Evening Star Newspaper, January 2, 1942, Page 6

Soviet Army Driving Against Spearhead Of Nazis at Mozhaisk Recapture of Staritsa And Destruction of Tank Army Claimed By the Associated Press. The hard-hitting Russian offen- sive on the Moscow front was re~ ported directed today at eliminating the German spearhead at Mozhaisk, 57 miles west of the Soviet capital, the last remaining of the great threats to Moscow. The Russian high command an- nounced the recapture of the im- portant rail and Volga river center of Staritsa, 125 miles northwest of Moscow, and other Russian dis- patches said Red Army advance | forces were within a few miles of Mozhaisk, now lying between the Jjaws of a Russian pincers strength- ened by Staritsa’s fall. Russian troops continued their at- tacks at numerous points on the eastern front, but some attempts to break the German lines were cut up and others were eliminated, the German high command declared. In London, the British news agency Reuters heard that Adolf | Hitler, in his new capacity of supreme commander of the Ger- man armies, had rushed to the front in an attempt to stem the German retreat. It gave Stockholm reports as the source of its information. The new headquarters were said to be in the Smolensk area, some 150 miles behind the fighting zone. Nazis Claim 2 Red Ships. A medium-sized Soviet freighter and a small warship were sunk by | on | Russian forces newly landed at the | of Feodosiva and | German air attacks yesterday Crimean port seven other vessels were damaged, the high command said in Berlin. The communique was broadcast by the Berlin radio. Strong bomber and fighter forma- | tions struck at the Russian units and port installations, the Berlin communique said. “Three large freighters were set on fire,” a communique reported, “and four transports were seriously damaged.” Continued Russian attacks were acknowledged on the land fronts. but the high command declared “some breakthrough attempts were ! cut up and others were eliminated.” | Staritsa fell yesterday, the Soviet government announced, rout of Col. Gen. Heinz Guderian’s 2d Tank Army and six German Army corps in a battle climaxed by the recapture of Kaluga, a key rail center 110 miles southwest of Mos- cow. The Mozhaisk garrison consti- tutes the sole remaining threat to Moscow in the winter warfare. Russian dispatches said Red Army | gunners had scorched the west bank of the Nara River at a crossing. burning or scarring every tree and bush, to open the way for the big push. In 10 days of fighting 1,690 Ger- mans were Killed, the Russian dis- patches said, and a general was listed among the fallen. Cold and snow were reported to be forcing the surrender of German stragglers iso- lated in woods behind the new Rus- | sian front. The reoccupation of Staritsa, listed by the Soviet Information Bureau as one qf several populated localities liberated from the Ger- mans in the continued Russian ad- vances yesterday, marked a 45-mile Ocean on the main trage route to | |India and the Burma Road. On | sweep southwest of Kalinin. It placed the Russians only River port of 30,000 served by four branch railways and wire lines im- portant in war supply and com- munications. London Hails Soviet Successes. ‘Triple Soviet successes at the vear end—landings on the Kerch penin- | sula of the Crimea, the recapture of Kaluga and forcing of the forti- fied Volkhov River banks below Leningrad—were hailed by London commentators as strategical gains for outweighing the mere numerical losses inflicted on the Germans. Remnants of German forces driven from Kerch and Feodosiya were reported to be fleeing into the central Crimea before Russian troops marching to the relief of Sevastepol, besieged Black Sea naval | base. Pravda, the official Communist party newspaper, editorially pre- dicted victory over the Germans in 1942, but warned that “great diffi- culties are still confronting us and many battles are yet to come.” It described Russian reserve forces as inexhaustible. Recapture of Feodosiya. Russian Gen. Mikhail Pervushin yesterday in Moscow gave this ac- count of recapture three days ago of the Crimean seaport of Feodosiya from retreating Germans. “Operations of our landing troops were developed under very unfavor- able weather conditions. There was a flerce storm. Under cover of night our troops approached Feodosiya. “Only when the ships bearing our men began to enter the port and eflect landings did the Germans offer resistance. Then they aimed mine throwers and machine-gun and heavy coastal fire at our ships. ““The bulk of the landing party did not linger long in Feodosiya but set out to capture the heights beyond the town and cut off enemy retreats. “On that day our advance groups already had fought & seven-hour battle with 2,000 German soldiers, “Our'men launched several vigor- ous counterattacks and exterminated hundreds of German soldiers, by the close of the day they had worn out the enemy to such an extent that despite numerical superiority they ‘were compelled to retreat from Feo- dosiya. “Attempting to thwart our opera- tions the German command hurled into the attack many airplanes but our planes took off and rendered great support to the advance de- tachments. “The Germans were unable to stop or seriously damage any of our &hips. Large trophies were captured.” The Moscow radio said Soviet plans called for production of new types of airplanes, including three fighters, to combat the Germans in 1942, The radio. quoting the Russian newspaper Pravda, praised British and United States planes, especially the Bell Airacobra fighter, for the part played in the Red air force destruction of German tanks and motorized units. Russia needs to produce a pursuit fighter which can take off quickly $0 meet bombers, a night fighter and *hard on the | men lost their lives. Evans (center) and Lt. Comdr. LOS ANGELES.—HE REPRESENTS A MILESTONE—The Navy’s recruiting office yesterday proudly announced that Edgar Young (left), 19, was signed up as its 2,638th recruit since December 7, the date of Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, in which 2,638 Navy With Young are Chief Petty Officer F. J. \ r THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON,:D.. C, FRIDAY, JANUARY 2, 1942. George T. Howe. —A. 'P. Wirephoto. a fighter with greater armament. the newspaper said, in addition to increasing production of big bombers with powerful engines. Someri Island, in the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland, has been occupied by Finnish naval forces, the Finnish high command an- nounced yesterday. Dutch (Continued From First Page.) agency, which released the com- munique, said the Japanese attack took place at Laboean Bilik, a small settlement “entirely devoid of all military objectives.” (Laboean Bilik is 145 miles southeast, down the Sumatra coast, from Medan, where more than 30 persons were reported killed in a Japanese air at- tack last Sunday.) The communique said other Jap- anese planes bombed and machine- gunned Amoerang, on the island of Celebes, where their targets ap- peared to be copra warehouses, and Bobo in New Guinea, where 1 adult and 2 children were reported killed and 2 adults and 12 children in- jured, 4 of them seriously. Sinking of Transport Claimed by Japanese | TOKIO, Jan. 2 (Official Broad- cast) (#.—The Japanese imperial headquarters said today that Japa- nese planes sank a 2,000-ton ship | and damaged another of 3,000 tons in a New Year Day attack on a group of enemy transports in the Malacca Straits. Japanese planes also sank a speed- boat and disabled three others in dive bombing attacks while a Mar- tin 139 bomber was shot down over | Malaya on the same day. | The Malacca Straits are between | Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula. | ‘The straits lead northeast-west | from the China Sea to the Indian 30 one side is Singapore and the Straits | miles northeast of Rzhev, a Volga Settlements, on the other, the north- | western portion of the island of | Sumatra. | The straits are about 300 miles ]‘ long and at their narrowest point 30 l miles wide. Philippines (Continued From First Page.) | fense within the environs of the city was possible.” | The communique likewise an- | nounced that & small enemy force had landed on the Island of Jolo in the Sulu Archipelago, in the extreme Southwest Philippines, near British North Borneo. Jolo is the center of the land of the warlike Moros, Mohammedan Filipinos. There and on the larger | nearby Island of Mindanao Gen. John J. Pershing and other famous American military figures first won fame in fighting to subdue the flerce tribesmen three decades or more ago, Text of Army Communigue. The text of the War Department’s communique, No. 41, based on com~ munications received here up until |9:30 am.: “1. Philippine theater: Advanced elements of Japanese troops entered |Manila at 3 pm. January 2, 1942 | (Manila time). It is reported that | these troops were limited to a size necessary for -police duties and maintenance of order. “All American and Philippine | troops were withdrawn from the city | several days ago and all defense in- | stallations were removed or de- | stroyed. Many of the wounded ! American and Philippine soldiers | were evacuated from the Manila | area on December 31, 1941, and are now en route to Australia. “The practical situation in the vicinity of Manila necessitated a ‘radicnl readjustment of the lines | held by American and Philippine | troops and a consolidation of de- | fense forces north of Manila. This maneuver was successfully accom- plished in the face of strong enemy | opposition. The consequent shorten- jing of our lines necessarily uncov- ered the road to Manila and made possible the Japanese entrance into the city. As it had been previqusly declared an open city, no close de- fense within the environs of tite city was possible. Corregidor Still Held. “The loss of Manila, while serious, has not lessened the resistance to the Japanese attacks. American and Philippine troops are occupying strong positions north of the city | and are holding the fortified island of Corregidor and the other de- fenses of Manila Bay effectively, preventing the use of this harbor by the enemy. “During the past 24 hours there has been heavy fighting on the ground with repeated enemy attacks from the north. Japanese air ac- tivity is somewhat less in intensity than for several days. “A landing of a small enemy force was effected Jolo in ) { fiu&flu’ | archipelago in the south of the/ | Philippine group. | “2. There is nothing to report from | other areas.” Navy's Commiinique. The text of the Navy communique ; | follows: “The United States naval base ll‘ Cavite was evacuated before the enemy entered Manila. All records, | equipment and stores that were not destroyed by bombing were removed prior to evacuation by naval per- sonnel. “All industrial and supply facili- Gen. Wavell Reported Chosen fo Head Allied Forces in Pacific Australian Press Says He Will Command Sea And Air Arms as Well By the Ascociated Press. CANBERRA, Jan. 2.—The Aus- trelian Associated Press said today it was learned authoritatively that Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell, Brit- ish commander for India and Bur- ma, would be placed in command of land, sea and air forces in the Pecific. (Presumably the press service meant command of Allied forces in the Pacific since a Reuters dispatch to London from Can- berra said that Australian Prime Minister John Curtin had “con- firmed indirectly” that the Allies were considering Gen. Wavell for such a post.) Gen. Wavell was the hero of the first British drive into Libya. Mr. Curtin said earlier that he was mystified by a London broadcast forecasting Gen. Wavell's appoint- ment as commander in chief in the Pacific. He said, too, that the release in London, in advance of official an- nouncement, of parts of a Washing- ton’ agreement on Pacific strategy had caused considerable surprise in Australian official circles. “I sent a cable to Prime Minister Churchill assenting to the text of the agreement as sent to us” Mr. Curtin said. “It was a draft and, of course, subject to change, but I've been informed of no changes. “I asked Mr. Churchill to let me | know the time and text for a joint | official announcement, which I understand was to have been made. To that message I have received no reply yet.” Something "-l;nplnunnt“ Seen. The United States and Britain are | preparing something “very unpleas- ant for the Japanese,” Lt. Gen. Hein | ties, including fuel, were destroyed. i “The personnelof the naval hospi- | tal remained at their posts at the naval hospital, Canacao, to care for the wounded. All ships and naval personnel were removed from the Manila-Cavite .area prior to enemy | | occupation. “There is nothing to report from | other areas.” { A Japanese military spokesman { declared the fall of Manila would | mean collapse sooner or later of the entire Philippine defense system and | asserted there was little chance that Manila would become an East | | Asia Dunkerque—referring to the | French coast escape port where British and Allied troops withdrew | | from the bloody battle of Flanders | | in 1940, “All ships in the Manila bight which could have been used to re- | move troops have been successfully bombed by the Japanese air force,” the spokesman said, indicating that | any hope of escape by sea had thus | been cut off. Congress (Continued From Hrsr__ ?nge,) Ter Poorten, commander of the! Netherlands Indies Army, told his| troops in a broadcast at Batavia | yesterday. | While warning his men to be on| guard against a Japanese invasion | at any moment, he said: “I am sorry I cannot tell you about | the plans which are being worked | out and about the conversations which regularly take place, but we and our Allies are working hard— very hard. “The British and Americans are preparing something which will be very unpleasant for the Japanese.” As for the Japanese attacks, the Aneta News Agency quoted Gen. Ter Poorten as saying: “The Japanese blitzkrieg, after | the German pattern, is running low, | thanks to the action of our army, | and especially of our army air corps. ! “The Japanese have tried to re- | taliate. The brigands have bombed | smacks and villages along the coast. They have raised fires and com- | mitted murders, but with God’s help we will get them.” War Effort (Continued From Pirst Page.) Foreign Relations Committee told | his colleagues that there was “no cause for depression by reason of | the fall of Manila.” “When we get ready” Senator Connally declared, “of course we shall recapture the Philippines.” He told the Senate that because of their distance from the United States it was difficult to reinforce or supply armies in the Philippines. “As soon as we hit our stride, as soon as our Army and Navy are ready, as soon, as we marshal our forces—and that means We must marshal them without strikes,” Sen- this war.” Long, Hard Pull.” Other comment: - Senator Nye, Republican, of North Dakota: “This is a complete ful- event of war in the Pacific. I don’t | doubt that ultimately we shall re- deem ourselves there if we want to do it. It will be a long, hard pull.” Missouri: “It is bound to be tem- porary.” Senator Davis, Democrat, of Penn- sylvania: “In the end, the Philip- pines will be restored to the Pilipinos.” Senator White, Republican, of Maine: “I guess it was inevitable, but the fall of Manila is in no sense decisive.” J. M. Elizalde, Philippine resi- dent commissioner: “The deter- mined resistance being put up by the American and Philippine forces under Gen. MacArthur will increase. Furthermore I antieipate that the resistance of the eivilian population | to the Japanese will increase.” | Time to Buckle Down. i The closing speeches in the House reflected the historic events of re- foent weeks, the call for sacrifices ahead, and the likelihood of curtail- ment of some peace-time functions in the future. “It is time to stop talking,” said Representative Casey, Democrat, of Massachusetts. “It is time to buckle down to the job ahead, to rekindle the fires of patriotism, to accept the sacrifices that will be necessary.” Representative Woodruff, Repub- lican, of Michigan praised the “mag- nificent defense” of the Philippines |under Gen. MacArthur, and the | courage of the officers and men at Guam and Wake Island. But before closing he struck out |at “stigma of unpreparedness,” and at the “blacker fact that the high command did not discharge the duty to see to it that their forces were jon the alert” at the outset of the war, Greenwich Village Man, 2 , z 5 Papa’ to Artists, Dies By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Jan. 2.—Albert Strunsky—“Papa” to a generation of Grenwich Village artists whose works he admired so much that he often refused to charge them refit— | died Wednesday night. He was 72. Until 1939, when he retired, he operated a group of old-fashioned buildings in the Village; to them gravitated struggling artists who soon learned that the Russian’s soft heart abhored” evictions as much as they disliked paying rent. Instead of getting rent, he often inherited | pictures, symphonies and statues. Orugusy has free eourses in flying. fillment of what we have been told | for 15 years would be true in the | Senator Truman, Democrat, of | Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, | by Maxim Litvinoff, Ambassador; the National Government of the Republic of China, | Soong, Minister for Foreign Af- | fairs; the Commonwealth of Aus- | tralia, by R. G. Casey; the Kingdom | of Belgium, by Cte R. v. d. Straten: | Canada, by Leighton McCarthy; the | Republic of Costa Rica, by Luis Fer- | nandez; the Republic of Cuba, by | Aurelio F. Concheso; Czecho-Slovak | Republic, by V. S. Hurban: the | Dominican Republic, by J. M. Tron- | coso; the Republic of El Salvador, by Conn, G | C. A. Alfaro; the Kingdom of Greece, | ing loyal. efficient workers simply stor ally sald, “we shall win |, “Gimon . Diamantopoulos: the | Republic of Guatemala, by Enrique Lopez-Herrante; La Republique d‘Haiti, par Fernand Dennis; the | Republic of Honduras, by Julian R. Caceres; India, Girja Shanker Baj- pai; the Grand Duchy of Luxem- Kingdom of the Netherlands, A. Loudon; the Langstone; the Republic of Nica- ragua, by Leon De Bayle; the King- dom of Norway, by W. Munthe de Morgenstierne; the Republic of Pan- ama, by Jaen Guardia; the Re- public of Poland, by Jan Ciechanow- ski; the Union of South Africa, by Ralph W. Close, and the Kingdom |of Yugoslavia, by Constantin A. | Fotitch. | Common Strategy Discussed. ‘With Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill resuming their conversa- tions here yesterday, the declaration is considered only one of the major results of the British-American dis- cussions. Presumably, more precise strate- | gical plans have been formulated by | these two governments, and will be integrated eventually with the fight- ing strategy of all other nations. It has been known throughout the British-American discussions that an assured flow of natural resources and economic powers from the gov- ernments better able to contribute with them than in actual fighting strength, has been a foremost con- sideration. ‘The lessons of the past, notably the fall of France and the subse- quent acceptance of a separate peace by the Vichy French gov- ernment, also are being given full weight and are obviously responsible | for'the second of the pledges item- |ized in today’s declaration. | vision is also made in the last para- graph for the addition of other na- tions which might fall within the | orbit of the anti-Axis front. Conversations Resumed. The President and Prime Minister Churchill resumed the British- American conversations yesterday afternoon, a few hours after the British official had returned from Canada with new statistical in- formation on readiness and ability of the Dominion to aid the war ef- fort. Mr. Churchill indicated at the time of his return that great de- cisions and action were imminent. On Mr. Churchill's arrival here two weeks ago the White House in- dicated there, would be a formal declaration when the consultations ‘had reached an advanced state. Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill issued such a joint pronouncement at the conclusion of their historic Atlantic conversations last summer. Immediately before his press con- ference today, the President met with shipping authorities of both governments. Participating were Chairman Emory 8. Land of the Maritime Commission, Howard l:. A by Tze-Ven | bourg, by Hugues Le Gallais; the | Government of the | Dominion of New Zealand, by Frank | Pro- | TTHINK ALL 0F 0 MGHT ADOFT THESE— § FOR THE DURATION UT THE ALLEGED DEFICIENCIES OF OUR ARMED FORCES. TLL NOT SAY WHAT THE ARMY OR THE NAWY QUGHT 70 DO-~BECAUSE 1 DONT KNOW. § ILL STOP ASKING: WHERE'S THE FLEET? 'LNOT SAY*T TOLD YOou so” AL BE By ) B o nfigoun 0 BE]AN AMERICAN— GET HIT L Vickery, another commission mem- ber; Sir Arthur Salter, British ship- ping chieftain, and Lord Beaver- brook, British Minister of Supply. Plan Transfers Considered. Covering a wide range of subjects | during his conference, the Presi- | dent revealed that advanced study’i is being given to the advisability | of transferring some of the Nation's | key industrial plants inland from | the vulnerable Atlantic and Pacific Seaboards. Airplane plants on the Pacific Coast are receiving fore- most consideration, it was indicated, but other war industries on both coasts are included. The President pointed out that one solution might be the shifting of certain divisions of the vital in- dustries so that no single attack could cripple an entire manufactur- ing operation. Mr. Roosevelt also said he ex- pected a report over the week-end on the extent to which production has been stepped up to a three-shift, seven-day per week basis. While this full-time operation represents the quickest way to ex- pand production in some lines, he pointed out that maintenance re- quirements make other plants more effective if operated on a two-shift basis. The President also took a step today to safeguard labor supply and at the same time protect rights of individuals when he issued a formal statement of warning against indiscriminate discharges of aliens. The President said he was mentioning this practice after being informed by Attorney General | Biddle of its prevalence. “Stupid and Unjust.” “I am deeply concerned over the increasing number of reports of employers discharging workers who ‘happen to be aliens or even foreign- born citizens,” the President’s state- ment read. “This is a very serious | matter. It is one thing to safe- {guard American industry, and par- ticularly defense industry, against sabotage; but it is very much an- other to throw out of work honest | and loyal people who, except for | the accident of birth, are sincerely patriotic. “Such a policy is as stupid as it is unjust, and on both counts it plays into the hands of the enemies of American democracy. By discharg- because they were born abroad or | because they have foreign-sounding | names or by refusing such men and | women, employers are engendering | the very distrust and disunity on 'To Expand Staff by 400 | | which our enemies are counting to defeat us. | _“Remember the Nazi technique: | ‘Pit race against race, religion against religion, prejudice against prejudice. Divide and conquer.’ “We must not let that happen | here. We must not forget what we |are defending: Liberty. decency, | justice. We cannot afford the eco- nomic waste of service of all loyal | and patriotic citizens and non-citi- zens in defending our land and our | liberties. | “I urge all private employers fo adopt a sane policy regarding aliens and foreign-born citizens, and to re- member that the sons of the foreign- ers they discharged may be among those who fought and are fighting -so valiantly at Pearl Harbor or in the Philippines. “There is no law providing against | employment of aliens except in spe- cial defense work of a secret nature, and even in such work the employer may hire an alien with the permis- sion of the Army or Navy, depend- ing on the contract.” Gas Pumps Are Tested MANASSAS, Va,, Jan. 2 (Special). —A recent inspection of gas pumps at filling stations in Prince William | County shows that 13 out of 130 pumps tested failed to meet the | standard requirements, according to H. L. Lewis, inspector of the Division of Markets of the State Agriculture Department. 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The Economic Warfare Board and the co-ordinator of inter-American affairs have joined Secretary Jones in requesting additional funds and increased personnel for the bureau. The additional workers will be used to gather economic and statistical | data for the Economic Warfare Board and other defense agencies. | ! ployes in the District. The expan- | sion project under consideration by the Budget almost double the staff in Washing- ton. Bureau would thus If the additional funds are made available, the corps of economists | of the department will be greatly expanded. economists: Those trained interna- tional economic problems and those with a specialized knowledge of in- dividual commodities and American | El industries. It will seek two kinds of Another Car Stripped Four tires, together with wheels and accessories, were missing yes- terday when the automobile of Reed Smith, 5821 Nevada avenue was recovered near Bowie, Md. The The Bureau of Foreign and Do- (Car Wwas reported stolen from a mestic Commerce has about 530 em- ' downtown parking lot Ne v Year eve Nw.,! ‘Brifish Refake Bardia, Free 1,000 Prisoners Held There by Axis South African Troops Occupy Libyan Port Near Egyptian Border j By the Associated Press. CAIRO, Jan. 2.—British and South | African troops have captured Bardia ' and released 1,000 British prisoners | who were held there by the Libyan | port's Axis garrison, it wat ane nounced today. | The announcement came in a spe= cial general headquarters communi- que, which said the Britons were re- leased when Bardia's citadel was taken. Capture of tke port, near the Libyan-Egyptian frontier and some 300 miles east of the main British spearhead now engaging the bulk of Axis African forces at Agedabia, came after an intensive attack lasting several days in which South Africans were supported by British tanks and artillery and the R. A. F. In addition to releasing the Brit- ish prisoners, the capture of Bardia also resulted in the seizure of more than 1000 German and Italian troops. “The number of enemy prisoners taken is not yet known,” said the special communique, “but our cas- ualties are reported to be light.” An earlier Near East command communique had reported that: “Owing largely to weather condi- tions our own and enemy activity in the Agedabia area yesterday was on a reduced scale.” Rome Admits Damage By Raids in Tripolitania ROME, Jan. 2 (Official Broadcast) () —British raids on Misurata and Melaha, deep in Tripolitania, | caused some damage to buildings tand civilian casualties, the Italian high command said today, while Axis airmen attacked British forces maneuvering from the Agedabia front south of Bengasi (The nature of the British raids was not set forth, but they ap- parently were by air. 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