Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS by edward G C wayne food shortage in europe this winter means thousands are doomed to starve in most of areas occupied by nazis LJ S court obtains spy confessions EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns they are those hose a of the news analyst and not necessarily of this newspaper released by western newspaper union what price a mad world 47 r 1 ya 5 4 A 01 L the scene is a street in uniondale Union dale N Y the country is not at war it is however arming i for defense arming as never before for the menace it is charged is is world wide and so an army pursuit plane leaves Al mitchell itchell field new york one day A few minutes later it crashes in uniondale Union dale street you see the wreck still burning you dont see three children childre n burned whose clothes caught fire the pilot of the plane bailed baided out INCIDENT U SS greer attacked when the news was flashed that a submarine attacked the U S destroyer greer while the latter was en route to iceland the words incident of war leaped to the thoughts of many still there were other W 1 incidents n cl hents and they did not bring w war a r the greer was not hit FOOD for conquered most were agreed that the coming winter will find starvation walking the lands of conquered europe germany took the bull by the horns by stating her position clearly not only said berlin was germany not going to feed the hungry in conquered europe but she felt at complete liberty to feed herself from the stores of conquered countries if anybody was to feed conquered nations let britain and the united states who control the seas do it declared berlin As long as this was the declared nazi policy it was a certainty that the united states and britain would do no feeding of these populations for if the food was sent over germany felt at liberty to feed herself with it the food would just be going into enemy hands and doing no good to the starving millions it has been held assuming that the russians in conquered sections of the ukraine had not been able to flee but had been able to burn their wheat as seemed likely from general reports from the area from both sides then there were a few million ukrainians in danger of starvation within the shortest possible time nor were the people in france norway and the low countries in any better condition and with the excel tion of the rumanians the lungari i ans ns and the croats choats reportedly fighting with the german arms and the finns coming down from the north into russia most of europe was going to be hungry I 1 talked with a russian hussian refugee from paris who had been c conquered red by the germans but escaped to this country by a devious route and he told of the french people eating dogs cats any meat they could get their hands on starvation already was stalking the land in august he said when he escaped via lisbon medical men said this hunger would not point definitely to revolt however for starving people soon soon lose their ability to fight or to resist even the inroads of their own hunger starvation carries with it only apathy finally coma and then death they declared JAPAN full ordering a full mobilization of his country and at the same time according to rumor bidding president roosevelt to visit him in the pacific i on a japanese capanes e batt battleship battle leshin shio premier prince konoye of japan seemed to be throwing a monkey wrench into what little hope remained that nippon might be peace bound the tempest which these sources figured the nazis were stirring up in japan on the question of the siberian port was raging full blast when konoye issued his order of complete mobilization of the country konoye said japan is facing the greatest crisis in her history and a total mobilization of the nation is necessary to overcome the emergency this statement was a far cry from his july 30 position that all japan wanted was peace and prosperity in the pacific to close out the china affair and to be friendly with the united states dispatches from washington said that diplomatic advices advises had been sent to tokyo probably the cause of Ko noyes action stating that this country was going to stand firm on its right to send lease lend aid to russia through vladivostok and to continue to send such aid as long as peaceful relations exist between russia and japan the same day nichi nichi influential japanese paper defied the united states to place any obstacle in japans rightful sea routes in the name of freedom of the seas it continued japan will not hesitate to take steps against any obstacle such as this complicating the issue at about the same time were two russian se aplan es carrying 47 soviet airmen flying over the bering sea on their way to washington to join the russian mission to this nations capital while moscow disclaimed anything but a peaceful intent for this trip another japanese paper the times and advertiser took al alarm arm at it stating it was an effort to establish a warplane service between the united states and russia this newspaper said that japan felt itself now encircled by the british and americans on the south through these countries aid to china and the dutch east indies and that any effort to encircle J japan apan on the north would be a matter for grave study SPIES first trial news readers turned their eyes to new york where 19 out of 33 members of an alleged german spy ring went on trial on charges of espionage the other 14 pleaded guilty which made it improbable that the full story of their guilt would be told but the trial of the 19 prosecutors in the federal court said would unfold ramifications beyond belief U S attorney kennedy said that much of the information in the possession of the prosecution had been obtained from those who had pleaded guilty spy yaw 11 F V N 1 4 lucy boehmler 18 who pleaded guilty in new york to charges of espionage for nazi germany she is said to be part of a ring which visited various parts of the country to obtain military secrets LENINGRAD near siege despite what undoubtedly has been one of the g greatest greatest defensive actions in world history the russian defenders of leningrad had before them the question of a siege of the city itself and the problem of whether they could hold the attackers back until cold weather comes to their rescue like northern new england leningrad weather is described as nine months of winter and three months of early spring and this springtide spring tide has now given way to the autumnal rains which will shortly be supplanted by winters heavy snows the russo finnish campaign at the beginning of the war demonstrated that mechanized warfare pan out so well in the snow and ice and the reds are hoping that if ff they can hold out through the rest of this month get a progressive breathing spell along the whole front that will permit american aid to materialize and a reorganization of their defense it was evident not only from the soviet but from the german that the russians were putting up a magnificent resistance all along the line that Bu dennys army got across the without being completely knocked out as the germans had forecast and that general in the center is carrying on a protracted and more or less successful counter offensive while on the north is holding the attacking germans and finns back as long as he can while keeping his armies generally intact berlin dispatches told of russians contesting every foot of ground and halting the spearhead advance of the nazi forces to only a couple of miles or so a day moscow said that first reports of a separate peace with the finns were premature and inaccurate yet this might have meant simply that the russian negotiations with finland had fallen down and that the finns had decided to stick with the nazis and carry through some observers had thought that as soon as the finns reached the russian frontier and had recaptured all the old finnish territory that russians had taken over at the beginning of the war they would probably quit or be glad to negotiate for peace GASOLINE still a fight the gasoline shortage in the eastern e rn section of the united states still was in the controversy stage with much of the muddle being discussed in in prin print t and revealing how hopelessly confused legislators administrators and oil operators opra tors were with regard to each other and the problem itself some filling station operators wanted to close down said they were forced out of business others wanted a price rise of a cent a gallon others wanted a government subsidy still others said they were getting along 0 K some oil suppliers said there was no shortage others wanted barges built still others wanted idle tank cars used and yet the washington authorities said they find the cars the railroads offered to cut the ta tank car rate 50 per cent from 5 cents a gallon to 21 2 cents and the big oil companies pointed out that the tanker rate was one cent a gallon though this was difficult to figure because practically all the tankers are owned by the companies themselves and they need figure no profit meantime three pipeline propositions were milling around thyi trying n 9 to get ready to start while several senators and congressmen including senator walsh of massachusetts charged bureaucratic blundering blun derine |