Show 910 Friday Morning -- At Zero Hour Nears in Libya Bcr new ‘nnetit aj some o! )re than 'Ped for a wfflbe I p waj in which ’ equal To have t have office of on one major offensive operations ifrorjt let alone two fhe security of that Balkan nt oil supply and its prompt move-imeto feed nazi planes and agency r labor’a informed hbe first essentials of German j strategy It will be all the more vital if a new and more massive ’ attack on England by air sea and land is brewing as London "con-- a means assuring e on the 'S rights izes that ion that achieved believes Reverse Menace Reich Italian reverses at the hands of the Greeks and the British have added greatly to the menace to Germany in the Balkans They have shattered for Russia and Turkey as well as for others the myth of axis military Invincibility so far as Italy yet ibor As lead of a uld have out or of i duty of on In a de-- his own ance and an active t Social not with a ns but :ed under lion wat rms were 'gle gulp re lnsup-va- r Also vigorous Blit the h labor’s ot mobil- - sation of eaders of ar effort s of labor ne meth-o- f their aws and s would even op- - ere being ilace as a d govern-he- Hillman or id de-- ! between too good I defense east two But beyond this expansive speculation nobody in Budapest Thursday night appeared to know what was in the wind Score of Trains hour for a concerted attack of British infantry and mechanized units n Bardia (1) appeared close Thursday following a long artillery siege of the African base West of Gallabat (2) on the frontier the British reported heavy casualties inflicted on the Italians early this week The British Tighten British Double Net About Guards Coast Port of Bardia on-Chann- (Continued From Page One) into the Throughout the night and day ale open British guns constantly being reto Russian attack by land and inforced are pouring endless fire air from the east into Italian positions — a siege Russo-axfriction over cont- that the continued all day Christmas rol of Rumania’s Danube delta increases German difficulties in Occasional Clashes planning adequate protection for Occasionally there were infantry vital Rumanian oil It seems more between light British engagements rational to regard nazi troop conand Italian outposts in the patrols centrations in Rumania as for defense purposes than to assume The British guns forming a semithat they portend a German circle around Bardia are of every march eastward against Turkey caliber from light field artillery or an armed clash with Russia to heavy naval rifles The sun shone brlghftlyJThursday May Seek to Awe but a winter wind blows across i German invasion of either Bulsands at night and to strike the chilled garia or Yugoslavia in the outposts “Tommies” British against the Greeks would precipitare compelled to bundle themselves ate a war of imponderaagainst ble proportions It may be that in blankets and balaklavas which cuts to the Berlin’s purpose in massing' such the desert wind bone heavy forces in Rumania is to Wednesday I passed up the line awe Russia Baland the Turkey of the kan neutrals while she comes to to the frontal positions of Bardia through dust that siege with grips England in the west shimmered in 'the sunlight and As a precaution preliminary for the coastal road that leads an attack in the west strong along to Bardia I saw what seemed to be reinforcements of the German endless columns of tanks fresh’ “protective” army in Rumania troops and guns They moved along would seem logical If there is the e desert tracks and Russo-axis a of actually danger break of Turkish intervention as roads hastening to get into place before the order is given for the British-Gree- k ’ ally or of’ Brit-is- h final-atta- ck violation of Bulgarian neutrality to smash by air at Ru- Tea for Tommies manian oil targets the time for We stood beside a water well it wouid be later I Once Germany strikes all out and watched troops coming from the front lines before Bardia They ®t England if she does she will filled portable Italian water- - cisRequire all her resources on that terns and drove away with them “°nfe That “would be the nt down the Bardia for her open or secret foes on Italian trucks to keep the front line men 11 the east to seize opportunity road supplied with tea and start battering at her Balkan Once in a --while Italian field It may be that Hitler put down a barrage over artillery is preparing against that possithe road 150 yards ahead Of us bility It seemed to perturb the troops not at all As soon as the dust clouds lifted the Tommies were seen going about their tasks as if sheltfjre were ' commonplace in is 1 nt half-mad- but his itomobile ltogether iLRB em Steel “on the irmy mo-hne- act from back-do- t or Judgment Ends Says 22-YcaiSu- iL 22-ye- ar quantity a d f any second a No najvfw" quickly a i time-- a couple it tough' esn’t It pping-- — t grease :k before during the night Spoil Italian Parade ( "Our patrols pushed forward and lining up for caught paraded one said We wified them out We had a few casualties” ability in 1918 As the day wore on the sun grew ! He claimed permanent disabil-7a"- d hotter and the chill desert wind carried his fight into the died down Artillery strafing conmted States district court at tinued filling the air jvith dull in 1929 when he rumbles Time and again- - the bat- ’fiILFrancis j sealinf You poison 1 Your sl‘P jonful o doesnt-b- l Sheffield-Eng-hnm- has been severely e deadly an't ” Dec 26 (INS)— simple message “I am safe a® w®1” received from her n "S'nnd was the best s Present received by Tv?' jtiry O Ramsey she said ursday Ramsey Is the Ameri-COns- ul It’s th nice Jd t Gift of All CHIGAGO w him i e lev 17 several times Ram-S'- W their daughter Sonneba to this counfry last juiveturned 1 and no from "ad beeri received many Weeks Mrs has the Danube frozen o vieF andjjreyenteiLshlprnenis the Disposition of man hy water entire Gerforces in Rumania could not be learned Thursday A "limited number” of the German troops will be based in Bul- regarding reasons the for the move Authorized nazis in Berlin even denied that any extensive number of troops was beibg sent through Hungary to Rumania Can Only Laugh “It seems a typical occurrence during times ‘when news is slack that the utmost sensationalism should suddenly crop up" it was "We can only stated in Berlin laugh at such reports” A nuipber of possible explanations for the new Balkan development were given: 1 Reinforcement of Germany’s position in the Balkans by bringing indirect pressure on Turkey Bulgaria and Russia counter-invasio- n long-delay- in Libya If t' e invasion Indianapolis Asks Probe Into Death to come it will be fought largely with Brit-is- h weapons Sir Walter Layton of the ministry of supply emphaINDIANAPOLIS Dec 26 sized in an interview coroner’s investigation? was Won’t Come Until S ummer Thursday in the death of a He declared that the expected man identified from papers found e in his possession as Reinholdt von “avalanche” of United armaments would not reach Knesebeck 64 of Denver Colo here until the late summer pf former lead and zinc mine operator in the Joplin Mo field Dr Donald 1941 and that the apex of American production would not be Wood deputy coroner said death reached until the winter ofT941-4- 2 apparently was caused by some is 7 aiTenwrTOTffiattOJrBrstJC Italian fighters and bombers appeared for a second attack A and British fighter appeared poured bullets into ‘the bombers until smoke streamed from one Under an overwhelming disadvantage the fighter broke Off the combat and sped safely away Hit- German commander the front does not mean an Immediate Invade England sources said In chief at necessarily attempt to authorized LONDON Dec? 26 (AT—The 1350-ton- 1 British destroyer Acheron' called a “hush hush” vessel when she was built In 1930 because she was fitted with - extraordinarily boilers has been-nk- the admiralty annourfeed-Thursdnight a trial run the Acheron ei- - On Spanish Area Reports Light Earthquakes SEVILLE- - Spain Dec 26 (UP)— light earth tremor was felt here at 2 a m "Thursday principally in the San Julian Maqprena and Sam A Roque neighborhoods It was recalled that a similar phenomenon was registered here at Christmas time 40 years ago r high-pressu- re ay tablished a record of fuel economy' Her boiler pressure of 500 pounds per square Inch was said at the time to be 66 per cent greater than anything previously attained No details of the action were given nor was the date mentioned The lossjjf the Acheron brought to 36 thq ggregate number of British destroyer! officially acknhjwWcr to have been lost since’khe af started HtnffliWK In this connection it was learned that handbills pushed under the door of every house in Sofia had urged Bulgarians to follow the policies of soviet Russia and shun Germany promising that Russia then would "reward” Bulgaria PECIALS 80x80 couldn’t wait until A' SUPER avenf no wonder we of 20 to 75 on January! 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cases -- aqd $6000 shot down two AS-7- 9 bombers from Best that Information received from the (It was disclosed Thursday In Berlin that both Adolf Hitler and Denver welfare bureau aid Von Field' Marshal General Walther Knesebeck formerly was a patient in a convalescent home there The commander-in-chivon Brauchitsch of the German army were bureau’s records identified him as on the western front for Christ- the maker and loser of several fortunes in lead and zinc mining and mas their lives as thereputedfather of a tin Thenthwrqwngunswouldopen (Their presence d a thunderous chorus hammering 'sarily presage an immediate at daughter whose name he the Italians with a colossal hail tempt to invade England Ger- never had disclosed His birthplace was listed as Quito Ecuador “N The Tommies said there had mans added) - why scores German men Rumania were SOFIA Bulgaria Dec 26 UP— The Bulgarian government has Greece with the “acquainted “characierof Bulgaria’s territorial clhimv members of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee said Thursday night they had been inf orpjed by Foreign Minister Ivan Popoff They said that Popoff did not specify whether Greece was “acquainted” with the claims before or after the start pf the Italian war against Greece' and that he also did not state what further action if any tlie Bulgarian government intends to take Since--th- e World war Bulgaria has claimed an outlet to the Aegean sea through the Greek port of Dede Agach (Alexandroupolis) This claim haq been officially advanced by the government Individual political deputies parties and their leaders also from time ttf time have called publicly for parts of Greek Macedonia It was learned that during a meeting of the parliamentary foreign affairs committee some deputies called on Popoff to line$Bul-gari- a definitely with the Rome-Berli- n axis Members said that 'Popoff failed to reply but that he did promise to take "drastic action” against what- he called the communist activity” In "growinglww)m'nTnT here 'been considerable infantry action t hursday when 'Peter Manke of A Valley Nev was awarded compromise Judgment of $6000 Manke began his effort to collect l°th his war risk Insurance poliey on after he was' discharged from oe army with a certificate of dis- y an oil t take att- el (Continued From Page One) were searched and uniformed soldiers and sailors wpre required to present identification cards Nazis Get Time to Mass The Strait of Dover was calm One informant said that the absence of British aerial activity invasion over the continental ports had given the German staff 48 houra to assemble the troops material and planes for a great thrust if one was indeed in prospect For Britain the day was one Bombs— of an uneasy peace the first since early Monday morning — fell but once during the day on the Isle of Sheppey in the Thames estuary ThTis an unofficial Christmas truce was ended The government said there was little damage and no casualties Used Ruse Before Some informed persons here troop suggested that German movements reported in the Balkans had the objective of diverting British attention from the home front adding that the nazis used a similar strategem before falling upon Belgium and (he id-- RENO Nev (Ah — A empt to collect government ended in federal court - of trains carrying and materials into said to be returning to Germany loaded with oil now The gression draws Turkey Above all they jwar two-fro- would then of nazi bombers which oil fields come within reach concerned They have thrown on Germany the entire burden sitions until the order is given for of pressing the war against Britthe final assault ain and at the same time exposed The between the the Rumanian oil reservoir to actual or possible attack from British and the Italians Is less than 2000 yards wide in many three directions f The Rumanian fields are withiplaces It would be easy to wander n British air reach from Greece in between the lines because there and protected only by Bulgarian are no trenches and instead of and Yugoslavian neutrality They lare open to Turkish air attack digging In there are only small 'across the Black sea if nazi ag- - J earthworks for the outposts Is mking it i Iraq or resenta-Rh- iron wedge between Greece and Turkey war in the Balkan might be inevitable and Russia might be compelled to step in There was speculation Thursday night that coincident with direct aid to the Italians in Albania Germany might push across Yugoslavia t& Greece’s Aegean pent of Salonika— on the road to the rich vulnerable sector Jt guards her Rumanian oil resources Without that oil the whole naizi war Whatever effort would collapse may be in stor-- j reserve stock ge they could not long maintain serioui to If the Orman Viould strike down through Bulgaria to drive a em-nhas- ize neither arded aa a deterrent move measure designed to facili-a- n all-o- ut nazi attack on That Herr Hitler is Fneland fJL to engage now in two-frn- nt war if he can avoid it is doubt open to serious the the purpose Whatever troop movements eastward the fact that Germany’s back-dois her most Balkan “a labor From Page One) prevent any aoviet (Continued ce s ’Frontier District “Tn i Knox l 300000 Soldiers Kirks L Simpson1 Germany Is reported building huge army in Rumania yet Si view of all the circumstances Sis move may be a purely defen- full 1 Russians Concentrate By deeply Re-e- Dec " rue that n n onBritain Drive 7 for-Grecia- Presage May he piajj - December 27 1940 British Admit BulgairiaMakes Hitler Extends Visit to Unit £ In Balkans Demands Qn French Coastal Front Sinking of 7 BERLIN visited had their turned 'Marvel’ Lands Hitler Eye Nazi Move made a Christmas tour Ship on England Balkans Moves k Salt £ak £rlbtm Soviet Troops Keep Eye Qn Back Gate the t—— - ) KNOW NtfORsVA I U i -4 rV WintVand cocktail glasses to toast the New Year in! 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