Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 April 1943 — Page 5

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/ar Analysis By LOUIS F. KEEMLE = ; United Press War Analyst . tr The impending collapse of the axis delaying action

in Tunisia finds

invasion of Europe, to which the Africa campaign is

a prelude.

- The striking thing about Hitler's preparations is the vast scope of the threatened area he is trying to protect, from northern Norway .down the western and along the entire irregular north shore of the Mediterranean to the shores of the Aegean. Hitler's position is entirely reversed from the .earlier days of the

war. In all his conquests, he picked | the spot for attack, always a vulnerable one, and knocked over his ob-

_ Jectives one by one. =, Now the allies have made it plain ‘that Hitler is subject to attack at any point along the widespread European perimeter, and probably at several points at once. The result will be the first real test of the Wehmacht as a defensive rather than an offensive force. Rommel has done excellent, although futile, defensive work in Africa, but that in specialized

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Advances were made yesterday at most points along the 18th Army group front.

Sousse Ww: Ssterday morning and rol EE Sn 3

th Armies between the oust and French Ee Na ni to press jopward in the hills to ee gon at of The Ousseltia ee north on the ist Army front, admade in the Medjez El

were also Bab-Muncher: sector. | AIR |

On the night of April 11.13, strong _ forces of heavy and light bers of the tegic and ctical air forces atiacked e enemy airfield at St. Marie du Zit. ‘Direct hits were observed on Suldings and many fires were left burnin ames on this target ony on another y airfield in Tunisia were continued Jormastolis of B-25 Mitchells stons. Bombs burst among i: on the ground and more fires were started. Flying fortresses continued i Deavy aac on snemy | ports and shippin erchant vesse ne ved 3 ditecs hit ar Ty fires were started the dock area. At Trapani, one large was hit and bursts were observed ong concer.trations of bar oa, A very Targs fire Tesuited from dma, attack. Toi attacks, 2-3 iehtnings shot down four enemy aircraf Throughout Sesteraay, fighters of the tactical air force maintained sweeps over yard 3 down one

“righ hers of the coastal a force in the is off the Algerian coast Ey two enemy re 1t. From of these operations, two of our

Hitler busily preparing against the

desert fighting: which ‘will not be paralleled by conditions in Europe. Hitler has made much bluster about his defenses in western Europe, which his propagandists now describe as “impregnable” and as stronger than Germany's previ-} ous west wall. Nevertheless, it is an admission of defense psychology alien tojthe Nazi war book. It is| the same psychology which caused France to depend on the Maginot line, although the fall of France was due to factors not likely to

occur in Nazi Germany.

10 show that five more enemy aticratt rete Sesiroyed, making a total of 63 ay.

NAVY CO QUE 341

_ (Issued Monday, April 12) & an PACIFIC (all dates East longie 1. During the night ot April 10-11, Sitalms atrol bombers (Consolida ted PBY) bom! Japanese {nstallasions at Munda. on New Georgia island, star a small fire 2. On April 11: a 3 (a) In the early morning, Liberator

II Duce Meets the Boss Hf

Agrees to — South In Allied Invasion, Say Swiss.

reports said today that Germany has agreed to take over the defense of Sicily, Sardinia and the southern third of the Italian mainland against any allied invasion. The decision was reported to have

ive military, naval and political advisers. In addition, these sources said, Germany promised that all aniiaircraft guns and night fighter planes that can be spared will be

menaced points. The part of the Italian mainland

"| for which Germany will assume re-

sponsibility, Swiss ‘sources said, would comprise all territory south of a line running from Gaeta, 50 miles up the west coast from Naples to Foggia, near the Gulf of Manfredonia,

.. With Sardinia and Sicily, this would place some 40,000 square miles of Italian territory under]: German control, slightly more than |! than the area of Indiana.

rushed to southern Italy and other ENIVE Gat LP

Reports Admiral Balked Rommel Bs

heavy bolbets (Consolida B-24) attacked in the Shortland island area. Hits Ys made on the airfield Tinvay and adjacent ‘anti-aircraft posions,

(b) On the same morning, a force of Avenger torpedo bombers (Grumman TBF) carried out an attack on Munda. Fires and heavy explosions resulted.

NORTH PACIFIC:

3. Warhawk (Curtiss P-40) and Lightning (Lockheed P-38) fighters twice attacked Kiska during the afternoon of April 10. Results were not observed.

KIWANIANS TO HEAR PERFECT CIRCLE MAN

At their noon meeting tomorrow in the Columbia club Kiwanians will hear Harry B. Marsh, director of market research of the Perfect Circle Corp., Hagerstown. He will speak on “What Are Statistics and of

war cabinets, probably at Brenner Pass.

Mussolini, apparently thinning under the cares of state, greets Hitler at the recent meeting of the two, along with the German and Italian Gustave Siegfried Eins | dcast a

The German underground station]

(Picture, passed by cable report that Ge Marshal Erwi

censor, radioed from Stockholm, Sweden, to U. 8.)

Rommel, senior axis commander in

T0JO ASKS JAPANESE

By UNITED PRESS

officials that the government must increase production, a Tokyo broadcast said today.

0. E. 8. TO MEET

Beech Grove chapter, No. 465, O. : ; TO RAISE PRODUCTION | 5 in not» omeciing: tomiene| Bis disposal to evacuate as many in the Masonic temple, 619 Main st., Beech Grove. Mrs. Lorrain Premier Hideki Tojo told a meet- Te warty, ator, e

HARMONY CLUB TO MEET

The Women’s Democratic Har-|as Germans were evacuated, if new He warned of “painful hardships” mony club of Center outside pre-| German fighter squadrons were orahead and urged economy in con- cinct 2, will meet at 7:30 tonight|dered to Sicily to protect the evacsumption’ and changes in living to|at the home of Mrs, Mary Gigerich,|uation and if Germany shipped

=| Tunisia, discussed with an Italian . {admiral conditions under which the Italians would place 20 destroyers at

men as possible from North Africa. The Italian admiral was said to have expressed to com-

ing of Japanese governors and city Wilson, worthy patron a vi ply, but only if the entire Italian . ’ ’ ‘|air force was taken from Tunisia

before the general evacuation be- i

gan, If the same number of Italians

more guns to Sicily.

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