Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1941 — Page 41

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BRITAIN. FINNS Declaration of Hostilities

Expected Tomorrow In London.

LONDON, Dec. 5 (U. P) —Great Britain is preparing to declare the existence of a state of war, probably

tomorrow, with Finland, Hungary and Rumania in a gesture of assurance to Russia that the Anglo-Rus-sian war alliante is unqualified, it was understood today. It was said authoritatively early this afternoon that with only 11 hours to go, Finland, Hungary and Rumania had failed to reply to a British ultimatum, expiring at midnight, demanding in effect that they stop fighting Russia in Germany's behalf. It was Indicated strongly that the government had no hope of receiving favorable replies from the countries concerned.

The feeling was that Finland, as]

well as Hungary and Rumania, had now cast its lot irretrievably with Germany and against the Allies and that any hope of alienating them lay | with the future. The Vichy radio reported from | Helsinki that Finland had Ssent| Britain a note rejecting the ulti-| matum. Reds Wanted War Call

Britain had sought emergetically | to induce Finland, especially, to stop fighting Russia, holding that any reason it had had to aid Germany, in order to regain territory it Jost to Russia in the winter war of 1030-1940, now had ceased to exist. Russia had long sought a British declaration of war against Finland and was understood to have made ft plain that it would regard such ea declaration a valuable assurance of unstinting British support of the Anglo-Russian alliance. Authoritative informants pointed | out that at present Britain had no! diplomatic relations with Finland, | Hungary and Rumania, which are waring on Russia, and said that] any further deterioration from this| position probably would constitute! a Situation in which Britain as Russia’s ally would be involved against them. |

PLAN KOKOMO SYNAGOGUE | KOKOMO, Dec. § (U. P).—Koko- | mo's 28 Jewish families have begun a drive to build the city’s first synagogue with the backing of several Protestant and Catholic groups in the community.

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INTENSE COLD SLOWS NAZIS

New Offensive Launched Between Moscow and Leningrad.

RERLIN, Dec. 5 (U. P)—The Army launched a powerful counter-offensive on the Tihkvin front between Moscow and Lenin- . a Nazi military spokesman said today, but fighting on both the Moscow and Rostov sectors has been slowed down by an intense cold wave. The Rusisan offensive in the TimEkvin sector began on Thursday, the Spokesman said, presumably in an effort to divert German strength from the drive on Moscow. Previously, it had been acknowledged that the Red Army had made fresh attacks on the southern front but the high command said they were broken. It added that strong German plane formations were now attacking Russian troops and field fortifications on the southern front and also the Moscow front, and asserted that the German planes inflicted heavy casualties and wreaked great

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LONDON, Dec. 5 (U. P)—Russian cavalry and tanks, sweeping to the Mius River with the Germans fleeing before them, have captured Matvyeen Kurgan, 25 miles north of Taganrog, in & new threat to the southern army of Gen. Karl Rudolf Gerd Von Rundstedt, Russia asserted today. The Russians stormed and captured the town yesterday, Killing and wounding many Germans and capturing great quantities of war materials, a special dispatch to the Moscow newspaper Pravda reported.

So serious did the German situa- | tion in the far south appear to be that military experts here expressed | belief that the entire German posi-| tion in the Crimean Peninsula was seriously threatened. Russian troops had reached the Mius River 15 miles or more west of | Taganrog. Their troops were mopping up the entire area east of the Mius and the Germans, in full flight apparently toward Mariupol, were under terrific attack by massed Russian planes which, reports indicated, left the roads strewn with wrecked tanks, armored cars, supply trucks and casualties, .

Fateful Decision Faced

Experts began questioning whether the Russians could force the Germans, by a further advance to the west, to give up their hold on the Kerch Peninsula in the Crimea leading to the Caucasus side of the Black Sea. Already the Rusisan troops under attack at Sevastopol, the great naval base at the southwest corner of the Crimea, were striking out at the Germans. It was suggested here that the Germans were in ne position to withdraw more men from the Crimea to support their southern army west of Taganrog and that a continued Russian advance would confront the German high command with the necessity for a dejeision whether to abandon the Crimea and any immediate hope of an attack on the Caucasus and its oll filelds.

May Force Withdrawal

There were signs that the Russians were on the offensive, or about to take the offensive, for man’ miles up the Donets River basin. . Successful development of a general counter-offensive on such @& broad front might be calculated, experts said, to force the Germans finally to withdraw hundreds of thousands of men from the Moscow front. | On that front, the Germans were

seeking to break through the Russian lines to reach Ww, and

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Russian dispatches admitted that the situation was serious to the north, northwest, west, southwest and south. On the north the Germans had reached Dmitrov, 50 miles from Moscow, and they were 60 miles from the city on the northwest and west. On the south, in the Tula sector 100 miles from Moscow, they were driving dangerously though at heavy cost.

Fierce Battles Fought

A special dispatch to Pravda said that battles of the fiercest intensity were being fought in the Klin, Volokolamsk, Mozhaisk and Tula directions northwest, west, southwest and south of Moscow. It said the Russians had thrown back the Germans by repeated counter-attacks but the Germans, on the 18th day of a costly offensive, continued despite all their sacrifice of blood, to drive with all power toward Moscow,

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North of Moscow

RKUIBYSHEV, Russia, Dee. 5 (U. P).—German shock troops have

Moscow reservoir near Dmitrov, 50 miles north of the capital, special dispatches from the front said today. The Russians were said to have halted them just east of the reservoir, (This would indicate that the reservoir was in German hands) The situation on the Moscow front was admittedly serious. The Germans were in the 18th day of a ferocious and costly offensive in which they had met stubborn resistance, including many counter attacks and, in the Kalinin sector, a counter-offensive, For some days it had been evident that the Germans were trying to shorten their front before Moscow. They had made gains at the cost of frightful casualties. Now they had reached the neighborhood of Dmitrov and the reservoir on the Moscow-Volga canal. It was admitted that on the Moscow front generally the Germans

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RUSSIAN, POLISH PLEDGE IS SIGNED

LONDON, Dec. 5 (U. P) —Russia and the Polish government in exile were pledged today, “once the war has been brought to a victorious conclusion and the Hitler criminals duly punished,” to promote “a new organization of international relations based on association of the Democratic states in union” Premier Joseph Stalin of Russia

of friendship and mutual help, aehere by the United Press listening post.

The agreement closed a wide breach, because in 1939, when Germany invaded Poland from one side. Russia, which then had a treaty of friendship with Germany, marched in from the othér. The Polish sol diers who were in the territory Russia took and became prisoners of war, were the ones Sikorski pledged to fight with Russia.

WILL CANADA'S SOIL PAY BRITISH DEBTS?

WASHINGTON, Dee. 5 (U. Pp). Rep. Walter ©. Pleser (R. Mo.) today introduced a resolution direct ing the State Department to start negotiations with Canada for ace uisition of all land south of the t. Lawrence Channel in exchange for the proposed seaway develop

ment. He proposed that the territory be ceded by Canada in exchange for credits against the British Empire

war debts.

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REPORT FIERCE LIBYA BATTLE

Tempo of Desert Fighting

Gains as Weather Clears Up.

CAIRO, Dee. 5 (U. P.).—Tempo of the Libyan battle increased today

with fierce Axis attacks upon the British salient of Ed Duda south of Tobruk and a report by the British middle eastern command that “The Omars”—desert outposts straddling the Libyan-Egyptian frontier have have been “cleared up” by Indian troops. The communique indicated that Sidi Omar and its Libyan counterpart a few miles west in the desert now are held by==British forces. Spokesmen claimed improved weath« er gave the British an advantage. British mobile forces operating north of the line from Bir El<Gobi to Sidi Omar and west of Ft. Capuzzo harassed the Axis in a series of powerful raids which were said to have started a withdrawal of German and Italian forces from forward battle Yeas. The communique reported that three heavy Axis attacks have been (launched against the Ed Duda salient. The first two were beaten off with heavy German-Italian losses. The third gained a little territory, most of which was recovered in a British counter-attack. The Middle Fast command said that Indian troops “cleared up the Omars two days ago.” They were reported to have taken 59 guns and captured a number ~f prisoners. In the Egyptian-i hyan frontier area, New Zealand forces attacked an Axis column west of Menastir (Sidi Azeiz, about 10 miles northwest of Ft. Capuzeo), killing about 100 Germans and taking about 100 Italian prisoners: Several enemy tanks were put out of action and the column was forced to retire te the west, Indian troops were attacking Axis lines around Bir Ei-Gobi and an Axis column moving up toward Ca-

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BERLIN, Dec. 5 (U. P) Usually reliable sources reported today that Finland, Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania had rejected British “ultimatums” allegedly demanding cessation of operations against the Soviet Union.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 5 (U, P= Chairman Martin Dies (D., Tex), of the House Committee on unAmerican Activities yesterday urged legislation requiring registration of groups organized on racial or national lines. He said in the House that his Committee had been unable, in many cases, to secure membership lists of “questionable” organizations. He suggested that organisation of persons of foreign extraction be re« quired to file membership lists

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