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LAVAL TO POWER

Allies Fear ‘Deal’ With Surrender of Fleet to Axis: Berlin Says New Vice Premier Will Be Actual

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British and anti-democratic,

right Nazi stamp such as Laval. ; | As foreign minister, Laval will decide the course of! : relations with the allies, sub, As]

straint Petain exerts. minister of interior he will control the national police, a

vast source of power. Darlan remains chief of the French armed forces including the French fleet, and political heir to Petain’s office of chief of state, but his power was curbed. In the interior ministry Laval replaced Pierre Pucheau, who has worked to give France a role in a “new order” in Eurcpe. It was said officially that the full make-up of the new cabinet would not be announced until Thursday, when Laval returns from Paris.

Riom Trials Postponed

An indication that Nazi power over unoccupied France is increasing was contained in a simultaneous Vichy announcement that the Riom “war guilt” trials, scheduled to reconvene today after an Easter recess, have been postponed indefinitely. The Germans have objected to the trials of France's wartime leaders because the evidence showed only the state of France's unpreparedness, and not the war guilt.

It all seemed to add up to suc-|

cess for Laval in his bitter, relentless campaign to jockey himself into dictatorial power with the backing of the Germans, with whom he has worked closely and smoothly in the past. Still convinced that the axis will win the war, Laval might go all out in some deal that would turn the French fleet over to Hitler or

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MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM MAYER will celebrate 50 years of wedded life next Sunday with an open § | house for friends $ and relatives Irom 2 t6 3 { p. m. at their | home, 1428 Daw- | son st. Married April 20, 1892, in Chicago, Mr. and but never has borne the out-| Mrs. Mayer | have lived here for 40 years, during which time Mr. Mayer has been in the milk business, " Both are members of St. Marks English Lutheran

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FEAR JAPS TRAP BURMA TROOPS

Chinese Defenders Feared Cut Off by Enemy

North of Toungoo.

CHUNGKING, April 14 (U. )— Strong Japanese columns driving northward along the railroad to Mandalay were reported authoritatively today to have crossed the Swa river, 23 miles above captured Toungoo, and possibly cut off the Chinese defenders of Yedashe. : The Chinese position at Yedashe, on the south bank of the Swa and 21 miles north of Toungoo, appeared obscure, but. a Chungking military spokesman admitted the Japanese had launched flanking movements on both sides of the city to prevent a Chinese retreat. Fear Another Toungoo Contradictory reports, however, said strong units of China's fifth and sixth armies under Lieut. Gen. Joseph W. Stilwell were entrenched firmly on the railway north of the Swa river, ready to hurl back any Japanese assault. Successful Japanese flanking maneuvers around Yedashe, it was feared, could turn the city into another Toungoo where a Chinese garrison was trapped for a week.

{were frankly fearful that Laval {would join up with Hitler in any| church. The couple {his frank anti-British attitude. : v po © x Jashingt officials refrained &% .%¢ en 0 bikie i living: Mrs. ‘as yesterday Acting Secretary of| wre Mayer State Sumner Welles said at Schwier, Paul ‘press conference that recent Ger- and William Jr, all of Indian- | man denunciations of Vichy were part of the constant war of nerves] waged on France by Germany, He RUSS KILL 9000 French people would not be misled! by these attacks. ! ‘ the Vichy government said that La-~ NAZIS IN } DAYS again did not necessarily imply an; Eel | : in the French fleet. Ad- : ig Soviet Cavalry Thrusts Far noted, retains command of the] | fleet. They also asserted that the devoted to Darlan. | Near Leningrad. Welles to Ask Vichy LONDON, April 14 (U. P.).—Disan explanation of the new moves dicated today thht Soviet cav from French Ambassador Gaston | . . y is 3 sliy divisions have thrust deeply into It was not known immediately German positions around Leningrad, whether Admiral William D. Leahy, Where the Russians have killed | ported on the situation. Mr. Leahy,| The most violent fighting apa frequent companion of Petain, peared to be on the north central

ay possible, especially in view of | #8 |v oF P } has four chil- > 5 . mediate comment. As late “8 °° We, & | from 1m Frederick | apolis, and Irvin, Lafayette, Ind. declared he was convinced that the, Washington sources friendly to val’'s elevation to the cabinet once | miral Jean Francois Darlan, they Into German Positions personnel of the fleet is extremely Mr. Welles was expected to ask patches from the Russian front in- | Henry-Haye. | U. S. ambassador to Vichy, had re- 9000 of the enemy in nine days.

| has been the target of much Ger- front, especially around Leningrad. man criticism for his influence of The rest of the front was buried in (the mud of the spring thaw. “The snow is melting in Russia,” radio Moscow said. “A deluge is overflowing the German armies. Floods are covering everything. The German armies in Russia are struggling with water up to their necks.

Intensify Air Struggle

| the aging Vichy premier. | The Germans pointed out that they could, at any time, divert to Germany more foodstuffs reaching France from North Africa. GQGer[many already is taking a lion's share of these foodstuffs, and within the last 48 hours reports of “food riots” have come from Paris.

numbered Chinese and British on

‘on the numerically-superior enemy, but

German reserves brought up to] the front come into a country of death. As the snow melts corpses of hundreds of Germans are look- | ing fixedly to the sun.” While arriving spring slowed infantry, it enlarged the battle in the air.

Laval’s predecessor in the Vichy regime, Vice-Admiral Darlan, is as anti-democratic and as anti-British as Laval but never has been accepted by the Germans as a fullfledged friend. Japan no less than Germany is said to have pulled the wires for a | reorganization of the Vichy govern-| The Soviet communique last mid- | ment. night, reporting the killing of 9000 Hitler is reported to be afraid Germans around Leningrad between | to begin his widely heralded spring April 1 and 10, said the Germans offensive unless and until he can had lost 322 planes between April make certain of France's “benev- 5 and 11, and 1103 from March 11 olent” neutrality if no more. (to April 11. From April 5 to April Tokyo likewise has. reason to be (11, the Russians lost 67 aircraft; interested in a friendly regime at from March 11 to April 11, they lost Vichy. 314. Laval returned to power after a] The communique said Soviet warpolitical eclipse which blanked him ships had sunk a German transout of the cabinet as vice premier | port and mine sweeper in the Barin December, 1940, two months ents sea. after Petain and Adolf Hitler, at] Soviet troops with tank support a meeting on the border of un- occupied a locality of “great imoccupied France, agreed “in prin- portance” on the northern front,

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On the western Burma front, reinforced and mechanized Japanese columns gathered momentum for a renewed assault against weary British defenders, and an IndiaBurma command communique officially acknowledged the capture of Migyaungye, 25 miles below the Minbu oil fields. Entering New Phase The battle of Burma appeared to by entering a new and decisive phase, with superior Japanese troops pushing forward against out-

an ever-widening front between the Mandalay railroad and the oil fieids to the west. As the enemy hurled infantry, artillery and tank units against weakening allied lines, communiques and dispatches emphasized the growing threat to Mandalay, temporary Burmese capital. American volunteer fliers and the royal air force continued to inflict the damaging counter-blows

Chinese military leaders stressed the need for allied aerial reinforcements.

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|and elsewhere as enemy submarine | bases. The other is aid to the axis in Libya through French North Africa. The state department has been given assurances on both by the Vichy regime. Now it cannot be certain the assurances will be carried out. The state department had evidence that supplies had been going to Gen. Erwin Rommel through Morocco and Tunisia. After a sharp admonition had been given Vichy, the practice was apparently stopped, for relations were maintained, However, Gen. Charles De Gaulle, leader of the Free French, has protested repeatedly against American “coddling” of Vichy, contending that America’s real interest lies in supporting Free French resistance. Accordingly, Sumner Welles, acting secretary of state, informed Vichy yesterday that we would continue to deal with the Free French forces wherever they are in effec tive control.

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troops are scattered countries, but most are second rate or over-age. air protection or: important coastal sectors, however, and have concen-

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pointed out that the power of Hitler's armies have fallen in Russia and that potential manpower of the united nations 7,000,000.

is many times

The greatest allied disadvantage

is communications and the lack of hardened fighting men, great advantage is that American production is going tip and that numerical superiority of airplanes and tanks is assured later. ;

but our

3 Million Experienced British military strategists em-

phasize that about 3,000,000 of the axis troops are toughened and experienced in war service and it is against these men that Gen. Marshall and the British imperial staff must concentrate their main strength. on half a dozen fronts, but the most important is likely to be Rus= 8

This may mean action

a. The red army is believed to have

killed or crippled 1,500,000 of Hitler's best soldiers, but in the coming weeks they must take on what are left—and that is a great many.

Threaten Sea Lanes

Furthermore, the Germans now

have important if indirect aid as a result of the Japanese campaign which goes far to make up for the troops lost in Russia. be even more keenly felt by the allies if, as many believe, the Japanese strike this year at Siberia.

This would

The fact that the axis in Europe

operates almost entirely on interior communications lines is a vast advantage, but in addition the Japanese fleet aided by such big German units as the Scharnhorst can gravely threaten our sea lines.

This is how responsible sources

break down the axis lineup for 1942:

Russia Hitler is believed to have 280 di-

visions or around 4,000,000 o® which 3,000,000 are Germans, in the Soviet Union. two to one to one, are Italians, Hungarians and Rumanlans, who can be given only second line jobs. Experts said about 2,000,000 of the best troops can be mustered by the Germans for a drive in the Donets basin.

The remainder, in ratio

Libya The axis has about 135,000 troops,

of which 30,000 are Germans under Marshal Erwin Rommel. clude two excellent panzer divisions, and possibly six Italian mechanized divisions.

These in-

Occupied Europe than 1,000,000 German in occupied

More

The Nazis have strong

trated mobile divisions that can be rushed to any threatened point in France. In France, Belgium and Holland, are probably 18 German divisions or 275,000 men, including three pan= zer divisions for any emergency. In Greece or Italy, two parachute divisions under Gen. Kurt Student, a veteran of paratroop warfare, are reported concentrated for action against Malta or Cyprus in event of an axis drive to the Near East. In Norway, there are probably seven German divisions of 100,000 | men with strong air and naval] support along the coast. In Czechoslovakia, it is estimated there are 10 divisions of about 150,000 men of over-age landwehr troops or trainees. In Jugoslavia, there may be 200,000 troops, including one German division, five Italian divisions and seven Bulgarian divisions facing about 150,000 guerrillas under Gen. Draja Mikhailovich. The remainder are scattered in occupied sectors.

Far East

In the Far East, it is estimated that Japan has 116 divisions available for action but admittedly information is meagre. Around 200,000 Japanese are said to be in the Philippines and perhaps 60,000 are in the Burma sector, which is being steadily reinforced by the enemy. Experts believe that 200,000 Japanese troops are in the Dutch East Indies and some 750,000 in China, in addition to an estimated 200,000 experienced troops in Manchukuo along the Siberian border.

SALLIE MYERS DIES:

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Mrs. Sallie E. Myers, a resident] of Indianapolis 22 years, died last | night in the home of her daughter, | Mrs. Lula K. Devaney, 576 E. Fall Creek blvd. She was the widow | Devaney, who died in 1923, and| since that time had made her home with her daughter. Born in Hamil-| ton county, Mrs. Myers was a member of the Christian church at| Arcadia. Besides her daughter, she is Sus vived by a grandson,

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