| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS powerful strength of nazi thrust drives rives to greatest gain in russia aussien smash at rommel in hi egypt U so fordes forces change policy in china EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these coburn columns they are those these of western newspaper unions news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper i released by western newspaper union i RUSSIA deepest drive even moscow admitted it the powerful nazi thrust had finally driven deeper into soviet territory than at any time before in the history of the war last year it was toward moscow that drive penetrated to its farthest point but the current german campaign headed beaded directly that way its spearhead had thrust itself across the don river and swung around the big bend of that river heading southeastward down the valley toward stalingrad Stal ingrad though there were immense losses of nazi men and machines hitler kept on going for he wanted stalingrad Stal ingrad on the vital volga but even more he wanted what he could find beyond the rich oil pools of THE CAUCASUS the moscow railway had been cut earlier and soviet communications thus suffered a hard blow when the germans slash across and their positions on the volga it means that still another highly important link between the final battleground tle for the caucasus and moscow would be severed cr crumpling of their forces further to th the e north of would also leave the russians open to a hard new push by floods of nazis released from that battle sector rus dussias sias hope was the heavy toll of german strength that was being extracted as the reds fell back in their delaying action all along the fighting front german claims of success spoke of the breaking of local resistance everywhere some military sources were inclined to agree with them in this regard but there was speculation as to whether or not like this one were true in one days fighting germany lost only six planes and on the same day russian losses were set at 63 tanks and 74 planes berlin said so but moscow SABOTEURS all doubt the eight nazi saboteurs sabot eurs as they were tried for their lives before a washington D C military commission had the benefit of govern 4 X ELMER DAVIS releases were circumspect ment appointed counsel which tried to give these enemy agents the benefit of all doubt as to their guilt extensive cross examination by defense counsel of prosecution witnesses slowed testimony but during the trial little information leaked out to the news hungry public elmer davis director of the office of war information had a tough round with the court in getting release on any news whatsoever he did get two daily press releases but they were described as circumspect CHINA change of 01 policy there has been a definite change in policy since july 1 this was the date on which regular S army air forces started operations in china bankow canton and other cities in occupied china which were never bombed before have been bombed now so began a hard hitting statement nt from the headquarters of brig ge gen claire L chennault chief of air air operations against the japs in china we are going deeper and deeper into china all cities under japanese occupation will be bombed there will be a more active policy from now on you can draw your own conclusions as to what will happen he further stated meanwhile concrete evidence of this new surge of strength was revealed in an announcement from gen joseph Still wells headquarters which said that Lin chwan important base for AV i Z UR W M 3 A 41 Y GENERAL JOSPPH STILLWELL helped with a change of 01 policy the jap thrust in kinanis Kina Kin angs ngsi province had been bombed by allied planes but not only air power seemed to be growing in the Lin chwan sector for the chinese ground troops were were reported driving back the ja japs ps toward that city and toward nan chang EGYPT again the aussien german field marshal rommel had to deal with the australians again his mobile columns and artillery had smashed the british back in in a headlong drive that had dangerously gerou sly extended his communication lines back to bengas benegasi and bobruk and then at el kalamein the british army of the nile reinforced by australians let him have it they chose the coastal route to slap back along the mediterranean they rushed at the nazi and italian forces who had little time to dig in and consolidate their positions the british british south african and new zealand desert units threw out an offensive to the south and west of their el kalamein line and the aussien charged in against the german tanks reports from cairo said that they were using a new type of antitank anti tank gun and they used it at shorter range than usual it had been a predawn pre dawn assault and some of the enemy had been caught napping time after time the aussien were way out in front of their supporting tanks they overran enemy gun positions and in some cases turned the guns around to the west and fired at the german italian positions beyond there developed later however the most important angle of tha the battle for the suez it was an all out air battle rommel had suffered some heavy plane losses as he kept hammering the british back but now his air strength seemed to be strengthened for as the aus sies caught his tanks temporarily off guard brommels Rom mels planes rose to blast the advance british lines this seemed to maan mean that from somewhere had come help ansiger in crete experts looked toward crete for the answer for on that island in the mediterranean were based the nazi ace in the hole this consisted of the powerful plane force and the parachute troops that had bad taken the island from the G greeks reeks last year and which now were poised to relieve pressure from rommel bommel INDIA Gand his gain qa U r U W PV JP MOHANDAS K GANDHI A step up in moral pressure his doctor had ordered him to rest because of his extreme exhaustion but mohandas K gandhi was again on the road to beating down the british and he would not be stopped after six days of discussion at bardha Gand his all india congress bartys working committee agreed to adopt his project for a step up in moral pressure to force great britain to give india full freedom immediately news out of new delhi indicated that this step came as triumph for the 72 year old advocate of indian nationalism over pandit nehru left wing leader of the party nehru has been described as the best friend the united nations have in india and thus it appeared that any movement to force freedom from britain would be so carried out as to refrain from interfering with the war effort there for most sources did not believe nehru would have been won over so easily if he be thought the united nations cause would be endangered CEILINGS some changes when first the general maximum price regulation was introduced it was pretty difficult to adjust cases that appeared to be directly harming someone unfairly this has now been amended to permit leon hendersons office of price administration to adjust ceiling prices in certain hardship cases frozen fruits and vegetables were among the first ceilings to face adjustment ceiling prices on these products are being increased to prevent crops from rotting in the field because of increased gathering and packing costs price relief will also soon be granted for jams jellies and preserves some idea of the amount of money to be spent taxed or saved throughout the country in the coming months came from commerce secretary jesse jones in a statement to the effect that the american people in 1943 will have over more income than the value of things for which the money can be spent RATIONING gasoline about eastern motorists were to get their basic permanent gasoline coupon books said OPA and local boards were instructed to insist on complete proof of eligibility and need before granting supplemental plem rations of any kind however congressmen members of state and local legislatures and other government officials will be eligible for special rations for use in legislative or official business bona fide political candidates may have extra rations for travel necessary to the prosecution of their can di dacies newspaper reporters and photographers will be eligible for supplementary rations up to a quantity sufficient to permit miles of occupational driving per month if they can meet car pooling provisions gasoline stations which have been supplying war workers will be granted increased monthly quotas and the granted OPA authority to require filling station operators to submit coupons or other oth er evidence that rationing regulations are being complied with when gasoline is delivered to their stations tires eligible motorists may be refused new tires by local rationing boards boar ds if an inspectors inspector s report shows that the purchaser has abused his old tires according to an announcement made by OPA also local boards b lards may receive application for new tires from purchasers of tractors farm implements and other vehicles sold without tires |
