Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1941 — Page 5

RUSSIAN CALM 'AMALZES NAZIS

Red Army Unimpressed by Axis Military Achievements.

LONDON, Dec. 18 (U. P)-A German official news agency broadcast acknowledged today that the Nazis were “astonished” by the Red Army because “it remains unimpressed” by the Axis military achievements. “The Soviets have showed an insensibility and a resistance that astonished Europeans,” the broadcast said. “They have again and again set up new fronts. Their generals remain unimpressed by huge losses in men and materials. “The extension and number of their mine fields has not decreased. Fresh troops have been sent from Siberia and new formations in white uniforms adapted to winter

conditions are storming into points where their divisions have been de- | stroyed 10 times and were on the! point of giving up. | “One German division had to] fight five hours to hold a locality where its headquarters was lo-| cated.”

Eight bodies, victims of the Japanese bombs in the first surprise raids on the Island of Oahu, lie in the City Emergency Morgue at Queens. The photo was taken by Allan Campbell, Acme staff photog-

rapher, and passed by the United States Army censor.

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FIGHT FOR PEACE

Victory Will Bring World Benediction, Say 3 Of Hierarchy.

CHICAGO, Dec. 18 (U. P)— Three ranking leaders of the Catholic Heiararchy, assigned to study United States’ war aims, asserted today that the nation was fighting for “peace” and that “victory will mean not a triumph of might but a benediction for all the world.” The declaration was made in a statement released by the Most Rev. Samuel A. Stritch, Archichop of hicago chairman of a comSlucas and ted last month by the nation’s Catholic bishops to study the peace principles of Pope Pius XII against a background of United States’ war aims. The statement, prepared during a two-day meeting of the committee, recalled that President Roosevelt “recently said that we will win the peace.” “In the clouds of war we must delineate the peace whieh is our inspiration and our strength,” the statement said. “Clearly it has been stated that we are fighting for the rights of men and the security of our freedoms. ! “Victory will mean not a triumph of might but a benediction for all the world. We desire no conquest; we seek vengeance on no people.”

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MANILA, Dec. 18 (U. P.).—Mrs. Mildred Sherk walked down to the beach at Legaspi to watch Japanese forces landing. She was so close she could have reached out and touched

the butts of their rifles. She fled through a rice field and a leper colony, and after six days of walking and hitch-hiking through the steaming jungle, reached Manila yesterday, the first white woman to have seen a Japanese land invasion of the Philippines and reached here to tell about it. “I was awakened at 4 o'clock Friday morning by house-boys in the Hotel Mayon at Legaspi,” she said. “They were shrieking, ‘The Japs have come! The Japs have come!’ “I bawled them out for making s0 much noise and stayed in bed, but I thought later that there might be something in what they said, so I got dressed and went down to the beach. I was amazed to see Japanese troops there with guns on their backs. “I walked to within a few feet of them with the Filipinos. The Japanese looked .as bewildered as the natives. “In the bay I saw only one large ship which might have been a naval ship, although I saw no guns on it. However, I saw between 20 and 30 planes and I realized that Legaspi was a dangerous place. “So I headed through a rice field towards the airport. Then I saw Japanese troops,-s¢ I hid in the rice

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for 15 minutes. Then I went through a leper colony. Taking a last look at Legaspi from there, I headed through the jungle for Daraga, & short way northward. I reached there and found the populace getting ready to evacuate. “From Daraga, I went on to Lagao, about 20 miles from Legaspi, reaching there about 11'o’clock Friday morning. I had traveled as fast as possible, running much of the way. At Lagao, I joined with volunteer forces, helping to muster them in by distributing guns and ammunition and arranging to get food. “I asked one Chinese who owned a store to give us some food. He said, ‘Take all you want.’ He also gave us all the gasoline we wanted He said he had a large bodega (warehouse) full of rice, but he had

Predicts Revival Of Square Dance

HOLLYWOOD, Dec. 18 (U. P.). —Arthur Murray, the dance teacher, predicted teday that, as a result of the war, the square dance will become popular. “When people are upset and worried,” he said, “they like to get into huddles. The square dance enables them to get into these huddles and have a good time.”

gasoline ready to throw over it and burn it if the Japs tried to coms mandeer ‘it. He said he would des stroy everything he owned to kee it from falling into the hands of the Japanese, “With the volunteers, I rode farther northward, as they were moving strategically to strengthen their forces. We left nothing be hind of any value, I left the volun= teers later and moved northwart every way I could find. I bummed. rides, slept in native shacks, under trees and walked and ran—anything to keep moving. 4

“There was much talk all slong the way about the Japanese hut the roads were clear; there were no mass evacuations and everyons seemed cool and far from I traveled a short way with wealthy Spanish family in their new Packard. We came to a bridge which had been dynamited and the car could not cross. On the other side there were some Filipinos trave eling southward in an old rickety car, which was in a similar posi tion. We traded cars and continued our journey.” : Mrs. Sherk wore out a pair of shoes traveling the 250 miles from Legaspi to Manila, and the jungle ripped. her clothes. When her first outfit was ruined, she found a slack suit. That, too, was in shreds be« fore she was halfway to Manila, and she completed her journey in arm¥ fatigue uniforms and makeshift

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