Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 November 1942 — Page 2

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The Germans see before them the grimmest winter

since 1918. Their homes will ~ poorly clad and fed at little better than subsistence level. They already are war-weary and dispirited. Their military machine, however, still packs tremendous strength. There is no reason at present to doubt they will fight on fiercely until it has been smashed on the field of battle. This correspondent can attest from personal experience that a balance sheet of food, clothing, mor“ale and general living conditions at the beginning of the fourth war winter is overwhelmingly in Great Britain's favor.

Drinks Are Scarce : Both Britons and Germans find it ~ hard to get a drink today. In Germany you have to be a black market expert or high up in the party to get anything at all. In England it is largely a matter of knowing the ropes and making yourself “known” if you want to get @ drink of scotch. A bottle of scotch costs around $6 today, or about double the pre-war price. You can buy a botile only if you are registered at a dealer's, and the . dealer won't register you unless you are “known” to him. : Most “pubs” will only sell you a “gingle’ scotch—about two thimble fulls—costing about 25 cents, across the bar. Some of the more exclusive bars still sell “doubles” with the price anything up to a dollar a shot. Rationing Very Strict

Britain today—partly as a result of American lend-lease food shipments—probably is the best fed country in Europe, except Portugal. On paper, there is not a great

food rations in Britain and Germany. Meats, fats, eggs and sugar are rationed in both countries down to a basic minimum designed to main- ~~ tain health and morale of troops gnd home front at an efficient level. . Here, however, are some of the outstanding differences: The Germans are back practically on a turnip and red-cabbage stand‘ard as they were in 1918. Potatoes

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riter Who Left Germany Only Last May Finds English Better Off in Every Respect as Fourth War Winter Starts.

(The following dispatch was written by Joseph W. Grigg Jr, U. P. st five months has seen at first hand both GerHe was for three years—until Pearl Harbor . Berlin staff. After release from internment in German He has just returned to the United States.

By JOSEPH W. GRIGG JR. United Press Staff Correspondent

Vis Nov. 16.—The British are eating AE today than the Germans were on Sept. 1, 1939, the day Adolf Hitler marched into Poland and began the war.

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In Germany bread and cakes are tightly rationed. The flour used is grey and soggy. In Britain you can walk into any bakery and buy unlimited quantities of good bread or cakes without ration-tickets. If you eat in a restaurant in Germany you have to give up coupons for practically everything, including potatoes. Two days a week are meatless, and on two others only a “field-kitchen” stew, containing a microscopic piece of meat or none at all, is served. The restriction on restaurant meals in Great Britain is that not more than three courses may be served. The basic British meat ration of about 12 ounces weekly—slightly less than the German ration—can be more than doubled by addition of unrationed liver, kidney and sausage, and by American lendlease canned meats, released under a “points” system. The Germans have no such way of stretching their meat ration.

Cheese Ample for British

The British cheese ration recently was stepped up to a half-pound weekly—more than the majority of Britons were able to consume. In Germany the ration is a quarterpound monthly. Coffee, tea and chocolate have virtually disappeared in Germany since the beginning of the war. Prices of $30 a pound for coffee and $50 a pound for tea are offered on the black market. Coffee still is unrationed in Great Britain. Tea and chocolate now are controlled, but the ration is larger than in practically any other Eurcpean country. After something of a tobacco “crisis” about a year ago the British now can again get all the cigaréts and pipe tobacco they want. But prices are double those at the outbreak of war. Germans have a tobacco rationcard entitling a man to about four cigarets a day and a woman over 25 to three every other day. But the ration is largely theoretical. Cigarets and tobacco often are un-

and green vegetables are often unobtainable. There is no scarcity of either in Britain.

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Even after more than three years of war, British are well dressed. A clothes rationing card was not in-| troduced until well on into the second war year, with the result

that most Britons were able to lay in plentiful stocks of clothes and! shoes. | The Germans have been forced; for years to dress in inferior ersatz| clothing. When this correspondent left, Germany five months ago, morale already had bégun to slump. The Germans were tired of war, nervous, irritable and suffering from strain. The entry of the United States and the bogging down _of the Russian campaign had forced the average German to realize the“possibility of Germany losing the war. Morale in Great Britain never has been better than today. This correspondent was told by every Briton he spoke with that the British never for a moment—not even after Dunkirk—had envisaged any other outcome than an allied victory.

JAPS CLAIM ALLIED

TOKYO, Nov. 16 (Japanese broadcast recorded by U. P. at San Francisco) —Imperial headquarters said in a communique today that allied losses in sea fighting Oct. 26 in the Solomons area were one battleship, three aircraft carriers, three cruisers and one destroyer sunk. The communique also claimed that three destroyers and three other warships of undetermined class were damaged. The aircraft carriers were named as the U. S. S. Enterprise, U. S. 8. Hornet and one large unidentified carrier. Enemy planes shot down in the fighting, the Japanese communique said, numbered more than 80 and 120 enemy planes went down with the three carriers.

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Curious Algerian natives get the lowdown on the united nations occupation of North Africa from an American army officer in a village near Oran. Note the starts and stripes prominently displayed on the

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Nazis Ease Stalingrad Thrust After Repulse

MOSCOW, Nov. 16 (U. P.).—The defenders of Stalingrad again have fought the Germans to a standstill, and the Soviet high command announced today that Red army units maintained their advance in the Caucasus, southeast of Nalchik, where they have killed more than 1000 Germans and knocked out 32 tanks in the last 36 hours. The intensity of German attacks in Stalingrad has declined rapidly during the last 24 hours, front-line dispatches said. They began to lose force after the Russians had stemmed a tank penetration in one of the bloodiest battles in weeks.

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Despite “powerful tank and infantry concentration on a 200-yard front, the Germans were able to make only small penetrations, which the Russians boxed while slaughtering the main infantry force, unable to pour into the gaps. The noon Soviet communique reported only “small attacks” in Stalingrad, all of which were smashed. Between the Volga and Don, northwest of Stalingrad, Soviet

reconnaissance units slashed into

German positions during- the night, killing 60. (The Berlin correspondent of a Stockholm newspaper wrote that

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Imperials Move Toward

Tunisian Border.

By LEON KAY United Press Staff Correspondent

CAIRO, Nov. 16.—British forces driving through Libya have occupied the airdrome at Martuba, 670 miles from the Tunisia border, and are continuing their pursuit of the remnants of the German armored forces, a communique said today. The British 8th army forces under Gen. Sir Bernard Montgomery, occupied -Martuba yesterday and it was indicated that they must al-

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ready have reached the key axis base of Derna 18 miles to the west, on their way toward Benghazi, Tripoli and Tunisia. Allied bomber and - long range fighter planes kept up a ferocious attack on the German forces all the| way from the battle area to Tunis. |

Attack Tunis Airdrome

Long range fighters based on, |Malta made a low level attack on| the Tunis airdrome at dusk Satur|day, the communique said, and de|stroyed six big planes which the | Germans had flown in from Libya ‘and Sicily in their desperate attempt to slow the allied drive from the west. Other grounded axis aircraft were damaged and one challenging enemy fighter was shot down. Medium bombers followed up the attack with a raid on the Tunis airdrome Saturday night and started large fires with direct hits on buildings and workshops. The same night, allied planes bombed and machine gunned the

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Poker playing golfer Robert Daniel Murphy spent 10 years in the American embassy in Paris and became the well-loved friend of French officials. Today

| those years haye paid a big

dividend. It was Parisian friends who helped Murphy slip 40 U. 8. agents inte Vichy North Africa. Those agents prepared the way for North African collaboration with the U. 8. forces which have taken over that vital area.

BIBLE GROUP TO HEAR THE REV. FLANAGAN

The Rev. Joseph R. Flanagan of

the New Jersey Street Methodist church will speak Wednesday at 6

p. m. before the Bible Investigation

club in the ¥Y. M. C. A. Miss Leora Crumrine will be in charge of the musical program and Charles Weiler will preside.

PROSPECT O. E. 8. TO MEET Prospect chapter 452, O. E. 8., will

coastal area of Benghazi, the axis observe brothers night with a dinner

at 6:30 p. m. today and a meeting at 7:45 p. m. Initiation will follow.

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Bombs of All Weights, Including 2-Tonners, Rain. On Italian Port.

LONDON, Nov. 16 (U. P.).~Britain’s long range bombing planes, supporting the allied armies driving through North Africa, made their fourth shattering attack in 10

returned without loss. The attack was a concentrated one

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motored planes, including Lancasters and Stirlings, showered bombs of all weights from 4000pound block busters down an the port from which reinforcements are moving to Africa, and the war factory area.

Destroy Old Buildings

A German dispatch from Rome, broadcast by Berlin, reported that in the last raid on Genoa Friday night British planes had destroyed “historic buildings of irreplaceable value.” It said that among buildings wrecked were the palace in which the late King George V and Queen Mary stayed during a visit to Genoa after the last war, and the Palazzo San Giorgio in which the first bank in Europe was founded. An air ministry communique said that last night's Genoa raiders, in-

planes, made their attack in fine weather and with good results. No planes were lost.

FIVE FIREMEN DIE IN BOSTON BLAZE

BOSTON, Nov. 16 (U. P.) ~—Five firemen were killed and 40 injured yesterday when the walls and roof of a four-story brick building in East Boston collapsed an hour after the first of five alarms had heen sounded and just as firemen be~

lieved the blaze had been controlled.

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