Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 December 1941 — Page 7

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ROSTOV

‘Rout of Germans in South Of War far Russia

VICTORY \ LIFTS RED HOPES]

Is Most Dramatic Success ns; Effects Will Be

Far-Reaching.

By A. T.

STEELE

KUIBYSHEYV, Dec. 3.—The Russians have good reason

to raise their vodka glasses to

the Red Army—and thousands

are doing so. For the recapture of Rostov, key to the Caucasus, has fired the Russian people with new hope. Every.

body is talking about it. “If we have been able to Rostov where the situation looked so black may it not be possible to do the same at Moscow ?” many are asking. The implication of this new achievement by commander -inchief of the southern .armies Marshall Semyon Timoshenko is farreaching from the standpoint of morale as well as from strategic considerations. ’ ‘Russian forces are engaged in a major counter-offensive in the Donets River basin while to the south other Red Army men continue pursuit of Germans fleeing westward from Rostov, having already destroyed four German divisions and crippled six, it was reported today.

Germans in “Death Trap”

It was indicated that the Russians were making a bid to recapture the entire Stalino-Makeevka coal and steel center as the southernmost forces drove the retreating Germans into a “death trap” on hte shores of the Sea of Azov. | Rostov dispatches said the German retreat from Rostov was so precipitate that many German officers and men, members of crack storm units, had been left behind and were now being routed from their hiding places in cellars. Germans left behind veritable mountains of fuel and munitions, Townspeople of Rostov were reported returning to their homes across the ice floes in the Don River with their baggage and household goods, inspecting damage done to their homes and embracing Red Army men and giving them presents of bread, sugar and cigarets.

Dramatic Red Victory

It is too early to foresee how far the Russians will be able to follow up their successes in the Rostov area. But enough territory has already been retaken to indicate that he ejection of the Germans from Rostov \'was probably the biggest and certainly the most dramatic

push the Germans back from

the Soviet to grind down German material and manpower. According to Russian claims at least eight German tank, motorized and infantry divisions so far have been routed (four at Rostov and four in the counter-offensive through the Donets Basin, northwest of that city.) 4. Dispatches from the front tell of the destruction or capture of considerable quantities of material which have not yet been tallied. 5. It seriously dislocates the time table for Hitler's all-important drive for Caucasian oil. At the very best it will be some weeks before the defeated armies can expect to reorganize for a new offensive toward the Caucasus and the Russians will not be idle in the mean-

Will Affect Turkey

6. The Russian success .is bound to deeply affect Turkey whose

dimplomacy is linked to the situation in the adjacent Caucasus. Marshal Timoshenko’s success at Rostov was not his first. He earned world plaudits for the fight he put up for the defense of Smolensk which the Germans were able to capture only at terrific sacrifice. This combined with his previous important but little publicized success at Briansk, southwest of Moscow where nine German divisions were badly battered, plus local successes at Yelnia and other small points on the central front made Timoshenko the logical men to send south to attempt to check the headlong German advance in that region. Almost immediately after his are rival the Russian. resistance in the Don Basin began to stiffen though the Crimea was too far gone for saving. The Germans entered Rostov only after nearly a month’s stubborn fighting.

Russians Still United While the Germans are making

Russian victory so far in this war. Here is what it means: 1. It has deprived the Germans of a key transportation and industrial center which they undoubtedly intended to utilize as a base for further advance into the Caucasus. 2. It offers hope for the restoration of traffic over the main chanNe of supply foe Ae oil fields of an m Iran. Curtailment of the flow of oil from the Caucasus regions to Russia’s mecharmy would seriously affect the Russian war effort. 8. It further is a primary aim of

some "progress in crucial sectors of the front the long range prospects of the war are in some respects bet-

ter from the Russian standpoint than they were five months, or even a month ago. Admittedly, Moscow is in grave Jeopardy. Leningrad is fighting the threat of encirclement. Yet, it must be distressing for German strategists to find the Red Army trading punch for punch after five months of a war which was to have been all over but the

Beauty Queens

Purdue's

Four Purdue University coeds were selected “beauty queens” of the campus in a contest sponsored by Debris, student yearbook. The winners, all students in home economics, are (left to right) Jeanne > Burkholder, of West Lafayette; Virginia Riley, West Lafayette; Zeda Stuckey, of Greencastle, and Marilyn O’Hara, of Hazel Crest, Ill.

EX-POLISH LEADER “SEES AXIS DEFEAT

KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Dec. 1 (U. P.)—(Delayed).—Gen. Waldislaw Sikorsky, premier of the Polish Government in exile, predicted disaster today for the German and |. Italian forces in Libya. Sikorsky said he had seen the plans of Gen. Sir Claude Auchinlech, British commander in the Near East. He believed the Gere man commander, Gen. Erwin Rommel, had but a slight chance to escape with his and the Italian forces, because British patrols in the Mediterranean block flight or reinforcements by water, and, at the same time, the British can bring up men and materials at will. Sikorsky is in Russia to confer with Premier Josef Stalin about equipping a Polish army to fight with the Russians, He was leaving for Moscow to see Stalin, and said he was confident all problems would be overcome, inasmuch as he had the promises of Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roosevelt to equip the Poles. (The London radio, heard in New York early today by the United Press listening post, reporced that he arrived in Moscow yesterday and was met by Viacheslav Mototov,

commissar of foreign affairs.

STORE LOSS $20,000

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LONDON, Dec. 3 (U. P.).—British

FORCE TRAPPED

Berlin Says New Zealand |mitistive on the main Libyan bats

pia : tlefleld today but for the time being Division Destroyed and [st least German armored units domTaken Prisoner.

inated the vital front south of ToAuthorized sources said the vague BERLIN, Dec. 3 (U. P.).—A High — Command communique saiq

communique issued by general headny Som Som moxie the tate 0 continued very fluid bu that ! had encircled the that Axis forces which recaptured

.Jbulk of a New Zealand division Sidi Rezegh still maintained con-

southeast of Tobruk on the Libyan |trol of the corridor leading to Tofront and part of its personnel had|bruk. : been’ destroyed and part taken| Arrival of British reinforcements prisoner. on the front and at Tobruk, which Newspapers jubilantly displayed|is open to British sea-borne supreports of the Libyan fighting and|plies, was expected to put sufficient asserted that in all operations so|weight behind the British counterfar the Germans had been victor-|drive to re-establish control of the ious. : situation, The British had failed to relieve| ‘The fact that there are no solid Tobruk, the newspapers said, and|fighting lines in the desert made it had lost more than 800 tanks. |difficult for Iondon military spokesLosses were so high, they asserted,|men to give an exact estimate of that it would take Britain a long|the immediate trend of battle, but time to send replacements. in any event it was not optimistic. German forces drove closer to| Gen. Sir Alan Cunningham's Moscow yesterday under the pro-|time table for the offense appeared tection of strong forces of bombing|to have been seriously disrupted by and dive bombing planes, the High failure $o wipe out the main GerCommand said. man striking power (that is, tanks)

Bombers last night raided a sea-|in the desert battle east ‘of Sidi| British

port in southwest England. The|Rezegh. High Command claimed also that a| Loss 6f domination of the corlarge merchant ship was damaged.|ridor from Rezegh to Tobruk did

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not mean that it was impossible for units to reach the besieged city over the desert but it broke up the main British connecting lines and made necessary the re-capture ‘of the Rezegh-Bir El Hamed-Zaafran triangle in order to resume the offensive.

Reserve tanks, infantry and materials arrived in a stream for the Imperial forces which-had been reorganized for the next phase.of the campaign after the Germans had succeeded in reuniting .their 15th and 21st tank divisions. Military experts said the immediate objective was to close the gap which the Germans had cut in the British corridor between Sidi Rezegh and Tobruk, on the coast.

There was, no indication what would be the next move of Gen. Erwin von Rommel, the German Africa corps commander. It was suggested that, having Joined his main forces, he might attempt to smash through to the west and then oppose other British forces who stood between him and the road to Tripoli, his main supply base. ° There was believed to be also the possibility that, believing that the reserves of tanks and infantry were greater than his own, he might decide to remain in the present battle area, in order to ex-

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CONGRESS PENSION BILL GIVEN SENATE

Times Special WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.—Passed unanimously by the House, a bill extending the Government's retirement system to include meme bers of Congress was sent to the Senate yesterday. oii Under its terms, a Congressman who serves five years or more and pays into the retirement fund 5 per cent of his total salary during his years of service will receive, upon retirement—whether voluntary or forced by the voters—a pension ranging from $714 a year to $5000, depending on the length of service, The bill, introduced by Rep. Robert Ramspeck (D. Ga.), passed the House without debate.

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