Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 December 1941 — Page 5

omar, DEC. ALLIED MASTER PLAN IS READY

Mightiest Grand Alliance in History Is Now Believed Virtually in Effect.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS : Times Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 30.—A grand allianse — the most powerful ever coneeived—is now believed to be virtually in effect. It is believed to involve the United States, the United Kingdom, the British Dominions, Russia, China and the Netherlands. Some h anuouncement is expected upon Prime Minister ChurchfiI’s return from Canada. Other anti-Axis nations, it is thought, will be invited to adhere go the coalition. They may also gree not to sign a separate peace. The simultaneous announcement of a supreme war council to correlate allied strategy, of regional allied commanders-in-chief, and of an inter-allied supply authority to control munitions allotments is likewise anticipated.

Tremendous Effort Likely

Such an announcement, it is felt, would have a tremendous effect

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and sorfow, German prisoners, the first captured by British troops from Tobruk during the current Allied offensive in Libya, march into Tobruk. Their British captor (right) has a triumphant smile for the camera. Note the half-hearted attempt by the prisoners on the left,

throughout the world. The allies’ combined resources in manpower, raw materials, money and industrial |

perfor that if used according to some careful master plan defeat would be impossible. France, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and the Arab world are all on the fénce waiting to see how the antiAxis combination will use its manifest superiority. Cuba and the Central American states have already cast their lot with the United States and its allies by declaring war against the Axis, but South America is still “from Missouri.”

South Americans ‘Coy’ This applies particularly to the

Perak River line, 300 miles north of here.

Singapore, raid-free since the first days of the Pacific war, was

attacked four times by Japanese planes during the night.

Singapore Bombed: Japs Blast Malaya Key Points Furiously

SINGAPORE, Dec. 30 (U. P).—Japanese planes opened a furious capacity are so overwhelmingly SU! assault on Singapore and key points of the Malay Peninsula today as Japanese ground forces attacked heavily, and at neavy cost, on the

NOTRE DAME OFFERS AID TO COMMISSIONS

Times Special SOUTH BEND, Ind. Dec. 30.—Revision of the curriculum at Notre Dame University to provide courses for preparing students for commissions ih the Army, Navy and Marine Corps was under way today.

A communique of the Malaya]

Command seid some damage was had admitted Japanese penetration

done to thatched buildings. Only south of Ipoh. four casualties were reported.

was unchanged. {send troops to Burma.) (The Japanese claimed the fall of | Ipoh, tin center on the Perak River tacked Singapore

front, and the Malaya command moonlight last night.

(London reported also that two The Japanese suffered enormous officers of the Chinese army were in casualties in an attack on the Perak |Singapore, discussing joint allied River line and elsewhere, the com- [strategy and tactics. There have munique added, but the situation been suggesting that China might

Two waves of Japanese planes atin the bright

The new courses will be offered at the beginning of the second semester. Meanwhile, the deans of the respective colleges are empowered by the university to waive require ments for credits or for degrees in cases of men entering the armed services. Bach case will be considered individually and the deans will base their decisions largely on the quality of the students’ work.

BELIEVED NEAR

British Win Tank Battle; ‘Believe Final Fight About to Begin.

CAIRO, . 30 (U. P.) ==British imperials tling to destroy bat tered Axis armies south of Benghazi and prevent their escape into Tripolitania, have destroyed 22 tanks and badly damaged 20 others in a tank engagement south of Agedabra, British general headquarters for the Middle Bast said today. The engagement occurred about 00 miles south of Benghazi “when an enemy column, including tanks, make a yet further attempt to interfere with our operations,” a communique said. A regiment of hussars captured five trucks laden with German infantry, headquarters saic. (In New York the Columbia Broadcasting System heard the British radio broadcast that “what might be the final battle in Cyrenacia is about to begin.” The broadcast said that “the main body of Gen, Rommel's remaining forces is hemmed in between the sea and the hills east of Agedabia and yesterday our troops were reported to be closing in from the south.”) British pressure was being maintained despite difficult fighting conditions caused by heavy rains which turned the desert into quagmires and hampered mechanized forces. Royal Air Force planes continued to harass the Axis forces all along their line of retreat from Cyrenaica to Tripoli, capital of Tripolitania, the sole remaining base for German

United Press Staff Correspondent

MANILA, Dec. 30~A Japanese naval threat to Manila was reported today while United States and Philippines forces made a determined stand against vastly stronger Japanese invasion armies on the northern and southern Luzon fronts. The Philippines Herald quoted reliable sources that during a heavy Japanese airplane raid yesterday on the Corregidor Island fortress at the entrance to Manila Bay, Japanese warships attempted to approach put were driven off by coast defense guns. It was believed, the newspaper said, that the Japanese ships were making a test of the island's strength with a view of a possible big scale attack from sea as well as land and air. On the northern Luzon front, American defense forces fought off “strong” Japanese artillery and infantry attacks after readjusting their lines in severe fighting about 60 miles north of Manila. A communique issued by Maj. Gen, Jonathan Wainwright sald that fighting had been in progress all night and continued today in the Cabanatuan sector, which lies due north of the capital. The communique said that the defense forces in North Luzon had “readjusted and shortened their lines.” . No developments were reported from the southeastern Luzon front. (The communique did not make clear how the Japanese had reached the Cabanatuan sector, which lies about 60 miles inland from their

and Italian troops in North Africa.

TNT PRODUCTION UP WASHINGTON, Dec. 30. (U. P). ~The production of TNT during December will be more than double that for November, Maj. Gen. | Charles M. Wesson, chief of ord-| nance, reported today to Undersec-

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main landing point at Lingayen The defense lines apparently had been drawn back in line with an announcement yesterday indicating that the American strength was concentrated in Pampanga province, which extends about 40 miles north and west from Manila.) The American and Filipino forces

LIBYA CLEANUP | Manila Faces Naval Threat: Battle 60 Miles North of City

today by appearance of U. 8. Army

‘| airplanes over the front as absence

of air support has been one of their greatest handicaps. (This indicated that air reinforcements may have reached the Philippines.) The people sought ‘cover in one town as the Army planes were sighted. The planes came. lower and lower and the \ crouched in their inadequate shelt« ers. :

Then there was a great shout of joy. On the wings tips of ‘the Circling planes were not the red symbol of the Rising Sun but the insignia of the United States army. The people ran into the street and the cheers rivalled the roar of the motors overhead, The same was true of the armed forces under Gen. Wainwright, Completely unconfirmed reports of the arrival or imminent arrival, of reinforcements swept over Manila. m Regardless of these, such state ments as the one that the Navy was not idle, and the assurances of President Roosevelt, caused a general public feeling that the effect of United States strength would be felt soon in the rice fields of Pagasinan, in the north, and the cocoanut groves of Tayabas in the south. President Manuel L. Quegon and Vice President Sergio Osmena were inagurated at an informal ceremony at their secret headquarters in the interior today for a second term. United States High Commission« er Francis B. Sayre, speaking at the ceremony, read a congratulatory message from President Roosevelt and said, in his own behalf, that

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pines had become brothers in blood« shed for the defense of their coms mon ideals. This comradeship, he said, could never die. It was the 45th anniversary of the execution by the Spaniards of the hero, Dr. Jose Rizal,

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larger South American republics like Argentina, Chile, Brazil and Peru. \ These ABCP powers, like the rest) of Latin America, are unquestion-! ably friendly toward the United States, but remain more or less coy. [They do not want to venture too far | Mit on the limb of friendship for the United States until they become convinced the Allies are pretty sure to be victorious.

Nazi Resistance Growing,

But Reds Claim New Gains

KUIBYSHEV, Russia, Dec. 30 U. P).—Advancing Russicn shock troops met stiffening German resistance on the Moscow front today, but Red army dispatches reported important gains near Mozhaisk and Borovsk. | A desperate attempt to stop the Russian drive was reported west of | Next month—on Jan. 15—the re- ygiokolamsk, 75 miles northwest of Moscow, where the publics of the New World and, prob- | were said to have entrenched them- |

ably Canada, will meet at Rio De| ives in the hills.

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Increasing Russian pressure hehind the German lines was incommon attitude toward the second | sorced other German troops to re- : treat from Naro Fominsk to BoThe action there will depend &|,,ysk, 60 miles southwest of MosNorth of Borovsk, a sveady Roosevelt, Minister Churchill, Pre- peq army advance was reported to-

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ales’ Widow To Return Here

MRS. MARY LEWIS SCALES, widow of Lieut. Allan B. Seales. will return to Indianapolis in a few days, according to word received by relatives here. Mrs. Scales’ husband died Sunday in a crash of an Army patrol plane on the coast of California. She and her husband had lived in Coronado Beach, Cal, following their marriage Christmas Eve. Mrs. Scales is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Verlin A. Lewis, 3520 N. Capitol Ave. at whose home she will live here, Lieut. Scales was the nephew of Dr. and Mrs. John T. Day, 541 BE. Maple Road, with whom he had made his home most of his life.

HOLIDAY? NOT FOR GARBAGE DIVISION

Thursday is a holiday — New| | Year's Day—but not for the men! {of the City Garbage and Ash Col- | lections Department. | They will be around collecting the same ag if it were just an ordinary Thursday, according to Collections Supt. Ray Herner. The men didn’t! show up on Christmas because that! was their holiday, the only one they take during the year. Mr. Herner said the collection | schedule for 1942 would be the same ‘as this year. |

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Mrs. Vernon Guest Speaker—Mrs. Pearl Lee Vernon, Martinsville ate torney, will be guest speaker at the Chiropractors’ Breakfast Club at 8 8. m. tomorrow in the Hotel Riley. Songs by Miss Marie White and group singing under Dr. Gertrude Hinshaw will follow the address.

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