Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1942 — Page 5
TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1942
ESSEN BOMBED BY 1036 PLANES:
Nerve Center of Nazi War
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Loses 35 Craft.
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aerial offensive “will markedly increase in scale when we are joined, | as we soon will be, by the air force! of the United States.” i Lieut. Gen. Henry H. Arnold, chief of the U, S. army air force, anrounced in London yesterday that the American air force soon will be flying against Germany. While the bombers smashed at Essen, British fighter planes of four commands attacked Nazi airdromes in France, Germany, Holland and Belgium, frustrating Nazi attempts to intercept the Lombers with fight-| ers. The fact that only 33 ¢f the British pianes werc lost is a victory in itself, inasmuch as Essen probabiy is the best fortified of any German arms center with nests of anti-air-craft and searchlight batteries surrounding the sprawling Krupp works, the big Hermann Goering
steel Works, rail yards serving the the fourth Stirling whirl, at left, powered by their 1400-horsepower motors.
Westphalian coal mines and the main research laboratories of the] German army. i The British said that all of the] planes in the Essen attack were | British-made, but presumably United States pilots serving with the R. A. F. participated, as they did in the attack on Cologne. |
Use Huge Block Bombs
he more than 3000 tons of bombs hurled on Essen included huge 4480pound demolition bombs capable of
Huge Stirling bombers, which devastated Cologne and
the British censor.
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American Tanks Beat Rommel In Waron the Libyan Desert
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pounders which are able to swing left and right and protect the 5s] from flank action. “The firepower of the mighty]
ing plan to outflank the British eighth army and seize coastal Topruk had failed, and reliable reports said the axis commander-in-chief
levelling an entire block of build- Grants is said to be equal to any-|had left the vast battlefield by plane
ings.
such as these, were among the masses of 1000 or more R. A. F. bombers Essen in mighty raids Saturday night and early today.
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CAMP ROBERTS, Cal. (U. P).— A. C. Vanslike and his three sons, of Galveston, Tex. constitute a sort of one-family army here. 'The four live in the same barracks and are assigned to the same battery. The sons are Archie, 20; Clarence, 19, and Louis, 18. All volunteered.
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Deadly Stirlings Aid R. A. F. Drive
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FOR ASKS WAR ON BALKAN TRIO
Urges Congress to Include Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary.
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tomorrow. The senate will not be in session until Thursday. Mr. Hull told a press conference that war declarations against the three countries are thoroughly justified because of their declarations against us and because of recent military movements in which they have participated, Rumania declared war on Dec. 12, one day after Germany and Italy had. Hungary and Bulgaria acted on the following day. It was a foregone conclusion that congress would vote the declarations. When congress grants the president's request, the United States will be formally at war with six countries, the other three being Japan, Germany and Italy. The declaration of war against | Japan was enacted in record time | by congress Dec. 8. The declaration against Germany and Italy were enacted Dec. 11, after they first had declared war on us. | Diplomatic relations with Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania have been 'broken off since the axis satellites declared war on this country. Their diplomats here already have left this country or are in the process of leaving from their places of internment. The president’s request for war {declarations against the Balkan | countries has been expected for some {time because of the aid they have |been giving Germany. The question was raised April 13 at a press conference with Under-
Japanese Attempt to Sever Rail Link 1 Between Central and Southern China
CHUNGKING, June 2 (U. P), — Five thousarc Japanese troops, spearheads of a main force of 50,000, have pushed northward between 9 and 12 miles along the CantonHankow railway in southern China’s Kwangtung province during the last 48 hours, a military spokesman revealed today. Reporting renewed enemy drives on four fronts, the spokesman said the spearheads were pushing northward from the Canton area, attempting to seize the only major communications link between Cen-
tral and Southern China. Fourth Thrust at Railway
The new offensive, which began Sunday, marked the fourth Japanese attempt in as many years to open the Hankow railway. All previous drives were repulsed a few miles from Canton. Chinese saw a Japanese effort to apply a huge pincer on eastern coastal China, seizing all possible bases from which allied planes might bomb Japan. Communiques reported that the main enemy columns were moving from Tsengshing, 60 miles east of Canton, toward Tsungfa, 10 miles farther northeast, and from Sinkai, on the railway 20 miles north of Canton toward Yingtak.
Prepared to Meet Push
Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his staff were said to have anticipated the Canton drive by at least a month and to have sent veteran forces to the threatened area. As fighting raged in at least six
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to various sectors of China, includ- highway has been severed, the ase ing Kwangtung province above|sumption is mistaken,” he declared. Hongkong. This indicated the Chinese were “If Japan assumes that China confident of receiving allied sup= must fight alone because the Burma | plies.
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thing the German's have produced | for his headquarters to revise his
| during the war strategy. CARPENTER PLEADS, WINS secretary of .State Sumner Welles,
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of China’s 24 provinces, the Chinese
Churchill, curbing excessive jubiinformation minister, Wang Shih-
lation, warned the British people not to expect that all the R. A. F. raids will be on such giant scale |
1d it was evident that Britain's]
| “Additionally, the tanks are air-| cooled, a telling factor in this desert battle where the heat is terrific. “No small factor in effectiveness]
‘Battle Is Not Over’
Prime Minister Winston Churchill, however, warned in his speech
air force—operating alone—cannot .. :}.. Grants is their superior de-|to the house of commons today that
tand the loss of 35 to 44 planes a ve armament. They delivered) hight, ids _ the knockout blow to German anti-| However, the British probably in- t,x patteries that were answering | tend to maintain the pace—although back with a barrage of heavy fire. | not every night—until the U. S. air \gyt the Gerngan shells bounced off | force goes into action. the Grants like hailstones. In the Cologne and Essen attacks| «within a short time the battle-| the R. A. F. used a new method of field was strewn with the wrecks of | high concentration or “close pack” the German tanks and anti-tank bombing, causing more confusion ynits.” among the enemy defenders, providing relatively greater safety for the attackers and permitting speed- Despite advices from the front jer action as the summer nights that the axis had suffered a “smashgrow shorter. ing setback” in the opening phase : : of the Libyan battle, military MES Boiib Bein sources in London were careful not
British Comment Cautious |
Under this system it would be to overstate the British successes, possible for the R. A. F. to extend The remnants of Col. Gen. Erwin | its big-scale assaults to Berlin dur- | Rommel’s panzer army, fled west-| ing a seven-hour darkness period. | ward through two gaps in the Brit-| Berlin is a three-hour flight from ish mine fields in a race for sur | English air bases and the bombings | vival. must be carried out in darkness, be-| The first round of Rommel’s dar-|
“the battle is by no means over” although he said that Rommel’s plans obviously had gone awry and that the Italo-German tank forces failed to achieve their hopes of sweeping around and upon the British stronghold of Tobruk in a lightning dash. Churchill revealed that Rommel, unable to stand up against the counter-charges of British tanks, artillery fire and air bombings, had withdrawn a large part of his forces westward and that many of these now are 20 miles to the west. Simultaneous with his thrust across the desert, Rommel at-
| tempted to land forces on the Medi-
terranean coast west of Tobruk but the attempt was broken up by the guns of Britain's Mediterranean fleet, Churchill said, because the British had anticipated and made preparations to meet the axis drive.
fly such distances. The Germans, after their rage attack on historic Canterbury following the Cologne bombing, replied to! the blasting of Essen with only a small raid against Ipswich, 66 miles! the vitals of Germany's war indusnortheast of London, but the Brit- | ¢v and her network of communicaish knew that Hitler might at any | sons. They are beginning to cut
hour seek venegeance in a more) . ithe sinews of war which Germany
terrible form. 4 needs on the battlefields of Russia and Libya, for her submarines at sea and for her air fleets. Second, they strike hard at the morale of the German people, already strained. Correspondents {just returned from Germany are (confident the German people can-| not take such punishment as the British did. Moreover, it bitterly disillusions them, since they were assured by the leaders that Germany was supreme in the air anc German cities would not be bombed. Third, they put new heart in the eo and tend to ease the pres- |
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Fourth, they encourage the rebellious peoples of conquered Europe «and keep the flame of revolt alive (for the day when they will be able] to turn on their conquerors and help | throw off the yoke. | The success and continuation of | {the raids show beyond much doubt | that Britain has definite superiority | in the air, if not control. In their| {reprisal raxd on Canterbury, the {Germans employed only about 25 iplanes, in contrast to the swarms {which the British sent over Ger-
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understood the ratio of German losses to British was three to one. Combined with the raids over Germany, events of the last few days all have been unfavorable to Hitler. The Russians apparently have stopped the Germans on the Kharhov front and they claim that a projected German drive by way of Rostov to the Caucasus oil fields has been thwarted. Even if Hitler opens his general spring offensive in Russia, he will do it under much
| less favorable auspices.
In Libya, Gen. Erwin Rommel’s drive toward Tobruk and the Egyptian border has been thrown back, and he is engaged in extricating his tanks to re-form his positions to the west.
'Trailer-Bus' for
War Use Built
WASHINGTON, June 2 (U. P). —Transportation officials today inspected a new model of “trailerbus,” built at the suggestion of the office of defense transportation with a minimum of critical materials. The new vehicle, which weighs only 11,370 pounds but will carry 100 persons, was designed to meet transportation needs of war workers and army and navy personnel. War production officials and officers of the army and navy
| also inspected the “trailer-bus.”
A new type of differential dual wlieels was said by the designer to multiply the life of tires and cut down on gasoline consumption. ODT officials hope the vehicle will solve the problem of transportation shortages in industrial areas where workers are handicapped by lack of tires and gasoline for automobiles.
CHIPPEWA INDIANS ADOPT ICE PRIEST
SANTA CLARA, Cal. (U, P). — Father Hubbard, the “Glacier Priest,” famous for his explorations in Alaska, has been adopted by the Chippewa Indians and given a Chippewa name. It is “Mikwamiwigigmekataeokanaie,” and it means “The Black Robe Who Works in the Icy Heaven.” :
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