Show : '' ' ''-:::- L:C - ' 6 :f - - ' t - 6 - rz f — s ' f I 6 11 Sunday' Morning South Pacific Offensive May Jam Axis Pincers that vast country reach the By Constantine Brown WASHINGTON D C—The Mediterranean basin the Indian ocean and the south Pacific are likely to be the scenes of the most spectacular air and sea Indo-Chin- battles yet fought in this war nazi-Japane- 'Unless se the American-Australia- n forces in the south Pacific succeed by drastic steps in holding back the Japanese the much-fearesynchronized offensives of the two principal axis partners will be a fact d with the Japs launching their main attack on India and the nazis attempting to join hands with them through the near east ' It pro-Japane- se seems doubtful from avail- able reports that the Russians can prevent the Germans from reaching their objectives—the Caucasian oil fields the Caspian sea and Stalingrad The best the Russians can do is economize their forces and remain on the defensive until fresh war material arrives to enable their vast man power to start anew their fight against the enemy Hope lingers in some quarters that Marshal Semeon Timoshenko's forces will be able to stop the nazis short of their objecg tives but military experts do not seriously believe this will happen They hope for the best and fear the worst Nazi Plana Complete Nazi preparations for a campaign against the Suez canal and the near east are nearly complete Egypt's torrid temperatures are now subsiding somewhat The nazis have already begun to move large numbers of planes and important army units to Greece and the Islands of the Aegean and important reinforcements have 'reached Field Marshal Erwin Rommel The ports of the Black sea are humming with activity Although the Russian Black sea port of Novorossisk will unquestionably be heavily damaged by the time the Germans march In the nazis probably will be able to repair the worst parts of it within a few months Marshal Rommel has managed to get his reinforcements across the Mediterranean in spite of the determined attacks of the American and British air force and British cruisers and submarines Moreover it is expected that when "der tag" arrives the French government will not object to the nazis using French bases on both sides of the Mediterranean French Chief of Government Pierre Laval is pledged to a policy of collaboration with Berlin and would do anything in his power to please his nazi masters provided they let him keep his office Allies Are Worried It is not easy to determine how many men and how much war material and other vital sapplies the nazis have gotten aereers the ::lediterranean but ali'ed ritary men are worried The reinforcements which the united nations are sending the new commander in chief General Sir Harold Alexander must travel 14000 miles before reach the Red sea while they the nazis are only a few hundred miles from the future theater of - I ' ' ii- 4 - 1 1 fftr----: -- — f - tp -- i - 'd P- l'!! V-- ' ' 1 ' ' IciiI11r'' t 1 ( 4111114-:- ' 4 ) ' 'b---- ( 4i1 i ' -- : -N N j- ' ''' 4'' — A :latii) '4) ''' ‘ -t) ' planes are being ferried across But it is doubted every day that Marshal Rommel's army will be used as a single steamroller as was the case a few weeks ago The nazis probably will allow theft— desert general to open the attack while other drives develop against Syria and Turkey where the allies are less well supplied with modern war equipment The near east is regarded in Washington as the paramount front in the entire east Nei ef- fort is being spared to make the nazis' task impossible but dis! tances are against us The actual strength of the united nations in that area is not known however and may be greater than most people imagine Problem in India While everything humanly possible is being done now to defend the near east an equally i expected in the Indian ocean The monsoon rains will end sometime early next month Before our reconquest of the Solomon islands the Japanese had been sending large reinforcements to Burma where now have an imposing forcethey at the gates of India Planes tanks and men have been gathered in that area ever since the British defense collapsed in Burma The political situation in India plays into their hands Few reports of what is going on in 1 ' 01Av‘y ‘'4 - 1 : e ? i 1 41' i k f ' t: ! 1a:: 1 ! 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Louis M Beekstead from Victorville Cal where Lieu- - 1 I 3 Midshipman Nisitin g his parents Mr and tenant Jensen 4s a member of the air corps Lieutenant Jensen is a gainomosionmigloonsiommennowassup insommommomommtermannourk-7? - !l4g4pill:" 'k'Vikrit'r04101' s"' ''' - '1 son of Mr and Mrs Jed L Jensen 1 111 of 1401 Princeton avenue Mrs 1 1 4 !i ' Jensen the former Tessie Bart''' Mt et lett is a daughter of Mr and Mrs 1 2144 Ilb EAST i i!' i Al DRIVE OUT 1i 4 E D Bartlett of 1142 Ninth East 1 zISUGAR I HOUSE ':"'''''11015 — 4Er SAVE 07 street k -'RI wifgtork: t 1860100" Sergeant William Bonner Black ‘wWWqormeviiol son of Mr arid Mrs W of 419 East Second South street arrived Saturday for a visit with r his parents He is on leave from March field Cal where he is an army radio operator Richard Leonard Hunt apprentice seaman and son of Mrs lone Hunt of 131 West Third North cits street will leave Monday to return to active duty with the navy 4: Sergeant Fred W Fairclough h son of Mr and Mrs John A 1 of 2804 South State street e(1- arrived here Saturday from his 1:11' dr (1 i eS'I'L1711(7" (1:1 ci ti 1°- The Last Word In the News Four Salt Lake men now in the nation's armed services and one midshipman from the United States naval academy were visiting-here Saturday while on leave from their respective duties Second Lieutenant D LaMar Jensen and Mrs Jensen arrived post at Colorado Springs Col o love C I - 1! ' t 1 0-- -- -1 4 ik f - -- -' --- fl L4 nt At le L1 t lIA'n t "tv - - 1 4 1 t e i - -- i c14:' I 0- ) hi i 4:) ts lio 016 vikoe ' z i - '' it' r 1 4 4:i - z11 4t lilt - tt ' toruj '461 le '4 P 4 ANit ' p '7 1 I i il 1' v) ot A - : ' rOgfal - alA 1i Briefly in Salt Lake 0"'77:::'-''''"- ) n °-I- o-- 11 id - I - - ''''' f vezx:71 r''''' ct 4 - 4Atteeei rie' 2t '11 - At ft --- t '' '41 I - t f 4 - r'''4--- f ' --- 7" 71 -zi E R Beckstead of 172 L street while on furlough from naval academy at Annapolis Mrs Tive Men in Service Visit recover from the initial Japanese blows at Pearl Harbor and 'in the Pacific The Japanese general staff lacked the necessary shipping at a time when the Australians were almost defenseless The situation has changed since then Between January and May we reinforced the commonwealth making it relatively safe against Jap invasion Since July American naval air and military forces have been increased in such numbers that we were able to begin an offensive which may have compelled the Japanese to abandon plans for immediate attack On Siberia If the speed at which we are strengthening our forces in the south Pacific is maintained there is every reason to believe that within the next few weeks American-Australia- n forces will be in position to pound the defenses of the islands the Japanese occupied between last December and June of this yearP No one in Washington is disposed to minimize the military qualities of the Jap high command and its fighting men But giving full credit for these qualities our experiences in three major encounters—Coral sea Midway and Solomon islands— encourage us to believe that we can successfully tackle the Japanese anywhere t 1 -- i I i- operations The danger to Egypt is not tmderestimated neither is the Importance of retaining possession of that territory regardless of the price The allies will spare no effort to prevent Marshal Rommel from advancing farther and the test of whether powerful aviation can really check the progress of an army supported only by aviation will be applied We already have a powerful air force in that area and more ss - (d7 : Japan and the south Pacific It took us several month's to - - ' -- 4 - ' P t be-'ca- 4 - 1kwz---- 7 4 Augut 30 ICti i c- 1111r24111111111111' high-rankin- nazi-controll- out- side world but it appears that the civil disobedience movement led by Mohandas K Gandhi is progressing Censorship is stringent and news gatherers cannot be everywhere through the length and breadth of that land For the moment there does not appear to be any prospect of an understanding between the British and the Indian nationalists The Indians charge that vested British interests have obstructed whatever good intentions the British government might have had The British government accuses the Indian nationalist leaders of being and of defrankly into obtain immediate siring dependence in order to open the gates to the Japanese The exchange of recrimina when the offensive in those areas begins probably within the next few weeks 1 a the they "liberated" Netherlands Indies and Burma The only solution for the problem seems to lie in the chance that the British will have such a strong force in India as to crush any insurrection by the Indians and defeat any to break effort Japanese through the British defenses It is doubtful whether the British have such a force at their disposal Fear of possible nazi invasion of the British Isles has compelled the British government to keep at home a large majority of its fully trained forces The desire to open up a second aerial front in Europe also compels the British high command to maintain a large air force in the isles U S Force Present Since the British do not have facilities for producing an unlimited number of planes and since the bulk of the best trained forces has had to be kept in England—not more than 25 per cent have been sent to the near east —the assumption is that American-British forces in the In Hitler Poises for Near East Drive As slaps Threaten India 'MacArthur Ghorm ley Peril Plans gakr Ctribunr dian peninsula are not sufficiently strong to deal with both a heavy Japanese attack and a possible insurrection The picture would be ugly indeed if it were not for the presence of an Imposing American force in the south Pacific The Japanese Co not possess the same facilities as their nazi allies for moving troops and war material to theaters of operation as much as 5000 miles away from their main bases So long as united nations forces were on the defensive occasionally raiding a Japanese convoy Emperor Hirohito's fighters had everything their own way If however the allies continue their offensive which began in the Solomon islands the position of the Japs will deteriorate rapidly After the first news of the success of the allied forces in the south Pacific known one member of the Pacific war council said the solution of the Indian problem is now in the hands of General Douglas MacArthur and Vice Admiral Robert Lee Ghormley Leading naval and military strategists in the United States have maintained for many months that the Japanese with their extended communication lines and limited raw materials are vulnerable if a determined offensive should be conducted against shipping lanes between tions is not very important in Itself What is important however is that the Japanese are smiling over the situation and no one will be surprised if within the next few weeks the Japanese issue a manifesto telling the Indian people that they are coming to "liberate" them as t I- - 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