Show weekly beekly news analysis nazis widen scope of air attacks on ports industrial cities uy by edward C vayne EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in in these columns they are those ol of the news analyst and not necessarily til of this newspaper BOMBS for industry after the british had been wondering what new line german bombing would take the germans made it instantly plain by starting a new type of attack on a long series of industrial centers of britain with results the reports of which varied according to the source the test tube for these attacks was the relatively small town of coventry but this was followed with smashing bombings of bristol manchester liverpool southampton and other cities of greater size in general the industrial heart of england lies in the midlands and on many nights the bomber waves passed up london entirely to smash away at towns in this territory german accounts of damage done are optimistic the british call them highly exaggerated but apparently the nazis know and the british tell how extensive the damage has been berlin claimed and london admitted that southampton was in flames after a bitter day and night attack by the nazis glands En chief southern port town southampton is 80 miles southwest of london once the main port of call for transatlantic liners it was the object of the constant pounding by the feared dive bombers while german dispatches stated that the city was in flames london admitted that many fires had been started but that they were put under control within a short time of interest to war observers oTa servers however was the adoption by germany of the tactic which has been earmarked by the R A F since the commencement of the all out air war prom from the first the R A F rias aas concentrated on objectives of two types despite the widespread popular demand for bombings of berlin the R A F planes have deluged the invasion ports with explosives and also the industrial and munitions centers of germany this attack also has been extended to industrial italy with devastating blows at turin naples and leghorn among other centers before the war military observers predicted that of the three nations ger banys industrial cities were best protected against air attack eng lands next best and italis most vulnerable all predicted how however dver new senator z LAS VEGAS NEVADA berkeley bunker abote appointed by governor carville to be united states senator from nevada to succeed the late key pittman bunker 34 served two terms in the nevada legislature and was nw speaker of the house last year BUCHAREST RUMANIA shortly after this picture of king Al michael ichael and his mother was taken the streets of this city ran red with blood this is the last picture taken of the king and his mother before the outbreak of the iron guard blood purge of political enemies now michael has fled into hiding and his mother is reported to be in italy that if germany held mastery of the air she conceivably could cripple british industry RUMANIA haywire bringing to mind the french revolution the downfall of in russia and other rarities of human experience of similar ilk rumania went haywire following abdication of carol and an with the axis guns barked in public squares of halt half a score of towns including bucharest where the enemies of iron guards found themselves perforated and laid in row upon row of corpses in bloody streets in vain did gen ion antonescu order peace and quiet death followed death jails and other refuges were entered and victims dragged forth to the general slaughter the germans who had touched off the inner revolt to the nazi way of life were aghast at their handiwork fearing lest all value of their new acquisition would be swept away in an avalanche of anarchy king mihai fled into hiding his mother queen helen who had returned to bucharest joyfully as soon as carol and mme ame lupescu de camped hastened off to italy and the comparative safety of exile there none could tell where rumania was headed revolution immediately spread to the recently Bes sarabia its dwellers crying out for food lower prices fuel and medicines weird stories emanated from the madness within rumania perhaps the oddest of all the story that 30 iron Guardis ts the ones who slew the 64 enemies who were held responsible for the prior assa assassination essina of codreanu had immediately committed suicide after the slay ings avoider yarn told how during the slayings slay ings a loudspeaker loud speaker blared forth the voice of codreanu words of a threat against his enemies made during a famous speech when he was at the zenith of his career GREEKS history makers generations to ome will find in their history books the story of the defense of their nation by the greek armies under general metaxas who continued their successes though at somewhat slower pace as they proceeded many miles into the difficult albanian terrain study of military araps showed the dangers of the italian position but reports tended to show that although badly beaten and knocked back on their heels into albanian territory the italians were still planning to make a fight of it greeks were taking their victories calmly general metaxas s giving the A MEXICO CITY MEXICO smiling a dazzling smile general also run ran almazan defeated candidate for the presidency of Al mexico exico is shown as a ile he arrived at mexico city airport and renounced nil all claims to the high office following U S recognition of manucl camacho who was inaugurated at ceremonies attended by U S t u ice ce president elect henry wallace united states to understand that little greece could not hope to go it alone but would need expanded american aid in addition to liberal help from british land forces and airplanes the grecian armies were fighting a brilliant and vigorous campaign with much of the drive that goes with repeated successes dramatic sidelights were the fighting of the macedonian women who told how they gathered on a mountain plateau against orders of greek commanders and started avalanches of f heavy rocks down on italians trapped in a ravine below them another dramatic sidelight was provided by the italian radio which broadcast a bitter denunciation of the greeks for use of the bayonet calling it a barbarous weapon leslie hore balisha writing of the greeks suid said real test would be reached when italians reached the coastal plain where fascist mechanized equipment would get a fairer test greeks were promising to make no stops in driving italians into the adriatic AMERICA A world banker the united states digging deep into the taxpayers pockets to finance preparedness for the national defense now has become the worlds banker reverting to the american status of 1914 1918 when hen this nation put out not much of which ever returned present requests for war credits came presently from lord lothian representing great britain which will want some sort of credit status in 1941 from greece which says its need for aid is immediate and chi FOREIGN SCENE C lahat that norway is far from happy under nazi conquerors was seen in ih story of huge landslides at half a dozen locations which started simultaneously giving rise to german charges that dynamite explosions we were re responsible vital supply roads were cut by landslides C tahiti home of glamour girls of a slightly dusky hue has joined the tree free french forces of De e C little finland which had never missed a payment of its world war debt to the U S notified the treasury it would pass up this one the amount due december 15 finland paid up last june however a italians looking hopefully to the north for aid from germany were getting little response virginio gayda wrote italy can expect no aid from germany she must fight the greeks alone von is reported to have told turkey that germany has no wish to see the war spread but has only peaceful intentions in the balkans I 1 nn na who has been needing more and more right along china was first to get hers the U S okaying in credits of which one hall half is secured by chinese metals to be delivered I 1 during the next two or three years part of this will be the priceless antimony the world supply of which is highly restricted it will pass from china to U S via the burma road under the hail of nipponese bombs china got her credits on the very day when as japanese and puppet state envoys were getting together to sign a treaty of peace guerrillas blew up a train estimated dead and injured sumner welles announced the united states had agreed to grecian a aid id in principle and that exact details would be worked out and munitions sent britaina Brit ains first maneuverings maneuver ings for credit however met with a storm in house and senate circles strongest opponent being hiram johnson author of the neutrality act but from embassy circles and also across the water came the plea send us planes lots of planes and well blast germany out of the skies the planes paid for in cash and motors are on the way DIES Vs administration X na REP MARTIN DIES martin dies foe of the fifth column whenever and wherever he finds signs of it ran into a snag when president roosevelt handed him an admonitory telegram at his orange texas home president warned dies that his white paper and red paper were premature and hampered work of the G men representative dickstein took a hand declaring he swap one G man for a handful of dies investigators vesti gators and is sponsoring bill for after new years delivery to halt appropriations for dies group dies taking a leaf from the book declared he has a mandate from the people for continuation of his committees work and promised two more papers as his answer to ao presidential objections he went to th the e nation over the air waves urging a radical change in american methods of spy fight ing army and navy heads admitted dies charge of communist members in the armed forces and pr promised 0 to crack down if any of th them e m became active dies also charged that the presidents effort to muzzle his committee was part of a subversive plot to halt all un american investigating battle between the texan and administrative authority in washington was watched with eager interest and dies utterances maintained at all times his utter willingness tt to operate cooperate co with the president in line with the national defense TO SEA goes the war on a naval activity which hallur has dished some of the best stories ot the war thus far spruced up with british italian and german naval units clashing on the high seas one observer said battles appear to have been on a large scale if we ever find out what happened recalling that they are still telling the story and publishing pictures of the battle of oran way back early last summer I 1 sketchy accounts show these facts british mediterranean fleet met strong force of italian vessels head ed by two battleships off sardinia british say firing started at extreme range probably about 15 miles as ships were hull down on the horizon italian cruisers fled for harbor under smoke screen british cruisers followed an 17 heavy fire from heavier armed ua ti tle ships then veered away themselves for safety they say that battleships also fled from the engagement ga pursued by aircraft which caught up with them and torpedoed at least two vessels one of largest size british admit that italian airplanes made three attacks on their fleet admit that one cruiser was hit by a naval shell and eight killed several wounded observers told how ark royal aircraft carrier vanished in spray from 30 bombs which hit nearby but came up firing and drove off planes italian story checks with british in major details but with opposite result british battle with german vessels took place in the channel germans claiming two naval vessels damaged and two merchant ships sunk making it apparently a convoy engagement british were mum on this meeting AMERICANA C L graduates of the coast guard academy will now be given degrees of bachelor of science just like college men it has been decided C e louis tracy is a barber and volunteer fireman of ponca neb he was half through a customers shave when the alarm sounded tracy fought the fire returned and fin dished the shave his customer was the deputy fire marshal emilo thompson chief of the A london bureau back in new york from the war scene says britaina Brit ains need of credits will be real in 1941 that industrial bombings are inexorably exor ably pushing a knife into the vitals of the nation and that planes and ships are needed more than workers and courage C L thomas reed of chicago asked why he failed to register for the draft said im not mad at germany he was turned over to FBI men LA CA 14 year old boy allan rams den nelson B C has thought up an idea of a bomb which would be equipped with a photoelectric photo electric cell to guide it to its target fl jacob whitworth baltimore youth was struck by an automobile near cumberland md he appeared dead to a state policeman wh w called the coroner the borz corol aniro thought him dead and called a lu ICA director whitworth got up suddenly and told the coroner his name he was finally pronounced not seriously injured C the famous stephen early cop kicking incident has been closed sloan negro policeman in new york who barred earlys way from the president in new york and got the secretarial knee in the middle said all was forgiven and forgotten in the joy that has come to me and my family over aver the election of our beloved roosevelt Me released leased by western union unions |