest Public Officials Carried On Espionage and Aided Flights Aboard, ‘Trial’ Descriptions Say.
BERLIN, Oct. 6 (U. P.).—Press dispatches from Praha today, giving details of the trial of Gen. Olois Elias, Premier of the Czech areas, purported to disclose a vast espionage, terrorist and propaganda plot in which hundreds of
the most prominent men of active.
Highest Government officials, former Army generals, civil servants, municipal officials and others, it was alleged, were bound in a plot of enormous scope as part of which former Czechoslovak Army intelligence officers, ostensibly
kept together to “watch public opinion,” actually obtained military information. It was alleged that there was a
Charges Are Sensational + First details of the trial of Elias,
Posessing knowledge of numerous other “illegal” activities, including the increasing of the influence of “enemy’ propaganda among the Czech people “without fulfilling his duty as Premier by taking steps of informing German authorities. The Jipaieh said the prosecutor
accused repeatedly assuring authorities of le Joysley, id that thus he agree SE Whig that he went d
the back” of the Germans.
watching public opinion,”
ormation, it was alleged. ‘The dipatch said Elia admitted . he had had knowledge of this ac- | tivity and had received information | of German Bop movements and Bho & contruction of strategic high-
at former Socialist deputy named Richter was quoted as testifying that he had taken part in a secret military organization, “a kind of
UNCOVER
former Czechoslovakia were
new Mafia,” of which Elias was un-
Oa tstiony & qu hal os ee ny organization, Gen. Inger directed the escape of Czechs abroad and that Gen. Neumann headed a terrorist group “aimed at liquidating German sympathizers.” Mayor Klapka was said to have testified that he had created from “public monies” a big secret fund to support the families of Czech patriots who escaped abroad.
attempted to work loyally with the Germans. but had been induced by Elias to take part in “illegal” activities. It was alleged that Klapka said Elias had assured him. that German rule in Czechoslovakia was only temporary and independence would be restored soon. to the Nazi dispatches, Elias denied this and then he and Klapka engaged in a “dramatic duel on the witness stand, confronting each other, with katred as
deadly. enemies.’ of the German
court Then Demian to consider their
verdict and returned in 45 minutes 30 SeHitants ENAS 0 deain, 3 was
Then, according to the dispatch, Gen. Elias said he had been personally convinced that the old Czechoslovakia could not be restored, and that he always desired to “co-operate with Germany.” “I always felt, however, as a Czeck:, conscious of my nationality,” he was quoted. “And as such I covered activities which did not with my personal and political convictions. I hoped my fellow countrymen also would find the way to loyal co-operation with the Germans and did not have the heart, therefore, to report these feliow countrymen and their crazy plan to the Germans.”
5 LOCAL MEN NAMED ON BAND AT PURDUE
Times Special
LAFAYETTE, Ind. Oct. 6.—Five Indianapolis students are among the 77 freshmen musicians who have been admitted to Purdue University’s 150-piece All American Military Band. They are Howard V. Davis, 5763
3515 N. Pony ay. and Jack K. Lewis, 226 N. Tremont St. .
Klapka was quoted that he had | tions.
on two fronts.
&
in 1940, he now admits—in
Next, his plan to invade England having gone wrong
1941—that his General Staff
told him it would be foolish to try to invade Britain until he smashed Soviet Russia. That, the General Staff is now known to have told him, they could do in 70 days.
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IT IS NOW more than
100 days since Germany at-
tacked Russia. Instead of scoring a knockout, the Nazis now face a long, hard Russian winter campaign. : The thing essential to a successful invasion of Britain and final victory appears to have gone glimmering, perhaps forever. For a knockout against Russia, according to military experts here, is now virtually out of the question as long as the Russians are willing to fight: Even to stabilize the Russian front to a reasonable
NAZIS BATTLE SERB UPRISING
‘Strong Measures’ Taken; 13 More Czechs Are Executed.
By UNITED PRESS . A Nazi spokesman in Berlin said today that German and pro-Nazi Serb troops are taking “strong measures” against Serb guerillas in an effort to restore order to dismembered Jugoslavia. The spokesman admitted that the Serb patriot forces are holding a number of hostages but he claimed that these are from the population of several Serb villages and do not include any Germans. The spokesman reported that the Serb outbreak now has been fairly well subdued. He denied that any Soviet planes had been aiding the Serbs or that the Germans are emPloying large motorized units against
them. Exchange Telegraph Agency in London heard reports from Istanbul that the Greek-Bulgarian border area still is seething with guerilla activity, particularly in the Drama region where serious outbreaks occurred 10 days ago. Bands of Greeks with machine guns and aided by the local populace were said to be carrying on organized attack on Bulgarian villages, police and military forma-
Hundreds Arrested
Bulgarian reinforcements were said to have been rushed to the area. Reports claimed that 13 more persons have been executed in Czechoslovakia and hundreds arrested after German police found anti-Nazi
posters up in a main Praha
plastered railroad station, saying
“Butcher Zleyanien, you 2 never succeed removing Czech
youth.” Reinhard Heydrich, Gestapo leader, is the new “protector” of Bohemia and Moravia. Netherlands advices disseminated in New York by the Netherlands Aneta news agency said four more persons had been executed by German occupation forces in Holland. Radio Moscow reported 548 new arrests in Czechoslovakia on charges of sabotage in munitions factories and destruction of stocks.
Several Officers Killed
The Moscow radio, heard by the United Press London listening post, asserted that the Germans had now requisitioned all food stocks in Czechoslovakia and were now hanging instead of shooting persons condemned to death.
Russian news. agency, Tass, said Jugoslav guerrillas had killed several German officers in an attack on a German officer’s house at Nish, that quantities of ammunition had been blown up at the Jugoslav town of Cacak, that 50 Germans had been killed when Serb guerrillas wrecked a troop train at Kragujevac, that at Gruz guerrillas had disarmed German
and wrecked a railroad station.
passe! and had made 200 of the Germans
prisoners. :
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That would expose their. right flank to attack from the
Middle East. To change direction and parry a thrust
from that area would dangerously extend the German lines. Yet they may have to do that very thing. : Meanwhile Hitler's difficulties in Western and South Europe and in north Africa are expected to increase rather
Nazi air power over Europe is steadily
losing its preponderance. Allied shipping in the Atlantic is more than holding its own. An ever-increasing flow of American war materials is reaching Hitler's enemies. In short, the Allies are getting stronger and Hitler's ‘position seems to be weakening.
BUT HITLER STILL has the initiative and is still
making full use of it. Nasty
moments are almost certain-
ly ahead of the Allies. Japan may intervene. Hitler may force Turkey, Spain, Portugal, France and North Africa degree, the Nazis will have to push on toward Siberia. to take active part in his behalf. Sen Soviet Russia
Shown in its war feathers, is America’s largest twin-engined airliner, the new 20-ton Curtiss transport just accepted by the U. S. Army Air Forces as the first of a large number of similar design to be produced in large numbers at the Curtiss-Wright Corp’s. airplane division at its Buffalo and St. Louis plants,
New Giant Curtiss Transport Accepted by U. S. Amiy
Originally designed to transport 36 airline passengers, a crew of five and 5000 pounds of baggage and express at a speed of over 3% miles per minute, it proved to be well suited for cargo and troop transport operation and was promptly converted into an Army transport. It is powered with two 1700 h. p. Wright Cyclone engines.
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might drop out of the out.
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Certainly, that is what B
is a growing feeling here hi
Britain and her Allies “can take it” and keep coming &
stronger that before. |
Just when the Allies can take the offensive away fi the Axis no one here wishes to guess. Asked what |
and gave his carefully considered reply:
“rd rather not prophesy,”
depends on various and unpredictable p shipping—on production——on the morale of the
‘he said. “It depends’
HINStance
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and other European populations. And so on. : But this he did say: Europe will have to be inv | by land armies before there can be a real victory over E
ler.
The time for that, however, is hardly yet 2
whether or not another A. E. F. will participate is something America herself will have to decide.
GERMANS CLAIM NEW SUCCESSES
Report Failure of Reds to Break Ring Around Leningrad. BERLIN, Oct. 6 (U. P)—The
ring tried to land “strong forces” on the Pinnish Gulf coast west of Lenin-
The High. Command claimed both operations were repulsed with heavy | 38 Russian losses and reported that “operations in the East yesterday brought further successes.” The landing by strong Soviet forces west of Leningrad was attempted under the cover of fire from all the forts at Kronstadt, great Russian island naval base,
Other Russian forces, in a simultaneous operation, lawiched a heavy break-through attempt from Leningrad but were repulsed with heavy Sasualties, the High Command re-
“Landed detachments were wiped
cluding seven of the heaviest type, were destroyed.” The Russians were said to have suffered “severe casualties” in the two operations.
Offensive Is Secret German bombers attacked an im-
Moscow, military objectives at Leningrad and a port on the Sea of Azov in the south, Saturday night. The “offensive operations” that brought “further successes” were not described in the communique and ‘the “gigantic new operations,” which Hitler announced had been initiated last Wednesday, remained
a military secret. eer A propaganda company reporter, Johann Joegesen, compared the new German air operations in extent and intensity to those of June 22, the first day of the war, but failed to reveal where the offensive was
BY YOUNG FOOTPAD
Mrs. Bessie Williams, 418 N. Ban-
from minor injuries which were inflicted by a young footpad who struck her Saturday night and fled
Ave. just north of Washington St. The footpad leaped upon her from
portant railway junction west of };y..
. much depends. - at Moscow, is
Mr. Keemle
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are beginning to suspect that Hitler’s front is too long, even for the Milos of men at his disposal. The Russians turned up with just many men—maybe more—and have been able to block repeated German thrusts as the High Command felt out the Russian defenses and sought a weak spot where the Russians could be rolled back. | Hitler himself admitted that he had underestimated the vast scale of the Russian tions. The drive for Leningrad sq far has failed and Moscow pT indicate that the ing the Germans back. IE ie their pressure there to consentiate more in the center. Farther south, the Germans destroyed Minsk early in the war and
A charming lady with a Boston accent took over her duties at the American Legion National Headquarters as president of the Aux-
Mrs. Mark W. Murrill, with due
glad the year discharging the duties of
tation, and Publication, and has ‘been National Defense chairman .of the auxiliary. In Massachusettes, she -was state executive officer in 1936, and from 1923 to 1930 was state secretary.
a parked auto, knocking her down.
RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct. 6 (U.
tified vessels, fighting in the moon-
*One vessel was said to have been allie an oppor
P.).—A battle between two uniden-|was
‘War Moves Today
By LOUIS F. KEEMLE United Press War Analyst
The German campaign against Russia apparently has entered on a new military phase on which
If the present drive, which seems to be aimed Hitler spoke last week, it might be a decisive test of the ability of the German armies to. overcome|preci Russia. At any rate, Hitler went on record as attaching the greatest importance to the drive. If it fails, winter will have descended in the Leningrad and Moscow
regions and Hitler's forces will be in a fluid and exposed position, rather than consolidated for a winter stalemate. Military strategists
Russians are push-|kov.
Mrs. Mark Murrill Arrives To Direct Legion Auxiliary
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the “gigantic” operation of which
rolled past. Smolensk, apparently headed irresistibly for Moscow. But Marshal Timoshenko’s forces held
and that thrust failed. It was even |pooren
pushed back at points.
3 Chicag Still farther south, the Germans
drove through Kiev and east of the Kneiper River past Poltava on the road to Kharkov and .the Donets
Basin. The threat still is there but |i the drive slowed down and Mar-|Los
shal Budenny has started a counteroffensive along the Sea of Azov to help relieve the pressure on Khar-
“On the Black Sea coast, Odessa was ringed but the Germans were Bok able to take it. They swept on|St east against the Crimean Peninsula | and Sevastopol but so far have been blocked there.
Her first visit here was in 1928, and her national positions in the auxiliary have made it necessary for her to visit Indianapolis often since then. She expects to be busy throughout
her office, which require that she
adopted at the convention doesn’t leave much for her to wish for in the way of things to do, and she is anxious to complete her term of
Scituate and her family. “It’s a great honor to be the president of such an organization,” she said, “but I like my home much
FORUMS POSTPONED
The first of a series of open forums dealing with the _back-
uled to open tomorrow night. The forum will meet on alternate Tuesdays at 7:30 p. m. in Butler University’s Jordan Hall. The series is sponsored by the Butler Journalism Department.
Moonlight Battle Off Brazilian Coast May Be Linked to U. S. Tanker Sinking
30-minute engagement. The battle fought late Friday night and was witnessed by residents of Maragogy, which is on the coast between Pernambuco and Macei, capital of
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OFFICIAL. WEATHER
U. S. Weather Bureag eee
INDIANAPOLIS FORECAST-—Consider-able cloudiness. Likelihood of showers and thunderstorms tonight and tomorrow and continued warm and humid.
Sunrise
UKRAINE GAINS
30 Villages Recaptured and 20-Mile Advance Is = Reported.
MOSCOW, Oct. 6 (U. P.).—Ruse sia claimed today a series of ime Portant. suceasses on the Usrainiily
Precipitation 24 hrs. en ening 74 W.. . Tol precipitation Sines d lb Rens uns .20.95 Deficiency since Jan. . MIDWEST a Indiana—Mostly cloudy, scattered showers and thunderstorms ‘tonight and tomorrow; varmer in west tonight; continued warm and humid tomorrow.
WEATHER IN OTHER. CITING, S20 3. MM.
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It appeared that the claimed the capture of no slang
estroying fou enemy infantry battalions, 51 tan and 193 armored cars. In Odessa zone, the Russians m a surprise counter-attack; it asserted, and after+throwing b three Rumanian regiments in hand to-hand fighting advanced for m and captured 54 field guns and 3( prisoners, killing more than I( Germans and Rumanians, includi a battalion of picked Nazi §
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