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Show Washington, D. C. GERMAN UNDERGROUND SEETHES According to uncensored dispatches dis-patches now reaching Washington, active guerrilla warfare is flaring up on a mounting scale behind the i German lines. I First real indication of an active Fifth column in Germany came recently re-cently with accurate reports of pitched battles inside Berlin, Bres-lau Bres-lau and Bremen. This new guerrilla warfare differs from that of partisan parti-san units inside France, Yugoslavia and Greece in that few of the guerrilla guer-rilla troops are Germans. The bulk are Frenchmen and Russians who were captured earlier In the war and have been used as slave labor In the reich. All of these workers were carefully guarded by Himmler until recently. Most lived In big cities and worked in large industrial in-dustrial plants. In Berlin for example, hundreds of thousands of slave laborers have been housed in fenced off temporary barracks In the heart of the city. But recent powerful allied air raids have created such chaos that thousands of foreign workers work-ers escaped from their enclosures en-closures and have hidden in the bomb ruins. At night, the guerrillas prowl the streets, capture Nazi sentries, steal food and ammunition, commit extensive ex-tensive sabotage. They have been joined by some German army deserters, de-serters, afraid to return to the front, advices say. " Once Berlin is taken it is expected that the several million slave laborers labor-ers will flare into such revolt that Germany except in the mountainous mountain-ous south will cave like an eggshell. egg-shell. OVER-AGE SERVICEMEN Greatest hardship on men In the army probably is with enlisted men over 38, now too old to become officers offi-cers but who can't resign as officers can. Typical case of how this hardship hard-ship works is that of Cpl. Alexander C. Sioris, age 45, who has served in the army three years, most of the time overseas. Corporal Sioris is not only a college graduate, but holds a doctor's degree. Twice he was recommended for officers' training school, but each time his unit moved overseas and' he had to sail with his unit. Now he is too old to be commissioned, too old for combat, com-bat, yet under present army rules must be kept on doing menial jobs. There are thousands- of similar cases. What the army needs is a good overhauling of its manpower, especially older men who have been in the army a long time. NEW MANPOWER PROGRAM War Manpower Commission Director Paul McNutt may put a new program into effect very soon in all light labor areas. This would limit employers in nonessential non-essential or less essential Industries Indus-tries to a certain percentage of the number of workers they employed em-ployed last year. This ceiling-employee program has already been tried out in Chicago and proven successful. Chicago employers in nonessential non-essential and less essential industries in-dustries will be required to out the number of employees on the payroll 10 per cent by March 15. SECRET RED WEAPONS The Russians are way ahead of both the United States and Great Britain in the use of rocket guns, have employed them with devastating devas-tating effect in the lightning drive through Poland, and particularly in the offensive against the Nazis in East Prussia. ' One new and very important weapon which Stalin unveiled in the new drive is the 100-ton tank named after himself. The Stalin tank is superior to the German royal tiger tank, and our own Sherman heavy tank. It carries a 4.8-inch gun as against the 3-inch gun carried on our Sherman. So long as the ground remains re-mains hard, the Stalin tank is capable capa-ble of resisting any but the largest point-blank German shells. On the other hand, the mobile gun on the Stalin tank can pierce most of the German secondary fortifications so far encountered by the Russians, it is said. WAR NOTES ft Germans are already trying to escape from the threatened Nazi homeland. Reports from Lisbon, Madrid, Stockholm and Berne reveal re-veal hundreds of Germans trying to crash the frontier to get out of Germany Ger-many before the Allies take over. ftFDR still hasn't decided who he will name as high commissioner of the Philippines. WMC Director Paul McNutt and Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy both are ready to go. If Murphy lakes it, Roosevelt will nominate Judge Sam Rosen-man Rosen-man to the Supreme court, ft A significant new Slav treaty is now being negotiated. It will bind together the Czechoslovak govern-' govern-' ment and the Lublin-Polish government govern-ment in the first step toward the creation of an eastern European Slavic alliance naturally with Moscow's blessing. |