Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 December 1942 — Page 3
STRAUSS ~~ IT'S ONE DAY. SAYS: : NEARER VICTORY
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War Analyst Fears Jugoslav Internal Strife May . Engulf Continent.
4 By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Fcreign Editor WASHINGTON, Dec. 18. — The « story behind the incredible situation inside Jugoslavia is beginning to leak out. And, as it does, it takes on the aspects of a tragedy which, far’ from being confined to the Balkans, may yet spread all over Europe. - In Jugoslavia two separate armies are waging guerrilla warfare y against the axis forces of occupation. At the same] time they are ;waging bloody war against each other. And one of them, backed by Moscow, is making charges that * the other is “proaxis” and not to : be trusted. = | Mr, Simms Not the least amazing part of the story, perhaps, is that the “pro-axis” charges are ‘made against Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch, hailed by united nations governments as one of the outstanding heroes and patriots of the entire war. It was he who, imme- - diately after the Nazis overran his country in 1941, took to the mountains and began a gallant fight to the death against the invaders,
: Defends Serb Leader
At the Jugoslavia embassy here I talked with Lieut. Col. Zivojin Radoychich, of the army air forces. It has been his highly risky job to fly supplies from an allied base in Egypt to Gen, Mikhailovitech in Jugoslavia. He is intimately acquainted with the general. «Talk that Gen. Mikhailovitch is | pro-axis,” he said with some feeling, “is completely and cruelly untrue. And I ought to know. To| accuse him is to insult the whole Jugoslav people. For he is their living symbol.” Mikhailovitch, the colonel went on, now has approximately 100,000 men under his command and can * count on another 350,000 when the moment comes to strike. The “moment,” he explained, would be when the allies are ready to invade southern Europe. To force a showdown with the occupational forces now when the advantages in men and material are all on their side obviously would be poor tactics. The second movement has come to be known as the “partisans.” Its army is officered largely by communists and operates in western Bosnia and Slpvenia. Some of the leaders gained their experience under the Moscow-sponsored brigades in Spain and have the same backing now. : New “State” Set Up .
The partisans are said to have gone so far as to set up a new “state,” and this “state” has a “foreign office.” Moscow maintains an “ambassador” or liaison officer there, a man by the name of Ivan Lebedyev, formerly attached to the Soviet legation at Belgrade. The rank and file of the partisans are not all Communists. Probably not even a majority of them. What seems to be happening is . this: Though Mikhailovitch has never ceased to carry on against the axis, his’ policy, especially of late, has been to conserve his strength until the now inevitable day when the allies invade Europe and his efforts will really count. Meanwhile, many loyal Serbs, impatient to come to grips with the enemy, have gone over to the more active partisans. Louis Adamic, an American of Slovene birth, author jf “The Native’'s Return,” “My America” and other best sellers, takes a gloomy view of what all this may mean. Writing in this week's Saturday Evening Post, he warns that what is happening now in Yugoslavia
may be duplicated throughout a large part of the world.
Soviets Involved :
That the Soviet government fis deep in the situation, he says, hardly. needs to be underscored. The partisan ecommuniques from Jugoslavia are regularly incorporated as integral parts of the communiques of the high command of the Red army and are distributed to the Communist press everywhere. What, Mr. Adamic asks, is the Soviet’s game? Maybe, he sug-
gestes, it wants the Jugoslavs to|’
busy themselves. killing Germans, and killing them now, in order to keep as many divisions as. possible
away from the Russian front. Or}.
maybe the leaders of the Soviet third international want to get the dominant hand in Jugoslavia through the partisans. If so, he pursues, may not such developments engulf even France? Or Germany? Or the rest of Europe?
NEW AIR MACHINE GUN 1S NOISELESS
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (U. P.). —Army, navy and marine corps officers today studied results of tests on a new automatic, pneumatic machine gun designed to fire 12,000 rounds a minute. The gun was demonstrated by its inventor, W. B. Hale, chief engineer of the Dix Manufacturing Co. at Los Angeles. Hale said the gun fired bullets with compressed air, eliminating the
need for powder cartridges, shelll
casings and ejection mechanisms. Bullets are. poured into a hopper, he said, and fed into the firing chamber by vacuum. ; ‘He said discharges caused no flashes, loud reports or recoils because powder was not: used. The gun weighs less than 300 pounds and fires a bullet equivalent to the 50-caliber ammunition used by the army, Hale said.
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