Show T t t 5alt irribunt 1943 t War Minister - Hints Early Perils Flank Sti iiison Denies U S Uses Allied Drive O f Desert Fox! G reen Assures Commons in Tunisia Allies' Surge Zire 1 Cnkc 41 3 Friday Morning February 26 British Produce 'Minor Ailment Confines U S Tires Made of Cotton Leather Chief to Room - I Troops German Marshal Overreached Self i n Tunisia an—e t By Associated Press WASHINGTON Feb 25 : Scouting- any idea that Amen- can t r o o p s in Tunisia were "green" Secretary of War Stim- son said Thursday the forces repulsed German veterans were inexperienced in one sense only — actual combat with an enemy in a fight That he said was the one thing that could not be imitated on the training field In every other respect the Americans went into battle as carefully pre- pared as thorough and painstak- ing training could make them The result he told a press was that they re- acted magnificently under fire and hurled back the thrusts of German Marshal Erwin Rom- mel's forces in a vigorous coun- terattack which the battle-har- dened veterans of the Desert Fox could not match men know Stimson that there is no sub- stitute on the training field for real battle experience but "there are no soldiers in any army who - Interpretative (Opinion) ch al-re- ce col-illita- ry Has-remark- up-'h- ed goes abroad" and was made as Grigg introduced a new army appropriations bill "Our Canadian comrades have made many friends amongst us the war minister said "but they have been irked at the fact their chance of engaging themselves in bulk against the enemy has been so long in coming "We trust that they will not have to wait much longer land when their chance does come we know they will acquit themselves doughtily an d that the mother country as well as the cause of civilization generally will have abundant reason to be grateful to -- Allies Launch Squeeze on Axis in Africa et four-motore- WASHINGTON Feb White House 25 (UP) reported Thursday that President Roosevelt is suffering from "a little intestinal upset" that will force him to remain quiet for a few days but that the ailment is not regarded as serious Mr Roosevelt confined to his residential quarters has canceled all engagements and will not receive any callers until his condi— The plained tion shows some improvement The illness prevented Mr Roosevelt from personally receiving the grand cross of the holy supulchre oldest decoration of Christianity which was bestowed upon him by the Greek Orthodox church by Beaititude Timotheos Greek patriarch of Jerusalem It was accepted on the presiExclusive New York Times-Sa- lt dent's behalf by his military aide Lake Tribune Major General Edwin M Watson LONDON Feb 25 German who received a delegation of bread is now wheatless As of Greek churchmen headed by ArchAnthenagoras of the Greek February 1 it was learned Thurs- bishop Orthodox churcn of North and day from the ministry of economic South America warfare the standard formula for the "staff of life" in the third LONDON Feb 25 reich Is 75 per cent rye flour and Minister Winston Churchill Thursthe remainder largely barley meal day night appeared to be winning fight with pneumonia which with a variable infusion of ground his has confined him to his bed for potatoes The previous composi- more than a week An official bulletin issued by attion was 45 per cent rye flour 32 physicians said Churchill's tending 20 cent cent flour wheat per per "condition continues to improve!' 3 cent flour and barley per ground Nazis Remove All Wheat From Bread (UP)--Prim- r I 4-- H 1 - '' I- ' k 'k Ji4 4 -- '''1 t I 1: I ' 7 1 : '('' - t: X: f:' :‘ 'lc 5t10: '' 4t::4:?'' r 1 - ' 4 $42: 1 ''t ' V----- - 1''t :- I 4 :4?r:-- -' if ' :1r '' '4- - ' 104'''' t - -- "1- - It e ' 411 -- 4 '4 r - - A ' s 4 Nb) - 4 - os '" — 4 4 - Isl: 1 va-- - I i Y!q ! 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since the bomber's discomfort than anything else the door stayed open the entire trip said He couldn't afford Captain from Wichita Kan to leave controls enough Captain Hampson from Bloom- to close ittheThe army long public relafield N J related that he ordered tions office said bomber with his men to jump when ice steadily its ten men was onthe a routine trainforced the ship downward from an flight from Clovis N NI to altitude of 7000 feet He was pre- ing Sioux City Iowa when Captain to paring jump himself after all Hampson the order near the others had cleared when bet- Wichita to gave bail out ter weather was encountered Captain Harnpson said one man The pilot said he decided to fight could handle the plane "all right out and after an hour the ice it but he's got to watch his business started clearing the ship From He can't go close a door" then on into Amarillo the flight His base at Clovis transferred a was uneventful he added partial crew to Amarillo Thursday afternoon and the captain took off in the bomber again Roosevelt Suffers Intestinal Upset LONDON Feb 25 UM—Cotton and feather tires for bicycles —and possibly for automobiles —are the latest in substitutes in LONDON Feb 25 UPI — War Minister Sir James Grigg told the house of commons Thursday he trusted that Lieutenant General A G L Mc Naughton's Canadian troops "will not have to wait much longer" before hurling th eir massed might against the enemy and also mentioned army reforms intended to speed the day of attack This hint of forthcoming allied action was balanced with illustrations of the enormous allied supply problems involved when "the army Kirke L Simpson Aasociated Feature Writer Just how badly the bold risky and aU but successful axis surprise cffensive in central Tunisia has backfired to precipitate a crisis d ?:r its authors instead of their oppcnents it sti:1 is too early to say But prompt allied counter-conferenittacks under the mightiest air r7lbre::a the war anywhere in Africa has witnessed suggests hat Eommel may have brought upon hirnself the very danger he to avoid irught own H1 waistline flank is now His shattered entargered innns reeling backward from -ne gap toward the coast may ret be able to protect it Oa erplayed Hand Had the nazi desert fox been content merely to expand his es cape corridor along the coast If any complete American combat ArenvIng allied air power the use division is yet at the front it must advance have been rushed up to meet the ireproviaeri close-u- p tases frern which to harrass that Rommel threat route his position imleave In been materially Morocco weeld Still He could have halted on prove-Most of Eisenhower's American e a tefensive Lre to await the troops his ground cf presumably are still inerendrg clash with (Continued From Page One) the Eritsh E:ghth army with in French Morocco training for reascrab:e hcpe if it went against action and also watching Spanish salient of some c' p—neg out to the north Morocco against any Hitler march been wiped out eight miles had through his widened coastal corThe allied air arm which had zndor had he hated his central off- into continental Spain The Spanfallen upon Rommel with crushena-ive be cannot to Africa door side ish through Fad pass just in the retreat from the force ing dewestward cf that strong barrier in allied troop ignored wholly of Thala through the Hasvicinity Even before he crashed on serine remained in strong action ployments to menace Kasserine gap threugh Rommel's backfired offensive running Rommel's casualties and Tenassa and the Thala junction of n lines Rom- may have changed allied strategic losses in equipment to high the rnel had definitely proved that plans in Tunisia materially It may figures Rommel's rearward bases and there was no Pubstantial allied have resulted in an AmericanBriti- transport likewise were under atreking power mobilized in the sh-French defensive concencontinuing attack central area The allied Faid pass tration in the center that could be- heavy The allied ancommunique and Makassy threats to his flank come a offensive move nounced that main airtht axis major in fact air threats only arfield of El Aoulna in Tunis the With his shattered first-lin- e Arnricari troops were no in suf- mored divisions on the run Rom- southern terminus for the axis air fictent force there for strong mel's ability to stem anywhere an ferry route from Sicily and Italy rreund operations immediate allied push aimed at had been heavily hit Many heavy It new seems unquestionable cutting his army apart to the axis planes and several fighters the a:lied pan of battle did that before he caught aground were sprayed with disengage rr-- t cf)nternplate flanking opera-1-steel Bombs smashed the airfield Mareth tons t in the center except by air 'ward is questionable buildings setting off big fires be keyed to synchronized I' Twenty-fiv- e to 30 fightr7tcracker sTieezes by the British! ers rose to challenge enemy the raiders Seven Messerschmitts were shot Eghth army in the south and the ilIt's :Mystery to IIim Br:tsh First army in the north down as was FREDERICKSBURG Va Feb this and othera transport plane In It is to be essumed that the sweeps axis planes 25 B 1131—James of Spot- were lost American army role in initial Eley word rnases of the fight for the Tuni- sylvanig county received It was that French san tp was intended to be limited - from his draft board that he had bombers haddisclosed gone into action for name his How been classified and Air power artillery other spethe first time in theater els: unIts vere made available to got on the selective service list flown by a veteran this unit of the belp Ertish armies and the French was a mystery He is 87 regular French air force Pz-es- s I Canadians Won't Remain Idle Long learn as quickly andAave the s a m e resourcefulness as the American soldier" Air support of ground forces has been carried out with great skill and was a vital factor in the allied success against Rom-whimel Stimson said and the presoence of several units front the British 1' i r s t army was "ex-B- y tremely helpful" in throwing back the German northwestward thrust But the most significant fea- ture of the entire operation" he said "has been the fine reaction of our ground forces—tanks infantry and artillery—when faced by modern war against veteran troops "Not only were they not broken by the German advance but when called upon to counterattack they came back with a vigor whicb the Germans were unable to withstand" Heavy fighting still lies ahead along the entire Tunisian front the secretary said with proserpects favorable for G e n e r a I Dwight D Eisenhower's allied forces despite initial reverses Pilot Orders Crew to Jtuilp Rides Out Storm Alone '''-''- ' ' "' ' "' - -- — |