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Show W-GO-RljuND 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 German lines. First real indication of an active Fifth column in Germany came recently re-cently with accurate reports ol 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. AH 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 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. a 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. .mere are inousanas of simuar 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 cut 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 C Germans are already trying to escape from the threatened Nazi homeland. Reports from Lisbon Madrid. Stockholm and Berne re veal hundreds of Germans trying to crash the frontier to get out of Ger- many before the Allies take over CFDR still hasn't decided who he wm name as high commissioner of the Philippines. WMC Director P-,,,1 McNutt and Supreme Court oft " Frank Murphy both are ready to 80 If Murphy takes it. Roeve it .will nominate Judge Sam Rosen man to the Supreme court. i 0. A significant new Slav treaty ls now being negotiated. It will bind toge her the Czechoslovak govern Znl and,ihe Lub"-P'lsh govern creai" " toward X Il"i Tal ?Lac" "ft" UrPe"n Moscow's We sinJ "ith |