Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 June 1943 — Page 4

USS KILL 900 NAZIS IN JABS|

jets Report No LargeScale Fighting During Past 24 Hours.

[OSCOW, June 24 (U. P.).—Red my patrols and artillery killed arly 900 enemy officers and men a series of jabs at German posins on the Orel, Smolensk, Beld, Staraya Russa and Leninfronts during the past 24 J the Soviets reported today. Russian artillery also was credited ith blowing up the headquarters an enemy batialion near Sevsk the Kursk salient, but nowhere any large-scale fighting annced by the Soviet high

special co unique reported t Soviet planes, pressing their nsive against German commutions, pounded the railroad tion of Pskov on the Rigalaraya Russa line and a number enemy airdromes Tuesday night.

Trains Left Burning

Large fires and explosions were observed by the fliers. Considerable umbers of parked aircraft were royed on the ground at the airmes and many trains were left rning at Pskov, where the entire tation area was left afire. ‘On the Smolensk front, a. Rusn scout detachment rushed Gerpan trenches after artillery prepaation. Nearly 100 of the enemy eg killed and the Russians brought back to their own lines a nber of prisoners and important ormation about the German defenses. Nearly 400 other axis troops } this front were killed during mittent exchanges of artillery, mortar and machine-gun fire.

Press Past Belgorod

Another 200 Germans were killed n a successful Soviet raid on enemy fenses west of Belgorod, nozth of fharkov, while Russian detachnts at Leningrad were credited with killing 180 axis troops and destroying 13 blockhouses and five outs. Soviet pilots shot down two: Gern planes northwest of Mtsensk and an enemy bomber was forced pwn: and its crew captured.

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(Continued from Page One) jaw, with all the force behind it which the allies can muster, would

be necessary. . With it, perhaps, in the fullness of time, a comparatively gentle tap will suffice. Aerial warfare can bruise, wound and cut open an eye but it can never deliver a knockout. Nasi Morale Suffers This opinion is given after carefully weighing all the evidence available in this little neutral observatory sandwiched between the two main axis powers.

been following with the closest attention the first results of Churchill's experiment. They have waded -|/through a mass of wishful thinking, prejudice, propaganda and counter-propaganda to extricate the facts upon which their opinion is based. , That German morale is suffering badly under the continuous allied air offensive and is giving the Nazi leaders cause for considerable anxiety is clear,

Explains Bolstering Campaign

This alone can explain the cam= paign going on inside Germany today to bolster up morale—a campaign which includes Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels’ present tour of the Ruhr, the recent Berlin sportpalast demonstration and the spate of pep articles flooding [the Nazi press these days. Recently the Nazi party organ, Voelkischer Beobachter, gave the keynote to this campaign when it admitted the “extreme difficulty”. of “bearing air raids passively” and suggested that the front line soldier was better off than the civilian sheltering in his cellar because his ability to fight to defend himself gave him relief from the tremendous physical and ‘nervous strain put upon him. The whole purpose of the Nazi internal propaganda today is to supply its bombed civilians with such means of relief. For Goebbels well enough that one innate German weakness is inability to bear suspense. The relief provided by the Nazi propagandists takes the form of working the German people into a frenzy: of hatred against allied bombers and simultaneously dangling in front of them promises of the most horrifying reprisals. From reports reaching here, it seems that this primitive method of restoring morale is having its effect. Thus, citing but one instance, a royal air force pilot recently, forced to land near Dusseldorf, was set upon by Nazi women and protected at the last minute by the police.

Fear Their Turn Next

There also seems no doubt that morale is: higher today in the bombed and. strafed districts than elsewhere in Germany. In many of those districts not vet visited by allied bombers, ‘people live}: in unholy fear that their turn is coming next. And their fears are not exactly allayed by stories told them by evacuees and travelers from the bombed regions. The Germans love to make the most of their air-raid experiences— a fact proved by warnings in the Nazi press against pessimists from bombed districts who “exaggerate

paint things blacker than they are.” One Nazi newspaper admitted the other day that bomb evacuees were telling their shelterers that German flak is inadequate, and that the towns of western Germany would not be able to stand the al-

lied offensive for long.

For weeks now, observers here have|

out of all proportion and always|‘

.Other, if small, indications of Nazi anxiety concerning the morale of the German. people may be seen

|in such facts as that loud speakers

have recently been installed in German air-raid shelters to brace the nerves of . those taking cover and that there is talk in Germany. today of replacing the gruesomesounding sirens by “more musical”

"I would, however, be a definite mistake to overestimate the effect of allied bombings on German morale. - There is no indication that this morale is cracking—at least not today.

Only Small Part Affected

The most one can safely say is that if Germany's defeat should one day be broughr about by internal collapse, the bombings will have played their part. Giving their reasons for such a cautious verdict, military experts here point out that only a comparatively small part of the German population is directly affected by the bombings. There are large parts, especially in the cast, where the greatest inconvenience to which the people are put is the forced taking of “insolent” refugees who, because they have lost everything, expect privileged treatment. The number of these refugees who doubtless are not the best “stimulators” of their shelters’ morale, is insignificant compared to the Reich's total population.

Evacuees’ Number 2 Million

According to well - informed sources here, German bomb evacuees to date number about 2,000,000, of whom close to half have been evacuated since last February—little more than 2 per cent of the German population. Another reason is the success, already mentioned, of the Nazi propagandists’ counter-measures. There is little doubt that the present hate

cues) GEN, MIKHAILOVITCH

SLIPS BY GERMANS

LONDON, June 24 (U. P.).—Naszi goldiers passed up a $500,000 prize when they walked in on Gen. Draja Mikhailovitch; Jugoslav guerrilla leader, in a wayside Montenegro inn but failed to recognize him in his peasant disguise, it was revealed today. Mikhailovitch’s “Intent escape was &| disclosed in reports from the guerrilla leader to officials of the Jugoslav refugee government. Meeting in the inn with six of his band leaders, also garbed as peasants, Mikhailovitch submitted to a check of his papers, The axis soldiers left satisfied the men were not guerrillas. After dark the seven escaped to Serbia hideaway:. Mikhailovitch, who has a half million dollar price ‘on his head offered by Germany for his capture, led the fighting in Montenegro for five weeks while axis troops tried to clear out that center of guerrilla resistance. He was reported carrying on an offensive to cut up axis defenses against a possible allied invasion.

BUILD LANDING MATS LOGANSPORT, June 2¢ (U, P). —Cmdr. Morton Seligman of the Bunker Hill naval air station said today that work on the two $300,-| 000 permanent landing mats for auxiliary landing fields would begin next week. He said that these were

the first of such to be built in this part of the country.

Eyes of World Watch as Allies Conduct Air Knockout Test of the Ruhr Valley

and reprisals. campaign is checking the downward curve of morale, It must also be remembered that in a totalitarian country, state of mind ‘is not synonymous with the general attitude. However badly the Germans say they take the bombings, they know too well that if they want to live they must obey their leaders.

and Robert Ley (head of the labor front) have made this clear enough, during recent weeks, Even in Italy, where the people are far less disciplined, the Italians know the dangers of too opefy criticism.

Advocates of aerial warfare may argue that the allies have not yet done enough to bring about the moral collapse of Ge They may point out that it all the towns in Germany were systematically bombed, if all vital industrial centers were hit, and if, as in France’ in 1940, 15,000,000 German refugees were thronging the roads in a desperate search for shelter, then the German home front would probably collapse.

Say Idea Isn't Feasible

Theoretically, such arguments are hard to refute. But to put them to a test, not one but 50 or 60 important German and Italian centers would have to be bombed nightly, regardless of the cost in allied planes and crews. Is this feasible in the present circumstances? - Military experts here say no— not so long as airdromes of departure are so far distant from. targets as they are today. . It is possible that when halt! ! of this continent is cecupied by the allies, the death blow to Nazi Germany could. be dealt from the air by bombers with fighter escorts taking off from continental airdromes. But then the war will be approaching its end, anyway.

Women Soon fo Outnumber Men

NEW YORK, June 24 (U. P), ~Women will be in the majority in the United States some time this year, ending a long-standing “male dynasty,” Frank R. Wilson, assistant to Secretary of Commerce Jesse Jones, told a wartime conference of the Special Libraries association here. “Some time this year, regardless of our war casualties, this nation will pass from its traditional role as a ‘youthful’ nation and become one of the so-called ‘elder’ nations,” he said. He said a youthful nation is one + in which men: exceed women. . “Despite the: fact that nature provides approximately 106 Banjos to, each: 100 fe ing of ‘the

the ‘greater vulnerability of the life is about to’ bring an end to’

he said. - He said there will he a female ‘majority - of 100,000 every. year and that these women, denied an opportunity to marry, will assume new roles. in business. # SEEK AID OF JEWS BERN, June 24 (U, P.).—Jews and paroled prisoners will’ be among the 7,000,000 Italian men and women mobilized for war work by July 1, it

was learned today.

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