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Evening star., 1940-05-14
Berlin
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landed from the air about Rotter-
dam have been followed by German
infantry forces, widening the breach
between Belgium and Holland and
cutting OF their communications.
French claims of armored-car
superiority were fatty denied here.
It was stated the French were re-
pulsed with heavy losses. ~.
DNB boasts that the enemy air
forces have been so badly demol-
ished that along the entire front
from the Palatinate Forest via Lux
embourg and Belgium to Holland,
no indications are discernible Of an
enemy air initiative.
Steady Advance Claimed.
NaN military leaders, claiming a
steady advance along the entire
front, declared that the fighting
thus far, In Holland and Belgium,
fierce as 1t has been, is but pre-
lude to a gigantic struggle which
may dwarf the World Wars first
battle Of the Marne.
This conflict is expected to take
place somewhere in Southern Bel
gium, where the allies are reported
massing their combined armies for
a stand.
German commentators pinned
their confidence in the outcome of
the impending head-on collision on
the fighting qualities Of the Nazi
soldiers and the asserted superiority
Of the German air force to which
they gave credit for the victories
already won in the Low Countries.
Thus far, German military men
said, even the most modern forti-
ncations in Belgium and Holland
have, proved no real obstacle.
This, they said, was proved by the
capture yesterday Of the citadel of
Liege and the penetration Of Bel
gums Albert Canal defenses at sew
eral points in the vicinity Of .Hasselt
and Maastricht.
Action Near Zweibrucken.
Continued action on the west wall
front was reported in the sector
southeast Of zweibrucken, opposite
the French Province Of Lorraine,
where the high command said the
Germans had advanced.
Concerning developments in Nor
way. DNB said German mountain
troops had taken 800 prisoners,
mostly British, in a fight at Mo,
north of Trondheim.
No definite information was avail
able here concerning the where
abouts of former Kaiser Wilhelm,
who has been exiled in Holland
since the end Of the World War.
Adolf Hitler has made no state
ment of his attitude toward the
Kaiser. The view of the Foreign
once appeared to be that the for
mer monarch must express some
wish regarding his future before any
pronouncement is made here.
Evening star., 1940-05-14
10 Nazi Ships Seized
In Dutch East Indies
By the Associated Press,

By the Associated Press.
LONDON. May IA British
naval source said today 10 German
merchant ships were seized by au-
thorities in the Netherlands East
Indies and seven in the Dutch West
Indies.
This source said five other Ger
man ships were mined and sunk
by the Norwegians or scuttled or set
afire by their crews between May &
and May IL. He placed the total
tonnage lost to the enemy between
those dates at 171,O4
The Nordnorge, Norwegian shin
OF 1891 tons used as q troop. trans
port by the Germans. was reported
sunk by a mine OF Norway.
Only one British ship of about
5000 tons was sunk by the enemy
IN the week ended May S, he said
while there were no allied or neutral
losses in the same period.
Evening star., 1940-05-14
Roosevelt Will Run Again,
Senator Herring Declares

1T is my firm belief President
Roosevelt will be the candidate
Of the Democratic party for
denomination and reelection,
whether he wishes to or not, and
that he will rum" Senator Her
ring of Iowa said today.
The Senator denied published
report that the President had
told q group of Iowans-of whom
he was one-last week that he
was not a candidate or had
given them to understand he
would not run. Senator Herring
Is chairman Of the Iowa delega-
ton to the Democratic National
Convention.
At the Democratic State Con-
vention in Iowa Saturday the
delegates were instructed to vote
for Mr.. Roosevelt and, if he was
not for any reason available. to
vote for Secretary of Agriculture
Evening star., 1940-05-14
Protests Ignored, Barlow Bomb
To Be Demonstrated Thursday

A large group of members Of Con-
gress, Army officers and ordnance
experts are expected to be on hand
Thursday when Lester p. Barlow
tests his glmite bomb on goats at
the Aberdeen (Md) Proving
Ground.
Senator Sheppard of Texas,
chairman Of the Senate Military
Affairs Committee, has cleared the
way for the tests despite numerous
protests from humane societies and
animal lovers. To circumvent court
suits and injunctions, Mr.. Barlow
was designated a special agent Of
the Government.
Members Of the Senate and House
Military and Naval Affairs Com
mittees as well as members of the
Appropriations subcommittee for
the Army and Navy are included In
the congressional delegation invited
to witness the demonstrations.
Evening star., 1940-05-14

Those expecting to motor to. Aber-
deem plan to leave Washington at 6
am. Thursday in order to be on
hand for the first test at am.
Others will leave later from Boiling
Field by Army plane for the 70-mile
trip. The tests are expected to be
concluded by noon, it was said today.
After the Barlow bomb, q mixture
Of liquid oxygen and carbon, has
been demonstrated, similar tests will
be made with INT so q comparison
Of the destructive effects on living
tissue may be observed.
In response to hundreds Of letters
received at the War Department,
Army officials said today their reply
to them was that the department
was neither supplying the goats for
the tests nor actually conducting the
experiments. One omcer said the
department "just provided the oca-
ton"
Evening star., 1940-05-14

Wallace for the presidential
nomination.
Senator Herring said he had
been convinced for months that
Mr.. Roosevelt would be the party
nominee again. He said he had
heard nothing from the President
to change his opinion. The Chief
Executive. in his talk with Iowans
last week, he insisted, was en-
tirely "non-committal."
Senator Gillette of Iowa, who
also was a member of the party
of Iowans who called at the
White House. declined to COM
ment on the report the President
had said he was not a candidate.
Mr.. Roosevelt is reported to
have told a number of visitors in
the past that he was mot a can
didate" for denomination. It has
never been reported. however,
that the President said categori-
cally. Il will not run"
Evening star., 1940-05-14
Two Persons Injured
In Truffic Accidents

Two persons were injured In auto.
mobile accidents here late yesterday
and last night. j
William Jose, jr., 80, Of 172S Park
road NV, received brain concus-,
sion when the car In which he was
riding was involved In q collision on
Massachusetts, avenue near Nebraska
avenue NV. He was admitted to-
Georgetown Hospital for treatment.
Struck by car at Georgia avenue
and Kennedy street NV, Harry
Courtney, Is, Of 8201a Seventh
street S.W. was taken to Casualty
Hospital for treatment.
Evening star., 1940-05-14


attention to the Mediterranean
while Germany smashed into Hol-
land and Belgium. Another sugges-
ton was that it might be a clever
effort to whip up Italian feeling by
shifting stress from the prot German
to the anti-British angle.
The pro-German feeling desired
by some leaders has been slow to
catch on among the people.
That the government wanted the
demonstrations at this time was
likely, since it was widespread pub
lcation of Luca Pietromarchi's re-
port to Mussolini on the allied con-
traband control and its effect or
Italian shipping which touched them
of.
Evening star., 1940-05-14
Sedan Battlefield
| Scene of French
| Defeat in 1870
BY the Associated Press.

Ancient Sedan, 146 miles north
east of Paris, was the scene of the
climactic fight of the Franco-Prus-
sian War in 1870. in which the
French troops Of Napoleon III were
crushed. It brought about the fall
of the Second Empire.
And then, in the World War. the
Germans advancing toward Paris
entered Sedan August Is, 1914, and
held 1t four years. 1t fell into the
hands of the allies November 6,
1918, after a joint attack by the
American Rainbow Division and
the French.
Strategically, the capture of the
city by Germans would not mean
the breaking Of a French line along
the Meuse River because the town
is on the right, or east bank.
The old city probably gave its
name to the Sedan automobile.
Sedan chairs. easy riding convey
ances which carried the gentry on
peasant shoulders in the 18th CEN
tury, first were made in Sedan,
legend has it.
The town has a population of
around $4,000. Major industries are
cotton mills, coal and iron mines.
Evening star., 1940-05-14
Defense
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porters yesterday that neither he
nor any one else at the Treasury
was thinking or doing anything
about proposals to modify the John
son Act. He added that he could
not recall the allied purchasing COM
mission, with which he has had fire.
quent contact, ever suggesting loans
C. C. C. Military Training Proposed.
Calls for defense survey were &C.
companied by suggestions that plans
be made to integrate jobless men In
the preparedness scheme. Chairman
May told the House yesterday that
he favored giving the 250,000 C.. C.
c. youths military training and Rep
resentative Otter, Republican, OF
Pennsylvania advanced the posi-
bility of using w. p. A. workers in
constructing military installations
Among the Republicans backing
more defense funds was Senator
Lodge of Massachusetts,, who said
that the Nation should have an
army able to defend the East Coast
even if the fleet was occupied in the
Pacific. He advocated a congress
sional study of defense progress
Seconding the study suggestion,
Senator Vandenberg, Republican, OF
Michigan said the idea should be
broadened and COMMITTEE on the
Conduct of National Defense" Gre
ated for a continuing investigation
as long as Europe's war lasts.
The committee should ascertain
Senator Vandenberg added, whether
the United States today possesses
the effective defense which we have
been promised annually"
Clark Assails Departments.
Senator Clark, Democrat, of Mis-
souri, struck a similar note, saying:
II don't want to turn over any
more money to the bunglers unless
I know what they are going to do
with it. I am willing to vote an ade-
quate sum for defense, but it seems
to me that both the Navy and War
Departments have proved themselves
absolutely incompetent"
The cost of bringing the United
States Army to full peacetime
strength and equipping it with mod
ern weapons was estimated at ST.
125 ,000, 900 today by Representative
Smith, Democrat, a member of the
Military Affairs Committee.
He estimated the Army needed
$625 ,000, 900 to increase its training
of airplane pilots, to provide 63 ad-
ditional mobile anti-aircraft units
and to fill the entire nine infantry
divisions called for a full peacetime
strength.
OF this amount, at least $375 ,0O0,-
600 was necessary, he told the Asso-
ciated Press, to equip the existing
Regular Army and National Guard
and $50, 900 900 for seacoast defenses
An additional $500, 900 900 was need
ed, Mr.. Smith said, for industrial
preparedness
Other developments of the past a
hours related to defense or wal
repercussions were:
A presidential request to Congress
for an immediate $2,900,000 fol
coastal defenses In Puerto Rico, and
$12 500 900 for the purchase Of stra-
tegic raw materials during the next
fiscal year;
A War Department announcement
that $4,000 men, representing the
Regular Army, National Guard ano
Reserve Corps, would participate ir
maneuvers during August;
Disclosure by the allied purchas-
ing mission that orders for $3.50 ,OOO, ;
600 in aircraft and motors were
placed here in the last month.
Evening star., 1940-05-14
British and French Flags Are Burned by Fascist Students in Rome

coming national campaign. The
council will meet again In August.
Although 1t appears unlikely the
council will indorse any presiden.
tial candidate, the A. r. Of l.. will
oppose the election Of members Of
Congress whose labor records are
regarded as unsatisfactory.
Evening star., 1940-05-14

Haiti estimates that its present
coffee crop will weigh over $4,000, 900
pounds.
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Strikes
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affecting more than 1,loo establishments,
employing about I'll 500 persons.
Mortimer, the strike leader at Vultee.
announced after the settlement that the
United Automobile Workers would launch
an immediate drive to raise pay through
out the aircraft industry up to automo-
bile wage rates" Negotiations would be
opened soon, he said, with four other
Southern California airplane companies
the Ryan Aeronautical Co. at San
Diego, with 1000 workers; North Amer
ican Aviation, Los Angeles, employing
1000; Menasco Manufacturing, 1ngle-
wood, 1000, and Harvin Aircraft Die
Casting Corp, Los Angeles, 800.
Previously, the soft-spoken but Wig
orous Philip Murray. friend and close
adherent of Hillman in the labor move
ment, had said that his first job as the
new president of the G. I. o. would be
campaign to organize Little Steel" and
Ford
Will the results Of these new organ
izing drives-in motors. steel and planes
be such as to retard or advance the
demand for restrictive labor measures?
The conciliating ability Of Sidney Hill
man. it would seem. faces . series Of
testA
Evening star., 1940-12-08

Albania, where they took 1000 prisoners
and seized heavy Italian cannon, ma
chine guns and war material.
The designations of Marshal Badoglio,
chief of staff for Is years, and of Gen.
Count Cesare Maria de
bodoolio Vecchi di Val Cismon. in
Resions command of the Dodecanese
Island forces, we're signs of
disillusionment that came from Rome.
Badoglio's successor is Gen. Ugo Caval-
lero, veteran of three Italian wars and
until recently commander of Italian
forces in East Africa. Gen. Ettors Bas-
tisco took over the Dodecanese COM
mand.
The Italian embarrassment in the
Greek campaign, which was launched
six weeks ago as drive to solidify the
axis control of the Northern Mediter-
ranean shore, may yet be offset by Ger
man action in the Balkans The Ger
mans are strong in Rumania north of
Greece but separated from Greece by
Bulgaria. Germany on wednesday i'm
proved her position in Rumania by
Evening star., 1940-12-08
STALEMATE SEEN, WITH AXIS HOLDING EDGE
Winter Breathing sp Gives America Chance

macy wants to keep Spain neutral be-
cause it suits its purpose better. Spain
is more point of contact with the out
side world than Switzerland or Sweden.
But diplomacy takes a back seat now in
relation to military considerations, and
the Germans can march on Gibraltar
whenever they like and take the famous
Rock without too much trouble.
Military Stalemate Seen.
In Spanish Morocco, in the rear of the
French Armies which now obey Gen.
Weygands orders, there is an army of
100000 Spanish troops CMoors, Foreign
Legionnaires, etc. equipped and Off
cered by Germans. This force might
come in handy in the spring if the Ger
mans decide that a total war in Africa
is necessary. For the time being these
troops act as a deterant to the French
African Army
This factual description of the situa-
ton in the European war zones tends to
prove one thing-that there is mill
tary stalemate, with the advantage still
on the side of the Reich.
The italian defeat in Greece has
caused a tremendous sensation and is
believed to be the first sign that the
structure of the axis has been eaten by
termites Britain, however, is too busy
defending her own life to be in posi-
ton to take full advantage of the mag
nificent fighting ability of the reinforced
Greek Army.
Because Hitler knew that the British
could not exploit the success of the Greek
Armies and administer the coup de
grace to the Italians, he did not rush to
the assistance of his Italian ally. Quite
the contrary; the German dictator was
secretly delighted at Mussolini's mis-
fortunes, since this placed II Duce def
nitely in a position as Hitler's vassal
The Fuehrer knew that it was too late
for II Duce to try to abandon the axis
ship
The setback was serious for Mussolini's
prestige, but it did not weaken the gen.
eral military position of Germany, so
long as the British could not finish of
the Italians and force them to make
peace. The victory of the Greeks now
compels the British to divert more troops
and war material to Greece and weaken
up to a point-the defenses Of the Suez
Canal and the Near East.
Action in Africa Blocked.
There was a movement of excitement
in North Africa when 1t was learned
that the Italian forces had suffered such
serious reverses This movement could
have been translated into an action from
Tunisia, despite the presence at the bor-
der of an imposing Italian defense force
which is protecting Marshal Graziani's
rear. But the temporary excitement died
down when it was realized by Gen. Wey-
gand that the British could not supply
the African Army with all the necessary
war material to wage a long campaign
and when it became known how strong
were the forces in Spanish Morocco.
The realistic survey of the situation
brings the following conclusions in re-
sponsible quarters in Washington:
/. The military situation still favors
the powers Of thf axis.
2. Britain n breathing heavily, but stu
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Battle of Britain

1t was week of poor weather, which
meant a week of difficulties for the Ger
man air assault against Britain.
Bristol, Western British port where
nurses saved 80 children in hospital;
Birmingham, Southampton. Liverpool
and London, the almost daily target, had
visits from the German bombers. But
the damage, while marked, was not so
great as past raids have scored. In
Washington, United States Army Air
Corps observers described new British
mechanical ear" which heightens the
British opportunity for British detection
of enemy airplanes.
The British people were given the
cheering news by their minister of eco
nonlic warfare. Hugh Dalton, that Ger
many now is using more Oil than she
is producing because Royal Air Force
Evening star., 1940-12-08
FLEETS AIR ARM JUSTIFIED HORE-BELISHA
Minister Says Argues Against Separate Control

In the light of the hercer. more wide
spread challenge now offered to British
commerce. prudence dictates that all in
struments for defeating the enemy on.
under or over the seas should be under
the direction of the department which
must bear the responsibility.
In peace 1t may be tolerable to accept
compromise, but war is no time for am
biguities. If, as the Prime Minister en-
visaged, the struggle against Germany IS
to be indefinitely prolonged, then there
should be less reluctance to make those
changes which are requisite to give
Great Britain in all respects a more
dynamic war-winning organization.
AS in the case of the navy and the
coastal command. so in the case of the
army and the army cooperation COM
mand which has just been established.
This new command seems to have been
devised as means of balancing the
claims Of two fighting services in the air
tCopyrlEht, 1940)
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Wars 66th Week
By Blair BoHes.

Far from England, out on the high
seas, which are the lifeline arteries
Of England, the Germans last week
waged their war against England.
In the sea lanes lurk Englands enc
mics, Nazi submarines and surface
raiders, waiting for ships bound with
necessaries, food and supplies for the
British Isles, ships to be torpedoed
and shelled. From the Americas,
from Africa, from all the world
beyond Europe ships with goods for
England break the waves. England
must have shipping if England is to
continue her fight.
The continued success of the
Greeks against the Italians, the
continued German bombing of Brit
ish industrial centers. the continued
threat of greater belligerent activity
by the axis powers in the Balkans
and in Egypt all are overshadowed
now by the continued German bat
tie against the boats with cargoes
for England.
Evening star., 1940-12-08
Br Constantine Brown.

for the manufacture of planes and war
materiel had to be increased. The ships
which sought refuge in the British har-
bors after a number of seafaring coun-
tries were taken over by the axis have
added substantially to Britain's national
defense. But many Of them have been
sent to the bottom and only few re-
placements are available.
This is the correct picture of Britain
today as seen in responsible quarters in
Washington.
The situation is not so alarming as
the British censorship allowed it to be
pictured abroad recently: neither is it so
rosy as many wishful thinkers like to
paint it, in the hope that the more we
believe in the final and unaided British
victory, the more certain victory is to
come.
From the military point of view it is
true that Britain need not fear much in
the next few months. While there still
are some indications that Germany
might attempt an invasion of the Isles
the number of fully trained German di-
visions in France seems to support this
theory-it is generally admitted that Hit
Ter is unlikely to make such an attempt
unless the masses in Britain become de-
moralized by the German air raids.
Near East Situation Eases.
The position in the Eastern Mediter-
ranean also has improved. 1t is revealed
now that when Field Marshal GRAHAM
began his march on Egypt in September
the British forces there were painfully
weak. After the Italians were stopped
at Sidi Barrani the British managed to
send important reinforcements to the
Near East.
The rainy season-wfich has already
started in Africa-makes large-scale op-
erations almost impossible and Britain
has now at least 10 full weeks in which
to increase the defenses of Egypt.
Troops are being trained in Australia,
New Zealand and South Africa and are
ready to be sent abroad. The Queen
Mary, largest liner afloat. left her New
York berth three weeks ago and will
transport 10000 men at clip between
now and next spring Much of the war
material obtained in the United States,
together with some of the tanks and the
guns manufactured in Britain, have been
sent to Alexandria and Port Said under
the noses of the Italians.
In the Balkans the Germans may
obtain some success in the course of this
winter The blood purge in Rumania
has paved the way for complete incor-
poration of that kingdom into the Reich
Rumania will serve henceforth as the
principal base of operations of the Ger
man troops in the Balkans and in the
Near East
Another likely diversion for the Ger
mans-if Herr Hitler needs new mill
tary victories to bolster up the morale
of his peoples a march on Gibraltar
through Spain. The German penetra-
ton of Spain is almost complete Gener-
alissimo Franco would like to play the
same game Mussolini played before his
declaration of war on France-the game
of non-helligerency. But he is much
more the prisoner of the Germans than
Mussolini ever was in the past.
For the time being, German diplo.
Evening star., 1940-12-08

signing l0-year economic pact with
that country. Four fresh German di-
visions moved through Hungary toward
Rumania. In Bucharest, the Rumanian
capital, the newspaper Curentul, often
called the mouthpiece of the Nazis, said
the axis planned to use the armies of
small European nations for a final stage
of the war, due to begin next April.
The Mediterranean war proceeded in
desultory fashion The Roman high
command reported. with
Turkish out details, the torpedo
Agreement ing of two cruisers in
the British Mediterra-
mean feet and a British destroyer in
the Atlantic by an Italian subma-
marine. The British consummated a
new financial agreement with Tur-
key which London felt was a blow
to axis Near Eastern Mediterranean
hopes. The Italians arranged to aid
Germany economically through an i'm
proved arrangement for the flow of
Italian food to Germany-perhaps as an
offset to the disappointing Italian con-