Show 6 U OR W washington D C GERMAN underground SEETHES according to duncens uncensored ored dispatches now reaching washington active guerrilla warfare is flaring up on a mounting scale behind the th german lines first real indication of an active fifth column in germany c came ame recently with accurate reports oi 0 pitched battles inside berlin bres lau and bremen this new guerrilla warfare differs from that of parti san units inside france yugoslavia and greece in that few of the guerrilla troops are germans the butt bud are French frenchmen me in and russians jhc were captured earlier in the waz wai and have been bee n used as slave laboi in the reich all AH of these workers were carefully guarded by himmler until recently most lived in big cities and worked in large industrial du 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 escaped from their enclosures and have hidden in the bomb ruins at night the guerrillas prowl the streets capture nazi sentries steal food and ammunition commit extensive sabotage they have been joined by some german army deserters ser afraid to return to the front advices advises say once berlin is taken it is expected that the several million slave laborers will flare into such revolt that germany except in the mountainous south will cave like an eggshell OVERAGE OVER AGI AGE servicemen E greatest hardship on men in the army probably is with enlisted men over 38 now too old to become officers but who cant resign as officers can typical case of how this hardship works is that of cal alexander C age 45 who has served in the army three years most of the time overseas corporal sic is not only a college graduate but holds a doctors 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 yet under present army rules ral must be kept on doing menial jobs there are thousands of similar cases what the army needs is a good overhauling of its manpower ma especially older met mei who have been in the army a long time NEW MANPOWER PROGRAM war manpower commission director paul mcnutt may put a new program into eff effect act very soon in all light labor areas this would limit employers in in nonessential or less essential industries to a certain percentage of the number of workers they employed last year this ceiling em program 1 has already been tried out in in chicago and proven successful chicago employers in nonessential and less essential industries dus tries will be required to cut the number of employees on the payroll 10 per cent by march 15 1311 WEAPONS 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 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 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 48 inch gun as against the 3 inch gun carried on our sherman so long as the ground remains hard the stalin tank is capable 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 he t german secondary fortifications s so 0 far encountered by the russians i it t is said WAR NOTES L germans are already trying to escape from the threatened nazi homeland reports from lisbon madrid sto stockholm eckholm and be berne me reveal hundreds of germans trying to crash the frontier to get out of germany before the allies take over 41 FOR still decided who he will name as high commissioner of the philippines director paul mcnutt and supreme court justice frank murphy both are ready to go it if murphy takes it roosevelt will nominate judge sam to the supreme court 41 A significant i new slav treaty is now being negotiated it will bind together the czechoslovak government and the lublin polish government in the first step toward the I 1 creation of an eastern european slavic alliance naturally with will Mos cows blessing |