Show washington lo 10 im digest allied show of power affects af f eds enemy morale robot plane attacks used to bolster H home ome front spirits following first invasion landings A by BAUKHAGE news analyst and commentator services union trust BuIld building ilig washington D C in the lost last dayson days of june when the papers papera were full of stor stories lesof of ger many banys 5 a secret 1 V cret weapon the robot plane a scene geena which I 1 witnessed some ome three ahrea decades ago returned to haunt me ia 1 I stood in a large tent with a crowdog crow crowd dof ot people oh ing and 1 I nh all angat ang at a mechanical miracle acle we were witnessing it was in germany before us stood a pompous i gentleman man in evening clothes clothe with ferocious he had a wand 1 I in his hand band and with it directed the movement of a beautiful little dirl dirigible dl a bout about threet three teet feet long a perfect replica of which were just fust beginning to be talked about it did loo loolu krather rather startling the Impress arlo ario moved his wand to the tight right and the m miniature adur atur dirigible started barted off around the top of the tent its tiny pr propellers openers whirring he dipped his wand and the little ship nosed down and began to deac descend en d retraced He traced a graceful circle upa upward a rd and nd the ship ascended and reproduced his bis movement in the air finally after performing n all orts of such feats 11 ll it gracefully de c ended and landed on si table lable it was an irn impressive sight but afterwards an american engineer who had witnessed the display explained to meth me that atit it was an all perfectly simple he said the wand was wai merely a signal to a man con cen cealey the audience who sat before an electric switchboard and controlled tont rolled the ship j by radio radia since then many experiments have keen been tarried carried on an by this type of remote control contort but so sa tar far ili as I 1 lonow know it has rot been used in any engines of war naturally when I 1 first read the news autho robots the picture of the little zeppelin floated floate dinto into my mini mind experts admit that the ger man planes are nothing out but rockets anil and they can be sent in only the lie general direction of their targets but the same experts freely admit that there could be rl radio dl con trolled strolled r planes I 1 mention the rocket ajak attacks not s much to emphasize the last hysterical hysteric all gesture of the writhing bu but because became ec ause they markan mark an important imports milestone milestone in the psychological bittle battle whose frenzy has i mounted in these weeks I 1 since the invasion the robot attack was not nearly a as much afan of an offensive as a defensive nilve stroke reports reaching washington in the last days indicate that there is a defeatist psychosis mounting in G germany ermany that tha t th this I 1 9 bit of buck rogers fantasy was to be ba an antidote is cliar clear from the tremendous play it hecei received ved in germ german a n propaganda the tension in enemy countries is understand understandable abla to any of us in washington who have gone through the strain of bf that morning when the first arst hint came over the air that 0 day dai ws waa dawning like many other newsmen writers and broadcasters I 1 was routed out of my bed i shortly after midnight after being on the iho alert tor for weeks and from then on for many hours that bed was a stranger to me vow dd I 1 the enemy feel T temperatures im pera tures rose and tell fell tor for many days thereafter but th the s peaks end valleys of d emotion in this country could have hafi been nothing compared with those of our enemies As yet wei we cannot know exactly what the he german pulse beat was when our cur forces reached their shores after lexi 11 the boasting about hillers Hit lers west wall or or how bow kimonos simonos ki monos fluttered buttered when when the thi japanese homeland was ruthlessly hammered by an engine of af war more terrible than any they expected existed or when american naval guns roared in the kurfees auriles and the boains almost in Hirs hitos back yard Itt it take alies some timeto time to assay the morale in enemy lands but thanks to certain reports which have alt ready reached the allied capitals we n can gauge thel the mental state of the population in germany some of t the hi information formation comes from secret sources which may not be disclosed lest they give st a hint the gest gestapo atio as to whom or where the sources are one such rei report ort speake peak at of that spectre the third nan man who is haunting the nazi minions everywhere they go per hops hips he be Is a bent old derelict sweeping the street crossing perhaps he is a garrulous workman drinking his thin beer with A 6 group of friends perhaps he Is even the quiet faced fellow wearing the was swastika helling belling hitler with the tallow trl rest Any liow low he be Is described in the document 1 I quote as the third man who like a a dark shadow overhears all conversations ile he learns says amerious amer a i nervous nazi nail wanni warning tig which V I 1 02 cannot annot identify further farther translation of which I 1 am quoting literally i that th the e e n a village a week it a go fo that hat there Is only one german soldier to every SOU meters along the eastern front 1 I 1 have been told by a colonel that the americans will attack with a hundred thou than sad aircraft steered by remote control methods yes certainly our nephew who works work sla la the he secret department in the retch belch air m ministry says so and so the translation runs revealing the state of nazi nerves no W wonder gilder that when the german sn secret seark weapons the bombers were sent over london the german propaganda a fairly shrieked its trl tri min ph from ram every housetop in an effort 19 t offset off tt set the grim news of the invasion unfortunately for herr bets goebbels Goeb bela at almost that very moment the most powerful air weapon ever created the B 29 was mall making kis 19 the longest night flight on oil record e to strike at thi he heart bear of japans chief war industry that undoubtedly had its repercussions int in germany i what Is in the state of nerves nerve la id berlin where according to a correspondent spon dent of the swiss journal do de geneve everywhere one travels travel there thera ari are ruins piles of rubble paper has taken the placeit place of ot windows and there are makeshift roots roofs with no tops on an them in many quarters quarter the th mo majority of the inhabitants inhabitant are burled buried beneath th thi the ruins i no complaints complaint please pleas you can judge what the if government avem Is thinking about the atti attitude tudo which berliners berliner are taking by an article printed in the bokal an for toe the sake of your lives be care careful full it says and then begs that no c complaint a in plaint about their work or revelation of 0 what they are doing be ma made d e which might reveal something to the enemy talk aboud about ho how w well we are fed the writer begs say that the german people get more bread butter and mu milk than ever before that everybody still gets fresh white bread and even occasionally eggs and some lovely apples obviously this li Is directed to a 0 people utterly discouraged by min minds d 3 equally desperate from another source which I 1 cannot identity identify is revealed a message said to come directly from the high command itself calling tor for strong hearts to i meet the news of thi the retreats on the russian front which it freely admits has become a psychological burden A remarkable map P the many M members embers of the national geographic a society 0 lety have received bac there the remarkable marka e new map of japan ind and adjacent regions put out recently by that organization this la is the first time that a detailed map has been c computed 0 in buted with the geo geographic graphia heart ot of boklo as its center the national geographic Bul bulletin latin states that the exact spot Is bokios central railway station about which cluster the imperial palace the central al post office and the building one of the cites largest official structures the map has been compiled of entirely new base material and Is being used bythe general staff and other government departments which opened their files filer ito to the na national geographic researchers tor for its preparation just because dehava we have our eyes on western europe a at the moment Is no r reason eason why we should forget what is going aa on in the pacific fortunately our forces have been built up there to the point where wi we can carry on I 1 simultaneous action with the movements I 1 of the arm armies lesIn in europe I 1 B RI rd E fa F S ay baukhage Bauk hase jucus jullum caesar would have hare had more water to cross today in invading britain Brita inthe the cliffs cliff of dover havi have receded that much nazi slave labor recruitment among women in occupied northern italy t now cow applies only to unmarried women between the ages of 18 and 30 30 resulting in a desperate rush pillow feathers feather abeso areso are su scarce in hungary and the balkan countries that nazis are offe offering ring a bribe ot of one gallon of gas tor for a quantity ot of feathers worth about IS 15 cents centi A seat changing signar signal Is given at regular intervals in inthe the crowded trains in Ja japan and people who have been sitting stand up to change places ra 4 4 lib th the others |