Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 July 1942 — Page 5

" Bustin Stabbing at Naz ~~ Flanks in Great v Battles.

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‘fallen, reporting instead that counter-attacks were slashing at

both enemy flanks with unknown results. A

- Heavy fighting, reported by both Berlin and Moscow, on the Orel sector, northwest of Voronezh, indicated that the Russians might be making their main diversion attempt in that area. . But the Nazi-dominated Vichy radio also reported that a strong

Soviet counter-blow had been aimed

at the axis in the Taganrog area,

near the coast of the Sea of Azov. The Taganrog attack on the “7il-12rn front might be designed to throw the enemy off balance and

prevent a new drive toward Rostov.

The axis offensive, it now seemed certain, was designed to cut the Ros-tov-Moscow railroad line and, if possible, break through the “hinge” between the Russian southern and

central armies.

That objective has not yet been attained, although the railroad may

have been severed at points. ’ German Losses Heavy

The German high command then would be in a position to turn south toward Rostov, striking into the

flank and rear of the Soviet south-

ern armies or forcing them to fall

back toward the Volga and the Casypian sea. " At the same time, it has been indicated, the Germans would at-

tempt to break into the Caucasus from - the Crimean peninsula or

across the Black sea. "But dispatches from Moscow emphasized that the enemy has suffered tremendous losses and that the Russians, while forced back, are still fighting and preventing any great break-through, Even the German communique today failed to claim any important progress.

‘A Mammoth Cemetery’

The Russians reported that 260 enemy tanks had been destroyed. in one day. ~The Voronezh actor, according to front line dispatches, is “a mammoth cemetery of German men and machines” and fighting continues unabated. : Meanwhile a Berlin broadcast claimed German. submarines and warplanes,” pyrsuing remnants of a British-American convoy en route to Russia,” have sunk four more allied merchant ships, bringing to 32 the number of vessels sunk in a "convoy of 38. The four additional sunken vessels, a communique said, totaled 24.700 tons. “Thus of this convoy, 32 vessels of 217,100 tons were sunk,” it said.

. British Stab Westward

Yesterday's German high command communique reported the sinking of a heavy United States

cruiser and 28 merchant ships last

week off northern Norway. 4 Official British sources refused to confirm or deny the German sink-

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i ing claims and said an official statement would be issued “as soon as possible.” On the Egyptian front, it was believed that Gen. leck was seeking an opening into which he could throw his reinforced eighth army before Marshal Rommel can bring up sufficient reserves, which now apparently are being

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ferried across the Mediterranean more rapidly. Heavy enemy bombardment of Malta, where nine axis planes were shot down, indicated’ that Hitler was making every effort to get reinforcements to Egypt.

Rommel Holds Positions Rommel’s line now is curved from

the coast west of El Alamein, making a loop to the southwest and

then bending back through the desert south of El Daba, some 35 miles west of El Alamein. British lightning units were reported operating almost the entire length of this southern flank, but as yet Rommel had not been driven back from his most easterly positions along the coast. Richard D. McMillan, United Press correspondent at the front, reported one sector in which 25 tanks were destroyed by a British lightning column, aided by allied air attacks. 3 Artillery bombardment, thrusts by light, rapid units and contined big-scale aerial attacks marked the battle scene, but there was no renewal of major fighting on land for the time being. :

Tide Not Yet Turned

The main allied mass bombing attacks have been directed against the supply port of Benghazi, where the harbor section had been reported “devastated” on a scale comparable to the RAF devastation raids on Cologne. “Terrific” damage also was done by American and British planes in a daylight raid on Monday, when American fliers blew up an enemy supply vessel. Authoritative sources emphasized that the British had not yet turned the tide in the battle for Egypt, although they have at least temporarily halted and counter-at-tacked. Egypt’s Peril Still Grave

It was pointed out that Rommel has not given up any important ground except for a ridge south of El Alamein and that, if he can bring up reinforcements, he may yet be able to strike a strong new blow toward Alexandria, 60 miles away. Rome and Berlin, reporting 35 British tanks destroyed in desert clashes, again claimed that Rommel merely was halted for regrouping and that he would soon strike eastward again. In the Far East, allied planes in China raided the Japanese around Canton again on Monday and were later reported involved in a severe air battle over Tsingyun, 50 miles northwest of Canton. The outcome was unknown. In the Australian zone, 16 Japanese planes attacked Horn island off Cape York, on the north side of Australia, but only slight damage was reported.

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German Panzers. (Continued from Page One)

desert crossing where the Nazi 21st and 15th panzer divisions were bat-

Tobruk, on June 11, Some Italian tanks also were nearby. '

Capuzzo, overlooking El Adem. Three General Grant tanks, manned

with British tanks not far away. Clarking Desert Melee

There was.a clash, with Italians, Germans and British all joining in

partly obscured by sand clouds.

millimeter gun.

able enemy tank and let him have it until he burst into flames, Another one then came into the range of their sights. : One after another they blasted

saw some of them burst into flames, until they had picked off four. The arrival of American tank crews in the desert was not known until'the battle began. They drove to the front lines from a tank assembly point in British trucks with British drivers and then met the British tank brigade with which they moved into the front line... . The purpose of the action was To

actual battle practice, and thus they were in the role of “combatant observers” when they swung into action against the ‘enemy. . An American - observer w'h o watched the battle said: “We've proved that the General Grants are excellent in every respect and we have learned some very valuable lessons.” Other: American observers and tank experts emphasized that the tank was superior to anything the Germans possess, and said this was shown by the fact that four axis tanks were knocked out without a loss to the Americans,

Praise Bravery of British

So far as I have been able to learn, the Americans have not participated in any fights since they tried out their punches that-day. Another observer expressed respect for the German .88-millimeter guns and admiration for the courage of British crews. “The American tanks certainly packed a terrific punch ‘but the Nazi's .88-millimeter gun is redoubtable and he has Plenty of them,” he said. “I want to say this, that I never} saw braver men than the British tank boys. They know no fear and they fight on and on.”

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56 DIE IN REICH BLAST

NEW YORK, July 8 (U.P.).—An explosion killed 56 people at Glenhausen, Germany, on June 27, and seven other persons are missing, the British radio said today quoting the

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sition hall on Kaiserdamn in the German capiial, Netting shrouding the building is marked so tha! structure appears to R. A. F. bombardiers as a small hill in a meadow when seen from the air,

Here is a bomb hit on a building on Meineke Strasse, Berlin, | to the headquarters of the capital's Anti-air Raid Division MN

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out one of its 1000-plane raids ove:

city, scenes like this will be seen throughout Berlin,

DENY SPANISH SHIPS’

By ALLEN HADEN

RIO DE JANEIRO, July 8—~Radio messages - intercepted in Rio De Janeiro by reliable authorities confirm charges that Spanish ships, while freely sailing the Atlantic

ocean, use radio to send apparently frivolous messages which may assist axis submarines. “The Marques de Cuesta, the Spanish ambassador to Brazil, has denied that Spanish ships use radio y| for any purpose other than to request help or to report to the ad-miral-in-chief. Yet. the Spanisn ship, Monte Spartel, on July 5 called the Spanish ship Cabo de Buena Esperanza. The Cabo did not reply. However, another Spanish ship, the Monte Seranto did, and retransmitted the message from the Monte Spartel to an unidentifiable radio:station. It read: “We have no news. Regards. Radio operator.” Just what kind of news the radio operator of the Monte Spartel did not have of course is speculative. But it confirms that Spanish ships are using radios for purposes other than described vy ‘the Spanish ; ambassador here, *

CHARGE SECRET HEARINGS

PHILADELPHIA, July 8 (U. P). —The Weirton Steel Co. charged in

the third U. 8. circuit court today|

that officials of the national labor relations board “conferred in secret” with officers of the steel workers organizing committee (C. I. 0.) while hearings were being held before the board of 1937 ahd 1938 on union complaints, Se + The union charged the company ‘with unfair labor practices.

: ADMITS THROWING ‘BO VICHY, July 8 (U. P.) —Bernard Georges has confessed, police said today, that he threw a bomb at ‘Marcel Deat, collaborationist friend

of Pierre Laval, while Deat wasn

speaking in a theater at Tours last March 26.

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(U. P.).—A. C. Moha, a St.

sleep-walker for some time, | never a “human fly.”

his hotel room door and not, window when he went to bed night,

shins, he wished it had been, other way.

doesn’t even faintly recall it, amazed passers-by testified | they saw him climb from his |i:

that, he passed through the X

of his room before he awoke, . cording to Police Capt. Ww, Joyner, who was called to | scene of his acrobatics.

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aerial attack. Speaking before the Instituf Public Affairs at the Universii: Virginia, Maj. Silsbee said:* “It is not for me to say wh or not the huge air offensive v

of a second front can be complished by air alone.

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that "if non-essential driving were eliminated the tires in use might last until the synthetic rubber program .is well under way.

Some weeks ago they proposed nationwide gasoline rationing as a rubber conservation measure, but so much opposition to it was raised that it was deferred until after the current rubber Salvage program is completed.

Problems Interwoven

Mr. Roosevelt said the rubber and gasoline problems were almost hopelessly interwoven, but that he was still clinging to the hope that a method would be found to separate them. Before ‘the president’s press conference, two other officials denounced “driving as usual” in reference to the gasoline rationing program on the east coast. Undersecretary of Navy James V. Forrestal and Ralph K. Davies, deputy petroleum co-ordinator, charged that “driving as usual” was exhausting gascline supplies in the east and was preventing war workers from obtaining the fuel needed to travel to and from work, They appealed to every. conscientious motorist to curtail driving as

sonal inconvenience.” Scrap Drive Succeeds

Other rubber-gasoline .developments: 1: Mr. Roosevelt reported that the yield of the scrap rubber collection campaign was better than the lowest pre-campaign estimates and not yet near the highest estimates. In a report released: from the White House monday, collections up to last week-end were 334,293 tons. 2. Registration for the east coast’s permanent, coupon gasoline ration ing will begin tomorrow in some 30,000 schools. 3. Oil Co-ordinator Harold - L. Ickes announced that he had asked the war production board to approve a $30,000,000 pipeline reallocation project which would bring an estimated 200,000 barrels of petroleum into the eastern area daily. 4, The senate commerce committee approved, by a vote of 11 to 3, legislation to authorize a $93,000,000 appropriation for improvement of inland waterways on the gulf and east coasts and for two pipeline projects designed eventually to alleviate the gasoline shortage in the East, -

: (NEW BRITISH TROOPS JOIN DESERT FORGES

By GEORGE PALMER United Press Staff Correspondent PORT SAID, Egypt, July 6 (U. P.) (Delayed) —Troops, guns, tanks and suppiles are streaming through this port at the entrance to the Suez canal toward Alexandria and the Alamein front. ‘Making the trip from Alexandria to Port Said by train, I passed troop trains loaded with British and British and South African troops, bronzed, smiling, stripped to the waist. Often they shouted at me: “Hey! You're going the wrong way. ”

tanks and crated supplies.

railroad, tanks, truck transport columns and mobile guns rushed past. Trucks filled with troops moved along the road also, always toward the front. For a distance the railroad parallels the canal, and I saw men bathing in the late afternoon sun while sentries, leaning on _their rifles, guarded gun emplacements;

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eration; on the Consolidated B-24, and Boeing B-17, four motored bombers stripped down for cargo carrying, and on two planes just getting into production, the four-motored ‘Douglas C-5¢ and the two-motored Curtiss Condor, The DC-3 will carry up to three tons, the B-24 has carried bomb loads up to four tons, and the B-1T—the flying fortress— somewhat less. The four-motored Douglas probably will carry six or -seven tons of cargo. There were nearly 400 transports in operation on domestic air lines before the war. Stripped of ‘their passenger accommodations, these planes could carry as many as 7200, In addition there were 82 American flag commercial air transports in operation between the United States and foreign ports. ” 2 E- 2 TWO CARGO SHIPS NOW on the way to production, the Lockheed Constellation and a new Consolidated cargo plane, will be larger than any of these. Offi« cials will no; say, just how large, but describe them as “very big ships.”

sia of her chief source of oil supply for her armies, but would give Hit-

ler the lubricants he must have. It would also throw the allied supply route through Iran out of gear, The Don river drive most probably will be accompanied by one from Taganrog against Rostov and by one from the Crimea against Krasnodar and the northern Caucasian oil fields. From Rostov the Germans would have three choices: To drive due eastward towards Astrakhan, to deploy southward for an attempt to go down the Black sea coast to Batum or to skirt the Caucasus mountains to reach the Caspian and Baku. There, meanwhile, may be drives on the central and northern fronts threatening Moscow and Leningrad, which would eflectively prevent large-scale reinforcements to Timoshenko. Germany undoubtedly has the men for these vast operations. .Ac-

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four 2500-horsepower motors, & 4000-mile range and a cruising speed of nearly 300 miles an hour. Then there’s the new Curtisse Commando—the world’s largess transport — weighing 50,000 pounds. The Commando, Which has al= ready undergone ground tests, is an all-metal monoplane with twin engines. It could carry

armed infantrymen, fleld artillery

and mechanized equipment, Without cargo, it could fly non= stop to Australia. And aircraft builders already have been talking about much bigger ships—Glenn L. Martin,

tin disclosed that his company’

has plans for a 125-ton plane. He =

added: “We should be able to build 250-ton airplanes in a very: few years.” : EISENHOWER VISITS KING LONDON, July 8 (U. P.).—~Ma} Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, com mander-in-chief of United States army forces in the European thes

ater, was received today by King

George VI.

Today's War Moves

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cording to British figures, the Gere mans are using more than 1,000,000 men along a front of only about 120

miles in the Kursk-Kharkov ze=

gion. They are using 67 divisions in the drive. It is estimated that the Germans, with their Hungarian, Ruma Italian and other allies, had a to!

of 223 divisions available for tog :

Russian campaign.

Allowing for a probable loss of 18 :

divisions in the Crimea, that wo leave 141 divisions in the line: in reserve, exclusive of the 67 di» visions being used in the Don river drive,

100 divisions on other Jronts or in reserve in the reich. Some of these are in Libya and Egypt and uns

doubtedly more can and will be sent

for Marshal Erwin Rommel to res new his drive for the Suez canal. | Some American military men cone sider the British chances of holding Suez less than 50-50, that is, ag “possible rjther than probable.”

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