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By LOUIS F.,KEEMLE United Press War Analyst | Marshal Erwin Rominel’s failure to break through |the allied lines in central Tunisia tends to confirm what allied military authorities have contended all 'along—that the axis in pinned down in Tunisia and faces slow but sure extermination. | Rommel made a bold bid to cut across to the American base at Tebessa in Algeria and separate

e British first army in the north from the Americans in the, center. He almost succeeded. Had he done so, he would have improved his sition greatly and prolonged the struggle in North Africa perhaps

r months, Delay was undoubtedly sole objective, since he could ot hope for complete victory over e British, American and French rces hemming him in. Rommel threw his best troops and nks, including the hardened 21st anzer division, into the action, The Americans, meeting their first test in this type of warfare, came through after early reverses caused by the weight of the assault against thinly-held outer lines. Rommel seems so far to have been able to match the allies in tanks and artillery, but is handicapped by inferior air power. : It may be that having failed in this audacious maneuver, Rommel will be obliged from now on to re-

main strictly on the defensive, as

Afrika Korps was in Libya, ince the start of the British drive t El Alamein. Rommel hit at the weakest point f the- allied line and failed to crack it. He gambled successfully

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on being able to hold back the British eighth army at the Mareth line during the progress of the operation. Now it appears likely that he will have to pull in and consolidate his forces along the coastal strip, probably from Sfax, or even Sousse, northward to Bizerte. That would necessitate a withdrawal from the Mareth line and all southern Tunisia.

U. S. TANKS USED ON RUSSIAN FRONT

STOCKHOLM, Feb”25 (U.P.).— A Berlin dispatch said today that

the first Soviet armored units using American tanks exclusively had gone into action on the central front in Russia. Twenty American-made tanks across the MoscowSmolensk highway” somewhere west of the Russian capital, a Berlin report of the STB news agency said. The report "possibly indicated a new Red army offensive. There have been numerous reports of heavy fighting on the central and northern fronts, so far lacking confirmation from Moscow.

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FINLAND AWAITS RUSSIAN TERMS

Any Reasonable Offer Under Atlantic Charter Would Be Taken.

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—The test of the united nations’ grand alliance and the Atlantic charter is at hand. It can be said with considerable assurance that Finland is ready to discuss peace terms with the allies on a reasonable basis. London reports that Finland already has informed Russia of her willingness to discuss peace terms. The only question seems to be: Will she be made a reasonable offer? Next Monday President Risto Ryti begins his second term. He will have a somewhat rejiggered cabinet. Foreign Minister Rolf J. Witting, who has’ been. criticized as pro-Nazi, will almost certainly go. The result will be a government more inclined toward the allies and an early truce or peace.

‘Private War,” Finns Say

In any event, Finland's position is already pretty clear. She has stated that the cardinal principle of her policy is that she is waging her own private war, the aim of which is solely to safeguard her security as a democratic state and her right to independence. There is good reason to believe that if the united nations will find a formula which will assure the new Ryti government that the Atlantic Charter means what it says, and will honestly apply it in the case of Finland, peace with Russia and Great Britain is assured. If a way could be found to de this, one United Press Stockholm dispatch said this morning, “the whole Finno-Russian problem could be settled within a week.”

Might Give Up Land There are signs that Finland, for

fications to the advantage of the Soviet Union. These would have to be limited, for the simple reason that Finland is so small, and her national economy is circumscribed, that too deep a cut in any direction would spell dismemberment and death. She is smaller than Cali-

4,000,000. When Russia attacked Finland in November, 1939, it was explained that Moscow feared some stronger

power might use Finland as a base of attack against the Soviet Union. Presumably in line with this reasoning, the peace of March, 1940, required Finland to cede some 16,000 square miles of territory, mostly in the area between Leningrad . and Viipuri. This territory Finland has now regained, together with some advance bases in Russian Karelia. But the relationship between Russia and Finland presumably has now undergone a drastic change. And the same should be true with regard to Russia and the whole of eastern Europe. The allied war aim is to smash Germany irretrievably and to keep her powerless to harm her neighbors from now on. Thus whatever danger Russia may have felt from the direction of Finland —or from the three Baltic republics, or Poland—that fear will soon be a thing of the past,

Small Ground for Russian Fears

Peace with Finland, therefore, should present no insurmountable obstacles. The 3,863,753 Finns are hardly going to attack the 192,695,710 citizens of the Soviet Union. Nor are the 10 milion Swedes and Norwegians, the six million Latvians, Estonians and Lithuanians, nor all of them combined. Whether or not the plans of the allies mature entirely as expected, once Germany and’ Japan are destroyed, gigantic Russia will have nothing to fear anywhere in the world.

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1st Cigar in Week

LONDON, Feb. 25 (U. P.).—The condition of Prime Minister Wins-' ton Churchill, who is recovering from pneumonia, is continuing to improve, it was learned today. He had a “good night,” formants said. : Churchill smoked his first cigar

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bed about a week ago. Friends said he appeared in boisterous spirits. The disclosure that Churchill was suffering’ from pneumonia. rather than just a cold and inflammation of a lung as first reported gave impetus today to rising demands that he appoint a small war cabinet which could take over direction of the war in his absence or illness.

TAX ADJUSTMENT BILL IS IN SENATE

A bill designed to promote smaller budgets for Marion county by eliminating all public office holders from the county tax adjustment board went to the senate today after passing the house, 75 to 10. Only taxpayers who hold no public office and who are not personally interested in the county budget would be permitted to serve on the tax adjustment board under the bill’s provisions. Members would be selected by the circuit judge and the five superior court judges in the county. Present members of the board include representatives of the mayor, the school commissioners and the county council and, according to Rep. Earl Teckemeyer (R. Indianapolis), co-author of the measure, have too close a personal connection with county budget operations to be regarded as serving strictly in the interest of economy,

URGES . END OF QUOTAS WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 (U. PJ). —Senator Walter F. George '(D. Ga.) -asked Secretary of Agriculture

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Munda and Rabaul Seem Next Strategic Targets

From Solomons.

By GEORGE JONES United Press Staff Correspondent

AT AN ADVANCED SOUTH PACIFIC BASE, Feb. 17—(Delayed)— Guadalcanal’s fall and the “major” sea battle that was never fought point to a new Amgrican offensive in the South Pacific—against Japanese bases to the north and northwest. ; The strategic initiative has passed from the enemy to American forces under Admiral William F. Halsey, who only last month declared “the initiative is ours” and predicted the

defeat of all the axis powers thiy

year. .. No .one knows where the next blow will fall, but our South Pacific offensive, beginning with Guadalcanal, is designed to build a fence against further enemy advances and to secure communications ‘with the Western Pacific.

Rabaul Believed Key

Competent naval observers believe this fence can never be fully secure until the fall of Rabaul, on New Britain island, which is the keystone of enemy sea and air power in the South Pacific.

‘Henderson field on Guadalcanal| will be used as a springboard for,

air, attack in our next offensive. Flying fortresses based at Henderson in the past have bombed Rabaul and can do it again. Other flying fortresses from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Australian and New Guinea bases- bomb it almost every night. During , the past few weeks Admiral Halsen’s attention has been centered closer to Guadalcanal than

Rabaul, however—on Munda, Short-|

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ideologically, much like Britain’s Labor party. Only this week Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles publicly expressed the hope that she would soon withdraw from the war. But it is hardly that simple. It takes only one country to. make a war but two to make peace. ‘If Finland were offered a peace based on the Atlantic charter, not to mention the Four Freedoms, I

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