Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 November 1942 — Page 4

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Reinforcements Coming Ashore at Algerian, Moroccan Points.

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meager to give a complete picture|:

of operations. (The rapid capitulation of Algiers, the largest and most important city of French Africa which contained facilities for a prolonged and gpirited defense, suggested that President Roosevelt's appeal to the

French and widespread French|. sympathy with the allied cause was

bearing fruit. General Swings to Allies?

(To support such a suggestion,|: were a number of significant re-|: ports from jittery Vichy and axis.

‘radios and one from London indi

cating that Gen. Henri Giraud, one|

- of France’s most beloved military heroes, was in Africa rallying the French army there to the united nations cause. oe (Vichy itself reported a “de Gaullfst uprising” in Casablanca and said

# French general had been arrested. |

(Radio Rome said there had been a mutiny of French armed forces in Worth Africa against their Vichy officers. Radio Vichy claimed this morning, however, that its forces had been “reinforced” during the night and were “attacking the Americans everywhere.”) Hostilities ceased at Algiers, which has a population of 240,000 and a strategic and highly developed har"bor, at 8 p. m. Under an armistice concluded by Maj. Gen. Charles W. Ryder, commander of American troops there, acting for Lieut. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, supreme allied commander in French Africa, and a French military commander, the Americans began occupying the city .. at dawn. French Retain Arms (Vichy reported that the French troops were permitted to retain their arms—perhaps a significant indication of a lack of hostile ingent.) (The fighting French radio at Brazzaville, French Equatorial Africa, was heard saying that British ° pemforcements to the Americans were landing and that the united nations command was confident all fighting would cease soon. The first announcement of the invasion had said that British divisions would follow the Americans at once.) (Vichy radio reported that a huge Anglo-American fleet of warships and transports anchored in the splendid Algiers harbor this mornfng and American soldiers poured ashore. A large crowd watched.) Strike Like Lightning The speed of the American inwasion was even greater than the . German overnight invasion of Norway. The American air attacks struck like lightning and the ground fighters, moving in with the greatest of speed, captured three strategic air fields in short order. ~The dynamic tempo of the 'great-

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Brig. Gen James H. Doolittle, who led the spectacular raid on Tokyo - last April, has been made commander of American air forces in the North African operations, the war department has announced.

est American offensive in history was never -slackened. Successful landings were made at numerous points along a thousand miles of coast line exactly on schedule and the troops dashed into the interior with speed that exceeded all expectations., American planes were landed at the airdromes only a few minutes after the fields were taken by American ground troops. In one instance, American fighter planes coming in for a landing aided in the capture of an airport by ground strafing on its way down. (Radio Morocco reported last night that the air base at Rabat, 75 miles north of Casablanca on the Atlantic coast, had been “evacuated for reasons of military order.” The station, located at Rabat, the capital of Morocco, failed to broadcast its usual schedule this morning, indicating that the town had been taken by the Americans.)

According to Plan

The offensive was “proceeding according to plan” at Oran, where an airfield had been taken, and along the Moroccan coast of the Atlantic. At both places, the opposition was stiffer than had been enocuntered at Algiers. Two airfields had been taken at Algiers and American planes had moved in, giving the Uinted States air force, commanded by Brig. Gen. James Doolittle, land bases for air fleets with which to control the Western Mediterranean and carry on the North African offensive. Mg=j. Gen. Mark W. Clark, deputy. commander in. chief of the allied forces in North Africa under Eisenhower, left for the front today to establish an advanced headquarers. Until he sends his reports back to Eisenhower’s headquarters, an inclusive, official picture of the offensive which began early Sunday morning will be difficult to draw. At this early stage, however, the situation may be broken down as follows: Algiers: The city and its airflelds in American possession after stiff resistance from the harbor defenses on the western point of Cape Matifou. ‘French guns there for a long time prevented American sup-

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Oran: The situation was more difficult at this Mediterranean port, 225 miles west of Algiers. Tafaroui

action by an American combat team after the field had been heavily strafed by American and British planes. La Senia, Oran’s other airport, was understood to be still in French hands, although heavy

‘| fighting was proceeding.

Reports reaching headquarters

‘| said the French offered “serious re- ‘| sistance” at Oran, with heavy fight{1ing resulting in the harbor area. The | pitterest . combat was at Arzew ‘| point, overlooking Oran’s beautiful ‘| harbor, which finally was taken by :| the Americans.

Meet Tough Resistance

Morocco and the Atlantic coast: Reports from the American western but landing

resistance. Fighting was in progress at many points. Regarding Algiers, Radio Vichy said the terms of the armistice provided that American troops would be responsible for order within the city after 10 p. m. last night. It said the armistice was effective for the city only, and that resistance would continue in ‘the surrounding countryside. (The French Havas news agency's version of the surrender of Algiers, as broadcast by radio Vichy, said: “The American shock troops were equipped with automatic weapons and were far superior in. numbers and materiel. Their attacks were supported by machine gun lorries and even tanks. An engagement occurred before the gates of the town, but French tanks were inferior to the enemy’s modern materiel. The enemy also was supported by planes flying over the town and by the guns of a heavy naval squadron.”)

Algiers Has Big Harbor

The seizure of the Algiers area so early in the campaign will be of the greatest benefit to the Americans in the succeeding stages of the operation. The city, its spacious harbor and its air fields, were well protected before American troops swooped in on them. American planes based at the Maison Blanche and Bleda airports will be able to beat off axis air attacks from Sicily and Sardinia and will also provide the strongest shorebased protection for allied convoy movements in the Mediterranean. From Algiers, in addition to dominating, to a large extent, a major portion of the Western Mediterranean, the Americans are also in position to drive across Tunisia, also a French possession into Italian Libya, 450 miles southwest of the Algerian capital, in a pincers movement supporting the British drive against Field Marshal Edwin Rommel's axis armies. The surrender of Algiers came unexpectedly. It was reported only an hour and a half after an operational report from that area said strong resistance still was being encountered at all points.

Rangers Lead Attack

United States Rangers—the American version of the British commandos—Iled the attacks which were launched at 3 a. m. Sunday morning. Aided in some instances by paratroops, and a small number of marines and sailors, the American infantry swept inland onto their objectives. Carrier based aircraft from the world’s greatest naval armada, comprising strong units of both the British and American fleets, covered the landings. An overpowering umbrella of American and royal air force planes supported the ground

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of the captured portions of the French African empire. President Roosevelt assured Frenchmen Saturday night in his dramatic broadcast to them in their own language. He addressed them as “Mes Amis.” The inevitability of a U. S.-Vichy break was clinched late yesterday when the White House made public an exchange of messages between the president and Petain. The White House also disclosed that the president had pointed out to Generalissimo Francisco Franco of Spain and President Dfragoso Carmono of Portugal the desirability of their neutrality for all concerned, assuring them that they have “nothing to fear from the united nations.”

Petain’s Reply Bitter

Petain’s reply to the president was a bitter denial that France needed the assistance of the United States in protecting the African colonies. Mr. Roosevelt’s message to Petain, the delivery of which was timed with the actual invasion, said “with greedy eyes on that empire which France so laboriously constructed, Germany and Italy are proposing to invade and occupy French North Africa in order that they may execute their schemes of domination and conquest over the whole of that continent.” Petain replied sharply that Mr. Roosevelt had invoked “pretexts which nothing justifies. He added that in arranging the French armistice with Germany he had “protected our empire.” “It is you who acting in the name of a country to which so many memories and ties bind us have taken such a cruel initiative,” Petain told the president. “France and her honor are at stake. We are attacked; we shall defend ourselves; this is the order I am giving.” As the President pointed out to Petain, the American operations were designed to do more than preserve the French colonies for France. Sees Peril to U. S.

“I know you will realize,” he told the French leader, “that such a conquest of Africa (by the axis) would not stop there but would be a prelude to further attempts by Germany and Italy to threaten the conquest of large portions of the American hemisphere, large dominations over the Near and Middle East, and a joining of hands in the Far East with those military leaders of Japan who seek to dominate the whole of the Pacific.” The White House announcement about Tunisia said Mr. Roosevelt's messages went out Saturday night to Admiral Jean Pierre Esteva, French resident general at Tunis, and to Sidi Moncef Pacha, Bey of Tunis. The president informed the Bey that he was dispatching ' troops which “will co-operate with you in the defense of your country.”

Aim to Destroy Enemy

“They have no other aim than the early destruction of our common enemies,” Mr. Roosevelt said. “They and their allies hope for the great privilege of passing through Tunisia, thus enabling them to accomplish the elimination of the forces of evil from North Africa.” On the Tunisian coast, about equidistant over narrow strips of water from Italian Sardinia and Sicily, is the French naval base of Bizerte, which the Italians used to refer to as “a pistol pointed at Sicily.” Once in Tunisia, U. 8. forces would have to turn southward before going very far if their first objective was to reach Libya. But in Libya, they would have only a short distance to go before arriving at Tripoli, the major supply base in

Egypt. With Tunis and Bizerte in allied hands, the united nations would possess an excellent stepping stone to invasion of Sicily and, eventually, Italy itself.

SAYS INVASION HALTS HITLER JUMP. TO S. A.

BUENOS AIRES, Nov. 9 (U. P.).—

‘Raul Damonte Taborda, member of

the chamber of deputies, declared today that “the United States destroyed the spring-board Hitler intended to use this winter in a jump to ..atal, Brazil,” when it moved into North Africa. “Argentines who proposed and voted for a rupture with the axis feel proud of the Americans fighting on French soil,” he said.

ALL FRANCE PLACED IN ENEMY TERRITORY

WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (U. P.).— Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. announced today that all of France within continental Europe has been declared to be “enemy territory” under restrictions on trade and communications with the enemy. Under previous regulations “occupied France” was treated as “enemy territory” but “unoccupied France” was not 80 regarded.

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‘A Few Gems From Axis Broadcasts

~ WASHINGTON, Nov. 9 (U. P). —The" office of war information today reported these gems from the day’s gleanings of axis radio broadcasts: : A Berlin announcer on a shortwave program beamed to North America was recounting details of the ‘fighting in Libya when a strange voice interrupted in a disgusted tone. “What’s the use?” asked. And the Rome radio, as usual, found something to boast about. “In Italy,” the broadcast said, “it was noted that the enemy landings (U. S. landings in west Africa) were made in zones as far as possible from our air and naval bases.” Rome radio probably hit nearer the truth in a broadcast to Bulgaria. “In many places in Africa there is confusion,” the announcer said.

Late War Flashes

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Spain, today, that a British destroyer carrying wounded fighters from the north African front had entered the roadstead at Gibraltar,

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 9 (U. P.) .— The newspaper Allehanda reported today that the French navy is making feverish preparations for an attack on the American-Brit-ish naval fleet in the Mediterranean. These reports said that the French warships were being prepared for action at Toulon.

STOCKHOLM, Nov. 9 (U. P.). —King Christian of Denmark has asked Foreign Affairs Minister Harald E. Scavenius to form a new government following resignations of the cabinet, it was reported officially from Copenhagen today.

BOSTON, Nov. 9 (U. P.).— Under-Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson said today that 1943 will be “a fighting year” for American troops and that they will be battling in Europe as well as in Asia and Africa and on the Seven Seas.

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Nov. 9 (U. P.)— Sources close to the president said today that the “government was most satisfied” wtih the American operations against French North Africa. There was jubilation throughout Uruguay. .. .

MOSCOW, Nov. 9 (U. P.).— Maj. Gen. Follette Bradley, chief of a special war aid mission to Russia, said today that he was returning to Washington soon to report to Gen. George C. Marshall, United tSates chief of staff that he had achieved complete success.

MARINES RETURN TO EARLY GLORY SCENE

By UNITED PRESS The marines, sea-soldiers of the

United States who celebrate their 167th birthday tomorrow, again are in action in Africa now as they were in the last United States military operation against that continent in the early 1800s. In 1803 United States marines accompanied U. S. naval forces to Tripoli to enforce a blockade of the regency, whose pirates were harassing American shipping in the Mediterranean. Again in 1815 théy were in the squadron which Stephen Decatur led to Tripoli to eliminate attacks on our commerce. “To the shores of Tripoli” is a phrase known throughout the world because of its inclusion in the marine hymn,

SEES ITALY AS “SOFT SPOT” OTTAWA, Nov. 9 (U., P.)—British High Commissioner Malcolm MacDonald predicted today that the American invasion of North Africa will reveal Italy as a “soft spot” in

IN VICHY POLICY

Hull Says Maintenance of Relations Paved Way

For Invasion. - (Continued from Page One)

there is no reason for carrying on that fiction longer. The initiative of breaking relations, however, was left to Vichy since the, United States’ avowed purpose in the whole campaign is to help the French people remove themselves from the Nazi yoke.

Backed ‘by Canada Mr. Hull revealed that the British and Canadian governménts had whole-heartedly suppor ted the American policy toward Vichy. He

gave five principal purposes of that policy, describing the fifth as the most important: 1—The opportunity for obtaining information from inside German controlled areas and from North Africa. 2—Maintenance of close relations with the French people and encouragement of anti-Hitler factions. 3—Keeping alive the basic concepts of freedom of the French people. 4—Retention of close personal touch with the Franco-German situation; assistance in promoting resistance to German pressure for French naval forces and French bases outside the Franco-German armistice of 1940.

Kept Goal in Mind

5—Paving the way and preparing the background for the present military expedition in the Mediterranean and along the Atlantic ocean areas of French North Africa. An authoritative source revealed that American representatives had carried those objectives constantly in mind in dealing with France, regardless of the character of the officials in control in Vichy. The question of whether Americans liked those officials was not permitted to interfere with the larger objectives. The United States repeatedly made clear its contempt for the proGerman Pierre Laval and others who were trying to swing France into the axis orbit.

AMERICAN LANDINGS

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LONDON, Nov. 9 (U. P.).—American landings in French North Africa and continued retreat of the axis armies into Libya generated excited bidding for stocks on the London stock exchange today. Both the industrial and the rail averages shot up to their highest levels: in almost five years and brokers were reported “swamped” with buying orders for the first time since start of the conflict more than three years ago.

A GOOD OMEN AN EAST COAST PORT, Nov. 9. —A' small British merchantman— split admidship by Nazi torpedos— “broke in the middle and formed a V for victory” before it plunged to the bottom of the Atlantic late in September, survivors said today. Six crewmen were killed.

SWISS ACT FOR U, S. BERN, Nov. 9 (U. P.).—SwitzeN land is taking over United States interests in France and is assuming protection of British interests there, which formerly were entrusted to the United States, it was announced officially today.

119 HINDUS BURN TO DEATH CALCUTTA, Nov. 9 (U. P.).—At least 119 Hindus were reported burned to death and about 20 others injured fatally yesterday when fire broke out in a building where they were celebrating a festival honoring

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way to an attack on Italy as well as tremendously easing the strain on allied shipping. It was said that the Americhns pointed out that the African expedition could be undertaken before any projected invasion of northern France and Belgium could be prepared. At the same time it would serve to soften up the axis for a later attack on Nazi Europe, the Americans argued. Once the operation was agreed upon by the chiefs of staff committee everything that Britain and the United States could spare was thrown into the task of massing supplies for the expedition —an epic achievement when the full story can be told.

Drain on Germany

The difficutly of mounting the Anglo-American attack was increased, it was said, by the fact that it possibly meant depriving Russia of some of the supplies she needed. At the same time the Russians certainly did not consider Africa the second front which they had asked for. However, military circles believed that in view of Italy’s present condition, the Mediterranean drive was likely to drain Germany’s forces seriously, especially as it develops the threat to the ‘European continent. The axis raged and fumed helplessly today. Berlin radio, speaking for the nazis who overran neutral Norway, Denmark, Holland and Belgium, fumed that the American action was “immoral” and a violation of “human rights,” while other axis stations {renziedly tried to jam American short-wave stations still repeating at frequent intervals, President Roosevelt’s personal message to the French people.

Diplomats Interned

As the Vichy French government moved to diplomats and newspaper correspondents, following its break of diplomatic relations with the United States, evidences filtered out that the American move to protect the French empire from the axis, might bring it to a crisis point with the people of Metropolitan France it claims to represent. Already it had been compelled to prohibit all public meetings ands to urge Frenchmen not to listen” to foreign radio stations — meaning President Roosevelt's message. As the British eighth army continued its pursuit of the wildly fleeing axis African army from Egypt into Libya and the American occupation of French North Africa advanced “better than anticipated,”

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military circles here saw them as twin actions aimed at eliminating the axis and axis-friendly Vichy entirely from Africa and prepare tion for a second front invasion of Southern Europe by crossing the narrow Sicilian straits into Italy. Both Great Britain and United States moved to quiet any fears the new developments had aroused among Europe’s remaining neutrals. They assured Spain and Portugal that so long as .they remained neutral, they had nothing to fear. Spain has a Moroccan colony adjoining French Morocco and islands off the African coast. Portugal has the Azores. , Italian Navy Restricted North Africa is not the. second front which the Russians demand but, in the opinion of allied military leaders, it is not only the best assistance possible at the moment but promises immediate returns in a drain on German strength from Russia. Italy is by far the weakest spot in the axis—weaker even than Rumania or Hungary. Her North African army is almost gone, her. cities are being pounded by the royal sir force, her economic situation is desperate and her people have long been war-weary. Germany is believed to have as many as 250,000 troops in Italy, but a number insufficient to guarantee against invasion. Benito Mussolini’s unhappy navy has been restricted largely to convoy work since it was last defeated by the British, but it might be forced by Berlin to throw its weight into the present conflict.

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